Hi
I've been tinkering with moving from Windows to running NextPVR as a Proxmox container, using HDHomeRun as my tuner for a UK Freeview source.
It all seems to work fine apart from the over-air guide data is limited, very patchy. Happens every time I update the guide data. Looking through the logs it looks to me like it's OK with the BBC as a source for guide data then fails on the next one, giving this error:
2025-02-19 18:57:04.721 [DEBUG][91] Unable to start device for EPG capture. In use, or unplugged?
New user here.
I was able to get almost everything working. I am recording on a Win10 box, using NPVR ver7.0.1.241229, using a Schedules Direct trial, and I watch the recordings primarily on my DLNA capable TV and/or Roku.
First of all - THANK YOU to all that make this system possible!
I was a TVmosaic user until it pulled the plug on me a few years ago. I don't recall if I tried NPVR at the time. I think I did, but I ran into something that lead me to abandon the idea until now. It may have been the inability (at the time) to transcode to .mp4 automagically. (Necessary for Win10 DLNA server to stream the files.)
Anyway - moving on...
The one thing I have left to figure out is related to my transcoded (720p) .mp4 files. (Sorry if I have missed something, but a couple forum searches revealed nothing.)
This one last issue is that the system will delete my recording files (.TS and others) when I click the delete link - HOWEVER, it leaves the .mp4 files.
I looked in the log files, but I didn't find anything when I searched for ".MP4".
While not a huge deal, it does then require me to regularly and manually delete those files to avoid running out of disk space.
Thoughts?
Providers these days love channels. Deleting Groups and Channels is painfully slow when you have 35K+. It would be nice to have a list of groups that you can deselect all and tick off the ones you want to keep. Then, click and let run overnight.
I want to be able to achieve using two lots of IPTV playlists. One is AU, the other is UK. Both are region locked so using a VPN it would be possible to do a split tunnel where one instance is connected to AU and the other is connected to UK. I am wondering if its possible to do this by running multiple instances and if so how?
Have previously (month or two ago) successfully imported M3U and used NextPVR client from Kodi, no problem - EPG and channels, recording, all working.
Past few days, after fresh install of NextPVR, I have the following problem:
I successfully imported multiple different M3Us to IPTV device. Always a success. Always see list of channels after import, click Save, no errors.
Go to "Channels" in Settings, channels are there.
Go to "Channels" in admin client, or in webui client, or in Kodi client, channels are empty.
Have been beating my head against this for 2 days.
In logs saw some "unable to update / db locked" errors, so removed all IPTV devices, stopped service, deleted DB3 file, restarted Windows, tried again. No more "db locked" error, but still don't see channels in clients.
I should add - these are M3Us from different sources, that are able to work through VLC.
I've been using NPVR for a long time now. One thing I've always noticed is when a new show has the same title as a previous show, NPVR always identifies it as the
old show. In this example, the show is Doc, new in 2025. However, in 2001, Billy Ray Cyrus was on a show called Doc as well. NPVR identifies the new Doc as the old one from 2001. However, Jellyfin correctly identifies the new Doc as from 2025. Both NPVR and Jellyfin are reading from the same XMLTV file.
I am on the current version of nextpvr on windows 10. I haven't touched the system in a while since nextpvr in kodi, connects perfectly fine to the backend. Everything works. What I just realized is that I can no longer log into the web either on localhost or remotely via ip:8866. My username and password are stored in the browser, but every time I click on login, it doesn't log me in and username and password in the web form disappear. I primarily use firefox, but for giggles I tried chrome & then edge and they both do the same thing. I have stopped and restarted the nextpvr service and lastly rebooted my machine.
Lastly, I tried on my mobile phone using brave browser (never logged in with the phone ever before) and it exhibits the same behaviour as the desktop browser. Is there anything I can try?
For some of my DVB-T2 channels NextPVR fails to obtain EPG information via DVB-T2. The EPG information for those particular channels is completely missing.
I know for a fact, that much more EPG information is available for those particular channels - my TV and my Blu-ray DVB-T2 Recorder are able to obtain the respective EPG information via DVB-T2 (they are not connected to the internet, so they cannot obtain this information from other sources). I can also exclude that fact, that something is off with the USB-TV tuner, that is directly connected to my NextPVR machine.
So, I know for a fact, that there is EPG information that is transmitted via DVB-T2, that NextPVR does not pick up. This has not happened with version 6, so something must have changed in version 7, that triggered this issue. Maybe you can help me? I attach the respective log files.
Further information:
Operating System: Windows 10
NextPVR version: 7.0.1.241229
TV Tuner: Hauppauge WinTV-soloHD DVB-T/DVB-T2
Region: Italy
At least the following channels appear affected (those are the ones I checked, there may be more):
1) RAS Das Erste HD (Freq: 474000 SID: 22 (H.264)): should have at least 24 hours of EPG (probably more according to my other devices), but NextPVR only reports "(no listings)"
2) RAS ORF1 HD (Freq: 474000 SID: 20 (H.264)): should have at least 24 hours of EPG (probably more), but NextPVR only reports "(no listings)"
3) RAS ORF III HD (Freq: 474000 SID: 23 (H.264)): should have at least 24 hours of EPG (probably more), but NextPVR only reports "(no listings)"
4) RAS SRF zwei HD (Freq: 578000 SID: 32 (H.264)): should have at least 24 hours of EPG (probably more), but NextPVR only reports "(no listings)"
5) RAS Kika HD (Freq: 578000 SID: 35 (H.264)): should have at least 24 hours of EPG (probably more), but NextPVR only reports "(no listings)"
Posted by: Reddwarf - 2025-02-15, 07:12 AM - Forum: Windows
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Does anyone have the installer for Human Interface Programmer (HIP)? I beleive the latest version is HipinstallComplete4004.exe but an older version will do.
I have the latest NPVR installed. I get the EPG info from Schedules Direct daily. Recording has worked fine for a very long time. However a single show now refuses to schedule new episodes. I tried deleting the EPG and then downloading it again, but new episodes still don't show as being scheduled to record. I think I found the reason, but I don't know how to fix the issue.
When I look at an new, unrecorded episode in the EPG, I see that its "Originally Aired" date is stated to be prior to this episode's date (so this episode is no longer "new" and should not be recorded - I get that). But the problem is that when I look for the show episode on the stated Originally Aired date, the EPG does not show any episode occurring on that date at any time.
I don't understand how the Originally Aired date is not synchronized with the episodes that actually exist in the EPG. It is only happening for this one show (Nova on Public Television). All other recordings seem to be working fine.
I hope someone can explain what I need to do to somehow get the Originally Aired date corrected to agree with the EPG listings.
