Had a nightmare - Windows 10 update at the weekend left me with black screen problem, rollback didn't resolve it and I've ended up having to do a Windows reset. NPVR reinstalled etc but a Kodi client running on another PC no longer connects.

The NPVR PC IP address is the same and correctly configured in the Kodi NPVR plug-in. The PIN has been re-entered because I seem to recall that has to be done even if defaulting to 0000. The port is set to 8866 in both the client plug-in and the NPVR backend. When I enable the plug-in, it very briefly (one second or so) flashes a message at top right of Kodi window which, I think, is the usual plugin-in scan for channels.

I'm doing something obvious wrong but I'm blowed if I can work out what it is. I'm quite happy for someone else to embarrass me by explaining Thanks.

Hi nextPVR community,

I am new in the nextPVR world. Few weeks ago I donwloaded and installed nextPVR, Live TV is working great, but am having an EPG problem and hope that somebody can help me to solve it. First of all a couple of details about the “environment”:

WIN 7 64 bit
Kodi 17.6. as frontend
nextPVR as backend
DVB-S TV-Tuner Digital Devices CINE S2 with twin tuner

The problem is, neither via Kodi nor direct in nextPVR the EPG is updating automatically. My intention is to update the EPG OTA. This works flawlessly when I start it manually in Settings/Channels Update EPG, but if I don’t start it manually nothing happens.

In nextPVR, Settings/Misc, automatically update EPG is activated and I supposed that with this switch, the EPG is updated automatically every time the PC is on, no matter what time is set in the field upfront and no matter if I watch TV or not? By the way, the update method is set DVB/ATSC.

Am I doing something wrong or did I miss an important step?

I hope you guys can guide me through this

I had a happy installation of NextPVR, and then suddenly got a green screen on some channels.
Replaced the Hauppauge 1250 card with a 1609 quad. Same situation.

Then I remembered that I did a routine driver update to the video card... changed the hardware thinking that there had been no software changes.

Set the video renderer to Overlay (replacing EVR). Fixed the problem.
A video driver update on the XFX branded AMD Radeon R7 240 series, PCI-E x16, to 18.4.1 had been performed... that was the poison.

Not all bad. I now have a quad tuner in this system.

I have filed a problem report to AMD driver support, as follows:

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-> Install the Hauppauge WinTV-1250 or WinTV-quad-1609 with Hauppauge driver package (8/24/2016, 1.58.34237.0) installed and hardware recognized.
-> Have both NextPVR 4.1.x and/or WinTV 8.0/8.5 installed on Windows 10 64-bit. Windows edition not critical.
-> These applications are known to be troublesome if the "Default" video profile is not selected, so be sure to keep "Default".
-> In the config of either/both of the PVR apps, the default Video Renderer type of "EVR" will fail, as follows:

You will have a blank green screen on some channels. Sound OK on all channels.

Setting the Video Renderer to "Overlay" restores the normal moving video. However, now OSD will not appear with the mouse cursor hovering in the video window for live TV. That's normal for the "Overlay" type, but it is a loss of functionality.

Radeon driver revs prior to 18.4.1 did NOT have this issue. This is a regression.
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This was a problem for me, and it may affect others, hence this word to the wise.

Hello.
I have a Triax TSS 400 MK2 SAT>IP converter. NextPVR recognizes all four tuners. I made a channel scan and everything went fine. If I now want to watch live tv I only see for a second "please wait" and nothings else happens. Can anybody help?

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I suddenly can't delete any recorded programs. I would appreciate any help. I get the attached message:

Hi,

Hoping someone has an idea about what's causing this.

I was at my brother in laws over the weekend and his NextPVR is acting strange. The UI is scaled by, I guess 200%

Fonts are huge and look chunky and jagged. Some buttons on popups are off-screen. Mouse clicks are all wrong (you must use a remote to select controls.) It looks like it's rendering at 1 resolution and stretching the result.

However, live TV and it's overlays are perfect.

He was back a few versions of npvr, so I updated to latest version, changed render mode, tried to scale the UI by -10% (in case it was stuck) Switched to windowed mode, and changed the theme. I even tried ctrl-scroll (zoom in word or excel) in case he had done that. I even tried changing the UI setting to 640x480 from auto and it just made a small window, stretched.

When I setup his machine I backed up the config.ini and reverted to that with no change.

Windows 10 itself is scaled in the control panel to 150% (recommended by windows) but I switched back to 100% and it didn't affect. All other programs and apps are fine.

I forgot to email the logs to me, but I think I can get him to send them. Any ideas?

Thanks
-Jim

My guide within the app appears to be using the 24 hr format. Any way to change this to 12 hr format?

I have been using the Android app. since it been released. A nice addition for NextPVR.

I like the simple, clean interface and ease of use.

I mostly use the app for scheduling and managing recording.

1 - I would like to have a WOL options to wake up the server if need be. I presently use a different app. on my phone to WOL and then open the NextPVR Android app.
2- The ability to delete a recording.
3- After scheduling a recording, having the app return to the time in the guide of the just scheduled recording.
4- Ability to have different colour genre in the guide. i.e. movie blue, sport green etc.
5- Android TV compatibility.
6- The ability to translate the app. "I am French, would be easier for the family"

Thank for listening.

I posted about 3 weeks ago that my new HTPC could not find any channels with my existing Hauppauge tuner. In the end it worked after I installed different drivers. But then I lost the channels again.

I’ve own the WinTV-HVR-2205 which I bought 3 years ago and it has given me no trouble. A few weeks ago I moved the pci-e card to a different workstation as I had upgraded my HTPC and was using it to build a second one. Still a windows 10 64 bit workstation.

I left the new pc off for two weeks and unplugged the tv antenna as it's used by my own HTPC. When I switched it all on I again and plugged the antenna back in I found I had no channels again.
The first time I

1. Downloaded some drivers and performed a scan.
   
2. No channels were found. I check card seating and antenna cable without any issues.
   
3. I downloaded the Digital Signal Monitor which said there was no signal.
   
4. However I also downloaded the ProdInfo tool and noticed that some of the dll’s were missing.
   
5. A further search on the internet lead me to a different set of drivers.
   
6. After installing these the card found ALL tv and radio stations.
   
7. Although the Digital Signal Monitor still claimed there was no signal.
   
8. I was able to watch tv successfully through the NextPvr front end, record, load up EPG etc.
   

2. I removed all drivers from the pc using the clean-up utility.
   
3. I downloaded the latest drivers from the Hauppaugeweb site and installed it successfully https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNGmRFLsUTQSuFh90Zn
   
4. I rebooted the pc and took a snapshot in the Device Manager. https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNGmRBAYYPmAgMWFD4o
   
5. I again used the ProdInfo tool and still notice some dll's are missing https://1drv.ms/t/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNGmQ8AAwWJV5zqAhS1
   
6. NextPVR can see the devices here https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNGmQ6JrsbAXxjMYNWM
   
7. But a scan of the Brisbane bands or even the All Australian bands returns no results here. https://1drv.ms/u/s!ApXAQQ5XQRNGmQ2GYkfxAq4-jdej
   
8. I even had a saved channel xml file to import from my old pc which has all the Brisbane channels and frequencies.
   

I'm watching a show that is still recording. I begin watching late. I skip/fast forward the commercials eventually I reach the present "Live" point in the broadcast. But instead of it playing what is arriving live, it treats it as the recording ended and I'm bumped back out to the guide.

Is there a way to change this behavior?


Thanks