Fixed Maybe-
Sorta
NICE - READ BEFORE POSTING - Sticky.
Useful and informative.
I wish more places would do this good of a job at this.
Am testing this out with a brand new HDHomerun Connect Quatro.
Scanning and obtaining the OTA EPG does not work as expected.
It stops on EVERY frequency that has a valid signal (starting with Frequency 7) and sits there with a 60 second countdown
and reads: "Scanning Freq:7 SID:100000" for each and every frequency that has a valid signal and each one takes 60 seconds.
I have about 15 strong signals that work great. and this process takes yep: at least 15 minutes.
NOT "Once you have set the channels you wish to use OTA broadcast data for select the 'Update EPG' button in the channels tab and NextPVR will retrieve all available information. The update process should only take 2-3 minutes. "
As I have read.
When it finally completes I go into the guide.
I only have program data for exactly 1.5 hours of time span. on ALL channels that have data.
And a large number of channels have not populated with any data at all.
*update* I just tried changing BDA Compatibility Mode to MediaPortal (Instead of NexPVR)
and it seems to be working a lot more expectedly now. Yay!
However updating the EPG still takes a 60 seconds *countdown* and sits there on each channel.
It does not appear to get data and move to the next channel as soon as it grabs it.
Is that a bug?
I've been using an older single tuner/channel HDHR-T1-US since 2009
Which has worked flawlessly with Windows Media Center/Win7 since then.
Over the past few years I've never been able to get it work with Kodi or any newer software I've tried
Other than the HDHomerun software from Silicon dust.
My limited understanding is that it doesn't work with Kodi Plex & the like simply because the developers at some point
decided NOT to support these older HDHomerun devices..
Why that decision was made is beyond me.
So I purchased a newer unit mainly because it should work with all of this newer software and I wanted to give it a try.
I'm afraid I need to resurrect this troubling issue with Hauppauge HDPVR2 and V5 live TV. I use this device to gain access to those channels that are not marked copy freely.
Pixelization and tearing are severe after only a few seconds of live TV. I spent considerable time trying to characterize this issue and is exactly like the video submitted by SilverTiger at this post: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid531845
Logs are included at the conclusion of these tests.
VLC HDPVR2 startup sequence:
- From HDPVR2 re-power - status is blue
- Select HDPVR2 channel
- Channel changes on STB
- Status light goes green briefly
- Status light goes steady green
- Live TV appears and plays without error
- Stop live TV and HDPVR2 status goes yellow then white for 30 seconds then blue
- Starting channel while status is not blue results in still frame followed by live tv after about 2 seconds
Desktop app HDPVR2 startup sequence:
- From HDPVR2 re-power - status is blue
- Select HDPVR2 channel
- Channel changes on STB
- Status light goes green briefly
- Status light goes steady green
- Live TV initially appears normal but quickly deteriorates to severe pixelization and tearing.
- Stop live TV and HDPVR2 status goes yellow then white for 30 seconds then blue
- Starting channel while status is not blue results in immediate pixelization and tearing.
Playback of recorded programs is flawless using either application.
Live TV using VLC on a Debian RPi4 other than the V5 server plays flawlessly.
No issues at all using Hauppauge DCR-3250 Triple tuner with cable card.
Could this have something to do with leaving certain devices "powered up" even though not in use? I seem to remember reading someting about this in the forum.
I like the idea of having a viewer in the browser interface for v5, but I'm having a problem with multiple instances of ffmpeg stacking up and choking the CPU when I try to skip through commercials. Each time I click the progress bar to advance or retreat playback it adds an ffmpeg process that doesn't stop running until I kill them. Hopefully this is a known bug in the player and will be fixed, but it would be helpful to have a way to designate an alternate external player. VLC works well and is not affected by skipping ahead or backward when I play the same files with it.
Sorry about deleting the other two original messages. But I was unable to remove the attachments via FULL EDIT - REMOVE ATTACHMENT button.
Martin thanks for letting me know that the NPVR logs had some personal data on
The problem is that my EPG bat is updating but it is directed at my old v.4 NPVR folder that I deleted yesterday and not to the new v.5 NPVR-data folder.
Can you explain again about inserting the >NUL command in my Bat file to make it go to the correct NPVR folder?
NOTE: I am still learning my way around on how to use all the features in this Forum.
Yesterday, I finally took the plunge and tried the release version of NPVR5 on an freshly built PC with a freshly installed version of W10. The web client works fine, but when starting the Windows client, I get the following message:
"unhandled exception has occurred in a component of your application ... Could not load file or assembly "unmanaged.dll" or one of its dependencies ..."
