Hi It's Mike again,

After I got locast working, I thought I'd give plutotv a try.  I believe it's file permission issues again.  I must admit there is a lot of confusion around users and groups.  NextPVR wants nextpvr:video as user:group and the setuid.  I got things working for locast and now plutotv has nextpvr:nextpvr..  I can't tell what's what anymore.

What does it all really need to be and I'll fix it?  It's also possible streamlink isn't getting picked up in the path.  What's a good command -line test for me to see what's failing?

Thanks much!
Mike

my IPTV source changed its URL.  Im not seeing a spot to change it.  Do I have to add a new one and re-select all my channels and point to my schedules direct guide?  Very tedious work but hoping there’s a way to just change the url

Hi @ll,

I'm trying to install NextPVR on my Synology with docker.
It works fine with my HDHomeRun 

But i can't import my Internet Service Provider (Free.fr) M3U into NextPVR   
Here's my ISP M3U URL : http://mafreebox.freebox.fr/freeboxtv/playlist.m3u
Maybe you won't be able to DL it so here's an extract of the file content (first lines) :

Hello,

I'm having an issue regarding the EPG System on Linux - for some reason it's refusing to cooperate properly with my tuner and it's causing the tuner to lock up while it tries to scan for EPG Data. I'm well aware of EPG support on Linux for ATSC data being deprecated more or less, but It's not letting me pull data from Schedules Direct as a result. I even unchecked all EPG channels in the configuration for ATSC EPG, and it still insists on scanning all of them.

Anyone have any idea on how I can fix this?

Edit: Apparently it didn't save the log as attachment - Here's a pastebin for it:

https://pastebin.com/gycSKjHm

I have around 1,000 recordings spread over many Windows Media Centre PCs whose directories are shared over a local Gigabit speed network.  I have added these (with the network filename) to the SCHEDULED_RECORDINGS table of Npvr.db3.  They all show and play correctly in the Kodi TV Recordings folder.

If I activate the "Include filesize with recordings" Kodi Npvr add-on option, Kodi pauses during start up at 75% "Loading Recordings from Clients" and generates significant network activity to every Media Centre device.  This can take some time (1-2 minutes) after which the EPG update is performed and Kodi startup is complete.

If I delete a recording from the recordings list, I get the 'rotating circles' for some time before the list is redisplayed without the now deleted recording.  I am 'guessing' that this is while all recordings are once again rescanned.

If I disable "Include filesize with recordings", both the delay at startup and after deletion disappears.

I would expect Kodi to only scan new recordings (existing recordings will not change size).

I turned on Kodi debug logging, along with component specific logging for SMB, libcURL, JSON-RPC, Video and PVR components.  I am not seeing any log entries to indicate hundreds of files being checked at startup/deletion.  I am seeing a constant stream of messages "DEBUG <general>: PVR::CPVRRecordings::UpdateInProgressSize: Updating recordings size" whilst Kodi is open and running.

I have turned off the option to include filesizes and everything is working fine - so this posting is more flagging the issue in case there is something I have missed.

Running the latest version of everything (Kod 19.1 / Npvr 5.1.4.210802)

I would appreciate your thoughts!

Hi,

I've tried both pasting the member_token in LocastService.py and I've tried version 0.9.2 and neither have fixed this for me.  I may have gotten things out of order by copying 0.9.2 into the locast folder and then later copying the LocastService.py that needs the member_token.

Running python3 locast.py tells me there is no locastService.py  so I renamed the file from LocastService.py to locastService.py.  Are we supposed to have both with an uppercase L and lower or ...?

Thanks!
Mike

EDIT: Deleted the scripts/locast folder and put 0.9.2 in and ran python3 lcast.py. First time through it said it couldn't modify existing lineup. Ran again and got this: (sorry for pasting here)
Namespace(base=None, default=None, format='smart', reverse=False, stream=False, tune=None)
None
extralocast v0.92
Validating User Info...
User Info obtained.
User didDonate: True
User donationExpire: 2021-09-18 07:00:35
Getting user location...
Getting location via IP Address.
Got external IP xx.xx.xx.xx.
Got location as Portland - DMA 820 - Lat\Lxxxxxxxx

Still the stream fails in NPVR.

Hi All,

I'm pretty sure I posted about something similar a while ago but I can't find it - apologies!

Back then the issue was that the transcoder seemed to get disconnected from the player but continued running in the background and after a while you could have multiple transcoders running and run out of CPU cycles. This is not happening now.

Now, if I watch a programme which has either already started, or has finished recording and skip forward a few times to avoid commercials etc, at some point the stream will stop and not restart. I need to close it, go back in and play again.

The same thing can happen when watching live tv - it seems to me (but I may be wrong) that once it starts to happen, the frequency increases.

I had some idea that the web player was an open source project of its own which NPVR utilised, in which case nothing can be done here. I also don't use the web player too much so it's not a huge issue for me, just wanted to offer the feedback in case it helps. (It's been a month since I last used it for an extended period, so I doubt logs will still be there, but happy to provide if useful.

Cheers!

Martin,

I installed 0.80 the other day and all seemed to work fine.  But today, while doing some testing, (1) I found that I am unable to stream any locast channel (streaming failed message in the web client and a item failed to play message in Kodi),  ..and.. 

(2) when looking at the locast channel group that I had previously setup in the web guide there are no channels listed in the guide, even though the group appears in settings>channels with all the correct locast channels checked.  The locast channels do appear in the "All channels" list.   On the other hand, the locast channels do show up in the locast channel group when using Kodi.

I see that the logs generated errors, but not sure why.   I don't recall making any changes to the working configuration, but somehow I must of did something screwy but not sure what I did.

Even more than usual, I am lost as to why - any ideas?


2L

Attached Files

  logs-20210825-1249.zip (Size: 1.03 MB / Downloads: 1)

A few days ago, my channel icons switched to show thumbnails in the guide...how do I get my channel icons back? This is occurring on all Kodi clients as well as the Windows 10 pc that is the server.

Tom

Attached Files

  logs-20210825-1146.zip (Size: 848.29 KB / Downloads: 1)

Compro Videomate S350: Gforce GT440:Intel Qual 6600:Nextpvr version 3.9.2 (Yes I know its older but I don't want to tempt fate. At least not until I upgrade the PC later this year.)

Hi, I'm in the UK North West trying to rescan the channels using the 0282 Astra 2E/2F/2G (28.2E) settings with the HD additions but cannot find BBCHD or ITVHD. It locates everything else including channels 4/5/ and a few more in HD.

I've been back through the archives but many, included links are missing.

On checking the frequencies of both BBC and ITV the values are definately included in the 0282 Astra settings but nothing appears on the channel listings during the scan.
If I do a manual scan and put in those same values it still finds nothing.

Also the EPG update using DVB/ATSC get very few hits. (Less than 10 channels.) While freesat flashes up the scan box and then just gives up the ghost.

Sorry if this has already been covered. If it has then a pointer in the right direction would be just as usefull.


Thanks in advance.