Hi,

An annoying blinking light on the PC when it sleeps (this is the stated behaviour of my new MB) can be solved by setting ErP to on in the BIOS (or by the less desirable yank-the-Motherboard-LED connector-altogether-method), but I am not sure if this will mean NPVR does not wake to record any more; what is the experience and or consenus here?

"ErP Support determines whether to let the system consume less than 1W of power in S5 (shutdown) state. When the setting is enabled, the following four functions will become unavailable: PME Event Wake Up, Power On By Mouse, Power On By Keyboard, and Wake On LAN."

Cheers

k.

Upgraded to NPVR 4.2.4. Now in Video Library there is no folder art only a white folder - the fanart still shows as the background image.
I use Media Companion to generate all the art for each show in box sets - Show poster in the Upper Folder, Season Poster in the Season Folder etc. all stored as folder.jpg - Worked well until today.

If you need logs I'll have to wait a few hours to get them.

The new update of 4.2.4 does not have a way to search for episodes. It is also missing the configuration settings to change the theme.

10:14:10.400 T:2780 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
10:14:25.950 T:2780 ERROR: PVR::CPVRClients::UpdateAddons - failed to create add-on NextPVR PVR Client, status = 1
I usually don't immediately install new versions of anything, but did install the new NextPVR on my "test" machine yesterday. Today was my 1st chance to actually take a look at it.
I of course could supply the full debug log, but I think this little piece tells the story. The NextPVR client for Kodi 2.4.13 does not load on my Kodi 17.6 running windows 10 and Amber skin. Also when I go to Addons, it says "Addon couldn't be loaded. An unknown error has occurred."
Is there a new PVR client for Kodi that is needed with this latest version of NextPvr?

I just did a Windows 10 Repair Install and saw this in the event logs

"The NPVR Recording Service service is marked as an interactive service. However, the system is configured to not allow interactive services. This service may not function properly."

Checked an old thread which suggests the DWORD NoInteractiveServices should be set at 0? Mine is currently 1.

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Windows

Is this 0 value still correct in NextPVR?

(I didn't change anything this was a recent new install).

k.

You can download 4.2.4.190307 from https://nextpvr.com/NPVRSetup_4_2_4_190307.exe

This is a fairly minor release, rolling the patches posted for 4.2.3 into the main release, plus a couple of other minor fixes and improvements.

Please post any support issues in the support forum. Support questions posted in this thread will be deleted.

Quote:- fixed an issue with editing the channel mapping on channels using XMLTV over http
- improved resilience to handling garbage in the stream. Previously would crash for some reception gitches.
- added workaround for recent issues with one of the IPTV provider
- fixed a security issue on the Search screen
- updated kodi API to include previous playback info for in-progress recordings
- improvements for detecting season/episode numbers in the description of DVB EPG listings.
- fixed an issue where UK freeview/freesat could generate an invalid listing, which could later cause issues when viewing a recording made from that show
- fixed issue with right clicking during playback on a client PC
- fixed issue where sometimes viewing the details of a channels wouldn't select the existing schedules direct EPG mapping.
- fixed issue with artwork language preference not being saved
- fixed an issue with artwork when year was present in show titles (from DVB EPG etc).
- fixed a couple issues to do with EPG-Based slipping over HTTP
- fixed issue that could sometimes lead to live tv slip files being left behind after streaming to Kodi.

Being able to add "Amazon Prime", "Netflix", "Britbox", etc, websites to an addon that would let you pick the service from within NextPVR (via remote), and able to play the shows full screen. This way, when there is nothing worthwhile on regular TV (which happens a lot), we can resort to streaming via this addon. I don't want/care for Kodi, would rather keep NextPVR as the main GUI as it's "become familiar" to the rest of the family.

GuruSR.

A while ago, I mentioned that I was seeing a "blank" screen and lately it's a "no signal" while NextPVR is going, the machine is set to sleep but not the display (set to Never), have tried every output method known to NextPVR, made no difference, what happens is, if I pause a recording, a few seconds later when the lower third info window drops out of the way, it advances 1 frame (in most cases you see the picture move). Using the Video section to play back videos also has this same effect. The same situation happens when the machine is brought out of sleep and the TV is turned on, the TV reports "no signal", until I push a key on the remote that causes a draw update on-screen (while in the menu), then the picture returns.

Any possibility to have an "Always On Top" option to enforce keeping NextPVR "active and on top", as sometimes on boot (set to start with the computer), the start bar shows up over it and it's unresponsive to the remote.

Also, if the TV is turned off during playback, causes massive grief with the playback, it causes it to show in a small area in the top right corner of the screen (as if the playback defaulted to 1024x768 or something tiny). Its a downside of pausing a show then grabbing food, coming back to find someone turned the TV "ON" thinking it was off when in fact, they turned it off. Turning it back on, renders the playback stopped and playing it again with a resume puts it into that small area, until you stop it again and then play again. Almost as if it's receiving the screen dimension changes too late.

GuruSR.

Hi,

I have old files recorded by NPVR not present in the DB (as recorded). Meaning not seen by AppleTV Apps neither by WEB interface.
I would like to enter back te ts file in the DB, maybe with NscriptHelper

Thank you

I have just moved to NextPVR from Windows Media Centre. When I scan for channels they appear numbered 1 to 43, but the numbers don't relate to the channel names, eg "channel 7" appears as number 1. However, WMC when it scanned allocated numbers that related to the channel number/names, eg "Channel 7" is channel number 7. My TV does the same. Is there a way to allocate channel numbers that relate to channel numbers/names? I know I can edit each channel, but that's quite onerous.