Having upgraded my desktop windows PC hardware I now have a spare motherboard so have finally decided to start testing V5 (Daren't touch the V4 server as constantly in use by her who must be obeyed).
Installed V5, copied over the V4 database and media files then setup mapped drives to point to the existing recordings on the V4 server and edited the V5 database to point to the recording files.
Started V5 server and can happily access it from both the Web and App client.
When I go to the V5 Recordings web page I see thumbnail artwork for most of the recordings however some are just a blank square.
In V4, those shows that did not create any .jpg thumbnail/fanart files during recording (in either Media/shows or the recording folder) all show a "default" common thumbnail picture in the recordings web page.
I V5 those shows just show a small blank square. Should there be a default thumbnail showing in V5?
I have comskip working during playback on my ODroid N2 (CoreElec v9.2.1 OS, Kodi v18.5) running knewc v2.7.4. I used the info in the sticky regarding path substitution, admittedly it took me a while to figure out it was much more simple than I was making it out to be.
The trouble I have now is that during playback it always auto-skips the commercials, even when autoskip is off (toggled with 999). I cannot index backwards into a "commercial zone" without playback jumping to the end of that commercial segment. It's basically impossible to view any portion of the recording comskip has deemed a commercial.
Here's my log with debug turned off. Search for "2020" as an example of the playback issue.
Not sure what happened, however, I started a recording from within Kodi and it finished successfully according to the Kodi message after the program was finished. When I wanted to see the recording, the list of recording inside Kodi was empty. I thought it might be related to Kodi, however, looking into the recordings list inside the web interface also showed no recordings. Checking the recording folder I did see the recording correctly saved with XML file.
I had the fore last version so decided to update to latest NextPVR, but neither this solved the issue. No configuration changes where made since the last time I did a recording successfully 2 weeks ago.
I apologize if this is a stupid question or on the wrong board. I'm a recent convert moving away from WMC due to the end of Windows 7 support. So far I'm pleased with NextPVR but we can't figure out how to easily change the channel in the guide. Typing a channel number on the keyboard will not move to the channel in the guide. I can just type a channel number during live tv and it changes, is there not the same capabilities in the guide? We can use the up and down arrows or the page up or down, but how do you jump to a specific channel. I feel like I'm missing something totally obvious. Thanks for any guidance.
The main page of the NPVR web interface shows no recordings pending, although there should be some there. Four of the channels show (no listings) in the guide. When I go to Settings>Guide and press "Update EPG", at the end it displays the message "EPG Update complete. [0 inserted, 0 updated, 0 skipped]". Pressing "Empty EPG" doesn't seem to do anything. I tried stopping and restarting the NPVR service and rebooting the pc but that didn't help. Channels still seem to be mapped and associated with SD lineup. Everything was working yesterday, don't know what happened. Logs attached.
My EPG updates are failing with a 403 forbidden error. The EPG in Perfect Player using the same URL works fine. I can't post my URL due to my password being included. Let me know what you need from me to get you what you need.
Thanks.
Edit:
This is on the current build but it was happening on the previous build also. I thought it was a provider issue until I decided to see if it worked with Perfect Player.
With a production version NextPVR likely being released soon I am curious what the user feelings are at this stage. Please feel free to add specific comments
For ease of maintenance of the recurring recordings it would be great to be able to sort by title. I believe the older windows version could sort by title and creation date.
I am assuming all V5 versions have the same interface but specifically I am interested in linux.
Whilst I am currently a NextPVR v4 user, the following post has suggested that version 5 does not currently have thumbnail support for .wtv files originating from Windows Media Centre (WMC), which is why I am raising this wish-list item. Microsoft support for Windows 7 will cease next month, and so there may be a number of users who are looking to migrate their libraries across to NextPVR which is by far the best alternative in my opinion!
To get thumbnails to work for .wtv, .avi, etc. files in version 4, I have installed the TV Listings plug-in, which searches for image files of the same name in the same directory as the video files. I have then used the script in the above thread to generate thumbnail files in bulk once all the .wtv files have been imported to NextPVR. This is working well, but from later posts in the thread above it sounds as though neither this plug-in nor thumbnails for .wtv files will not be supported in version 5.
As a feature request/suggestion, and without yet being familiar with version 5 (apologies if this post is misguided), it would be great if NextPVR could automatically analyse any video files (.wtv, .avi, etc) added to the library during the import stage (asynchronously in the background), and generate its own thumbnails which it would then store within the database itself (rather than as separate files). This appears to be how WMC works. The thumbnails could then potentially be retrieved by other clients such as Kodi or Android apps, etc.
A number of other media centre platforms (Kodi, Plex, Media Portal 2) attempt to use third party scrapers to retrieve artwork and provide graphics, but in practice I found that all of these platforms were unsuccessful in retrieving artwork for the vast majority of our recorded TV library. The process relies on meticulous file naming and the sorting of files into sub-folders (also confirming to the same naming conventions), and potentially the use of additional third party tools such as Media Center Master to do it for you. This all became way too user intensive to set up and manage for our library of 1100+ files (3 TB), and in fact became impossible to implement as neither Kodi nor Media Portal 2 appeared to be able to differentiate between a one-off TV recording and a TV series, and would save one-off recordings into the "Films" folder instead and would use the wrong scraper! It was a frustrating experience.
Ideally, I would like to see continued support for .wtv thumbnails in version 5. If an automated process is not possible, it would be great to retain the ability to use image files in the same location as the video files, as the TV Listings plug-in uses today.
I have been using NPVR 4.x, and more recently v5.x, on an aging PC ruinning Windows 10 Home for some time and like the way NPVR works. This has worked well but the recent purchase of a HDHomeRun Quatro and the the fact that the PC is beginning to show signs of age is making me wonder about replacing the PC with (perhaps) a Raspberry Pi for NPVR and associated program guide data download purposes only. I do however have a number of questions which I need some help answering before I make this leap:
1. What spec of Raspberry Pi is best suited to running NPVR 5.x. Does the old mantra of most processor / memory for your budget still apply ?
2. Should I install Raspbian as the OS and install NPVR directly to this or use the Docker installation - I have no current experience of Docker but have used various flavours of Linux in the past.
3. To use NPVR Program Guide with the HDHomeRun device requires a seperate process to download the necessary XML data file. I currently use Digiguide as a source for UK Freeview program data and XMLTV GUI to turn it into format that NPVR can import. This however requires the Digiguide Windows app to provide a web service in order to perform the download. What do others use to get UK Freeview program data for NPVR use - details of grabbers and sources would be useful.
4. Any first hand experience of using a Raspberry Pi with NPVR v5.x would be greatly received.
Many thanks for any help / advice anybody can provide.
