I have a couple of oddities when using uidroid that I have no idea how to overcome.
As Martin already knows I am running uidroid using Chromecast with Google TVs (a 4k model sitting room & a HD model bed room) connected through power pass usb-c hubs with wired LAN.
Now this really weird problem happens after it has been running (mostly) fine for about a month (if not longer)
The remotes will become sluggish to use & after a while like this anything (through Recordings) you try to play will just display a grey screen (with the blue overlay at the bottom I think from memory) & not play.
When this happened (for the second time) recently I suggested the wife re-booted her Chromecast by pulling the power into the hub out for 30seconds & see what happened....
well it didn't help, but she could still watch videos (that she did that night) using the Chromecast from youTube & they played fine.
The next day she decided to give it a longer re-boot & while it was un-powered I went over to the workshop & rebooted the server which hadn't been rebooted for months but it made no difference.
At this point I said to the wife that the last time it went something like this all I did was change over the hub to the one like the one I use for the sitting room so I then changed it over to the one I removed the time before & after the full reboot it now plays recording fine again.
As I said earlier "weird or what?"
The only difference apart for the slight difference in Chromcast models is that at night I 'exit' uidroid from the menu before I turn the TV off where as the wife just turns her TV off.
The second oddity we have is using the remotes in that "at times" they will go into double click mode, ie. trying to do a number skip & select "3" will give "33" and a "back" click will give "back back" etc. which is bloody annoying.... but it doesn't happen all the time just seems to go into a phase when it does & then later it will be back to fine again.
When a recording is scheduled when the computer is in hibernate state NextPVR no longer returns the computer to hibernate state when recording is finished just leaves the computer running. This is a recent development.
Hi, I am using NextPVR Version: 6.1.5.231022 on Windows 10 home OS Build 19045.5011, on replaced C: drive with Windows reinstall.
Prior to this rebuild, NextPVR.exe would allow me to schedule on-going recordings of programs broadcast daily (e.g., the 7:00 p.m. news) and the interface would immediately colour that program's timeslot red. If I scrolled to the next day, the program's timeslot would also be highlighted as scheduled.
Now, none of that appears to work. I go through the process of scheduling a recording, that program's timeslot does not change colour nor does it for any subsequent day. Not only does it not indicate a recording is scheduled, it doesn't record.
The only way I have found to schedule a recording is to select "Quick Record", but of course this is just for one broadcast.
This is really bugging me: NextPVR used to be fine: what went wrong?
When using NLite on the NPVR server, if I go to the Music, Pictures or Video directory, NLite responds with Directory Unavailable.
The directories are defined in the config on the NPVR server (although they are all shares on another device). NextPVR.exe does display the directories when run on the server.
If I define a local directory in the config on the server, NLite will display the contents, it just seems unable to access shares which NextPVR.exe can access.
Am I missing a config or permission somewhere that would enable NLite to see the directories?
My IPTV provider has flakey domains. I would rather not re-import all the channels and redo my lists. Is there a simple way to edit the device settings to just alter the http domain name.
For fun I picked up a Radxa X4 https://radxa.com/products/x/x4/ since I wanted to see how a true minimum Windows 11 client/server would work with NextPVR. For this test I ordered the 4GB/32MB version so probably you can't go smaller than that since it is well under the Win 11 spec. This was $80 US $112 CDN (shipping is always high for these SBC's)
I already had an USB 3 power supply so that kept the cost down. However the first thing I noticed is that as their web site said it does need a fan. It will get hot and throttle or even stop while and since I didn't order the case I ended up for now just placing a 3" fan on it which does the job well enough for testing. Really attaching a fan with thermal paste is the way to go.
Because I only have 4MB disk free I have tried to minimize what apps I've added for testing. It does show the 8.63GB file from the 24H2 update bug so if that is a true number and I will do a lot more playroom. For now as this shot shows https://imgur.com/a/8Pd6WXS NextPVR will capture and play 1080i on a local client without issue for speed, memory or temperature. When I tried the same channel streaming to a remote web client the numbers were only slightly higher https://imgur.com/a/g4dfpjm with ffmpeg doing h/w decoding. This is something how SBC can do, not even the RPi5
On the same box I am also able to PXE boot LibreELEC and the server and client use much less resources. At the same time Windows will support USB tuners that you can't run on Linux. Network bootting is great the 2.5 GB NIC works well but it might even be better running from emmc or M2 SSD.
Bottom line it is fun to play with and I was surprised Win11 worked as well as it did but I think it might be worth spending the money to get the same Intel N100 in a NUC.
Under the general settings, there's a "Highlight 'new' shows" setting.
If it's feasible, I would like to unhighlight shows in the guide I've already recorded.
Maybe a checkbox, light font or banner? (I wouldn't even mind the cell being blank)
Thanks for the great product.
Art
First, I want to express my appreciation for the NextPVR platform. It has greatly simplified my workflow, and I enjoy working with it, especially with the level of control it offers for customizing IPTV channels and EPGs.
However, I recently encountered a significant issue that I believe warrants attention. While I was adding a new channel, I accidentally deleted all my channels—over 300 of them. These were carefully curated IPTV channels, and I had manually stitched each channel’s EPG, a process that took years of planning. I’m still unsure what exactly happened, but I suspect a dropped keyboard and a held-down Enter key may have contributed to this.
What concerns me is how easy it was to delete everything at once. All channels in the channel settings seem to be ticked by default, and even after I untick them, they are re-ticked when I make changes. This nearly happened again while I was re-adding the channels. I believe it would be a great improvement to require a confirmation step, like entering the same PIN code used for backend/frontend communication, to prevent accidental deletions.
This is not a rant—I'm offering this suggestion because I’d rather not risk losing all my channels again after investing so much time into configuring them.
I hope this feedback can be considered, and I’d be happy to provide any further information or clarification if needed. Thank you for continuing to develop such a powerful tool.
I already have an IPTV device imported but I didn't select all the channels that it has. There's a specific channel that I want to add but when I try to update it's channels in the "Devices" section in Settings, it will automatically select all of the channels it has. What I would like is just to chose the new channel that I want without having to deselect and select all of the other channels that it had before. Can that be possible?
I got a new Android TV Box with Android 10. As far I understand, I have installed NextPVR 21.20 on Kodi 21.10. but not successfully. This app has a cross checkmark in contrast to IPTV Simple Client.
What can be wrong, maybe android is too old?
