Have had NextPVR on Windows with addon in KODI on Sony Bravia Android tv working very well for months.
Nothing in my environment has changed in ages but suddenly yesterday the tv hung while displaying a screen saver and I had to power-cycle it manually (have never had a hard hang like that before! I think I will remove that screensaver).
Next launch of KODI and my recordings list was empty. On the NextPVR backend the recordings are all there and playable through its webUI. The NextPVR addon in KODI is otherwise fully functional and communicating with my server (guide, icons, custom groups all present, channels all work).
Uninstalled / reinstalled the addon, cleared PVR data in KODI, ensured NextPVR folder(s) completely removed under addons and userdata after uninstallation, etc. Nothing will seem to repopulate this list.
Enabled KODI debug logging for addons and PVR and see the following (complete KODI and NextPVR logs are also attached below):
info <general>: PVR Manager: Starting
error <general>: GetRecordings: Add-on 1 returned an error: server error
I see this error on KODI launch, on NextPVR addon restart, and following PVR "clear data" in KODI. A "pvr*.db" file is never created.
There's also a recurring error in the log saying it can't lookup the hostname of my backend server, but I found an old log where this error is also present, but it doesn't seem to affect functionality - and in any case, the server is specified by IP in the addon.
I'm hoping there's some targeted way to fix this without fully nuking my KODI install.
Posted by: hmc - 2025-07-31, 01:25 AM - Forum: Windows
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In Australia, DVB streams include teletext subtitles. I really dislike how these subtitles are rendered in NextPVR, so I thought I'd use ffmpeg to extract the subtitles into a SubRip (.srt) file and have control over the font used for rendering.
Using post processing, the SubRip is generated in the <filename>.English.srt format. Usefully, NextPVR detects the file automatically -- the OSD shows [SRT subtitles, English] after the teletext option. Unfortunately, when the SRT option is selected, no subtitles are displayed at all.
VLC has no problem with the same files. SRT subtitles are displayed immediately upon selection.
Kodi also displays the subtitles without issue using the Video source. It seems unable to play them from TV/Recording menu without loading the SubRip specifically, but that could be due to NextPVR or the related add-on package. However, using the yauiclient add-on, SRT subtitles are displayed without a problem. Not sure what's going on there.
I've attached the logs for NextPVR showing teletext subtitles and then my attempt to load SRT subtitles. Kodi is not involved here at all.
My EPG is no longer updating (source is DVB/ATSC). I even tried reinstalling NPVR. The EPG update works once but stops soon after. Is this a known issue?
Today we noticed that NPVR has stopped recording recurring recordings. Even after a reboot, there are no pending recordings listed, despite there being 55 recurring recordings set up, some of which happen every day.
If we manually schedule a recording, then that works.
The EPG looks to be working fine and is populated with 7 days worth of shows.
I also did an EPG update, but that did not help.
Just bought the android app for my onn pro and I noticed it does nothing when I select a channel in the guide. It plays fine when I select the same channel in channels. I have tested this with a sofabaton u2 and an dtv ospray remote thanks
Hello, for the last 14 years we've been happily using Windows Media Center with a Ceton tuner and CableCARD. But the handwriting is on the wall for CableCARD: our cable provider, Verizon, is no longer offering new or replacement cards and I figure it's just a matter of time before they disable the cards that are out there and try to get us back onto their own boxes.
So I'm weighing our options. We really enjoy and make extensive use of the ability to record as much programming as we want and then to store it for as long as we choose instead of having an arbitrary expiration date on the recordings. I looked at DirecTV Stream and they advertise "unlimited DVR storage," but the recordings expire after nine months. (This past winter during the baseball off-season, I was watching games from spring training 2018.) On the other hand, Verizon FiOS recordings don't seem to get automatically deleted after some set period of time, but then the amount of storage in their boxes is tiny and it looks like there's no way to expand it.
Another idea is to ditch traditional cable-type TV and go all-online for both streaming shows and live and time-shifted TV. This is where NextPVR may come in handy for our situation. But the reading I've been doing around the Web, including on this forum here and here, doesn't sound very hopeful if we want to preserve the ability to record live national news and live national sports and then watch them on our own schedule.
A lot (most?) of the IPTV websites I've found look dubious and we want to use only solid, legit vendors. Is there a way somehow to set NextPVR to (for example) record next Sunday night's MLB game on ESPN that's showing on Hulu Live, YouTube TV, or Fubo? As a cost-free experiment, I opened an account with Pluto TV hoping to record Bloomberg News with NextPVR, but I couldn't find any way to do it.
So, would it be fair to say that we're being wildly unrealistic and need to lower our horizons?
Please be kind! I have experience on WMC, but NextPVR and IPTV are totally new to me.
Hello, i've been experimenting with NextPVR for some time now, i would like to remove the /buffer from my drive as this will cause themto die prematurely due to necessary strain.
How, here's my docker compose:
services:
nextpvr:
image: nextpvr/nextpvr_amd64:latest
container_name: nextpvr
restart: unless-stopped
privileged: true # Necessario per accedere ai dispositivi DVB
ports:
- 8866:8866 # Porta per l'interfaccia web
- 16891:16891 # Porta per l'accesso ai dispositivi remoti
devices:
- /dev/dvb:/dev/dvb # Passa i dispositivi DVB al container
volumes:
- /mnt/Applicazioni/NextPVRConfig:/config # Configurazione persistente
- /mnt/VAULT/registrazioni:/recordings # Directory per le registrazioni
tmpfs:
- /bufferize=536870912 # 512MB in RAM per il buffer (in byte)
environment:
- PUID=568
- PGID=568
- TZ=Europe/Rome
networks: {}
As you can see i've used tmpfs for storing the /buffer directory and i've experimented both with 256MB and 512MB buffer sizes, and what i noticed is that after a while (this time gets longer as the buffer size is increased) the stream eventually locks up, as this didn't happen before this is cleary the buffer filling up with stuff and NextPVR not being able to "Garbage Collect" the buffer.
Is this a bug? Does NextPVR normaly empty out the buffer during playback or it justs fills up until the stream is interrupted ?
Is there any way of increasing how many files are used for log retention? I am happy for the files to be bigger and/or there be more of them.
Today I found that a show did not seem to record properly. Unfortunately the logs are full of FFMPEG related log points (which I am happy to have) but the shear volume of them has meant any logs around when the show was recorded are gone.
The logs on my HDHomerun suggest that the recordings started and stopped at the correct time so something went wrong and I would like to work out what.
I know there are posts here about turning down the log level but I would rather capture DEBUG level and just have a bit more history.
Anyone know if there is something that could be done with the XML config, even if it was temporary whilst I investigate this issue.
I'm currently doing TiVO w/CableCARD & also Channels DVR w/CableCARD. I'm looking to replace Xfinity with DirecTV Streaming and it was suggested to me that I check here for assistance. I have multiple Osprey and considered using 4 of those w/HDMI Encoder for recording and Channels DVR. A user there mentioned that he felt NextPVR might be an easier to manage and maintain operation. I certainly don't know and just poking around I didn't find anything that appeared to be what I was told I'd find.
I'm certainly interested and I would prefer I believe DirecTV Streaming for a source if possible.
I'm certainly interested in any other options.
I'm interested in being rid of my CableCARD devices and moving to streaming that would give me 5.1 audio, recording w/com-skip etc.
ize=536870912 # 512MB in RAM per il buffer (in byte)
