As a total newbie unfortunatelyx I am not able to find out why the recording failed.
It would be very kind to find someone more expert to give me a clue what to do.
Thanks in advance

This will be eventually make it to the wiki but I thought I'd start here to flesh out the steps involved in adding colour by genre to the NextPVR web and Kodi EPG.  It should already work by default for DVB OTA and Schedules  Direct guides.

This guide assume you can read English.

1.  Locate the genre mapping table in the Program directory data folder called genre-mapping.xml. 

Backup this file and work on the backup. I will call this the translation file.

2.  Review the file the key values are the Standard DVB mappings at the beginning of the file.  Colours are based on the type="" value. 

3.  Find the genres in your database that you want to map

I suggest using a sqlite tool suggest as sqlite3.  To get this list try this

sqlite3 pathto/npvr.db3
SQLite version 3.28.0 2019-04-16 19:49:53
Enter ".help" for usage hints.
sqlite>.output genres.txt

sqlite>select genres, count(genres) as count from epg_event group by genres order by count desc;
sqlite>.exit

Then you should have a list of all your genres sorted by how often they occur. 

4. Open the genres.txt file (I will call this the genres file) from step 3 and work from the top down, I leave it to you to determine how many you want to change some are pretty esoteric

For this example in the genre file I am using I found this

série d'animation|793

This I quickly match to  "Cartoon/Puppets" in the translation file.  Sometimes when it isn't clear it might help to look into the Schedules Direct mapping ("Animated") in the translation file

Using this inormation copy the existing line

<genre name="Cartoons / Puppets" type="80" subtype="5"/>

to the bottom of the backup of translation file and edit it with the text you want

<genre name="série d'animation" type="80" subtype="5"/>

5.  Move down the genres file and repeat the update for the items you want in step 4

6.  Once you are satisfied with the translation file save it ( you might want to save more often)  Then you can verify the file by opening it in Firefox or chrome to make sure it is valid xml

7.  With admin/sudo right rename your original genre-translations.xml to genre-translations.bak and copy in the translation file (as genre-translations.xml)

8.  Restart the NextPVR server and check the guide in NextPVR web.    This is important if you don't see it you won't see your changes.

9. If it works with the web browser it should work with Kodi.

Martin

Hello,

Today I decided to update to version 5 in anticipation of TVDB going away.  My intent was to use TVMaze.

I thought I followed update instructions exactly.  I clicked on the link and ended up downloading the setup executable, which I ran.  I never got to the web interface -- something hung up, so I re ran setup.exe.  I never got the web interface, but eventually ended up with a clean installation of NPVR with none of my channels or devices or scheduled recordings.  So, I've kicked off a system restore in Windows 10 to try to get back to version 4, which was otherwise working fine.  Fingers crossed that I can get it back.

I did "forget" to shut down NPVR before I started the process, thinking if that was necessary, the installer would tell me.  

Is there a way to update to version 5 that doesn't require reconfiguring everything; i.e., saving all devices, recordings, file locations, etc.?

Thanks for any help.

I just purchased a HAUPPAUGE 1682 Wintv-Quadhd USB Four HD ATSC Digital TV Tuners for USB 3.0 W/PIP
 It is great because I have a noisey motherboard (B450M ASRock PCIe4.0) with a 1Tb M2 drive which is also PCIe4.0,
The problem is I can not set it up as the highest priority for recording. The shows right now drop out because the MB affects the internal Hauppauge quad tuner card. I have enclosed the zip file for your review. Thank you in advance.

Attached Files

  logs-20201120-1613.zip (Size: 673.37 KB / Downloads: 2)

Hello;

I think if I am right you are responsible for getting the imbedded CC enabled automatically in Kodi nightlies.

I just had to come here after updating and seeing it working. Thank you so much.

Is there still any hope that if there are two subtitle streams it will default to the second one?

Thanks
Steve

Hi all,

I have a strange thing happening but haven't been able to troubleshoot it yet :
I have a recording set for a weekly show on an IPTV channel.
The recording apparently starts with no issues, but it seems to stop after a few seconds/minutes.
NextPVR still says its recording but the ts file does not increase in size.
I've tried waiting for the recording to end just to make sure it wasnt been spooled elsewhere and then dumped into the ts file at the end, but no luck there either.

