Today, Charter Spectrum cable turned off support for CableCards, at least in my location. For over a year, they have been sending emails notifying me support was ending and offering limited trial of their so called cloud dvr, but. today that day finally came. Thus ends decades long recording hobby and habit.
I also used to record over-the-air but when we moved in 2019, our location gets zero stations, not even PBS! Prior to 2019, We used to live on the cusp of 3 major network DMA markets. Yes, there were a lot of duplicates but each market had unique stations. Here, we even installed a 40-foot antenna. We are in a valley at 512 feet above sea level and ridge where the signals come at is 742 feet above sea level. It doesn't help we are also surrounded by at least 700 feet above sea level 'mountain' peaks and more.
I guess we are beholden to commercial systems and services.
This really bums me out. I still grieve over them shutting QAM off.
I know I said this was a rant, but I am leaving that unspoken out of respect for the NextPVR Mods. Just know I am violating every rule in the book with my unspoken rant.
So Recording TV is working fine and watching all the way through is fine but if i stop and try to resume it just plays from the beginning.
Also, if i copy the TV recording into one of my other folders with other video files it will play and resume just fine, does the recorded TV use a different player in Kodi?
Im not sure if this started when i upgraded to Omega Kodi but its a very recent thing (the last week i think)
I have tried to update NextPVR with the latest release (21.1) i think it is, from git hub, but kodi wont install it, comes up with a error.
what steps should i be taking next to see if i can fix this?
Here is the log from kodi when i try to resume. this is my first time doing the log thing so fingers crossed i did it right.
Quote:Maybe checkout Foxy https://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/FTP_Hi-Def_Co...Using_FOXY and or using stripts If you can send me a sample recording I can have a look but I'd need your key for stripts too. Also if you can send the corresponding hmt file I might be able to read the contents directly so you don't need an xml file. I could probably modify the hmt file too.
Send an SD file too, seems they are not encrypted.
Martin
I had a look at the FOXY utilities you noted above however the FVP-5000T doesn't produce a .htm file - only .hjm, .hjtsm, .nts and .ts - so it does not seem possible to use the FOXY alternative scripts (is this what you mean by stripts ?) on Linux. I am not sure what you mean by 'I'd need your key for stripts' - which key ? Copying the recordings to a USB drive using the set top box takes hours even for a single recording.
Using VLC via the built in DMS server seems to work, at least to be able to view the recordings on my Linux PC but I haven't succeeded in finding a way to save these files so far. All my recordings seem to be encrypted even though they were nominally recorded as SD recordings.
I have copied all the files for a particular recording to my Google Drive and given you full access via:
I have been exploring the use of the NextPVR server and client plugins for Kodi 21 / LibreElec 12 using the Quartz skin and so far most things seem to work.
One thing that it foxing me relates to the Kodi Guide. This is provided by the NextPVR plugin I understand. I can create a new single, or series, recording request via the Kodi interface. If I then look at the NextPVR guide, via the NextPVR web app, I can see the programs set for recording are shown in red. In the Kodi Guide however the programs set to record are NOT identified at all, certainly not with a red highlight. The programs do seem to record properly and I can play them back in Kodi.
Am I missing a step, or two, here or is the way the NextPVR plugins works with Kodi ?
I had NPVR stop the other day on me for no reason. I rebooted and it started working again. Just two days later I believe, it happened again. I check the Service which was running, the application was recording at the time it crashed. When this has happened, I cannot get into NPVR remotely either via the IOS app. The server doesn't even show the IP address.
I rebooted again tonight and immediately created logs in hope of nailing it down as to what's going on. I have another system built, using windows 2016, but I can't get NPVR to see the NAS drive like windows 10 can. I used 2016 trying to get a more stable OS, but I'm stuck.
I would think this is a Windows 10 problem not an NextPVR problem, but it's still doing it after I had Windows 10 do its full reinstall, and swapped power supplies, and put the hard drive into an entirely different PC.
NextPVR had been working great as it basically always has. Until a few or so months ago it started missing recordings. The PC goes into sleep mode, and wakes up fine to record, sometimes. Seems like after a reboot, recordings will record properly and go to sleep and wake up for a day or two or three, then the PC won't wake up for anything after that -- including me trying to manually wake up by moving the mouse or pressing a keyboard button like usually works.
That last part makes me think it can't be an NextPVR problem -- unless NextPVR sometimes tells the PC to shut down instead of sleep.
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So, apparently, the PC for some reason shuts down instead of going back into sleep mode. Or shuts down while in sleep mode. This PC is 95% only ever used for NextPVR to record TV. There's not much that should be changing anything with it.
The bios sleep settings were the same as always. I tried a different power supply. I let Windows 10 do its own full reinstallation, and then I installed all programs fresh, including NextPVR. I had saved 500GB of TV recordings NextPVR already did and then copied/pasted that 500GB back into a NextPVR recordings folder, but that shouldn't matter.
It still did the same thing. The computer works fine for a day or three, then it apparently goes into full shutdown instead of being in sleep, and I have to turn it on with the power button, and it does a full bootup and works fine for a day or two or three again.
Maybe it's a motherboard problem. Yes, it's not recommended, but I removed the hard drive and put it into an entirely different PC. Same thing happens. So it might be a motherboard driver problem, but it's not a motherboard problem.
If you can rule out it's not related to NextPVR, that'd be great. Figured I'd ask before doing yet another full Windows and apps reinstall on the alternate PC.
Also set the hard drive power-down minutes to 9999 since I read that helped someone with a similar problem. No change.
I have installed the new version of NextPVR on my windows 10 Pro system but when i run the nextpvr client app there is no VOD in the app like on the web browser.
I am running NextPVR on a Windows 2022 server on my network. I have Kodi set up on my Win 11 PC. My source is IPTV. I am able to schedule recordings fine. And I can watch them ok in Kodi on my Win 11 PC after the recording is done. But when I try to watch a show in Kodi while it is recording it does not work well. I can not skip ahead, the total elapsed time is incorrect, it repeats playing from certain spots, it just does not work. What settings should I be checking? Is there a front end that is better than Kodi?
I have a cheap old MyGica usb stick (https://www.mygica.com/product/t230/) that works brilliantly with Nextpvr..trouble is it only has one tuner. Would it be easy just to add another one to hopefully add another tuner?
Would save me buying a new more expensive dual tuner stick. Thanks.
