I have the following questions about NextPVR's tuner management system, which I wish I could have more control over:

Why can't NextPVR automatically record back-to-back shows on the same channel using the same tuner?

Why does NextPVR neglect available tuners and instead record shows on different channels on the same tuner, even when there's an available tuner right freaking there that it doesn't seem to notice?

You know, on the SiliconDust HDHomeRun Prime, this basically screws up the previous show if it had post-padding, rendering it completely unplayable by NextPVR and its Kodi client. This makes me very Very VERY Angry, especially for one time only specials and shows that air episodes only once and never again. :mad:

Why can't I have direct access to this asinine hidden "priority" system that it uses to basically play roulette with the tuners? When it plays roulette with the tuners, it's playing Russian roulette with my recordings. I want to at least be able to manually set it to so that it does record back-to-back on the same tuner and doesn't screw up shows and render them unplayable or cut off their endings that post-padding is needed to compensate for.

I'm sorry, but I'm just disgusted at this point at how poorly coded the tuner management system is. I don't want to hear excuses about the complexities of the padding system if it's just going to ignore that padding altogether, screwing up recordings in the process out of its own stupidity.

I can't believe that a global level system can't be put in place that could simply check what channels tuners are currently locked on to in order to ensure that back-to-back shows are recorded on the same tuner, and check to make sure there are tuners available before recording different channels on the same tuner and ruining recordings in the process.

At the very least, I want to be able to manually set the "priorities" that are responsible for the moronic behavior of the system so that I can at least mitigate some of its destruction of my recordings.

I don't want to constantly babysit the system every hour and be ready to rapidly remove post-padding from recordings to prevent them from being FUBARed because another show on a different channel starts recording before the previous one finishes recording.
I don't want to have to sit for hours cancelling and resetting scheduled recordings in different combinations in order to get their hidden "priorities" right to make sure that back-to-back recordings record on the same tuner.

I am really sick and tired of this sorry excuse for a tuner management system and I'm willing to bet good money that if I had access to the code behind it, I could rewrite that code to work better than it does now. Since I don't have access to this code, all I can do is appeal to the people who do have access to at least make an attempt to code it better, because I hate seeing my recordings ruined by its absolutely idiotic behavior.

While tracking down an unrelated problem in Resource Monitor, I noticed that web.log is being written to continuously. On inspection, I realized it is rolling over about every 1:20 hrs. It just seems to be processing all files in my npvr recorded directory over and over.

Is this normal?

Thanks

1st - apologies. I just realized I posted something similar to this yesterday without logs and some of the specifics. Sub responded and gave me an overview of how the "wakeup" process should work. Thank you for that.

I'd appreciate any additional thoughts or suggestions if what I have posted below adds any useful info for figuring out why my box isn't waking. I'm hoping it is not the ACPI situation Sub noted in my other post and that this is something that can be fixed. The box is definitely only going to standby (not shutting down or hibernating) as it lights up quickly at touch of the keyboard or movement of the mouse and the nrecord service is still running.

thanks again!

Hi folks,

I'm struggling here. Initially running npvr on Box A for a long time with no problems. Moved npvr to Box B and ran into challenges, resulting in stripping box B down to bare metal (wiped disk), fresh windows 10 pro 32bit install, fresh HDHomeRun drivers and fresh npvr install.

At this point, I believe everything is working, however the box does not seem to be waking from sleep. If the box is awake, recordings, epg update, etc appear to happen as expected. However, if I'm reading the logs correctly, nothing happens after the box goes to sleep. Recordings get noted as "recording service not running at recording time" and the EPG batch file runs only the next time I sit down and hit a key on the keyboard to wake the box.

In the attached logs, you'll see I sat down and hit the keyboard at about 6:15 this morning. nothing appears in the logs prior to that back to noon or so the previous day. There were recordings scheduled for last evening plus an EPG update for around 2am today. The recordings didn't happen and the EPG update didn't happen until after I woke the box this morning.

I'm also attaching a screen cap of my power settings on this box. If it makes any difference, this is a little nVidia ION based machine.
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Thanks very much for any help and please let me know if there is any other data I can provide for analysis.

