Finally took the plunge and upgraded v4 to v5 last weekend and have been having some issues.
The upgrade went reasonably OK, lost some pending recordings but was able to fix all that and have had a number of successful recordings.
I am running a very simple setup with a Win 10 Intel NUC receiving the aerial feed via a USB DVB-T tuner and out to a TV via HDMI, I use the NPVR windows client to set and play my recordings.
I am occasionally getting some sound stuttering when I first play a recording and when I skip forward, this is is not present when I play/skip the same recording in media player. I saw another post about this and sub said there would be a fix for low power machines in the next release so I am hoping that will fix this issue.
I am also seeing slow scrolling in recording lists; the old v4 client scrolled through very quickly but v5 seems to almost pause before moving to the next item.
The main issue, when scrolling, is that twice now the client has hung. Nothing works, not even alt-ctrl-del. I have to press the power button to switch the machine off. Each time this has followed a scroll down the ready recordings list and the last few items did not display the relevant poster on the right-hand side of the screen.
Logs attached, any thoughts/comments/advice appreciated. Thanks.
i am running nextpvr in a docker install using latest image from December, and power my box using usb from my TV, so the box is only on when the TV is on. this leads to no EPG often when i turn on, and i need to manually update or wait for the next scheduled epg update run.
is it possible to force epg to update (xml url for iptv channels) when nextpvr starts using poststartup.sh and placing in the scripts folder?
if yes, what would i need to put in that file?
fyi i am using matrix RC running in CoreElec, and from what i read when EPG updates in NextPVR, it forces Kodi to update from NextPvr, and this is new for Matrix, so hoping a simple script to update on start will have my EPG populated well in an automated fashion shortly after the box is up and running....
First, I tried to install NextPVR using the PPA from the Kodi website. That gave me an "unknown error" and would not enable or let me uninstall in Kodi.
After that, I was able to get the NextPVR service installed and running. I have not added any devices or channels yet, but NextPVR is viewable with the web interface.
But now that NextPVR is working, I do not know how to get Kodi to see it as an add-on.
I dug around and deleted the nextpvr folder from the addons in the usr/share/kodi/addons folder to see if it would make Kodi look somewhere else. No soap.
I don't know where to go from here. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Bob
Hi, I am new to NextPVR (just installed it yesterday), so please excuse me if I am asking something that should be relatively clear. I really searched for an answer, though...
I am trying to record a show on a channel that is airing every sunday at 7 pm (and is having multiple re-runs on other week days and on other times on sunday). Is there a function to check the week day (e.g. sunday) for a given start_time?
For the time, I adapted the example of the documentation as follows:
title LIKE '%name%' AND time(start_time,'localtime') > time('18:50:00') AND time(start_time,'localtime') < time('19:10:10')
Bonus question: Is there any way to change an existing recording rule?
Please be patient with me, long time former Windows Media Center user here.
I'm located in Australia and believe that the captions here are "Teletext" based.
Assuming both Media Center and NextPVR use the same Teletext based input for captions, I can't help but notice that the captions in NextPVR have the typical Teletext pixelated font when they were nicely rendered in Media Center.
Other issues I've found is that the captions don't always seem to update and only every third or fourth sentence is displayed.
Is there any way in NextPVR to improve the font rendering, possibly the display position of the font, and to optimize the refresh rate of the captions?
I'm using Kodi und a Firestick, with the NextPVR add-on.
As has been discussed here in a few threads, there are problems with interlacing (horizontal bars) when watching free to air TV (Australia, SD and HD channels), and the general consensus seems to be that the Firestick isn't powerful enough to properly deinterlace the video stream.
My question, is what device IS powerful enough, other than a PC or Raspberry?
Has anyone got any experience with an Nvidia Shield or similar? Firestick 4k?
Another solution would be to transcode the video stream prior to sending it from the NextPVR server to the Firestick/Kodi, but I seem to have read that there are no plans for this functionality?
I am updating the EPG_EVENT table with extra information from IMDB. I know after the daily EPG update I can use the PostEPGupdate.sh, because then NextPvr creates new recordings based on all the recurring schedules and rules, but is there another way to trigger this? Mainly for dev/testing purposes. When I use my program in production I will just use the PostEPGupdate.sh.
first off thanks for a great product. The reason for this post is to provide feedback which I hope is useful.
I have been using V4 of NextPVR as my PVR "backend" for Kodi, on a dedicated Windows 10 PC. I have just made the change to V5 and hit a problem that has taken me several hours to sort out. The root cause of my problem was the change made to the start-up priority of the NextPVR service from "Automatic" in V4 to "Automatic (Delayed Start)" in V5. On my setup this meant the NextPVR service took another ~90 seconds to start.
As my setup is a dedicated media PC used by all the family, I have tried to make it very user friendly. Kodi is set to start automatically when the PC boots up. It then looks to connect to NextPVR for guide information, etc. This was fine with a "fast" starting V4, but not with the default "slow" start of V5. It has taken me several hours to work out what was going on and then find the solution on the forum: "You can change the service to be more like earlier version of NextPVR by changing the Startup type of the "NextPVR Service" to Automatic in Windows Service."
I would have thought my type of setup isn't that uncommon and suggest it would be helpful to mention this in the installation guide. Something like:
“V5 of NextPVR default installation has a “delayed start” when the Windows first boots up. If you want a fast start, this can be achieved by using the Windows Services utility to change the "NextPVR Service" start-up type from "Automatic (Delayed Start)" to “Automatic”."
I have multiple recording directories and I sometimes use the desktop app to change the directory for a specific pending recording (for example, to use a ramdisk to speed up postprocessing). This works and it always does what I asked. However, when I later click on the pending recordings in the web app, the details of the recording can be different. The most common things that are different are the directory and pre/post padding. Often, they appear to be the default values from the corresponding recurring recording that generated the pending item.
It happens frequently and is usually uncorrectable. However, it is also random. Often, it displays the correct information. I have not be able to determine a pattern. In any event, the DVR always does what I specified in the Desktop App.
So I am just passing the information along in case someone else also experiences this and can provide additional info. If I discover something more that could help, I will add to the thread.
When I'm reviewing my recordings for the upcoming evening, I find the web app's grid and scheduling screen to be really nice and would definitely prefer to use that. However, I end up doing it instead in the Desktop app because of the unreliability of the information in the web app.
