Happy raspberry pi 4 user here  I've had NextPVR running for a month now and it seems very stable for my use, which is just recording from HDHomeRun (viewing is via samba on my PC).

One question -- is it possible for the web UI to use https? I have a self-signed cert, but I do not see an obvious certificate directory.

My interest is mainly just to use https consistently (and get rid of the "Not Secure" tag), even though this is only on my local network.

Thanks...

I had to re-install my computer as it would not go into sleep mode. With the new install I get no notification icon and cannot easily see when NextPVR is recording.

When I go into the "customize notification" window it shows the NextPVR icon and it is set to show icon and notifications. But it never appears. If I turn it off it and turn it back on it tells me that the icon is not active.

I'm not sure if I'm getting confused here because I thought that I previously had a NextPVR Status menu item in Windows but I can't find one now.

What have I done wrong?

I got an email from schedules direct that they are dropping the lineup

The removed lineup was: PA66100:X(Verizon Fios Philadelphia)

This is the one I have setup in NPVR, however, I'm pretty clueless about how the whole "JSON" thing operates, so I don't know if I need to worry about this or not.  There ARE other choices, so I can change it, but so far the channels and guide look OK.  I suppose over time things may start to disappear.

Should I go ahead and choose another lineup?

First off, thanks for NextPVR - its great software! Next, I thank anyone willing to help with the issue I'm having.

I'm running a RaspberryPi 3 Model B with DietPi as the OS. I installed NextPVR as per the official instructions given here: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=59390 using the .deb file method. I was able to detect my HDHomeRun Connect Duo instantly and pick up/watch the channels. I'm also running my EPG grabber (zap2xml) from the same Raspberry Pi 3, and have managed to create a working xmltv.xml file for use. My issue is not being able to have NextPVR detect the xmltv.xml file. I am a Linux novice in every sense of the word, and figured it may be me not providing the correct format in the URL/File section of the NextPVR web interface. The file path is "/root/xmltv/xmltv.xml". However, when I use this for the file path, it does not detect it. I am unable to map any listing to the channels because there are none available. I have tested the file in the Windows 10 version of NextPVR and it works like a dream. It is not the content of the file itself. It appears to be either me not being able to specify the correct file/path format, some sort of weird permission issue, or something else. I'm hoping someone with more experience with Linux or their own setup/configuration of NextPVR can help me. Thanks again for any of your suggestions/assistance!

Hi

I have used v4 of NextPVR before many times successfully.  

In a new PC with NPVR never before installed I am trying v5.  

I can view my HDHomeRun channels on VLC.  

But with NPVR v5 while it sees the tuner, scans and finds my FTA channels, the EPG remains blank (which I could live with if I have to). But on the client when you click on a show the screen goes blank.  

The Server CLI window shows some lines it has actually opened the channel but receives a Stop command. Is ths stored on a log file somewhere I can download and include here (copy and paste does not work)? I have attached a screen capture below. 

I tried it on a failed Ubuntu installation some weeks ago and give up when I read I needed to buy an EPG service. 

Is this also the same with the Windows version - ie. because the free-to-air EPG is no longer supported?

Thanks!

Cheers,
skris88

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I have a couple of comments about settings for recurring recordings using the web browser interface to my Docker container.

First, if I have an existing recurring recording where I picked "Advanced" as the recording type, I'm unable to modify the rule once it has been saved.  If I select the existing recurring rule, I can make changes to the "Advanced" field while the dialog box is open, but when I click "Save", any changes to that field are lost.  The only way to change one of these recordings seems to be to delete the old one and start over.

The other thing is, the Post-Padding setting is a drop-down list with a maximum setting of 60 minutes.  For most things this is fine, but I would like to be able to extend it further for recording baseball games.  Between rain delays, extra innings, and games that just drag on forever, an extra 60 minutes sometimes isn't enough.  Would it be possible to increase the limit, or to make it a box where the user can just type in a number?  It looks like I can probably modify it by editing the npvr.db3 file once the rule is in place, but that doesn't really seem like a great way to do it.

Doug

Could some one tell me what exactly is being sent from the NPVR sever when I submit the following API:

http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=3.1

Is there some special protocol being used?  Just the the raw video feed.  What is need on the client end to "read" the stream?

Thanks

Why would it be that my local channel listings aren't showing up in the guide anymore while they do in any other client I use (e.g. Tivimate, IPTV Pro, Plex, etc.)?  Also, when I uninstall and reinstall I lose the Groups in the Channels section so I can't edit them.  They worked fine when I first installed the app.

Thanks!

To clean up my channel listings, I deleted all the existing channels and then did a new scan. I got things the way I wanted and everything seemed to be OK but then one of my scheduled recordings (scheduled before the channel clean-up) failed with the message 'Failed: Channel not found. Deleted?'. It's the only one that has been attempted since the re-scan, the others are for later dates. The channel is actually still there but perhaps the re-scan changed things such that its identifier changed? A recording that I scheduled after the re-scan (on the same channel) worked OK. Will I have to re-schedule all my recordings that were scheduled before the re-scan?

Thanks...

I'm surprised there has been no discussion here, since Microsoft announced this months ago: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows...center#343. I have WMC with TV Pack on an old PC running Vista, and have no data available after tomorrow night at 6 PM.

So WMC no longer has the advantage of free and easy (albeit somewhat unsatisfactory) guide data, and NextPVR can now be used on platforms other than Windows. The future looks promising!