Hello again everyone,
Hope someone can assist me in this one. I have had the video and audio choppy tonight around 8 pm CST. I have enclosed the logs to assist. I sure hope someone can shed some light on this. It seems to be just on my NEXTPVR client and not the server.
Thank you,
Bruce

Hi,

Is it possible to get NPVR working with the Razer Ripsaw capture card?

I can't find my device in NPVR. I ran the FilterCheck, here's the result:

Sub, if I extend the end time of a show and there is a recording following on that same "tuner" I am tring to figure out the expected impact on the next recording.

Which has priority, the new end time or a scheduled start time?

Will the limited and full multi rec. simple take place at the scheduled time if there are overlaps instead of matching start and end times?

If it is a tuner like the HDHR Prime is it possible that the following recording will fail because when another tuner isn't availalb?

Finally would it be better to increase the post-padding if I wanted to ensure the following shows are recorded on time?

Martin

I have installed nextpvr on two pcs. A laptop with a usb dongle which works fine and a desktop with a tbs6205 quad dvb card which fails with the above message when trying to watch
live tv or recording. Before I attempt either the recording service is running but afterwards it's stopped. when attempting to record I do get several seconds of transport .ts saved. this
varies form 3 to 8 seconds. I have mediaportal 1 installed on this machine which works ok. All the firewall settings are good. System is windows 10 pro version 1803. System is AMD
8350 with 16GB ram and ssd boot disk. None of the nextpvr default setting have been changed. I hope somebody can give me a pointer to what the issue is. I attach the contents of
the log folder.

Hi, I have a client / server setup. I've recently clean re-installed Windows 10 and NPVR(full-not nlite) with unlocked SAF 6.2.2 on a desktop PC I use as an occasional client, and have a problem with live TV.

The client will play back recordings successfully, but will not show live TV. If I attempt to 'watch' a channel the display window blanks with no audio. I can see that the server is tuning and the temp file in the server buffer directory grows.

I can watch live TV OK using PCH2 clients, and also get a picture/audio from NEWA and NLITE on the desktop PC, but unfortunately the latter clients (and the android client on my phone) won't give me the right audio stream (keep getting audio-described) so I'd like to get the full PC client operational. Any suggestions as to the likely problem and possible fixes?

Logs for a test with the client firewall turned off are attached for the server and the client.

The main server recording directory is on a NAS (using Samba) and the TV Buffer is a sub-directory of this. The client can access the NAS TV Recordings directory and buffer sub-directory OK (read/write).

Many thanks

Chris

With the new prime time season kicking off, (Currently have 64 pending recordings!), some nights we're (uh, my wife is) running out of tuners on the HD HomeRun Prime. I'd like to make the OTA channels available via an HD HomeRun. But I'd also like for the OTA channels to be invisible to the EPG. Is that possible? The show info is already in the cable guide that I get from SD, but I'd like to set up NPVR so that it can decide which tuner to use, with a priority to use the OTA tuners first, then use the HDHR Prime to schedule other shows, including channels that are available via both cable and OTA. Hopefully this makes sense.

For example:

Cable channel 605 CW is OTA channel 39
Cable channel 608 PBS is OTA channel 8
Cable channel 609 FOX is OTA channel 26
Cable channel 611 CBS is OTA channel 3
Cable channel 612 NBC is OTA channel 2
Cable channel 613 ABC is OTA channel 13

Is there way to configure it so that the OTA channel numbers don't even show up in the guide, yet the OTA tuners will be in the mix from both devices? I looked around in the wiki and did a few searches in the forum, but I'm not sure what terminology to even use for this. :o

Has anyone already does this that can share their configuration, or at least point me in the right direction?

Thanks!

New user here. I have a HD Homerun connect picking up OTA in DFW, Tx. Next PVR picks up all the channels, and they all play fine. However, the EPG, while showing all the channels available, only has program info on about half of the channels. I am trying to migrate from WMC, and its EPG shows all the channels and all the program data for 2 weeks. Any idea what I am doing wrong? Should I delete and start over? Any help would be appreciated.

I am new to NPVR. I like it, but there seem to be some, dare I say, "warts"? I am afraid I need some help with what on surface would seem to be a simple task.

My wife watches a program aired daily (weekdays) on a cable news channel. For a variety of reasons she watches it time shifted. The task is to record the show daily but always automatically delete all but the latest weekday's recording. This was dead simple with Windows Media Center, which I am attempting to replace. The problem with NPVR is that I can't seem to make changes to series options "stick". It goes through all the motions but the end result is what I started with.

Our present setup:
Server machine is an Intel Core i5, running Windows 7 Ultimate, always on. (My desktop tower.)
Signal source is a pair of HDHR3 Primes, on wired LAN. All 6 tuners are available to NPVR.
Server software is NPVR + Emby + Emby NPVR add-in.
Guide service is Schedules Direct.
No tuners were set up in Emby. All recording is via NPVR. Emby access to tuners for live TV is via NPVR.
Client is the Emby channel on a Roku2 connected wirelessly, which is used for both live and recorded TV.
The TV has only two connections, the Roku and a sound bar.

I originally set up the series in question on 10/19. I created it with some parameters I wanted to change. What follows is my best recollection of what happened next.

I tried to modify the parameters shortly after initial setup, using the NPVR application on the server. In the guide, with the cell selected for that program on that day, I pressed "enter" on the keyboard and reached a dialog with options: Close, Update, Cancel, Find All. I chose Update and reached exactly the dialog I expected, which appeared to allow changing all options. I made the change and then clicked OK to exit and presumably save the changes. On re-entry to the update dialog soon after to make an additional change, I found the dialog showing the values before the previous change. I tried several time to make the change "stick", but each time found no feedback indicating the change had occurred.

