Hi

some nights ago I switched from ArgusTV to NextPVR.
As far as I can see, everything works fine.
BUT: I have 1 obvious problem. If an episode (or a movie) is on multiple channels in parallel (in Germany/Austria/Switzerland we have the same provider) it will be recorded 3 times.
How can use only the channels in a special channel group?
My recordings are of type "advanced" with "any channel" but opening the combobox shows only my channels. But recording is really on _any_ channel

I hope someone understands what I mean and has a solution...

thanks in advance!

Hi all,
I had an issue recently that when NextPVR imported the EPG created by EPG Collector, that it wouldn't always show the full title, and would have part of the title in the subtitle.
This wasn't a NextPVR issue per-say, as it was happening at the EPG Collector stage (being split between Title/Sub-title).
I opened a query for it on the EPG Collector site (https://sourceforge.net/p/epgcollector/d...21f89ccf2/) and the author found the problem and issued a fix (something about it ending with a ; instead of an .)

I recently set up IPTV and have noticed the same behaviour. I'd never noticed it in the past, so perhaps it a global change in the way EPGs are formatted? But in any case, it can cause issues with NextPVR not correctly matching a scheduled recording, as it doesn't properly match on the name


This is how it displays in the IPTV EPG xml
<programme start="20200414170000 -0400" stop="20200414180000 -0400" channel="Challenge" ><title>Classic Who Wants To Be A...</title><desc>...Millionaire. A classic episode of the award-winning quiz show presented by Chris Tarrant in which contestants can win up to one million pounds.</desc></programme>

I did a search in the xml for "...</title><desc>..." and it also shows
<programme start="20200413160000 -0400" stop="20200413170000 -0400" channel="ITVBe" ><title>New: The Real Housewives of...</title><desc>...Orange County. Best Frenemies Forever: Gossip puts Braunwyn in Kelly&apos;s cross-hairs. Braunwyn defends herself and reveals who talked about Kelly. S14 Ep14.</desc></programme>
and
<programme start="20200413170000 -0400" stop="20200413180000 -0400" channel="ITVBe" ><title>Totally Unbelievable: Celebrity...</title><desc>...Feuds. From A-List bust ups to reality TV ag, this Totally Unbelievable episode counts down the greatest celebrity feuds. S1 Ep1.</desc></programme>
etc

Whereas with the data through EPG Collector, it shows as
<programme start="20200418135500 +0100" stop="20200418145500 +0100" channel="15856">
<title>The Real Housewives of Orange County</title>
<sub-title>Best Frenemies Forever</sub-title>
<desc>Gossip puts Braunwyn in Kelly's cross-hairs. Braunwyn defends herself and reveals who talked about Kelly. [S] S14 Ep14</desc>
<category>Show</category>
<audio>
<stereo>stereo</stereo>
</audio>
</programme>

and
<programme start="20200416210000 +0100" stop="20200416220000 +0100" channel="15856">
<title>Totally Unbelievable: Celebrity Feuds</title>
<desc>From A-List bust ups to reality TV ag, this Totally Unbelievable episode counts down the greatest celebrity feuds. [S] S1 Ep1</desc>
<category>Show</category>
<audio>
<stereo>stereo</stereo>
</audio>
</programme>


Also with iptv imported EPG instead of it showing Season/Episode it shows as Season\/Episode

Is there any way of implementing the same changes that EPG Collector did to display the full program names?
As a last resort, I guess I could script a download of the IPTV EPG, run it through EPG Collector to sanitise it and then import from a local file, but if there is anyway it could be implemented direct, that would be awesome :-)

Cheers.

Long time user, first time poster.

In V4 when i went to http://ip_addr:8866/channels I would receive an .m3u file containing links to all of my channels. This feature seams to be absent in V5. I am voting to bring it back.

Thanks.

I'm running NPVR 4.2.5 on PC through Windows (although worth noting, I just recently upgraded to Windows 10 and have since started having my problem)

I cannot watch live or record from any cable channels I receive (via Comcast) on my Hauppauge DCR-2650.  Never had a problem in the past when I was on Windows 7.
My Windows 10 upgrade was actually a clean install as I had to format hard drive, so everything is newly installed including NPVR.
I've attached logs of when I tried to access a live channel around 13:20 this afternoon.  A failed recording attempt just before that gave this message when trying to access it:
"No errors, but no data delivered.  This is usually because the device failed to lock a signal."  I've tried everything I can think of, from rebooting the 2650, trying different USB connections between it and the PC, 
updating firmware and drivers for the 2650, uninstalling/re-installing NPVR..the 2650 boots up fine, I can view channels off it using the HDHomerun application and even tapping into it via network stream in VLC Player.
i just can't figure it out.  Any thoughts?

