We just entered DST here, and all of the times in the Guide for today are off by one hour. The times in the scheduler are correct, as are the times in the Guide from tomorrow onward. I tried emptying the EPG and then updating it, but that didn't change anything. I use Schedules Direct for Guide info. I suspect this is a problem with SD, but I am reporting here just in case. Logs attached.

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USA observes Daylight Saving Time a couple of weeks prior to the UK.
Is there a built in way to offset an XMLTV guide by an hour during this window?

I record many TV programs and watch it on Kodi using NPVR as my Back-end.

For the past 2 months, when I watch my recorded TV shows, the video freezes for a few seconds and then fast forwards a few seconds when it unfreezes and continues the recorded video. This happens frequently while watching a show or when I fast forward or go backwards manually the video.

Also I would need to delete a recording twice. The first time it says something about the addon not working to check the logs. Then when I hit delete again it actually deletes it. Also it takes several seconds to delete a show once the deletion action starts.

In Windows Event Viewer it keeps showing Error as the NPVR Addon  .DLL crashing.

I reinstalled KODI and upgraded to the latest Leia version 18.6. It got better at first but now it is as bad as before. I deleted the NPVR addon from the ADDON folder in KODI in APPDATA Folder. Reinstalled it, no difference. I tried to downgrade the NPVR which is version 3.3.18 to previous version 3.3.15 but Kodi keeps installing version 3.3.18.

I have done an Ingrade upgrade of the same Windows 10 Pro (1909) version to install a clean Windows. No effect. I have restored a System Backup, no effect.

Yet when I go to KODI Movie section and I choose the Folder (TEMP) where all my TV recordings are saved by my TV Card and click on a TV Recording it works normally. Starts and closes quickly. Deletes quickly. No delays or lags. I can fast forward or go backwards without any long delays or freezes.

I have deleted several Addons that I felt might interfere with the NPVR Addon. No effect.

I am not about to do a clean install of Windows since most of the time it doesn't resolve anything.

If you need any KODI or NPVR Logs let me know to zip them and upload them.

Thanks in advance.

With both web browser and nlite please request tie and date format to be in Windows format choice i.e.  7/3/2020 15:45
thanks

just done a setup from scratch at a friends and a question and a problem have arisen

(1) How to mass untick radio stations (ISTR it was right click on v4) ( a hidden / secret key?) I tried control but it does notihing.

(2) probem/wishlist with freshly scanned tuner where the tick boxes are for each channel for keep or not. There is a save and cancel button at the bottom.
I have discovered numerous times that also clicking outside the grayed area also cancels everything I've changed . the left edge of the box is perilously close to the tick box ;(

I have installed version 5 (upgrading from version 4). My machine is Windows 10 64, with 4 Hauppauge TV Tuners installed. This config has run using version 4 with no problems for several years. NexPVR has been rock solid in fact..
The install seems all good, the NextPVR service is running, and I can start the client OK...
But, then I cant setup the tuners.. I right click to go to settings, then select Devices & Channels, this opens a browser address http://localhost.8866/settings.html, and I immediately get an error:

An error has occurred in the script on this page.
Line:  65
Char:  15
Error: Expected " :" 
Code:  0
URL:  http://localhost:8866/components/manage-channels.js

Do you want to continue running scripts on this page?
Yes/No

I get 16 of these come up - one for each control on the page.. then the page finally opens (doesn't matter if I select Yes or No to continue running scripts. But nothing works of course.. and the version number is just a .

I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling.
Not sure where to go from here...

Thanks for any help!

I recently ran into a problem that has come up just a few times during the last several months.  Very intermittent and "seemed" to fix itself mysteriously within a day or less. 

The problem:  "unable to find capture device"

This problem started  about six months ago.  And then only 3 times (I think).  Each time after playing with it or re-booting the PC it just fixed itself. 

