I didn't see much on what I was trying to do, so I thought I would share some success.  Hopefully others can figure out why it worked.

I purchased an Insignia™ - 55” Class – LED - 2160p – Smart - 4K UHD TV with HDR – Fire TV Edition (Model: NS-55DF710NA19).  This is the TV with Fire built in.

After side loading Kodi, I tried to add NextPVR as an addon for TV and got an error a few times installing the addon.  The manager would come on screen at 0% and everything seemed to stop. 

As an accident or whatever, I went back to the files section of Kodi and added my links to server content on the NextPVR (running on my PC).  After trying a couple other PVR Addons, I tried Next PVR addon again and it worked!  I couldn't be happier with the TV purchase now that the connection to my recorded content is happy again!

Might be an accident and might be a formula.  But, since I couldn't find anything to follow, thought I'd share.

Good luck!

Hello, i m trying to use v5 with a RPi4 and a Hauppauge dualHD. I have installed the drivers on Raspbian but NextPVR under devices finds nothing. Can you please help me ?

Thanx

Hello. I have everything running nice and NextPVR records and adds to my PLEX library on my NAS.  

If i record a program that doesn't have a S00E00 format it creates the file with date+time. For example, recording right now and it writes it as "The Carpenters Close to You & Christmas Memories (My Music Presents)_20191207_10301230".  

When I go to watch in PLEX, it won't see it because it is looking for a S00E00 format. Is there any way to have "_20191207_10301230" written as "S2019E1207"? As soon as I manually change it, PLEX sees it.   I watch a lot of news and there are not S00E00 formats in SD tv guide for that.  

I try to use the PLEX PVR but it is not nearly as reliable as NextPVR. 

Thanks everyone, great product and great community. 

Hi, i´m new to NPVR.
It works great to scan sat channels (dvb S2).
But when i chose Live TV or try to look at some channel the program hangs. I can see that the program does not respond.
I use dvb S2 card with MDAPI+. It works in other programs like Argus or Mediaportal.

Any idea what is wrong or how i can solve this problem?

DVB-S2 TeVii S464
Windows 10

Hi folks,

I'm not having any luck with the Auto Map function and I'm not sure I know how I am supposed to use it to start with.
(Using HDHomeRun ATSC in the US for over the air)

I have the channels already scanned from the tuner.

In settings, I go to Channels -> Advanced -> Auto Map
Channel Type = HDHR
EPG Source = XMLTV file (a data file I've been using for years with NPVR4)
Map Strategy = I've tried both "Numbers and Identifiers" and "Channel Names"

no luck mapping any channels. Comes back immediately without error but with no mappings.

The XML file I'm using works fine if I manually click the wrenches and map the channels one at a time...
2.1 = 2.1
6.1 = 6.1
etc.

I've tried checking all the boxes to the left of the channels before running the auto map and also tried without checking. Not sure if that's even relevant to auto map or if that is just for deleting channels.

EPG loads just fine from the XML file for any channels I map manually. Just hoping I can get the Auto Map to work so I don't have to do all them one by one.

I'm using the latest update downloaded fresh tonight Version: 5.0.0.191201 

thanks in advance for any suggestions.

rjb

Hello,

I'm trying out the Mac version of v5 and I went to add a manual recording. It let me enter the date and time of 18:30, but then the pending recording list showed it as 8:30pm... I tried again to set a manual time of 18:47 (6:47pm) and again the pending list showed a pending recording to start at 8:30pm.

Anybody else see problems with adding a manual recording entry?

thanks for any help!
rjb

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Hi,

I have a headless Raspberry Pi 4 running the latest/greatest.
raspi-config is setup to wait for network before boot.
configured NextPVR device is IPTV only (m3u/xml)

on bootup of the server, if I check status I see an error:
  -  Unhandled Exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Network is unreachable

If I perform a:
  - sudo service nextpvr-server restart

the service shows running OK.  Failed log below.

Is there a config I am missing to allow the service to start upon device boot without intervention?

Thank you, I am very much enjoying setting this up and using it!
-Adam

Full failed log:
pi@NextPVR:~ $ service nextpvr-server status
nextpvr-server.service - NextPVRServer
  Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/nextpvr-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
  Active: failed (Result: signal) since Fri 2019-12-06 18:08:52 EST; 12min ago
  Process: 323 ExecStart=/opt/nextpvr/shell/server.sh start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 371 (code=killed, signal=ABRT)

Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]: Unhandled Exception: System.Net.Sockets.SocketException: Network is unreachable
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.UpdateStatusAfterSocketErrorAndThrowException(Socket
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.SendTo(Byte[] buffer, Int32 offset, Int32 size, Sock
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at NShared.Utility.HDHomeRun.Discover(String specificDeviceID)
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at NShared.HDHomeRunRecorder.GetPresentDevices()
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at NShared.Visible.CaptureSource.UpdateDevices(ICaptureSourceUpdateStatus callbac
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at NShared.RecordingService..ctor()
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR server.sh[323]:    at NPVR5.Program.Main(String[] args)
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Main process exited, code=killed, status=6/ABRT
Dec 06 18:08:52 NextPVR systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Failed with result 'signal'.

If I have 2 different m3u files with the same channels (same channel number, description, etc just different source) and import both into v5 and then auto merge the channels, how does nextpvr choose which stream to use? If one doesn't respond, does it switch to the next source? Or is purely round robin?

Thanks,
John

Hello all,

I have created a HDHomerun -> NextPVR proxy so I can load it in Plex.

This works fine except for when I want to load up a stream, the URL of my stream is:
http://server:8866/live?channel=4.1

But when Plex loads a stream, it appends ?transcode=none to the URL, so it becomes:
http://server:8866/live?channel=4.1?transcode=none

This errors out because it's not a valid URL and the stream doesn't look.

Is there an alternative way to load up stream, something like http://server:8866/live/4.1

Thanks!

After getting Debian 10 installed with KDE Plasma desktop, I successfully installed Nextpvr and got it running of a PC. 

After logging of the PC out I found there were two users on the login screen! One user was me and the other was Nextpvr. I couldn't actually log in to the Nextpvr account as every password I used failed. My login works fine. I attached a screen grab of the User account manager showing the two users.  I could delete the nextpvr user account but I don't know if that will mess up Nextpvr. If I select "delete" it asks if I want to delete all the files associated with the account, so I didn't.

I know I didn't create a user named "Nextpvr" so I guess it was created during the Nextpvr install. Is there anything I can do to get rid of the Nextpvr user on the linux login screen?

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