I'm finally getting some time to devote to getting KNEWC working with Kodi on my Debian Rpi4 on a wired network. Great success! Thanks for your hard work!

I have a question...Each time I start a new channel, the video/audio begins almost immediately. Good. But after about 10-15 seconds, things pause and the "Buffering" message appears. After 100% is reached, video/audio are restored never again to appear until I change the channel.

My research has turned up nothing. Time-shifting is not involved. I have found no way to control any hardware decoding.

Order of events:
-Restart server service
-Start Kodi
-Start KNEWC add-on
-Start LiveTV and witness the buffering
-Stop KNEWC and then Kodi
-Flush server buffers, zip them and then add in the Kodi log

Can you take a look at the logs(NextPVR and Kodi in one zip) and tell me if I can fix this?

Much appreciated.

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  logs-20201205-1419.zip (Size: 443.01 KB / Downloads: 2)

Did a fresh install of NextPVR v5.0.9.201026  on my media server (windows server 2019 datacenter) and supplied my Schedules Direct credentials, but no data appears to be retrieved from them. 
I did some digging in the configuration file: \users\public\NPVR-data\config.xml and it looks OK, except that the URL for Schedules Direct appears to point to their deprecated API, v20140530 -- looking at github, it would seem that the this API version was superseded back in 2015 by v20141201. 
I ran a wget against https://json.schedulesdirect.org and it returned:  

wget https://json.schedulesdirect.org


StatusCode        : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content          : <html>
                    See API documentation at <a
                    href="https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201">https://github.com/Schedul
                    esDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201</a>
                    </html>

RawContent        : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
                    Connection: keep-alive
                    Vary: Accept-Encoding
                    X-Frame-Options: SAMEORIGIN
                    X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
                    X-XSS-Protection: 1; mode=block
                    Accept-Ranges: bytes
                    Content-Length: 186...
Forms            : {}
Headers          : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Vary, Accept-Encoding], [X-Frame-Options, SAMEORIGIN],
                    [X-Content-Type-Options, nosniff]...}
Images            : {}
InputFields      : {}
Links            : {@{innerHTML=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201;
                    innerText=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201; outerHTML=<A href="htt
                    ps://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201">https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/
                    JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201</A>;
                    outerText=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201; tagName=A;
                    href=https://github.com/SchedulesDirect/JSON-Service/wiki/API-20141201}}
ParsedHtml        : System.__ComObject
RawContentLength  : 186


Which appears to point to API version 20141201 as the current API -- A quick reading of the wiki shows that the 20140530 API was
retired in 2015. It seems unlikely that no one but me been using NextPVR with Schedules Direct. Is there were a facility within NextPVR, or
perhaps a utility to test connection to Schedules Direct?  (I didn't see anything in the documentation about it.) 

Or maybe I'm just missing something really obvious. 

Thanks for any assistance! 

Mark

I have no idea what happened but today it recorded all the shows from one series with Spanish audio.....now the English audio is there as a second track but now I have to extract the audio and change English to the default like it is supposed to be.  Is there a setting I could have accidently changed to make this happen?

My setup is:
Win10
Colossus II tuner
Hauppauge IRblaster applet
Hauppauge WinTV v10
Schedules Direct for EPG
DirecTV for tuner
NextPVR 5.0.9

I'm currently using WinTV.  I downloaded NextPVR to try something different; I have it pretty much set up and TV Guide is fully populated with listings.  However, I'm unable to change channels, from either TV Guide or by right clicking the mouse and bringing up "Channels'.  When I select a channel, no pulses are seen coming from the IR emitter.  Hauppage's IRblast applet is installed and the blaster is properly connected to Colossus and the STB, and channel changing works fine in WinTV.  Is there something special I need to do to get the blaster to work in NextPVR?

Minor bug--  Couldn't change epgscanseconds in the web gui.  Had to change in config.xml

I have uploaded a new version to the knewc NextPVR repo on github, I decided to skip the beta stage let's see if that is a good idea or not. 

Global changes

- Increased session security handling in case of server reboots.  Will be needed with future versions of NextPVR

UI Client

- Logic change to (hopefully) solve issues with users that use the Back key to stop video.

Martin

Currently NextPVR for Linux can installed using the .deb installer witch is super easy. I was wondering though if NextPVR will be added to some repository so that it could be installed and maintained via a package manager that comes with many Linux distros?