Attached Files

  Logs.zip (Size: 5.78 KB / Downloads: 5)

running npvr 4.2.5 server on a PC, clients are (2) FireStick 4K's &  (1) non-4K Firestick, all running Kodi 18.6.

The issue is that when attempting a channel switch on the FTV 4K's, most of the time,  the screen goes blank for a few seconds, then it kicks me out of live 
TV and returns me to the previous screen (screen used to launch live TV).   

On the non-4K firestick, channel changes work fine.

Anyone see this before, is there a parameter adjustment in Kodi or the 4K's that would allow channel change to work correctly?

Thanks

I'm not sure if anything can be done about this issue in the backend without slowing down scans for other tuners (v4 had the same issue with my hardware).
Using a HDHomeRun CONNECT DUO, Model: HDHR5-2DT the channel numbers are usually different each time I do a scan (running DVBT mode).
Increasing the:
<ScanCollectionMS>3000</ScanCollectionMS>

Value fixes it (I doubled it to 6000). Increasing the ScanDropTime had no effect in v5.

Hi
Currently nextpvr scrapes my ota epg data (uk freeview) and pulls the season and episode number for certain shows. Unfortunately different broadcasters use slightly different formats like this which aren't picked up:
(S6 Ep 1)
S2, ep11/23
and more ..
Also the year is usually always listed for movies in the summary which could be useful for more accurate matching of artwork (for example a tmdb search of Godzilla currently produces 74 results of various different years   )

Ps. I can provide more examples. There are also some regex examples here:
https://github.com/tvheadend/tvheadend/b.../scrape/uk

Hello,

I have noticed some strange behavior during timeshift with Kodi 8.6 Leia on Windows and NextPVR V5 latest build.

If I pause a channel and after some time I resume it, it resumes normally, but after few seconds it goes back and resumes again from where it was originally paused and from there on it plays fine.

I am attaching kodi debug log and nextpvr server logs.

My configuration of nextpvr plugin is as per the attached screenshot.

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I recently completed some of the final steps in my movie library scraper, and I wanted to share how I do it with the NPVR users.

I've been collecting movies from OTA sources for years - started as a hobby back when the Hauppage SCART adapters could be used as a NPVR front end on the older v3 version. Then some software came around to collate the libraries (thanks, team Kodi) as well as metadata scrapers (hats off to TinyMM) to complete everything.

Some people collect stamps, other butterflies, I collect movies - around 3,300 of them so far.

The main problem before was threefold

1) How to avoid recording what I already have in HD (typically 1080p or 720p)
2) How to re-record things which may have dropouts or other glitches
3) How to re-record other shows where I may have a low bitrate or lower resolution and want to get a better version

I've fixed 2 and 3 a while ago with some scripting, json metadata files, and heavy post processing. The update to v5 and a rewritten scheduler with the ability to add "custom" searches (effectively SQL scripts) really made new things possible.  Caveat - this is not for the faint of heart, and the scripts actively delete files going into postprocessing, as well as actively avoid recording movies on a "do not record" list.

There are still some bugs to iron out (handling file and directory names with ! in them) however it's around 95% there for me already.

Directory structures:
Recordings
_LOGS - logfiles, plus location of the DNR CSV file uploaded into the NPVR database
DO_NOT_RECORD - just empty directories with "cleaned" names of things to delete after or before recording
WATCH_SD - directories with the associated JSON files for SD movies already recorded (used by PostProcessing)
PREP_HD - directories with SD movies but with a very high bitrate (used by SQL scripts)
HD_REDO - movie names as directories where the original HD is a little more defective than usual or missing a minute beg/end (used by PostProcessing, but need to work into the SQL scripting, as these 5 are now being "avoided" by the scheduler
WATCH_SD_SPECIAL - same as HD_REDO but for SD materials where movie names can vary

Do Not Record:
Movies land here by running the DeleteMovie.cmd file against it - I've integrated this in the W10 shell commands for directories to make life easy. The moviename is cleaned before inserting a new entry into DO_NOT_RECORD directory

Watch SD Special:
Similar to above, this puts an entry into the WATCH_SD directory using the SD_Special_Delete.cmd file.

