Due to my location I have 2 antennas - one pointing at Toronto and one at Buffalo.
Toronto is connected to a Hauppauge tuner / Buffalo is connected to a HDHomerun dual tuner.
There are a few stronger channels which show up in both scans. When I go to channels or TV Guide, I see 3 instances of each of these channels. How do I configure NextPVR to recognize these are one in the same, available on any of the 3 devices?
After the first install, I had 54 Los Angeles stations listed in channels, and 2 devices shown (extra-locast.xml & extra-locast-trial.xml). But there was no guide data shown even though locast-xmltv.xml in NPVR-data showed TV listings. Streaming failed error came up when I tried to view a channel.
I remembered that I hadn't yet donated to locast due to a message in the cmd window, so I did so and tried again the next day. I ran python locast.py install a 2nd time after deleting the locast folder, the xmltv file and I don't remember what else. This time everything worked to completion including guide information and the ability to view live TV from the guide or from channels. Except I was identified in the wrong market in a different time zone; not what I wanted.
So I tried a third install, and I'm back to the LA market with no guide data and no streaming, 54 channels showing in devices as unavailable. I noticed when running the locast.py.install that the each line stated already present or something similar; seems it didn't do anything over from the first install.
As a Fire TV Cube owner, I would love another option for PVR. I have been using Plex but the DVR has gotten really flaky in builds going back to summer. I am interested in trying the NextPVR Android TV client on my Fire TV Cube. I have no desire to hack my box to get the Google Play Store. Any hopes of publishing on the Amazon Appstore? As a paid app it would open up a whole new market.
I'm pretty new to NextPVR and also to this forum, this is my first post actually. So, please be kind
I am getting more and more comfortable with NextPVR being someone who used DVBLogic's DVBLink server for ages.
The question (or wish) that I have is difficult to put into one word, maybe IPTV Broadcasting is the correct description, I don't know.
What I would like to do is the following:
At my place I use cable TV. I have a PC that is running NextPVR (formerly DVBLink) on Windows 10. There is one DVB-C PCIe card installed that gives access to 8 tuners hence enabling me to watch 8 streams simultanously. Right now, I am using KODI on a Raspberry Pi with LibreELEC installed on it and attached to almost every single TV in our home. This way I cannot only see all my DVB-C channels but I also have access to other media.
I also have a few TVs here that are able to handle IPTV (DBV-IP, Sat>IP).
Now my question, or wish:
Is is possible that NextPVR acts as an IPTV broadcaster turning the DBV-C streams into IPTV streams and sending them via network to IPTV tuners or TV that can handle IPTV or Sat>IP?
That way I wouldn't need a Raspi with each TV and I wouldn't have to install antenna cables to every TV but I could keep it simple and have Cat. 7 network cabling everywhere.
There is one server offered by a German guy, it is called DVBViewer, that offers exactly this service. But I must admit that I don't like it very much since its UI is quite confusing, also the media server could do better in terms of transcoding and VPN access. So, to me DVBViewer is not a solution.
I am having an issue with my LAN and V5 using the Hauppauge DCR-3250 Cable Card Triple Tuner. It is a TCP issue and will take some time to resolve. In the meantime, I am using V4, which uses UDP, as a workaround. I would like to return to V5 but I need to create an "extra" device to access the tuner using UDP. My research into creating an extra device has come from the Wiki snd examples from two other extra sources:
If added the following channel to extra-nasa.xml for accessing the tuner device:
<channel name="UDP Source">
<command>cmd</command>
<args>/c "i:\Nextpvr-capture\curlcap\StartUDPTuner.bat"</args>
</channel>
StartUDPTuner.bat:
@echo off
:: Clear the tuner
"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 192.168.1.155 set /tuner0/channel none
:: Tune vChannel 504
"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 192.168.1.155 set /tuner0/vchannel 504
:: Direct output to target PC IPaddr and port using UDP and start the stream
"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 192.168.1.155 set /tuner0/target udp://192.168.1.154:5004
:: Receive stream with FFMPEG and re-redirect to stdout.