For example https://www.deb-multimedia.org repository has Kodi 18.9 and kodi.pvr.nextpvr, mythtv-backend, etc. listed and can be installed or removed via the package manager in my distro (MX-Linux). Jellyfin and Emby have their own repository so the repo URL is easily added with a script or even the package manager (like Synaptic Package Manager).

Thanks.

I have just started using a new IPTV provider and I am having trouble loading the m3u/EPG source as a device.

If I just add the m3u file without the (optional) EPG xml link then the channels import fine but obviously with no EPG data.

If I delete the device and add again but also include my EPG credentials then I see a LOT of internet activity start and download something for about 1 minute, then I get an error message displayed something like the following...

Unable to read http://**********/.../xmltv.php?.... [IZZ/rsr6Q3TlSx/8Xmk9NG0UDhUr+uK8Ayt+4D0zoanbnUZXoUXm541d0PNHnUXCXJo+C+QPA9N+fZxtmhFSfDS9yjB946A41NvfIlUHRdFXD2+C53PCZEXftSPPx0nxQhQx/jor87y/v8YYO81lLG8FKcw2kRaiagHRJGKPoAq4+1jDdeserF3WRsqq5fYRBMK/b4DVMlzFGwtoU0AoNBKg6S8T9qY+mAsecuyiv9vr79YfjBGy2EiAAFVwAdb6Vq9UmaIG6Jr6Nr2XLZOhGcySVi+jmk/vAHKkjUbXuQHxEavVk4Gw3X+PzkWEPCDcGkksZffM7LgF+7+/7vNuBpuHJwl1HTGyDDq4Tc9YZn2t3FkUEyg0LolJ0gAKoBpXhv2Z1LJUpoVpZ38Ve3MYwxKuyEqV87Znm6Cs87wJMZ0/gtATci2WbGTFVXBqOf1lTFb3ssJBeeqhxfKjjDJPEw==] (Unexpected end of file has occurred. The following elements are not closed: desc, programme, tv. Line 5149, position 3909556.)

The exact nature of the error changes each time and the line number/position also changes.

The exact same m3u and EPG links work fine in Emby. (I can't check with Jellyfin since it seems to be completely broken at the moment and won't delete/remove old channels/EPG data!!!)

If I try to add the EPG provider after adding the device m3u then click update EPG nothing seems to happen and no EPG data gets loaded.

Is there a timeout getting triggered when trying to download the EPG data?

Thoughts?

Regards,
Steve

I'm in the UK and have both DVB-T (Freeview) and DVB-S (Freesat) tuners.  DVB-T EPG update works pretty well but DVB-S is flaky...

When I first scanned for channels on the DVB-S tuner and did an EPG update, only the currently showing and next programs were populated.  I had to manually set all the channels EPG source "Freesat (UK)", after which I got a full set of guide data for 7 days for most if not all of the channels.

Shortly after this and also setting up the DVB-T channels, I used auto-merge such that most of my channels now have both a DVB-T and DVB-S source.  At some point since then, I've noticed that most of the channels that are only available on DVB-S are no longer getting any guide data.

For the merged channels, its not really clear which tuner is now being used to obtain the EPG data - in the web UI channel settings shows most of the channels with their DVB-S (Freesat) info but I don't believe DVB-S is actually being used - I split one of the channels and found DVB-S one didn't have any guide data even after a subsequent EPG update.  Also in the database it appears that only one epg_source and epg_mapping column value is retained when merging (CHANNEL table), the original values aren't restored if you later split the channel.

I would like to understand the following (maybe it is documented somewhere?):

1. For DVB-S channels, what's the difference in selecting 'DVB/ATSC EPG' vs 'Freesat (UK)'?  How is the EPG data obtained?
   
2. For merged DVB-T and DVB-S channels which capture source is used for the EPG update?  Both?  Arbitrary?  The one specified in the epg columns of CHANNEL?
   
3. If I split a merged channel should I not expect EPG data to work on all sources of the channel?
   
4. Is the value of epg_mapping in the DB relevant or important at all?  I have some DVB-S only channels that have EPG data even with nothing in this column, others that don't have EPG data with something in that column, etc...
   

I'm a new user and have heard there's no guide data OTA from an HDHomeRun

Please could this be added to the wishlist?

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