Some history.  I have been running NextPvr around 6 years at this current location.  Currently on version 4.  I have a purpose built HTPC solely to act as my TV recording and viewing device.  It has nothing but NextPvr and some support applications.  No email, or other programs.  In short a dedicated "super TIVO on steroids".  I have other computers I can use for my day to day computing so this little HTPC is very optimized to do one thing and do it reliably.    It's NEVER turned off and is only re-booted when needed to enable some Windows "must have" update etc.  Running windows 7.

And it's been about the most reliable, trouble free THING in my life.  <grin>

Today I had the very rare "unable to find capture device" error when I tried to start watching a live view show.  No matter channel I selected ... no capture device.  Normally when I'm not watching a live show or a recording the HTPC is running, but the monitor is turned off and the NPVR application is closed with ONLY the recording service running.  So normally I turn on the monitor and start the NextPVR application and the full screen GUI pops up and I'm ready to enjoy.

So when this problem happened today, I checked everything.  Everything seemed fine .. in fact there was already a recording in progress!  I had only one (of the three available) tuners already in use but could NOT start to watch a channel live.
 
I shut down NextPVR and stopped the NPVR recording service, then restarted both, and of course NPVR then re-started a new session to continue the recording that was aborted.  And I still could not play back any live TV and was given the "unable to find capture device".

I then rebooted the computer !!  And then everything was back to normal again. Huh ?? 
 
Okay .. here's the fix ... And why this started happening on occasion from about six months ago on a very intermittent basis.  Six months ago, I decided to add a little more functionality to my HTPC.  Since I always had it turned on and usually was watching it, I thought I might add a small light weight email alerting program just so I could know if someone or something important was trying to get in touch.  Never used my HTPC for anything other than NextPVR so that was an experiment.  In the end I found a way to be notified when I got a phone call or email by a background process that was not very intrusive and didn't weigh down the system.  It was nice.  And I could optionally turn it off if I really didn't want to be bothered while watching a movie.

Then I started browsing the Internet on and off using the HTPC.  No problem there either.  But I wanted to keep my secure HTPC locked down as much as possible.  So added a VPN application.  This gave me an additional level of security during my browsing sessions. 

This morning I was browsing the Internet and then finished my session.  I shut off the VPN application when done browsing.  BUT the VPN "service" was still running in the background.  Then later today I opened up the NextPVR GUI and attempted to do a live channel view and I got that error.

So on a whim I started looking at my running processes .. and saw the "Proton VPN service" was still running.  I shut that down and then my channel live view started working again.  Made several subsequent tests and found that VPN while still running in the background was keeping my NextPVR Live view from working.  Why?  I don't know.  It  wasn't enough to exit the actual VPN application and close it.  The actual VPN service was still running in the background.  So I have to remember to STOP that service in the future. 

This is why I never had the problem in the last several years .. Never used my dedicated HTPC for anything else.  And I very seldom run anything else on that HTPC even today.  But the addition of a few new non-PVR applications resulted in something upsetting the apple cart.    Weird.  Hope this helps someone else ... maybe someone can comment on why the VPN service doesn't play well in my situation.  I guess I can always walk over to the "real pc" and use that for my browsing and email fix.  <grin> 

Yeah I guess after several years of reliable use, I can say, "It wasn't broke, so I fixed it".  

just a quick note
when 2 people watch the same channel its using 2 different stream instead of using the same one
to use only one stream in this scenario
thanks

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On my Linux v5 setup I was attempting to change the priority of the devices and found that the bottom 2 devices were stuck at the bottom of the priority order. After looking at the db3 file with DB Browser for Linux I found that there were duplicate priorities listed.

   
   

I have seen this happen more that once but I don't know what I did to get it in this state. The last time it happened was on my Windows PC. I can correct this by using DB Browser and editing the priorities to make them all unique.

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Hi all...I am currently a good way along with having a working Enigma2 plug in for NPVR5. For the time being it is pretty basic, but when an initial version is ready it will allow you to:

1. Get a channel List.
   
2. Get an EPG for those channels.
   
3. Pick channels from a bouquet.
   
4. Blast the box to replicate the remote control.
   
5. View the channel stream in NPVR, Kodi-NPVR or whatever using a command line encoding pipe (either cVLC or FFMPEG directly - not decided yet).