What is the proper way to install Version 5 on a Windows 7 machine that already has version 4 on it? I installed version 5 yesterday, set up my HDHomerun with all of my channels and today the device is empty, no channels are listed though I do have a guide and can play a channel. I am think maybe a db got hosed somehow.
Anyone have a link or instructions?
There is a new type of USB HDMI capture device on the online sites that are really cheap so I thought I'd get one from Amazon and I was pleasantly surprised. Mine https://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/B0888R8...UTF8&psc=1 was $30 CDN delivered (ok yes I have Prime) which is around $22 US and so it wasn't much risk plus free returns. For testing running my FireTV 4k into it.
The main issue with these devices in general is they don't have h/w conversion build it so although the raw mjpg video and pcm audio which can play directly with some devices, but it needs transcoding to work properly with NextPVR. Since I am using this as an Extra it was actually not a big deal to set ffmpeg up for direct show transcoding. It worked right away for me with Quick Sync video for h/w transcoding with the CPU under just 2% and about 17% GPU during the capture, Windows saying that the power usage is low so basically.
Sadly for this device only 2 channel PCM and only 1080p30 capture but for broadcast 1080i60 that should be the ok. I will probably use 720p60 anyway.
The only gotcha has been the audio capture name changes depending on USB device it is plugged into. Also because it is like a web cam Windows and your a/v program may try and restrict access to the device.
I will try and setup it up on linux later, hopefully that work ootb as a v4l device.
In the npvr.db3 database, I see an "enabled" field in the recurring_recording table. All records in the table have the value "Y." Manually changing the value to "N" does actually disable that recurring recording.
Is this field actually used anywhere, or is it an artifact from earlier versions?
Is it possible to alter the field's value from the web API? I tried the following, but received an "invalid args" response:
In the past, I have used the recording.recurring.save method to successfully change other (more common) recurring recording values, so I'm guessing the "enabled" value is simply not accessible via the api. Or I may simply have the syntax wrong.
I'm inquiring because TVHeadend has this capability and I've found it to be quite useful in several situations.
Any insights anyone can provide are most appreciated.
Posted by: AMD - 2020-07-13, 02:38 AM - Forum: Linux
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Hi,
I have been a longtime NextPVR user (on Windows, but never upgraded to the newer NextPVR versions, the version I was using was not web based).
Long story short my computer crashed and I now did a fresh install using Ubuntu 20.04 and NextPVR latest version using the .DEB installer provided.
I have 2 Hauppauge HVR-1250 and HVR-1255 in my system. NextPVR sees one of them for the moment, I'll look into getting the other one to work later.
I have scanned for ATSC channels and found 7 so that's fine.
Now when I go to test and watch a live channel using NextPVR web interface, I only get a black screen and the "Starting device... Please wait..." message. No image is ever displayed.
I also tried using the URL of the stream and opening it in VLC but don't get anything : Your input can't be opened: VLC is unable to open the MRL 'http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel_id=7148'.
Could anyone please help me figure out what's not working in my installation? I'm guessing it could be a codec or transcoding problem?
Posted by: BrettB - 2020-07-13, 01:34 AM - Forum: Windows
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My server just crashed on me. It's often been responding super slowly from the knewc client recently, so I had stopped and restarted the service just a few hours ago.
The logs are uploaded, although it looks like the last nrecord.log isn't complete due to the buffering. And there wasn't any dump file in C:\temp\.
The Windows event viewer has 2 entries:
Code:
- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
<Provider Name=".NET Runtime" />
<EventID Qualifiers="0">1026</EventID>
<Level>2</Level>
<Task>0</Task>
<Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords>
<TimeCreated SystemTime="2020-07-13T01:18:16.000000000Z" />
<EventRecordID>171140</EventRecordID>
<Channel>Application</Channel>
<Computer>Wally</Computer>
<Security />
</System>
- <EventData>
<Data>Application: NextPVRServer.exe CoreCLR Version: 4.700.20.20201 .NET Core Version: 3.1.4 Description: The process was terminated due to an unhandled exception. Exception Info: System.Collections.Generic.KeyNotFoundException: The given key '41244' was not present in the dictionary. at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key) at NShared.RecordingService.WorkerThread() at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart_Context(Object state) at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) --- End of stack trace from previous location where exception was thrown --- at System.Threading.ExecutionContext.RunInternal(ExecutionContext executionContext, ContextCallback callback, Object state) at System.Threading.ThreadHelper.ThreadStart()</Data>
</EventData>
</Event>
If I haven't used NextPVR for a while (we only use it occasionally) recordings stop.
Where are the previous days log files stored? The wiki says in the logs subfolder of the NEXTPvr/Data folder, but there is no logs subfolder.
The error I get in NextPVR backend is [Failed: No errors, but no data delivered. This is usually because the device failed to lock a signal] but it gets signal easily and instantly on LiveTV and the TV Guide is empty unless I manually update it.
So, I am trying to set up a Windows 10 scheduler to update the EPG automaticallyusing the -updateepgonly commandline option. However, I am confused about which executable I am meant to launch in order to use that commandline option.
... it seems to do the exact opposite of what I want! It launches the NextPVR client and doesn't seem to update EPG (although it's hard to tell). If I point it at the server.exe instead it says it'll only run one instance. So what .exe (or .dll?) are those commmandline options for, and/or what .exe (or .dll?) am I meant to be pointing my schedule towards?
NextPVR 5.0.6.200614
Windows 10 Pro with all updates installed
Version 5 web app play & stop icon's to small to see. Desktop app same size as before and okay. From 20 feet in bed or an armchair it is too hard to see the icons is there any way to make them bigger.
This is my first post here, so hello and more importantly a huge thank you for a great product.
I've been using NPVR for a few months now on a dedicated i7 PC that does little else except host an instance of Plex to view recordings as an adjunct to my main Plex.
The PC has a Hauppage dual USB stick as the secondary tuner, the primary tuner is a quad HD Homerun. All recording from DVB-T. I'm in Yorkshire UK.
I initially had a few recordings flagged as failed, which I think were just teething issues. I've not really sen any failures recently and I've recorded over 1000 movies, most seemingly successful (though I've by no means checked them all!) but occasionally I would get recordings that were not marked as failed but that was very short or even invalid. I lacked the time to try and investigate these issues, so all I did was to grab a copy of the recording folder and then delete the recording through NPVR. I suspected that in some instances NPVR was allowing more simultaneous recordings that I had tuners (6 in total). Last night I was able to prove this by grabbing a copy of the database and writing some code to create a heat map of tuners in use for each 5-minute slot over the scheduled period, and I saw that I had 7 recordings in three close instances. These had been set up manually using the latest version and no recordings are recurring.
I have a copy of the heat map (the relevant part shown below) the database and logs but I could not attach the database (zipped) for some reason, so here's a link. https://1drv.ms/u/s!AgGgXm4PZDRho7w7Z6a5...w?e=reXdDQ
Here's an example that seems to show the same tuner allocated to two recordings:
oid name filename status start_time end_time capture_source_oid channel_oid recurrence_oid channel_name
2346 Nowhere to Run 0 2020-07-17 20:00:00 2020-07-17 21:55:00 27 7694 0 Sony Movies Action 2347 The Pact 0 2020-07-17 20:00:00 2020-07-17 21:50:00 27 7210 0 Horror Channel
On web interface TV Guide can not scroll left/right on Apple Mac.
The scroll bar does not appear on Mac web clients. I have tried Safari, Chrome and Firefox. No problem on Windows just on Mac. Can scroll up/down all channels but no scroll bar to go beyond the current times on one screen.
And there wasn't any dump file in C:\temp\.