I then decided to cancel the series entirely and start over from scratch. That seemed to work, but a new problem appeared. Although all subsequent days in the guide had the show marked to record (red), the current day was not scheduled. I re-entered the dialog and found it was set to record all new, but on OK, the current day was stubbornly NOT RED. Not wishing to skip that day's recording, I re-entered and set to record once.

I have since set up additional series recordings on the same channel, earlier and later than that time slot. I confirmed yesterday by scrolling the guide that all of those time slots are marked to record for all future weekdays in the current guide. However, the main desired program is marked to record only this week.

I installed the SQLite Spy program yesterday and used it to open a copy of the npvr.db3 file. What I found was that the RECURRING_RECORDING table has eight (8) entries for the recalcitrant program, all of which are marked enabled. The SCHEDULED_RECORDING table has entries only for this week, with recurrence_oid column set to the lowest value in the "priority" column of the entries in the RECURRING_RECORDING table for that show. That entry has match_rules dated 2018-09-19 which are the original rules I tried to update. The recordings are being made with 2 minute padding both ends, although I only want (and have tried to change) to 1 minute padding.

The other series have recordings scheduled for the remaining weekdays in the guide, with their recurrence_oid column set to the priority values of their respective entries in the RECURRING_RECORDING table. All of them record as specified and work as I wish.

Is it possible to straighten out the db so that it has correct rules for ALL recordings and doesn't miss future recordings? The algorithm used to manage the table with the eight series setups for one show seems to be somewhat obtuse. Do I need to wipe out the db and start over from scratch when I decide to change options for a particular series? As I stated above, I am baffled.

Although I have been developing Windows database applications for a couple decades, I have no experience with SQLite and don't want to make matters worse. Also, the IDE platform I use doesn't support SQLite (unless SQLite has an ODBC interface---I haven't investigated that).

Second issue:
When attempting to watch the desired recording on the evening of the 2nd, it appeared on the Roku Emby app that there were two recordings, one of which was dated the previous Friday. I stupidly deleted it (using the Emby app). This somehow resulted in deletion of the entire folder on the server for that program. All of this is Emby related, not NPVR. However, I wanted to examine the NPVR logs for the day to try to figure out whether it had recorded that day. What I found was there are no logs in the NPVR logs folder for that entire day. (The folder was recreated by NPVR for the recording on the 3rd.)

I believe that issue is somehow connected to a momentary power failure that occurred on the server computer causing it to hibernate for a few minutes shortly past noon on the 2nd. I happened to be typing into an application when it suddenly hibernated. After bringing power back up on the computer, it resumed with seemingly no incident. However, there are no NPVR logs that entire day. Logging resumed just past midnight October 3. My guess is the hibernation broke a memory-based connection to the logs and they disappeared in a puff of smoke.

The Windows Application log recorded several Event ID=0 entries for the NPVR Recording Service at the time of the incident. All of them have the message "PowerEvent handled successfully by the service." "Handled successfully" seems not quite accurate.
There are 5 entries at 12:03 PM, at :10, :12, :13 :16, :17 seconds.
There are 4 entries at 12:06 PM, at :21, :25, :25, :26 seconds
Prior to that incident, the last logged entry for NPVR was 12:51:46 PM September 25, "Service started successfully".

Third issue:
Live TV on the NPVR app has no sound. The computer has no speakers. The only output device is earphones. No sound in the earphones. Zilch. None. The Emby app produces sound, both on the server, and on its various clients. All other applications produce sound. The sound on the server motherboard (ASUS) is handled by a Realtek audio chip, manged with an ASUS supplied "Realtek HD Audio Manager". The Audio codec according to this manager is ALC892. In the Decoders section of NPVR setup, I configured all audio decoders to Microsoft except E-AC3, which only allows "Disabled". I have no idea how to set up that section. Presumably I have it set up wrong for NPVR usage of this chip.

I have not attached any logs, because the only NPVR logs available do not pertain to the time period of any of the events described above.

I wish for a "show windowed" feature that remembers size of the window and the location of the window. This way if I return to "show fullscreen" and watch for a while... when I reactivate "show windowed" Nextpvr goes back to the previously used size and location... without my wearing out my wrist resizing and relocating it 15+ times an evening. Sometimes one just has to flip back and forth to accommodate other things you have to do.

For those that want it to return to a default size and location every time maybe there could be a click box in the miscellaneous setting screen to choose the current default behaviour.

Hope this helps.

Edward

Setup - CoreElec 8.5.92, Kodi 18 beta 2 - HDHomerun Prime cable subscription

amlogic (s905/905x) chips

I have been trying to get timeshift to work on kodi 18, enabling the timeshift option in the addon results in nothing on screen, log shows correct url. copying the url out of the log and running in vlc it works fine. If I restart kodi and disable timeshift, it removes &mode=liveshift from the url and it then plays.

Now here is the weird part, timeshift works for a while after my box requests a stream with mode=liveshift in it. Selecting a channel allows me to pause/ff/rewind stream. The logs shows the url without mode=liveshift.

As a test, I added a script on my box to run this command:
curl -o test.ts -m 10 http://NEXTPVRIP:8866/live?channeloid=73...=liveshift
which opens a stream for 10 seconds and then it stops.

I put this script in system call in autoexec.py and kodi runs that when it boots up. I reproduced the results on a couple of other kodi boxes in the house.

timeshift works after that.

My assumption is that nextpvr server stores something per ip (client) saying that the client supports timeshift and that it somehow lets kodi know that the stream supports timeshifting enabling pause/ff/rew.

Do any of this make any sense and if so, is there some sort of work around other than the kludge that I have in place?

thanks!