Installed V5 on the desktop and the Web part works OK.  The client part has problems.  First error that shows up is a Microsoft .NET Framework box that states could not load file or assembly "SlimDX.dll 
What fixes that problem?

Hello,

i moved from TV Mosaic to NPVR (Version5), and i am really happy with NPVR.

I just want to list a few things i noticed, that are not so optimal in the KODI NPVR Add-on, perhaps it can be "optimised"

- If a single Movie is recorded the movie is in a subfolder in the Recorded TV Library. This is not so nice. Single recordings (not recuring) should be listed flat. This would be nicer to navigate, and also the movie covers would show up while clicking through the list. Would be much nicer

- In recuring records, the cover of the recuring recording could show up on the top folder. So that for example, the picture of the series is shown , when scrolling through the recorded list

- What i am really missing, is that the station from where i recorded the movie / series is not shown in the details page (where the EPG info is shown). Only the time and date is standing in the top of the detail page, but the station is missing.

- If there is no internet cover/poster available for the record, it should show the station logo, not the "no picture availabe icon" from kodi

I sometimes have problems with the live tv buffer. I left the setting in standard, only activated extended timeshift:
- Live TV starts
- Then is stopps - a percent loading icon is shown, taking a few seconds, then live tv ontinues.
- Can this be optimised, with the buffer settings? I did not find a doku to the settings till now

I had a problem with a recording still running, and i already startet watching: 
- The playback stopped twice without any reason (also fast forward worked very laggy)
- I then could resume at the point where it stopped
- I think it stopped there, where the recording was at the point, i started watching ( for example, already 30 minutes were recorded, but total time 1:30, so it first stopped at 30 minutes, because it thought the recoding ended here)

Esspecially in live TV and very less in recordings, the Dolby Digital audio stream is reported to Kodi with 0 channels. So Kodi selects the mp2 stream in the recoding, instead of the better DD stream. Kodi is setup to always use the best stream. This works mostly. If i then manually select the DD stream, with 0 channels, the DD stream works. But because of the false reporting, this does not work automaticaly in these cases.

Well, now i am finished, what i wanted to report. Sorry for my not perfekt english, i do my best, that you understand......

But besindes all the things i listed: I am really happy, that i found this software, and i think with Version 5 and a little tuning of the kodi plugin, it can really get perfekt. Very good job!!

Peter

Testing V5 on my laptop and everything works well.  Thinking of removing V4 and installing V5 on the dedicated TV desktop.  Will a simple windows uninstall work or is there some other folders and files that need to be manually removed?

I'm having a problem with recordings being truncated at a specific length. They all stop at the same file length...2147483647 bytes...2GB. Nextpvr shows them as recording past that size but the files don't get any longer. When played back, when it reaches the end of the file the playback jumps back to the beginning and restarts. Anything shorter works fine. Looks to me like there's a 2.0 GB limit set somewhere but I can't find where.

I'm running version 5.0.1.200211 on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Ubuntu 19.04 server and recording onto an external USB 3.0 hard drive formatted as ext4 but the issue was also there on the previous nextpvr version(s).

Probably something dumb but I can't see what it is. Any suggestions will be appreciated.

Hello, 

I have specified in settings 60 minutes pre and post padding for my recordings.
However in the database I noticed it is using 30 minutes.
See attached picture.
Any ideas?

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I have a Stalker IPTV box that I would like to run in NPVR if possible. Said box seems to work well with the standard Stalker PVR client in Kodi, but I don't know how I do similar with NPVR...

On my TV I get channels 4.1, 4.2 4.3, etc, but when I scan they no longer show up.
Version 4.2.5 (191014)
WinTV HVR-950 DBA Tuner

They did at one time but I had to rescan my channel list and those channels are not showing in the list for me to watch.

Suggestions?
Thank you

In testing version 5 I have something odd.  It opens with a screen that towards the upper left the words:  Nextpvr  channels, TV Guide and others.  Settings is on the far right.
If I click on the channels I get nothing.  Same with guide and others.  I have to click on settings then go to the lower left and click on logout.  That brings up the log in screen.
Well......shouldn't the log in screen be the first thing that pops up?  As soon as I log in everything is there and works, most of the time.

Hello,

i am using a 8 Tuner Card from Digital Devices.

NextPVR cant lokc the Tuner 1-4. They fail, if they should be used.

Tuner 5-8 are working. So in most cases, NextPVR automaticaly jumps to the working tuners. But if more then 4 recordings are running, they fail.

I do not understand what the problem is, because the tuners do not fail with other softwares (i did not run them simultan, for testing i stopped the NPVR service, and tried them with a 2 other softwares).

Is there a known problem?

Attached the logs.

Hello everyone. It's been a while since I've been active. We bought a house in May 2019 in a valley, surrounded by mountains, 80 miles from the nearest TV broadcasting tower. We are in barren land between two tv markets and none reaches us.. Not even one PBS or religious channels (lol). Even AntennaWeb offers no stations. Like I said, the mountains block the signals. Up the mountain about a mile there are options with a good antenna. 

My brother lives 90 miles away in an area that gets reception from 2 tv markets. It looks like what I am going to have to do is setup a remote system at his house.

(For the purpose of this post, Remote system is 90 miles away, Local system is the one in my home even though it might be reverse technically in terms of computer networking/programming circles.)

What I had in mind was to take a system to his house and let NPVR run only for receiving the signals so I can pull the RSS IP tv stations from it.  At my home base I was going to setup NPVR and use IPTV device and use NPVR as normal, only via IPTV. The setup would use my Hauppauge quad on the remote (brothers) end. Recording drives, etc would be at my home.

I'm paying almost $40 for 10 stations with Spectrum and the local area I had which my brother has, had a lot of stations, including movies, etc over the air.

My brother is not tech savy so if we run into an issue that I can't remotely handle, he can just restart the remote computer at his house and we should be ready to go. 

I can't invest in different hardware than what I already have so a PI or other OTT PVR box is not in the works at this time.

How is V5 Debian working out? I wonder if that would be better than a bloated Windows 10 with all their noise, bells and whistles on the remote system? Either way, the box the remote setup will have is Intel Core 2 CPU, 3.00GHz, 12 GB RAM. (A recycled Dell)

I should also say, I have KODI on a firestick and before we moved we would watch live TV from my home npvr setup on the TV. This is what we will do once again from my local, home NPVR setup.

(To clarify, Remote system is 90 miles away Local system is the one in my home even though it might be reverse technically in terms of computer networking/programming circles.)

How doe this sound?
Is there another solution? 
Any suggestions?

Thanks folks. I've really missed the NPVR community.