"C:\Program Files\NextPVR\Other\ffmpeg.exe" -f mpeg -i udp://192.168.1.154:5004 -f mpegts
::"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 192.168.1.155 set /tuner0/channel none
Trying to watch the channel with the desktop app produces no picture or sound though the tuner is sending the stream: Launching VLC specifying port 5004 produces perfect picture and sound. If I tell FFMPEG to save the stream as a .ts file, file playback is flawless.
Attached are the logs from a service restart to cancelling the desktop app's empty screen.
Does anyone have a suggestion about what might be wrong? I'd really appreciate the help.
Hi
I have just upgraded from V4 to V5 and am now getting Buffering issues when watching both live and recorded HD channels. About every 8-10 seconds, the display will pause for a second or two. A message saying "Server is not fast enough for playback in a web browser (0.947x)" often precedes the problem (which was not evident in V4).
Otherwise, everything seems to be working beautifully, including non-HD channels.
I've just managed to install NextPVR on a QNAP NAS using Docker (difficult when you are a noob!). I've got the HDHR communicating with NextPVR, I can watch and record channels to folders on the NAS - great! What I can't do is a proper scan of channels for my location and download an EPG using the HDHR.
I've migrated from a Win10 setup where NextPVR uses the HDHR as a DVB-T tuner, so I am able to input my location/local TV mast, scan for channels in my location only and download the EPG. This is important because I'm on the boarder between England and Wales, I only want to see the English channels which HDHR is unable to do, it just sees everything, and of cause can't down an EPG.
I've found a thread from 2019 were Sub explains the issue with the HDHR - is this still relevant for docker and Linux or is there a current work around?
I've asked SiliconDust if it's possible to restrict the channel scanning frequencies, however after 3 weeks I haven't received a reply and probably now don't expect to...
The Win10 PC has issues so really needs retiring, so just continuing to use that isn't really an option. Any other suggestions? I could run a Win10 VM on the NAS and install NextPVR on there, however wonder if this will be very resource hungry. Linux would perhaps be better (even though I've never used it!), but only if it can see the HDHR as a DVB-T tuner.
Shame I didn't realise this before investing in a HDHR and an expensive NAS! Oh well...
I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 20H2 on my computer and decided to update to NextPVR v5. Was previously using the last v4 release and never had any problems.
After installing 5.1.0 (201216) I can scan in all TV channels and update the EPG etc. But when it comes to watching live TV through NextPVR, after selecting a station for the first time NextPVR just gives me a blank screen. If I try choosing the same or different channel, the channel list just gives me Not Responding and the whole NextPVR program closes with Not Responding error. Yet as a plugin through latest KODI 18.9 I can watch and record any TV channel without a problem.
Any idea on why only NextPVR client is not able to view live TV and just crashes when I do so. Yet KODI works fine?
Recently I used the iOS app to watch some recordings. I like it.
But the player is a bit barebone. Only play, pause and scrubbing.
Some suggestions:
-rewind/forward 10 sec ala YouTube, by tapping at the left part (back) or right part (forward) of the screen
-delete recordings
-resume playing at the timepoint where stopped last time
-see how much you have watched for a particular movie
-more precise control when scrubbing, I find it very difficult to scrub precisely even on a larger screen like iPad
-volume controle by swiping up/down
-when you pause chnage the icon to play icon, press again and change it back to pause icon. Currently it stays like a triangle/play icon in both play and pause state
Basically take all the good stuff of YouTube player: how it works function-wise and UI/UX wise.
I want to migrate my HTPC from Windows/Mediaportal to Linux/XBMC but unfortunately recent distos are having a sad with my TV card (Nebula DigiTV). It worked a few years ago when I had a play with Mythbuntu, but now no luck and I'd rather replace it than burn more time messing around. Does anyone know of any good, currently available, linux compatible DVB-T tuners. PCI, PIC-E, USB are all fine, but USB may be advantageous if I decide to retire the PC in favour of a Raspberry Pi or similar latter on. I know there is a listing of adapters on LinuxTV, but there's no telling how up to date that is, or what's current and what's not, so hopefully you guys can help better.
