I've been struggling with channel logos since rescanning for channels due to spectrum repacking. With your help, I've made progress, but right now, my problem is that Kodi is not getting channel logos for two channels (out of 34) from NPVR. All of the rest of the logos make it to Kodi and are displayed properly there. Moreover, all guide data is correctly reflected in Kodi.

Within NPVR, all logos (including the ones missing from Kodi) and program information show up correctly in the channel guide. Here is some more detail.

I'm running NPVR and Kodi on the same Windows 10 desktop PC.

For NPVR, I maintain a folder of channel logo icon files in C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Channels. The names I've given to these files correspond to the "Name" reported in NPVR at Settings>Channels.

For Kodi, these icons eventually get deposited in C:\Users\Admin\AppData\Roaming\Kodi\userdata\addon_data\pvr.nextpvr.

After a scan for channels in NPVR, I manually assign logos to each channel by appropriately naming the files in the ...\Media\Channels folder. The I delete all channel logo files from the ...\pvr.nextpvr folder to force a refresh when I start Kodi. The only file remaining in this folder after the deletion is the "settings" file.

Upon starting Kodi, all logos show up correctly in the Channels and Guide displays except two. On checking the ...\pvr.nextpvr folder, I can see that the logos for these channels are not there. They did not "transfer" from NPVR like all the other channel logos did.

I went back to NPVR and ensured that these channel logo icon files were assigned the correct names. One of the missing channels had the name KTXD-DT on the NPVR Settings>Channels screen. When I highlighted that channel and selected details, I noted that the name given in the general section was KTXDDT (without the hyphen) and the "mapping" given in the EPG source section was 47.1-KTXDDT. Since NPVR seemed to be associating two names to this channel, I put it's logo into the ...\Media\Channels directory twice -- once with each name. Then I deleted all the logos from ...\pvr\nextpvr and started Kodi again. The logo in question did not show up, and was not present in ...\pvr.nextpvr.

The second missing channel logo did not have conflicting names in Settings>Guide and Details, so I couldn't think of anything else to do.

I've zipped and attached logfiles.

Thanks very much for any help, or please advise if I need to take this to the Kodi forum. (Or, perhaps, to just give up! )

does v5 support analog tuners? The analog tuners shows up in v4 but not v5.

Thanks
Chris

NextPVR is once again proving how unruly it can be when the recording count exceeds 10,000.

This time, it says recordings failed when they didn't really fail, and now I want to know how to un-fail them so that I can actually watch them.

If I have to manually edit the database myself to make NextPVR realize that they succeeded, please tell me what values I need to alter.

Is there a way to display the channel numbers down the side in nextpvr.exe, as it only shows the name.

Also, playing iptv channels in nextpvr.exe, the sound is, just bad, like noise is somehow added to it, but plays ok in localhost:8866. I think from memory it was OK in v4 and I have the same decoder settings as v4 (hopefully).

What are the rules NPVR uses to determine if it can use Series and Episode information?
i.e. which part of the EPG data is checked for SxxExx data?

What format must the SxxExx be in? (i.e. are S01E01 or S1E1 or S01 E01 valid?)

I ask because I have "avoid duplicates if possible" ticked and some recurring recordings aren't getting scheduled although they are not duplicates and there is no unique program ID in the OTA EPG data.
There is however a S9E03 in the programme description but it's not getting used for the file name (and that file name option is ticked too).

Just trying to understand why it decides a programme is a duplicate when it's not.

I've noticed for the past few weeks my GUIDE isn't being updated automatically.
It appears to me that updateEPG.bat isn't being executed during my auto-scheduled morning update.
If I click on the update button in the settings screen it works.

What would I look for in the log files to try to solve the problem?
I searched for "updateEPG" but nothing is found.
I'd like to try to troubleshoot the problem myself.

EDIT: I was looking in the wrong log file

I am unable to populate my guide data. I was able to log into schedules direct and select lineups. When I force an update to the guide data the console is spammed with the following in the attached picture.[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

Thanks!

