I'm writing a utility to do some integration with TV Maze (https://tvmaze.com), and I have the initial code working so that I can check a list of shows (presumably new to me) and add recurring recordings to NextPVR if there are new episodes in the next 10 days.  I realized this morning that I've been able to make all the API calls to NextPVR without authentication, and I'm assuming that's because I'm accessing it via localhost (I have NextPVR running on Docker on my development Mac).  That'll actually work fine for me even in production, but I'd like to provide the option for someone to run the script somewhere else.  When is the PIN required for API access, and how does it get sent (in the header, as basic auth in the URL, as an additional Get param, etc?).

Thanks.

Hi!

I just bought a Firestick TV 4K in the hope of using it as a front end / client for my NextPVR TV server (which is running Version: 5.0.3.200415 and happily serves TV to all the other devices in my house)

I was easily able to install Leia 18.7 using the 'Downloader' app on the Firestick and also easily installed the next-pvr Addon.
Unfortunately whilst live TV seems to stream OK, whenever I try and play TV I have recorded the stream might play a few seconds or buffer and then crash or crash immediately.

I don't *think* it is network speed related as I have a pretty decent 11ac wireless signal in the room.  Other devices in the same spot e.g. my chromecast running Libreelec work fine.

I was wondering whether the Live streams are in a different format to the recordings and whether I should be using hardware or software encodings either on the Server or Kodi itself. Currently I have the server set to 'leave recordings in native format'

Has anyone got any advice on how to get this working or any settings I can try to get recordings to play back?

Thanks 

Jolltax

I am noticing that NextPVR v5 takes an extremely long time to launch on system start, over 90 seconds to go green in the system tray. This upsets my Kodi that also launches on system start because it cannot connect to the NextPVR backend so I have to wait until it's available and then restart Kodi. A complete fail for what's supposed to be a solid DVR/media center appliance.

Intel NUC10i7FNH with Windows 10 Pro and HDHomerun Prime as my cable tuner. This is a new computer for my HTPC itch. I installed NextPVR v5 fresh on the new system. It had little trouble finding the HDHomerun and setting up the channels and EPG. I also have the "keep digital tuners primed" checkbox enabled. I checked firewall settings, all is fine there; once the tray goes green then I can connect with the NextPVR client or the Kodi app and view live TV. Just not before.

My workhorse HTPC of over 3 years (Intel NUC5i5RYH) has NextPVR 4 and no issues starting up quickly with the system. I am tempted to remove NextPVR v5 and install v4 if I can't figure out why v5 is taking so long to go green.


Any ideas?

Would like to see a mechanism that would allow a user to manually change the endtime(in either direction) of an active recording.

Sometimes setting the post-padding for any given event may be too little or too much. To my knowledge, there is currently no way to extend a recording once the recording begins.

I mounted a shared disk on the machine used as server and also for nextpvr app
NextPVR desktop apps replay the recorded file when the web apps has a black screen and complains it cannot find the file.

The export recording shows the correct location for the file (correctly understood by the deskstop app)

Hi all,

Have been reading the forums for about a week now and watched many YouTube videos but for the life of me I cannot get NextPVR working on my Synology DS2415+.

I've tried installing through putty and installing through the GUI and nothing seems to work, it looks like the container runs but cannot access it at all, i imagine these is advanced settings for setting up in GUI but I don't know what these settings should be.

Is there any tutorials online for Synology GUI install or docker on Synology install?

Thanks in advance for any assistance with this.

I have just installed v5 on Linux Mint v19.3 on my new HTPC.  I had previously tested v5 in a Mint VM but this is the real-deal now.

I was able to watch live TV from the web interface TV Guide using my HRHD tuners, but then busted something when I went to set a static IP address for this PC.  /etc/resolv.conf kept getting over-written (separate Linux issue), but after I got that straightened out I could no longer watch live TV from the TV Guide page.  I get "Failed to start requested stream" message in red at the bottom.  I went back to DHCP and undid the resolv.conf and interface changes, but it didn't fix my live TV issue.  Perhaps it's unrelated, but the timing is right as a cause.

I can record a show and then play it immediately from the web UI.

I replicated this using Kodi with knewc, both locally and on my ODroid (can't watch live TV, can play recording).

Logs attached.  I did a clean boot and tried to play live TV from Guide, but couldn't find anything that looked like an error in the log file.  Of course I don't really know what I'm looking for either.

I tried to watch "The Collection on Masterpiece" on channel 2.1 KTCADT if that helps.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Brad

I couldn't use in the prior release, since no manual ip add til now, so not sure if this is new problem. Using the iPhone remote app or iPhone native remote, while in TvGuide, scrolling is run-away. Soon as I swipe down into the guide and try to navigate to a program the scroll runs out of control to the bottom of the screen. Can kind of navigate around but it has a mind of its own. Very hard to get on the program I want, and tap to select, before it moves off to another program. When it runs off the beep goes into a repeating beep as the selection runs all the way to the bottom or top of the screen and keeps beeping til the app is closed. Does it on both IPTV tuner, with any group, and the OTA tuner. Not sure if it does this with the original remote as it broke a few months ago. Anyone else have this problem?

Every now and then I'll see a recording conflict, but in nearly every instance, at least one of the conflicting shows is on the same channel again within 2-4 hours after the scheduled time. I'm trying to understand how the recording priority rules work.  Do they refuse to even look for alternate times for any of the shows that already have a higher priority?  Is it possible to set the rules to allow a different recording time, regardless of priority?  That would resolve nearly every conflict that I see on my system.  My current fix is to either A) manually reschedule one of the shows, or B) move the "new" show that is in conflict from the bottom to the top of the priority list.  Either way, then the conflict is gone after the EPG updates that night.

For example, the current conflict is at 8:00 PM on June 4.

Don't Record: In The Dark
Cancel: Mountain Men
Cancel: Blindspot
Cancel: Restaurant Impossible

Mountain Men episode is on again at 11:03 PM
Restaurant Impossible episode is on again at 11 PM

Can I set something to tell NPVR that it's OK to go ahead and change one of the recording times if it finds another timeslot available?

Sometimes I don't even notice that there is a conflict until after the recording has been missed. 

Logs attached.

Attached Files

  logs-20200524-1422.zip (Size: 432.83 KB / Downloads: 3)

I set a show to record EVERYTHING, no matter what, come back later, and the boxes aren't red?! So I manually hit each episode to record individually, and IT HAD BETTER STICK. If there's some REASON, it would be nice to tell me: I  have enough tuners..as I said, I don't care about duplicate repeats, record it anyway..I have plenty of space..the guide is working fine..  This also appears to happen occasionally on my Tivo, weirdly.