I'm new to NextPVR and this forum, hoping I can find some help.... I recently tried using NextPVR when support for Win 7 WMC was discontinued. I am in the US, and am now running on Windows 10 Pro version 1909 on a desktop with AMD Phenom™ II X4 965 processor running at 3.40 GHz, with 8GB RAM on a 64-bit operating system. I am using an original HD Homerun Dual ATSC tuner, model HDHR-US, and had upgraded my HD Homerun software when I upgraded to Windows 10. I can watch TV through the HD Homerun with no issues. I originally installed NextPVR version 4, but upgraded to v 5 couple of weeks or so ago to see if that would help to resolve my issues, but did not see any change.
My problem is that NextPVR does not record about half of my programs, while recording the other half. There doesn't seem to be any consistent pattern to the recording failures. I seem to record more recent movies more successfully than other shows and older movies, but I can't be confident that any show will record.
There are no failure messages in the Recent Recordings file. The PC seems to wake just fine when it is due to record. However, no recording takes place. The HD Homerun tuner light usually does not come on and NextPVR only creates a small file. Occasionally, it will capture a few seconds of video from the beginning of the scheduled recording time. If I look in NextPVR while this is happening, NextPVR appears to think that a recording is taking place. It does not allow me to schedule a recording of the show, only to cancel it. The XML file appears to be created normally at the end of the scheduled recording time.
To collect some data for review, during the past 36 hours, I restarted my computer and scheduled 10 recordings. 4 recordings were successful, while 6 failed to record, as follows (m/d/yy format):
Date Start Result
4/9/20 7:57 AM Failed
4/9/20 11:27AM Failed
4/9/20 1:57 PM Success (a movie)
4/9/20 2:57 PM Success (same show as 11:27 AM)
4/9/20 3:57 PM Success (a movie)
4/9/20 8:57 PM Success
4/10/20 3:57 AM Failure
4/10/20 5:27 AM Failure
4/10/20 11:27AM Failure
4/10/20 2:57 PM Failure
I have included all of the failed .ts files in my zip file.
I saw some posts discussing whether blocked ports might be contributing to problems. I used the netstat command to capture some port information and have included reports from the beginning and end of the 36 hour period with the .ts files.
Hope someone can help ... I really want this to work!
Just finished building a new HTPC. Still have the old trusty PC running NextPVR version 4 running.
I'm now installing the latest NPVR version 5 on the new PC. I'm at the point where I need to scan my HD Homerun Prime for channels. Here is what is happening.
I enter the Scan Channels area ... (Scan Channels)
Select Guiide ..
Shows list of available guides ?
Schedules Direct (USA-0000001-CUSTOM
Schedules Direct (USA-CT06437-X)
... Add Schedules Direct Lineup...
... Add XMLTV Lineup..
I don't know where the two shown available lineups came from? I first tried the first one "Schedules Direct (USA-0000001-CUSTOM"
End result was the guide kinda screwed up. Many channels missing, also some that did play had the wrong info. Also channels I've never seen. Those that worked, did play and record, but none contained the proper EPG data.
So I blew away that first setup and started over. this time selecting "... Add Schedules Direct Lineup..."
Continued from there selecting the shown available line up which I've been using on SD on my other pc running NPVR vers. 4. Which is "Comcast Andover (CT) - Digital (Andover)"
However when I try to continue I get an error message saying, " This site says .. undefined". I could be wrong but I think this is a "browser" error and might not be a NextPVR error? Note the old PC running 24/7 is still working fine and doing it's daily EPG updates etc. This new PC is eventually going to replace that old one. IF I can get by this setup problem.
I have tried both the MS Edge Browser, and am thinking this might be a browser issue. I will try again later with Firefox but wonder what you guys find works best. I am NOT a fan of the Chromium based browsers.
Sorry for the extra spaces between paragraphs .. still having problems with this form and can't get it to properly format my pages without adding several blank lines everywhere.
When selecting scan region during the initial setup the drop down box is just blank - then after 12 seconds or so it loads in.
Is there anyway to improve the performance of this?
thanks
For reference I'm running nextpvr on a hp n54l microserver (an old dual core cpu).
Im using uk freeview with ota epg.
Here is the summary that was scraped for the season/episode number:
"Drew bargains hard in Frome, Somerset. And in Dumfriesshire, he's at an estate that's been in the same family for several generations and is full of fascinating antiques. S11/Ep8"
Small issue carried over from version 4.
<genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="8"/> should be <genre name="Drama" type="16" subtype="0"/>
as subtype 8 is adult movie in the xbmc-genre-translation.xml
I wrote the batch file below many years ago to go in the postUpdateEPG.bat to reboot the server when it is not recording. It does not work in V5 so assumed it was just a case of changing the file location in the "set" statement but nscripthelper is now a dll file and it fails with Unhandled Exception. Is it possible to get this script working under V5?
Chris
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REM Reboot if not recording
set NSHelper=c:\"program files (x86)"\npvr\nscripthelper.exe
:check
FOR /F "tokens=*" %%i in ('%NSHelper% -isinuse') do SET condition=%%i
echo %condition%
IF %condition% =="NOT RECORDING" goto reboot
Hello everyone,
Would there be someone out there to create an IPTV channel using the RTSP feed from a security camera? I would need detailed instructions on how to do this. Keep in mind I probably am not as advanced as you may be. I would be willing to pay.
Private message me if your interested.
Thank you,
Bruce