System: Unraid NAS V6.6.7 running with LibreELEC Linux Kernel version 4.13.20 on an Intel i7 processor, 16GB of Ram.
Tuner: Hauppage WinTV-HVR-2210 PCIe card, Dual Tuners on Terrestrial Antenna - Waikato NZ Region (Te-Aroha Transmitter).
Passed through card to NextPVR docker container with the parameter --device=/dev/dvb, so it can see the DVB-C and DVB-T tuner adapters.

When I chose a DVB-T adapter and press the "scan channels" button, the scan digital channels dialogue box appears, but the is a blank pull-down box and pressing the "scan channels" button next to that does nothing. Now I am stuck. :confused:

FYI: I configured a Plex docker container on the same system and I can scan for channels and view Live TV, so I know my hardware is good. I then disabled that from Plex so it does not interfere with the NextPVR installation.

I have my satellite stuff set up, and decided to add some iptv stuff (m3u8 and xmltv guide), and it seems like, correct or not, when asked to updated the guide, it updates for satellite then updates for iptv, but after its finished the satellite guide update, it says its finished, even though according to the nextpvrserver window its still busy slaving away adding info to the iptv epg guide. Should it do that.

Hello,

I initiated a thread on this topic over on the OSMC forums and they advised me to try over here before pursuing the "nuclear" option of removing ~/.kodi data. (I'm not a techie, especially not a Linux techie, so I'm not even sure what that means.) Anyway, here is the problem I've experienced:

I recently had to rescan my OTA channels due to spectrum repacking. I went through the process in NPVR on my Windows 10 “server” then validated that all was well when watching TV through NPVR. All channels showed up in the EPG (I use Schedules Direct) with correct information about the programming and all channel logos displayed correctly. (One logo changed; I placed the new logo into the appropriate NPVR directory on the server.)

I also have Kodi Leia, using NPVR, running on the server that’s running NPVR. I started it and confirmed that all was well within Kodi, too. All channels showed up in the EPG, all programming information appeared correct, and the channel logo that had changed was displaying correctly.

Then I fired up OSMC, which is connected via wifi to the server, and rebooted it to ensure (I thought) it was getting the latest information from the server. Evidently it was not. One channel is not showing in the “Guide” display, but all of them are showing in the “Channels” display. Moreover, some programming information is incorrect in the Channels display (the programming information for the channel missing from the OSMC Guide display is for a different channel in the OSMC channels display). Finally, OSMC was not picking up the correct channel logos from the server. In particular, one in particular that had changed continued to show the “old” logo for that channel, even though it should no longer be accessible to NPVR because I changed its file name to "Not Used".

In case it’s relevant, if I try to tune to the channel that is showing in the Channels display but not in the Guide display on OSMC, it takes considerable time, with significant buffering. Eventually, it does tune to the channel.

Until this rescan, I had no trouble with Guide and related data in OSMC, and virtually no buffering tuning to and watching live TV.

I've zipped and attached NPVR logs. In case OSMC logs might be helpful, you'll find them here: https://paste.osmc.tv/cuyosacoya

One other point that might be helpful: I did the rescan in NPVR twice. I have 6 tuners. I rescanned tuner 1 and noted (manually) which channels had changed. I left the unchanged ones alone and unchecked the "old" channels that changed. Then I deleted all channels from the remaining 5 tuners and, one at a time, opened them to configure them, and answered the question about copying over settings "Yes". After finishing that the first time, NPVR threw an exception that was picked up by Windows. I didn't write it down (I'm sorry), but I believe there was an address out of range. The text indicated that the application might be able to manage the exception, so I pressed on. With the process complete, I proceeded to check channels and EPG in NPVR and Kodi and all was well. The above problem occurred in OSMC.

Because of the problem I had in OSMC, and the exception that was thrown, I decided to complete the scan again from scratch. This time, I deleted all channels from all six tuners, then rescanned the first one and deselected channels I was not interested in. Then I used the same process to "copy" the settings to my other 5 tuners. This time, no exceptions were thrown. I re-ran the checks and got the same results, thus my post.

Thanks very much for any assistance.