Best regards,
rjb

This is a minor gripe I know, but It's kind of annoying to have to go find the mouse to enable Subtitles for every show. I know some remotes you can map that to a button, but the remote I have, is odd and I can't map any of it's special buttons to anything. So I have to use the mouse.

I think it would be nice if there was a setting so subtitles were enabled by default. I turn it on for every show anyway.

Due to a HDD upgrade, I upgraded nextPVR from v2.5.9 that I used for years with little problem to the recent version 3.9.2. I am excited for the updated search function.

Delete:
>I noticed in Recordings that when there is only one recording under a title (last episode or a movie), there is no delete confirmation when choosing the delete menu option. I do see the confirmation when multiple files are in the title list. Is this by design? Is there an option to change this?

Season/Episode/Title
>In Recordings, some recordings of the same title have often incorrect "season" and "part" metadata, some do not. The list of episodes under a specific title then has an odd look of something like:
Saturday Night Live: blabla bla
S09E37: blady bla
S09E65: blahbhlah
Saturday Night Live: more blah

Is there a way to change how these episodes are displayed?

Thanks for any help.

Hi folks,

I've had a tough time getting npvr moved over to a different system. The record service is running and the npvr client interface works fine for watching, recording etc... but the pc just won't wake up from sleep to record. Can somebody point me to a primer on how that is supposed to work (does npvr schedule events in windows task scheduler? I dont' see any..., something else) or give me some suggestions on what to check for cause?

Any chance copying my \users\public\NPVR directory from the old system to the new system could cause an issue with recordings not waking the box up?

Windows 10 32bit system... freshly "reinstalled" from the Windows 10 recovery screens, hdhomerun drivers reinstalled and then fresh install of latest npvr... then copied over the users public npvr directory over the top.

thanks in advance for any help...
rjb

I just downloaded NextPVR the other day and I'm having a problem. I don't know how to create a list of channels to add. This page isn't clear, at all, for a new user as to how and what to do for the set up process to work correctly. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Hi folks,

I am trying to move my npvr environment from one computer to another. The target system did have npvr running on it at one time before this current effort.
I copied the users/public/npvr folder from the source machine to the target and then I also ran the npvr installer to bring the target up to the most current version of npvr (to match the source machine).

I'm getting an error message from the installer on the target that reads
"Unable to start service: System.InvalidOperationException: Cannot start service NPVR Recording Service on computer"
"System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception: An instance of the service is already running."

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I have done everything from uninstalling, manually stopping the npvr recording service, deleting the executales from programfiles\npvr, taskkill of the npvr service, reboots in between, etc... but every time I go to install, I get this error. Is the installer trying to start the service more than once?

Any help would be appreciated. Windows 10 32bit with npvr 3.9.2.161119.

Thanks all!
rjb

I bought a Android TV box (silly me, a T95Z Plus), and its canned Kodi 16.1 does not have the built-in PVR add-ons (i.e., noPVR addons, including NextPVR).

I replaced the canned Kodi with the official Android Kodi 16.1 (which has all the PVR addons), and the NextPVR add-on works great, but Kodi generally is unstable.

I'm told that the TV Box makers sometimes tweak Kodi for stability and their chipset, and I would like to try the canned Kodi but cannot figure out how to install the Kodi NextPVR addon (and I have looking far and wide for a zip file or repository).

Can anyone suggest how to install the Kodi-NextPVR addon for this sad situation?

Thanks

Windows 10 pro
I was suddenly having trouble getting npvr to run so I uninstalled and tried to reinstall
When I am trying to reinstall npvr I see this:
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When I ignore that and try to start npvr I get:
[ATTACHMENT NOT FOUND]

I have tried uninstalling in safe mode.
I have deleted everything related to npvr.
When I try to stop npvr service with taskmanager I get "service cannot accept control messages at this time"

I don't know that I have done anything, but since Windows got an update last week some other odd things have been happening. This is my main computer with lots of apps so, I really would like to avoid a fresh install.