The setup is as follows :
Running on Debian 10 linux - Kernel 4.19
Used the .deb helper for install
Using vanilla config.xml
IPTV only (no tuner cards) - Using M3U file for channel info and xmltv file for EPG

Live TV works fine on all channels, including the one I'm trying to record on.
If I launch a recording manually on that channel, that works fine as well.

Even stranger : The show I'm recording is replayed a 6 hours later... so when the first recording failed, I simply deleted it. The scheduler is set to record any occurence to it tried to record the same episode a few hours later but it also failed again (ts file stopped growing after 7mb)
I've looked though every log I could find, both in /var/opt/nextpvr and journalctl but had no luck there... there didnt seem to much in the logs in fact.

Is there a way to increase the verbosity of logs somewhere ? 
Out of desperation I currently opted to stop the service and run "/opt/dotnet/dotnet /opt/nextpvr/system/NextPVRServer.dll" manually while redirecting the stdout output to a log file I could look into later.
I've got the same show scheduled to record in a couple of hours and am hoping to capture something there.

To be clear, the machine has plenty of disk space and ram. There are no particular indications of OOM or any other crash information in dmesg (or any other log I could find for that matter).

I'm admit to being at a bit of a loss .... any tips will be greatly appreciated :-)

Thanks

MB

Hello,

This site is provided a useful guide for french TV :
https://xmltv.ch

It has a very good content description, that are correctly displayed as well as the scheduled time.

However it also includes Artwork, Category, Rating and Star notation, but none of those data are displayed in the nextPVR EPG / Guide page.
These data are also not available to Kodi.
Could it be possible to solve this ?

I joined one xmltv file, other samples can be downloaded from the above link.

Best regards,

Attached Files

  xmltv-tnt.zip (Size: 814.15 KB / Downloads: 6)

I go the issue with my TV series not recoding all episodes regardless of whether I have recorded them already but now everything is recording twice in the same timeslot so it is chewing up twice as much space and using more resources.  I have no idea what I have done.  I have had this happen before on a here and there basis but now it seems to be a mistake in scheduling that is recording everything twice yet I have no idea what I did wrong.  

Log files are HERE

Thanks

Is is possible with V5 to export the M3u out of nextpvr?  I saw a post on V4 but didn't work.

Thanks

Hello,

I am testing Kodi+NextPVR as a replacement solution to Windows Media Center for my HTPC, since Win 7 end of life.
Therefore I installed NextPVR on my HTPC currently still in win 7 pro 64 bits, beside WMC, to test Kodi+nextPVR before upgrading the HTPC to Win10.

I lived in Paris, I receive the DVB-T channels directly from the Eiffel Tower to my antenna. I use a Hauppauge Dual-HD USB winTV stick, providing 2 DVB-T tuners (as well as 2 DVB-C tuners unused). In WMC I perfectly receive 35 TV channels in Full HD, and 3 additional test UHD channels are detected but unusable by WMC.

Now the issue is with NexPVR: I had no problems to configure the DUAL-HD USB devices in NextPVR, but the result of the channel scan is not complete, even when using the "All Countries - All Regions" frequency preset. I created also a new preset file for Paris Eiffel tower, with only the 8 frequencies really broadcasted by the Eiffel tower, to experiment and have a faster scanning, but the result is exactly the same. The most strange point is about the channel missing, I got only 32 channels instead of 38, but there are 2 cases :
- one frequency is completely undetected by WinPVR, this is the 506 MHz, broadcasting in France BFM TV, C8, Cnews, Cstar, Gulli
- one frequency is "partially detected" by WinPVR, this is the 498 MHZ, broadcasting the 3 UHD test channels: NextPVR has detected only one UHD test, the UHD3.
The other frequencies are perfectly detected: 482, 530, 546, 562, 586, 642 MHz and I got all their channels

On the same HTPC, WMC is able to detect the 506 MHz frequency and to play BFM TV and the others channels without any visual quality problems.
Connected to the same antenna as my HTPC, my new UHD Panasonic TV is also receiving perfectly the 38 channels, including the 3 UHD tests.

How to investigate and solve the issue ?
(I could help further to provide an updated frequency preset list for France, the one provided currently are completely outdated).

kind regards,
Bernard