I hope this is the right part of the forum to post this client question to.......
The Kodi 19 client code running on my Shield Android TV box is asking the server for updates every minute through most of the night - check 12 AM March 21 thru 7 AM March 1 - most of the activity is /service (recording.lastupdated) This seems excessive. Is this expected, especially when most of the time there are no updates to send to the client per the logs? Is there a setting on the NextPVR client that can control this frequency?
When I kill Kodi on the Shield this does go away as expected.
NextPVR Service is logging [DEBUG][XX] http://localhost:nnnnn/status every 5 seconds - the value of nnnnn over the last several days has been 53803, 58567 and many others. The XX in DEBUG also varies a lot (see logs).
localhost:nnnnn is usually used when debugging/testing and application that is not yet ready to access remote resources. It can also be used to see if an app that is listening on a given port is still there.
Running this every 5 seconds would appear to be excessive even if it is testing to see if an app is listening on a port on the local machine. If this is expected is there any way to control the interval?
I discovered this when my HTPC was not sleeping as it should have been. HTPC is a Windows 10 box, running NextPVR . You will also see in the logs that there is a Kodi 19 client running on a Shield. I killed off Kodi on the Shield around 9:26 AM local time on March 21, 2021 - you will see in the logs that the client was constantly pinging the NextPVR server for /service (recording.lastupdated) and sometimes getting updates prior to this time - I will open a separate thread for the excessive /service (recording.lastupdated) prior to 9:26 AM as this will most likely be an issue to be understood from the client perspective as it is the client making the request of the server.
Can anyone shed some light on what is going on. Is there a way to control this?
This began yesterday after several weeks of success. The NPVR status shows extra-locast as a device, but when I try to watch through channels I get: starting device ... please wait, then streaming failed (transcoder exited error). Recordings fail as well. Restarting the server didn't change anything, nor did rebooting. I can stream just fine directly at locast.org. Logs attached.
For those who have followed my occasional trial and/or tribulation in the v4 sub-forum, yep, I finally upgraded to v5 a few weeks ago! Woohoo!
As the thread subject suggests, I've run into a snag as my IPTV provider is changing its service URL yet again. I've waded through the Wiki, but can't find a mention of editing a URL once it's entered in NextPVR. I also can't see a way to do it in either 'Devices' or 'Channels' in the web app.
Will I have to delete the device and recreate it?
In case it makes a difference, I'm running NextPVR on Windows.
I just set up NextPVR with an Avermedia USB (for terrestrial) and a TBS5520sE for satellite (right now no dish motor - locked onto G19). I scanned channels. The one I was most interested it was 11842h 22000. It is a multiplex with over a dozen or more video feeds and some audio only. The channel scan picked up a few of them, but not most, including the ones I wanted most. I re-aimed the dish and got it better (although it was working on my hardware sat. rcvr already) and rescanned a couple more times, but no more channels were found. So I'm wondering what to do to get the rest. I mean its all the same carrier, I would expect all or nothing. Alternately can I manually enter the channel data somehow to avoid the need to scan?
A related question, it allocated some of the channels to subchannels of an existing terrestrial TV channel that was already in the database. That seemed strange. I now have 59.1 - 9, some of them terrestrial and some satellite. The front end doesn't care, but it sure looks strange!
And finally a less related question. I could not find any way to observe signal strength. Not so important for sat, as I use other means to align the dish, but my terrestrial signals come via various reflections and ducts that change by the hour and day and I need a rotator for them which needs to be peaked frequently.
I use NextPVR in conjunction with MCEBuddy to automatically transcode and edit out commercials from my ota recordings. It’s set up and and is working well.
There’s only one quality of life issue with my current setup.
Right now, NextPVR records the show, mcebuddy watches the recording folder and during the transcoding hours, it will grab the recording, transcoded it to h264 and drops the transcoded file in another watch folder where Emby’s auto-organize plugin moves it into the library.
Once the episode has been transcoded, it deletes the original recording.
The problem at the moment is that NextPVR keeps a stub entry of the original recording, which it cannot play back because it’s been transcoded. At the moment my only option is to manually delete these stub entries.
Is there a way for NextPVR to check recording stubs against the files, and automatically remove recording entries from its database of the file is no longer there?
Got a strange one. In the last week or so I've discovered that my automatic EPG updates are not occuring. Manual EPG updates still seem to work. I've checked the obvious like the settings screen, and confirmed the settings in config.xml:
2021-03-13 19:48:36.490 [DEBUG][10] Requesting wake up for 'EPGWAKEUP-backup' at 14/03/2021 04:00
2021-03-13 19:48:36.492 [DEBUG][10] Requesting wake up for 'EPGWAKEUP' at 14/03/2021 04:00
2021-03-13 19:48:36.492 [DEBUG][10] Next EPG update time: 14/03/2021 04:00
In which case NextPVR did grab logs. But, the logs don't show a request for EPGWAKEUP for subsequent days.
Any thoughts on what I might try to fix whatever has become upset? (Logs attached)
Firstly thanks so much for creating Next PVR it's a fantastic bit of software.
I have Kodi Matrix and Next PVR V5 on a windows 10 PC with a 4ch TBS Freesat receiver card
99.9% of the time it works flawlessly but today I am trying to record a program later on in the day by selecting it on the guide in Kodi and pressing record on my remote, or by using the mouse/keyboard to record.
The error I get is as follows:
Error
Could not save the timer. Check the log for more information about this message
I have had a look in the logs from Next PVR and I can see the request but it fails at
2021-03-17 17:32:47.305 [ERROR][34] System.FormatException: The header contains invalid values at index 0: '<null>'
at Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers.HttpHeaderParser`1.ParseValue(StringSegment value, Int32& index)
at Microsoft.Net.Http.Headers.MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse(StringSegment input)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ControllerBase.File(Stream fileStream, String contentType, String fileDownloadName)
at Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.ControllerBase.File(Stream fileStream, String contentType)
at NPVR5.Controllers.ServicesController.HandleServiceRequest(String body, String contentType)