Note that Recordings is mapped as "R:" on my remote machine and is natively "H:" on the HTPC.

Database changes:
We need to add a new table called "DO_NOT_RECORD" which is updated daily as part of the PostUpdateEPG scripting. This is used in a SQL custom recording search which tries to avoid recording materials which are already available. Due to the structure of the EPG_EVENT table, the concatenation of (Moviename - Year) is not available and I don't want to blow up Sub's work by messing with existing tables. The DNR table uses a "cleaned" name where offensive combinations of dash, double space, ampersand period and other punctuation is removed. I also have to forcibly remove the movie year from the cleaned name, as it excludes recordings from EPG_EVENT going forward, and that field only has the name.

SQL Scripting
A script UpdateDNRDB.bat is run after EPG where the do-not-record material is re-generated by scanning the existing directories - this helps ensure that recently cut/added movies are quickly excluded from the recording lineup. Categories are SD - things to re-record in HD / DHD - delele as HD existing / DNR - do not record. The local directories are scanned

Recording Searches
There are two searches - one for a HD channel group (where I can excluded the DNR and DHD movies) and one for a SD channel group (where I can exclude the previous, plus a number of SD movies, currently around 500, where I have such a high bit rate it's not going to get better). These searches ensure that I can avoid wasting tuner capacity for stuff I already have or have decided I do not want.

Search #1 for HD Channels
[select * from epg_event where] genres like '%Movie%' and channel_oid in (select channel_oid from channel_group where group_oid = 17)
and replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(title, '-', ''), '_', ''), '&', ''), '.', ''), ':', ''), ',', ''), '  ', ' ')
NOT IN (SELECT title FROM do_not_record WHERE source in ('DHD', 'DNR') AND title IS NOT NULL)

Search #2 for SD Channels
[select * from epg_event where] genres like '%Movie%' and channel_oid in (select channel_oid from channel_group where group_oid = 18)
and replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(replace(title, '-', ''), '_', ''), '&', ''), '.', ''), ':', ''), ',', ''), '  ', ' ')
NOT IN (SELECT title FROM do_not_record WHERE source in ('DHD', 'DNR', 'SD') AND title IS NOT NULL)

Post Update EPG
This file does a major amount of the data collection, ensuring that the movie library is scanned and the WATCH_SD and DELETE_HD directories are created to support both PostProcessing as well as updating the DNR database table. It calls a batch file FFPROBER which parses existing JSON data (and re-creates if missing) to sort movies dynamically into HD and SD material, and note the total bit rate. You need to call FFPROBER for all movie drives as well as for subdirectories where you use them.  FFPROBER uses a couple of JScript files to parse the FFPROBER data and write out neat JSON files in each movie directory.

PostProcessing
Takes the completed recording, and determines if it is kept or deleted. Keeping means that it's either 1) a new movie or 2) a SD recording with higher bit rate or 3) a new HD recording of local SD material. The movie is deleted if 1) it's on the DNR list but got recorded by mistake in the SQL data or 2) its in SD quality but lower than what I have already.
If the movie is kept a JSON file is locally created with the metadata, and at HTML snippet (HTMX) is created help populate the HTML directory file.
Movies which are re-recordings are tagged with a "z-" before the directory name to find them more easily.

HTML Directory
Scripting is run after PostProcessing to update the HTML directory of current recordings so I can quickly decided if to keep and process further or delete. Hyperlinks with the movie name for Wikipedia and Rotten Tomatoes are created.

You will notice some checking for existing txt files and random delays - this is designed to avoid PostProcesing clobbering the HTML directory in case multiple recordings end at the exact same time.

I've attached a ZIP file with the scripts as well as sample data directories and structures where you can see examples of the metadata stored and how it's handled.

  NPVR.zip (Size: 317.15 KB / Downloads: 6)

Happy Easter!
    Dane

When a channel stops playing due to an error (i.e. not pressing stop from kodi client), the temporary timeshift files remain on disk and are not deleted. I'm using tmpfs for timeshift files and over time the partition gets full.