I am trying to record the TV show, S.W.A.T and am not able to setup Record Series, but record once works. I am wondering if the periods after each letter is causing the problem as I do not have this issues with other series recordings.
Here are the steps.
- From the NexPVR web interface, I click on Search and enter S.W.A.T. and click Search
- I click on the link to set the recording options and when I click Record Series or Advanced, it does not save my choice to setup the recordings.
Could someone help me out with a fresh install for someone who, lets assume, knows nothing.
I can't find anywhere basic instructions (and I do mean basic) for installing whatever combination of products/software are required so I can watch TV with a PVR on my TV. I have gone through all the Wiki's but they all make assumptions.
I have Nvidia Shield TV (the new one that looks like a tube) which is essentially Android TV. I have an HDHomeRun box. I have a TV. I have a PC. I have an antenna. I have Kodi installed on my Shield TV. I can watch live TV on my TV (with the HDHomeRun app on Shield).
That's all good.
What I want to do now is introduce the NextPVR component which is where it all goes pear shaped.
Do I need to install NextPVR on my PC? Is the addon (sounds obvious typing this) now installed on Kodi?
Thank you to anyone for any help you can give me.
If I can get it going I'm going to do a nice easy to understand setup guide.
I did look around for answers, didn't easily find them.
I've upgraded from 4 to 5, and noted a few things I can't find.
1) On 4 I could change the TV Guide minutes displayed, and did so to display 4 hours. 5 displays 3 hours. Is there a way to fit more?
2) In 4 I could use buttons on my Windows Media Center remote, and could . On 5, it seems like many don't work. Is there a simple utility/program I can use that will enable many of the button pushes (fast forward, reverse).
3) There was no place to add the decoders. Is that because it's web-based now?
4) Copying the NPVR.DB3 file worked great, once I discovered it's in two different subdirectories. Why is that?
Running the Firefox web browser in a window (on Windows 10) ...
Settings --> General ... Text boxes for Directory names are long when the window is narrow but shorten when I drag the right edge to make the windows wider (plus do most folk call them Folders now?)
Settings --> Access ... Ditto
Settings --> General ... The text "Pre-Padding" and "Post-Padding" switch from one line to two and vice versa independently depending on window width
Just want to thank you sub for ver5. its awesome. I do seemed to have an issue and I think its with the naming of a channel. Could you look at the log and check for me.
After moving to version 5 from version 4, With help from Martin and Sub I was finally able to configure my 4 TV Tuner card correctly in Settings by enabling all my Tuners and correctly mapping all the channels in each of the 4 tuners.
But now, once in a while, when I start up KODI I receive an error that the "NPVR ADDON failed to load" and then I immediately go to NPVR Desktop app and it gives me a warning "Unable to connect to Remote Server"
I immediately go to Windows Services and stop and restart the NPVR Service. Once again both NPVR and KODI are working normally again except for the usual lag or Buffering while watching Live TV or TV Recording. I can live with that. Possibly it will be fixed when both NPVR and KODI are updated next time.
I had time to day and looked again at v5 - Version: 5.0.2.200322 - and came across some huge problems with the DVBC tuning. I have two tuner cards from Digital Devices, one with four tuners and one with two - and currently only the add-on tuners for the 4x card are working. The other tuners throw BDA graph errors when trying to scan.
Note the whole setup works fine under v4
Successful tuning:
2020-03-29 14:08:23.150 [DEBUG][4] StartStream(): c:\temp\test.ts
2020-03-29 14:08:23.252 [DEBUG][4] Using tuner: Digital Devices DVB-C Tuner 5 (1)
2020-03-29 14:08:23.252 [DEBUG][4] About to connect...
2020-03-29 14:08:23.253 [DEBUG][4] has network provider
2020-03-29 14:08:23.254 [DEBUG][4] has tuner
2020-03-29 14:08:23.292 [INFO][4] [8b884e00-fbca-11de-b16f000000004d56]-00010005-00000000
2020-03-29 14:08:23.293 [DEBUG][4] About to auto detect capture filter...
2020-03-29 14:08:23.294 [INFO][4] Need match: [8b884e00-fbca-11de-b16f000000004d56]-00010005-00000000
2020-03-29 14:08:23.297 [DEBUG][4] dw1=00010005 vs 00010005
2020-03-29 14:08:23.298 [DEBUG][4] Got capture filter: 'Digital Devices TS Capture 5'
2020-03-29 14:08:23.299 [INFO][4] medium: [8b884e00-fbca-11de-b16f000000004d56]-00010005-00000000
2020-03-29 14:08:23.299 [DEBUG][4] Added capture filter
2020-03-29 14:08:23.312 [DEBUG][4] Connected Tuner to Capture
Unsuccessful tuning:
2020-03-29 14:18:36.068 [DEBUG][4] StartStream(): c:\temp\test.ts
2020-03-29 14:18:36.151 [DEBUG][4] Using tuner: Digital Devices DVB-C Tuner 1 (1)
2020-03-29 14:18:36.152 [DEBUG][4] About to connect...
2020-03-29 14:18:36.152 [DEBUG][4] has network provider
2020-03-29 14:18:36.152 [DEBUG][4] has tuner
2020-03-29 14:18:36.169 [INFO][4] [8b884e00-fbca-11de-b16f000000004d56]-00030001-00000000
2020-03-29 14:18:36.170 [DEBUG][4] About to auto detect capture filter...
2020-03-29 14:18:36.170 [DEBUG][4] Forcing use of 'Digital Devices Digital Video Capture 1'
2020-03-29 14:18:36.177 [DEBUG][4] FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Digital Devices Digital Video Capture 1
2020-03-29 14:18:36.178 [DEBUG][4] No BDA capture filter for this device
I've tried registry cleaning as well as de-installing and re-installing all of the tuner drivers, but no luck.
I am having a play with nextpvr v5 and have scanned in my channels ok. I was wondering if there is a quick way of selecting the channels for my area and applying the freesat channel numbers and groups etc? Just started renumbering the channels and its going to take a while doing it 1 by 1...
Appreciate any help here to reduce cycles in the initial setup?
I have 1244 entries in the db remembering playback positions dating back to 2010
1. Is there ever a limit? i.e. is there a risk of db bloat?
2. Some of these are for shows I definitely don't have any more (the Kids grew up...). When shows are deleted, shouldn't these entries also get purged?
First up: I seem to have inherited a host of devices I don't actually have? Are these normal? How do I delete them?
[EDIT]Went into db browser using SQLite and manually deleted them and some extras elsewhere in the db. I think I may have inherited them from Martin when he did my db repair (some things in there about Ottawa...)
Second: I seem to have lost nearly all my Metadata and thumbs? (I have since manually gone through and redid the Metadata via the recordings menu)
Third: There is no Metadata menu in Recordings only in Videos. Could I please ask for the one in recordings back?
