I am looking at an alternate addon for scanning DVB-S in the UK for Astra 28.2 and I assume I need to support Freesat and Sky channel number but I have some questions.
- Do those of you who use DVB-S know how to use the tables here https://mizar.mythtv.org/wiki/DVB_UK
- Does anyone know what the G2 table is here https://www.satellite-calculations.com/D...Number.php
- For Freesat SD it doesn't look like any channels are regionalized, what is the purpose of using a bouquet for them in England (not in Scotland, Wales or NI)?
I've been fighting with the episode guide not loading, and just stumbled across a weird solution/bug.
When load the XMLTV file via httpS, the instance refuses to parse and WILL NOT load it. The process always claims 0 new/0 inserted/0 updated after EPG update is run. There are no errors in the logs, just normal attempts to process from what I can see.
After trying 100 other things, I switched over to plain-text http, and like magic the exact same file loads perfectly. File itself is static and the SSL cert is a trusted from LetsEncrypt provider. This makes absolutely no sense.
The URL to Guide is pulled via the domain where the cert is valid, so it's not a DNS mis-match issue or anything like that.
Issuer Name
Country US Organization Let's Encrypt Common Name E5
Validity
Not Before Wed, 06 Aug 2025 [REDACTED] GMT Not After Tue, 04 Nov 2025 [REDACTED] GMT
Subject Alt Names
DNS Name *.redacteddomain.com DNS Name redacteddomain.com
Public Key Info
Algorithm Elliptic Curve Key Size 384 Public Value [REDACTED]
Miscellaneous
Serial Number [REDACTED] Signature Algorithm ECDSA with SHA-384 Version 3 Download PEM (cert)PEM (chain)
Just for reference, both `wget` and `curl` running on the linux machine are perfectly fine with the SSL connection to pull the xmltv.xml file...
In the weeks since that discussion came to its conclusion, all the necessary equipment has arrived. In order to learn by doing things stepwise from simple to complex, I began by installing a Hauppauge ATSC tuner and NextPVR on one computer, just to get in some practice with the setup and usage processes.
That went well, so I moved over to the intended system, which includes a Verizon (Arris) IPC1100 P2 set-top box, a Hauppauge HDPVR2, a dedicated Windows 11 laptop, and the current version of NextPVR on the laptop.
For practice, I managed to get WinTV 10 to display the channel that the STB is tuned to. (To keep things simple, I had connected the STB to the HDPVR2 via component.) First success. Then I tried doing a manual recording in WinTV, and that worked too. Second success.
Next I tried setting up the Hauppauge IR blaster... and this has been a total FAIL. I haven't found a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to doing this in NextPVR, and trying it in WinTV hasn't worked either.
The few threads I've found in this Forum all provide only bits and pieces, and they seem to assume prior knowledge that I don't have. For example, this thread has a promising-sounding title, but it launches at once into a discussion of CLI commands.
This old thread references a blaster setup guide, but the gbpvr.com link given there no longer leads to it.
The "Import Channels" (fourth) image on the NPVR Wiki STB setup page doesn't match what I'm seeing. The image shows four fields to fill in, but I only have three fields. I don't have the middle one that, in the illustration, is filled in with info for XMLTV. And while I have an idea of what to enter in the path field, I have no clue what to do with the last field, the one that in the image reads "{channel_d2} {channel_d3}".
Apologies if this is coming off as a rant, but I felt I was really close to the finish line and now there's this. Any help will be appreciated. Please just bear in mind that I have zero background in this IR blaster stuff and extremely little in NextPVR, I come from a STB/WMC environment.
I've been happily using an old arm32v7 image, version 6.1.5.231022, for years on a Raspberry Pi 4. Works fine for my purposes.
Today I tried to update to the latest image, version 7.0.2.250621. The only thing I changed was to pull the new image from Docker Hub; I kept the rest of the configuration the same. To me it now "feels" like I've lost communication with my tuner, which is a USB-connected single tuner Hauppauge 950.
For this device, the docker run command specifies:
Code:
--device /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb
but perhaps this is not correct or sufficient for the new version of NextPVR? From dmesg I see the tuner device being found and being initialized with microcode on /dev/dvb, so that's good.
On the plus side, the web interface for the new version does come up, I can log into it, and I see my device list and channel map as before. EPG fetching also works. But there's no evidence that NextPVR is talking with the tuner (channel scan, manual program request yield either "Transcoder exited" or "There is no tuner available").
If I simply switch back to the old image (with docker tag) and reboot, everything works again. I'd sure like to have the benefits of the newest NextPVR version if possible - any suggestions? Thanks!
This one has me scratching my head.
I set a recording to take place at 01:00 AM this morning.
Thought I made sure my power wouldn't be off or that my pc wouldn't go to sleep.
Still failed to record. I looked through the log file...but not exactly sure what I'm looking for.
Well we still getting crashes.
I just seen this, does this mean a fix is coming soon?
UI clients can be nice and fortuanately don't take much maintenance from sub either once (knock on wood for libSKiaShap in the next version).
Kays last error
2025-08-29 10:17:43.579 [DEBUG][1] System.Exception: Unable to allocate pixels for the bitmap.
at SkiaSharp.SKBitmap..ctor(SKImageInfo info, Int32 rowBytes)
at NextPVR.Playback.DirectshowPlaybackHelper..ctor()
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.StartVideoPlaybackProxy(String windowTarget, String filename, String& reason)
at NextPVR.Players.VideoPlayer.PlayFiles(List`1 playQueue, Int32 playQueueIndex, String& reason)
at NextPVR.Players.VideoPlayer.PlayFile(String filename, String& reason)
at NUtility.UIController.PlayVideoFile(String filename)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.HandleCommand(String command)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.HandleButtonCommand(String buttonName)
at NUtility.Controls.UiButtonList.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.TV.ShowDetailsPopup.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NUtility.UIController.OnKeyDown(KeyEventArgs e)
at NextPVR.ControllerForm.ControllerForm_KeyDown(Object sender, KeyEventArgs e)
2025-08-29 10:15:20.427 [DEBUG][1] LoadChannelListings done (listings = 576)
2025-08-29 10:15:20.427 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error in DrawImage: External component has thrown an exception.
2025-08-29 10:15:20.611 [DEBUG][1] LoadChannelListings(channel=7196)
2025-08-29 10:14:17.635 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error loading channel icon: System.Exception: Unable to allocate pixels for the bitmap.
at SkiaSharp.SKBitmap..ctor(SKImageInfo info, Int32 rowBytes)
at NUtility.Utility.ChannelIconCache.GetIcon(Channel channel)
2025-08-29 10:14:17.643 [DEBUG][1] Loaded icon
I have been running NextPVR on a LibreElec server for almost a year and it is working well for me. All seems Ok except the recordings listed on the playback client does not show all the recordings actually on the disk. This is not a major problem as I tend to watch and delete most recordings within a week. However there are some old recordings I would like to watch but don’t have access from any client.
I thought that an easy work around would be to enable the NextPVR client “Video” menu item which I usually delete and point it to the data disk on the server! However I have been unable to connect to the server from the LibreElec standard client or the NextPVR New Client.
I was perhaps expecting one of the options it to display the local LibreElec NFS server but all give no response!
However “Recordings” is an option under the “Browse for new share” menu but this is not the full contents of the “DATA_DISK”.
I can connect to /var/media/DATA_DISK from FileZilla but that is via SFTP!
I am getting a bit rusty with nfs since I retired many years ago after being admin on a subnet of Linux servers so could do with some help!!
