Hello, have a working NextPVR v5 configuration, with Hauppauge DVB-T digital tuners and Hauppauge Colossus and STB with IR blasting configured.
Use Kodi Matrix for front end most of the time, but the NextPVR client works well too.
I am very pleased with NextPVR 5.
Just wondered if there is a so termed 'recommended' or optimized recording drive configuration?
I currently use two Seagate USB 3 external hard drives. One has all my movies etc, and the other is a dedicated recording drive.
I also have a separate SSD drive I use for timeshift only.
I sometimes find that if I am recording a number of shows simultaneously to one USB drive, whilst at the same time trying to playback say a movie from the other USB 3 drive, that things start to glitch out a bit, and get stutters on playback etc. Also, similar behavior when multiple recording, and then trying to playback a recording from same drive.
Usually no issues, but on occasion might be recording 3 channels from digital, and one from STB using Colossus.
Presumably it is the limitation of using the USB 3 bus.
Are there any tips or tricks that could help improve performance for a USB 3 type drive configuration?
Mainly went the USB3 route, as got Seagate Backup Plus external USB3 drives for good value per TB, so have one 6TB drive and one 10TB drive.
The 6TB drive is the current recording drive. Previously I had a RAID 1 config running off my motherboards built in hardware RAID.
It worked really well, but a raid drive would periodically fail quite often, so I tried the external USB 3 Seagate backup plus drives, and they are like bulletproof so far.
(apart from the limitations of the USB 3 bus)
Would having two recording paths (1 on each USB 3 drive) likely make any difference?
Or am I better to look to an array, or NAS?
Like I said, it is nothing dire or anything, and the single USB 3 recording drive has worked pretty bloody well, but just notice things struggle a bit under certain load conditions.
Just wondered what NextPVR users would deem 'the most desirable' recording drive config for NextPVR 5?
I didn't see this posted already but I have a raid1 setup and the drives are only 7500rpm. I've noticed when starting to watch HD channels via Kodi with the nextpvr client the IO on my disks spikes and there is a noticeable delay in the channel starting.
I've no need to timeshift etc so is it possible to disable the live buffer entirely? (I also have issues with the buffers not deleting properly).
Sub: I think that I've seen this problem before, but hadn't reported it because I didn't have logs.
Yesterday, I noticed that my current default recording directory drive was almost full. So I went into the web settings and changed the default directory to from D:\NPVR Recordings\ to E:\NPVR Recordings2\. But I didn't restart the server. Nothing says that you have to restart the server after changing the default directory, so I didn't. (Plus it was recording some things at the time.)
However, I just noticed that every recording which was going to the "Default" directory last night and tonight has failed. The recordings show an error saying "HDHR stream not available", but I don't think that the HDHR itself is the problem. Here's a part of the log showing the bad file name ('C:\Windows\system32\ E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts.map') that it seems to be trying to use
and the "Unexpected error creating TSWriter map: System.IO.IOException" error:
Code:
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] DefaultDirectoryChoice: first
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] Preferred filename is 'Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines'
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] allocating recording target filename: E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] About to start recording (66187 on 31): E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts...
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] (Recording is due to be stopped at 4/14/2021 9:00 PM)
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] HDHomeRunRecorder.StartStream()
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] ipaddress is 192.168.143.41
2021-04-14 20:29:00.020 [DEBUG][8] About to load channel from tuning
2021-04-14 20:29:00.051 [DEBUG][8] source@1
2021-04-14 20:29:00.051 [DEBUG][8] Requesting: http://192.168.143.41:5004/tuner0/v805
2021-04-14 20:29:00.129 [DEBUG][28] Got request [192.168.143.26]: /control
2021-04-14 20:29:00.129 [DEBUG][28] - media: 858.430053711
2021-04-14 20:29:00.129 [DEBUG][28] - client: sdl-KNEW50xb827ebd2d752
2021-04-14 20:29:00.129 [DEBUG][28] - sid: f8a29efc7fc64694a57dcfbd45928b5d
2021-04-14 20:29:00.129 [DEBUG][37] Setting activity:
2021-04-14 20:29:00.535 [DEBUG][8] Creating writer: E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts
2021-04-14 20:29:00.535 [DEBUG][63] HTTP input source starting
2021-04-14 20:29:00.535 [ERROR][8] Unexpected error creating TSWriter map: System.IO.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. : 'C:\Windows\system32\ E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts.map'
at System.IO.FileStream.ValidateFileHandle(SafeFileHandle fileHandle)
at System.IO.FileStream.CreateFileOpenHandle(FileMode mode, FileShare share, FileOptions options)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)
at System.IO.File.InternalWriteAllBytes(String path, Byte[] bytes)
at NShared.Writer.OutputSink..ctor(String filename)
2021-04-14 20:29:00.535 [ERROR][8] Failed to start stream: System.IO.IOException: The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. : 'C:\Windows\system32\ E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts'
at System.IO.FileStream.ValidateFileHandle(SafeFileHandle fileHandle)
at System.IO.FileStream.CreateFileOpenHandle(FileMode mode, FileShare share, FileOptions options)
at System.IO.FileStream..ctor(String path, FileMode mode, FileAccess access, FileShare share, Int32 bufferSize, FileOptions options)
at NShared.Writer.OutputSink..ctor(String filename)
at NShared.Shim.InputSource.StartStream(String target)
at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.StartStream(String target)
at NShared.Shim.GenericCapture.StartStream(String target, String& reason)
2021-04-14 20:29:00.550 [DEBUG][8] Failed to start recording on allocated device (66187: E:\NPVR Recordings2\Call Your Mother\Season 01\Call.Your.Mother.S01E10.The.Prime.of.Miss.Jean.Raines.ts): 'HDHR stream not available'
2021-04-14 20:29:00.550 [DEBUG][8] Looking for second chance device to perform recording...
And the episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert which specifies "Recording2" instead of "Default" for the recording directory seemed to record just fine with the same HDHR Primes.
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 and an AverMedia TD310 USB T.V. Dongle. I want to run on Linux, probably Raspbian.
I want to run Kodi so that if there is a power fail / whatever, when the system reboots, it's Kodi that comes on.
What is the Best/Fastest way of installing whatever to achieve this??
I don't mind if I have to use docker. I am not a newbie, but all the old/bad information out there is driving me nuts!!
I just can't get the NPVR backend to load.
I would like to know if you can help me, I have been using Locast and it works perfectly but when trying to record a Movie it hangs in Locast's own advertisements, which occur every 15 minutes, I was seeing that with Pluto they corrected the problem using https: // forums. nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=61463&page=2 with the streamlink utility, checking locast.py I see that it use ffmpeg, is there any way to use the same trick of pluto with locast?
Under Kodi 19.0 Matrix, knewc 2.9.4 is automatically uninstalled
during Kodi startup with the error message "Error reading end tag.".
This happens whenever the addon.xml file is updated to
uncomment the "extension point" line for automatic startup.
Is there a way to add a video folder to the UI by editing config.xml?
I was able to add a menu item by editing config.xml and have it display on the UI but I can't figure out how to get it to point to a directory. Currently I have the menu item "Videos" defined in config.xml. I would like to add one called "TV Movies" and have it point to a directory with some video files.
Tried to install V5, but when I clicked on link (https://nextpvr.com/NPVRSetup.exe.), The page blinked and that was it. I have version 4.2.5 and it should update automatically at start, but doesn't. Tried to update since I am having problems with recordings stopping early. Dale Dewing
