Every time that I hit the m3u update button my iptv provider's channels shows up in the device but the epg of the older channels changes to another source.
Is there a way to add new channels without changing the already added channels.
I've reproduced the situation, here's the log.
logs-20200221-0057.zip (Size: 503.37 KB / Downloads: 1)
My thanks to Sub and to Martin for impressively good and consistent work.
Server: NextPVR 4.2.5 running on a Windows 2008 server with about 30 mainly-New Zealand FTA IPTV channels via fibre. no satellite card. I've been running this kind of config for over a year with and without a sat card (no longer need one). No issues at all with watching live or recorded content directly on this system.
Client: Nvidia Shield 2019, latest firmware (v8.1.0)
Kodi 18.5/Leia (Estuary skin)
NextPVR client 3.3.18
Has been in use for a few months now, with the issues below
EPG, Recording and watching recorded TV via Kodi/NextPVR client on the Shield is basically fine.
But watching Live TV:
* Real-time:- behaviour is normal, no issues noted in my tests - but of course I want some kind of timeshift, so:
* Timeshift: if I pause, the timeshift counter displays ok after a few seconds. If I then play, it works fine. But if I then do one skip-right, that causes it to bail out of Kodi back to the Shield's home screen. This behaviour happened twice in a row on my tests, even after tweaking some of the settings mentioned below. That's very bad behaviour so I gave up on ordinary Timeshift.
* Extended Timeshift: Basically works, I've been using with reasonable reliability for months. EXCEPT that frequently (on TVNZ 1 at least) it loops back in the stream, sometimes repeatedly to the same earlyish point. This is extremely consistent - it happens maybe two times out of three, a minute or three after starting to watch the channel live.
Live playback in this mode gets even more screwed up - that is, looping is more likely to happen or recur - if I use pause and subsequently do one or more right-skips to bypass ads etc. The playback position seems to get rather lost and the client often hangs for a long time before recovering, if at all. At least a couple of times in the past week, I had to give up and power cycle the Shield once it was in that state. But the more basic looping misbehaviour can commonly happen - at least once - if all I do is play and watch, with no further intervention.
On my most recent test, pausing for a couple of minutes, then pressing right-skip four or five times (waiting a couple of seconds between them) caused it to keep changing the current time to 5:27 then instantly back to 5:17 - and eventually it bombed out of Kodi the way regular Timeshift had done. I haven't seen that last behaviour before for extended timeshift mode, but the strange/"lost" placekeeping is typical.
I've tried altering Chunksize, Recording chunk size and Buffer but changing those has had no effect on either of the above Timeshift/Extended timeshift issues.
My current workaround is to record the stream and watch it from the Record list - this approach seems to be always ok, even if I'm watching the recorded stream in close-to-real time.
I've tried using XNEWA soon after I encountered these problems but IIRC I found it less satisfactory (slower?) than the standard NextPVR client.
Hopefully the attached logs cover the ground properly - happy to reset and try again if need be. (Hmmm, Add Attachment doesn't seem to completing the upload properly, even though "Your allocated attachment usage quota is Unlimited.". So the logs are also here for a day or so).
I tried out the IPTV feature of v5 and found it is very easy to use! 99% of the IPTV links I tried were bad but I found some that actually work on Github. Out of the 500 or so channels I kept 10 that I was interested in.
All 10 IPTV channels worked in the web client. However, one channel would only play in the web browser but not in Kodi.
First, I started the NPVR server and then started the IPTV channel and watched for a bit. Then I attempted to start the IPTV channel in Kodi without success. I also tried this with the Linux v5 server and got the same results.
Don't know if it's a Kodi or NPVR issue but thought I would check here first
Hi - is there a database somewhere in Kodi where the NPVR channel numbers are stored and that can be edited? I'm a Python dev, so have managed to connect to all the Kodi mysql back end databases, but I haven't attempted tp edit anything yet.
I have the channel back end numbers option turned off. Basically I want to edit the channel numbers and groups myself...
Client of V5 is working good with recordings, but a big problem with live TV. It wants to play for several minutes and then just stops. Goes back to the main menu. Gets to be a drag to restart all the time.
Will this require a dump of logs right after one of the stops?
First of all, I decided to take the leap and jump to V5 - WOW
Thanks it is great.
Now to my question, I love the Guide and way you can click on a show and select how you want to record it. The only problem is that I want to only record NEW shows in the series. I can not find where to change the default.
The other issue is how do I sort the Scheduled shows alphabetically?
I have a HDHomeRun which can display all channels that are subscribed with the carrier. I am missing channel 740 (Hallmark channel), which can be displayed in the HDHomeRun app. The channel show up in NextPVR. but w/o any channel info.
Please advise with any info. Thanks....filosad
I have been using NextPVR for a few years with no problems. I got three new channels on my HDTV today. So I tried to scan them in on NextPVR. It would not scan in any channels. It did not delete the old channels either. I have a Hauppauge WinTV-DualHD Dual USB 2.0 HD TV Tuner.
NextPVR can see both tuners as present and enabled. When I try to scan in the channels in Digital Channel Setup it shows a window with nothing in it. It scans no channels. I tried deleting all channels on one tuner and in device setup it says The capture source has not been setup yet. It still scans no channels in on Digital Channel Setup. I'm using Win10 PRO.
Hi,
I have been using NextPVR for a couple of years with few problems. Last night at 20:21 (important in that this is when the log entries stop), I went to watch Channel 5 (UK, Sutton Coldfield transmitter) and the GUI locked up when I selected 'Watch' from the NextPVR menu. I rebooted the machine (Windows 7 with latest NextPVR) and the GUI failed to start.
NextPVR Tray had started. I selected NextPVR tray to display the devices window, which was empty.
I stopped the NextPVR recording service (which issued the 'Stopped' dialog box OK).
I then attempted to restart the recording service and received an error message as follows:
Unable to start service: System.ServiceProcess.TimeoutException: Time out has expired and the operation has not completed. at System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController.WaitForStatus(ServiceControllerStatusdesiredStatus, Timespan timeout) at Nctrl>program.Main(String[] args)
I have also attached a screenshot of this message as Capture.PNG
The GUI would not start either.
Having looked around the forum for similar problem, I saw that the output from FilterCheck was requested, so that is attached together with the zipped up logs.
I am using a Hauppauge WinTV-QuadHD. It appears to be working OK - as there are 2 entries in Windows device manager listing the device and using Hauppauge's WinTV application, I can successfully tune and liveview.
