The desktop app is not working well for me. 

I tried to watch live TV my selecting a program from the guide and I got an error message that said it could not find a capture device. Also, attempting to watch a recorded show fails with an underhanded exception error. Then I got it in a state where the error message kept popping up so I had to terminate the app.

I was able to watch TV and play the same recording without issues using the web browser and Kodi. It's just the desktop app that's not happy.

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I've been using NextPVR on Arch and everything works great. However, I decided to try out Mint Cinnamon today. Clean fresh install followed by update and upgrade prior to the following commands.

After installing v5 with the new installer I attempted to run the desktop app from the tray and got a .Net Framework error window, then another error window after acknowledging the first one.  I didn't have .Net Framework installed so I tried downloading and installing .Net but I still got the error message and the desktop app still failed to run.

   
   

Other than this NextPVR seems to run ok.

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After installing the latest version (209) and it won't connect unless I manually run NextPVRServer.exe which of course, keeps a window open.  I did nothing different than I did when I ran 208.
However, I'm sure it's something stupid I did.
Logs attached.

I have been using NPVR 5.0.1.200103 installed on a RPi 4 (4GB, Raspbian Buster 290919) since it was released without any obvious problems.  

Following the release of the latest Raspbian last week I upgraded to this version today and then also upgraded NPVR to the newly released 5.0.1.200209 using:

sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb

after checking that nextpvr-helper.deb was v1.2

The upgrade seemed to go well except for a warning that I didn't have the zlib package installed.  Given that the old version seem to work ok, and as far as I can tell the new version of NPVR is also OK, do I need tio worry about this ?  I have attached the upgrade log file and the post upgrade NPVR logs for you to see.

Regards.

Chris

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  logs-20200208-2010.zip (Size: 827.73 KB / Downloads: 1)

Hi - I now have an STB/capture card 4K setup running into NPVR. See this thread: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...499&page=1

However, my next task/problem is to get the blaster element working. I've originally been around this wheel once sort of in this thread: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...t=gdogg371 using my blaster script with an old 1080 DVB-T card. To concisely explain my blaster functionality:

1) It's a command line executable with arguments expected afterwards to make it do anything.
2) It literally mimics the STB remote 100% pretty much. So if you wanted to select channel 401, using NPVR v4 I mapped these as per the above thread to channel arguments 2, 3, 4.

I'm a bit lost though as to how to integrate my blaster with the way we have set things up using extras and v5 in this thread. I get that I need to add my blaster command line statement to my .bat file above my commands to activate a stream through VLC. What exactly should this format look like though? For example (and as a probably incorrect) stab in the dark, would my .bat file perhaps look something like this?

Hi everyone

Brand new download and install of Windows 10
Downloaded most recent v4 NextPVR (version 5 still says beta and I wanted the stable release)
Connecting with Kodi


I am experiencing many many application crashes and instability. Sometimes live tv works, sometimes it doesn't. Last evening I watched tv downstairs for a while, no problem at all. Went upstairs to finish watching the show, and then it was not working. Checked it this morning and it's working again

I set the service to restart, so that keeps it running, otherwise after one of these crashes it doesn't start. I did find some messages relating to the PC trying to sleep. I turned that off for now, although I would like to be able to have it sleeping overnight when we're sleeping.

I tried running it in Windows 7 and Windows 8 compatibility mode but no joy.

What am I missing? I'm assuming if this was a widespread issue the forums would be full of messages about it. Can anyone offer any advice or tips on how to get NextPVR running? I'm currently using ServerWMC and Windows Media Center on Windows 7, but since the application and the OS are out of support I wanted to convert to NextPVR on Windows 10

Attached are Windows event log messages and logs from NextPVR

Thanks for any help anyone can offer

Matt

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  Windows event log.zip (Size: 418.28 KB / Downloads: 3)

Sub, over the last 2 nights the recording service has stopped running and  I've only found it in the morning when live TV wouldn't work.  Interesting enough, the web UI still works fine and I can even play a existing recording but the tuners aren't available.  This morning I SSH'd and ran "service nextpvr-server status" to see what was going on.  It appeared everything was normal, but I didn't capture a screen shot.  A restart get everything back running normally.  This also happened several weeks ago, but I really didn't think much of it until today.

last night I had 4 recordings going starting at 8:58, 2 recorded to completion, 2 stopped mid recording.

Deputy.S01E06 - 8:58:00 PM - 10:02:00 PM - recorded full length
Tommy.S01E01 - 9:58:00 PM - 11:02:00 PM  - recorded full length
A Million Little Things.S02E12 - 9:59:00 PM - 11:00:00 PM - stopped recording after 7min 49sec
Alone The Beast.S01E02 - 10:01:00 PM - 11:05:00 PM  - stopped recording after 7min 49sec

Interesting enough, the 2 recordings that didn't complete only get released at 5:49am when I restarted the service.  Apparently Npvr still held them both open the whole time until the restart.  Both recordings are playable in both the web UI and VLC and appear to be normal other than being short.

I looked at the attached logs and nothing stands out but I really don't know what I'm looking at for the most part.  Your thoughts?

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  logs-20200207-0550.zip (Size: 1.13 MB / Downloads: 5)

Hi all.
NextPVR seems to randomly crash.
It happened both running the .exe and also as a service.
The logs don't seem to help much.
It had just finished recording something at 8pm tonight (which saved ok), but seems to crash after that.
However it doesn't always crash after recording something.
The log files don't seem particularly helpful either.

Also it seems that windows doesn't realise that it has crashed, even though I've set it to restart after it crashes.
The web-service is unavailable until I restart it.

Have attached log files.

Happy to provide any other logs/etc that are requested.

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I wrote a little utility that will save the live tv buffer for a channel if recording is started while live tv is playing and it works pretty well
https://youtu.be/ex-aP0VFlVQ It actually doesn't matter who is watching it live.

I have a second part of the utility that allows me to combine the two parts and that works the only is issue is the PAT entries in the recordings don't have the same sequence number.  Is there any reason to fix this? I could insert a few PAT's to make them sync if necessary.

Martin