Hoping someone might be able to tell me what a "bad status (6)" from the NextPVR PVR Client DLL means.
I'm running NextPVR 3.8.3 on a Win 10 (latest updates) media PC with my home office computer, a couple phones, an nVidia Shield, and another box connecting to it via Kodi and/or Web Browsers. On my office PC I'm running Windows 10 (lastest updates) with Kodi 17 B3 and everything was fine. With the new Krypton B4 release I thought I'd update my install. The update went fine but when I started Kodi the NextPVR addon wasn't working. Checking the logs I see reference to a bad status 6 (see log snip below and attached logs).
Out of curiosity I uninstalled Kodi completely and reinstalled 17 B3 from scratch. I get the same error. All of my other Kodi systems are working fine (all Jarvis). I've tried a clean 17 B4 now too. Haven't had a chance to try a clean Jarvis install yet. Either way, was hoping someone could tell me what the error code represents. I have to believe that is something on my Win 10 home office PC given that;
* The other Kodi NextPVR clients connect no problem
* I can connect to NextPVR from a browser
* Kodi 17 B3 was working and then wasn't after going to B4 and still wasn't after a complete uninstll and fresh B3 install
13:38:00 T:3156 DEBUG: PVR - PVR::CPVRClient::Create - creating PVR add-on instance 'NextPVR PVR Client'
13:38:00 T:3156 DEBUG: ADDON: Dll Initializing - NextPVR PVR Client
13:38:00 T:3156 DEBUG: SECTION:LoadDLL(D:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\addons\pvr.nextpvr\pvr.nextpvr.dll)
13:38:00 T:3156 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (6) from Create and is not usable
Anyway, attached are my log files (anonymized). I didn't include the web log as there weren't any entries relating to the client connenction and anonymizing the log represent flow challenges. Looking at the NextPVR loges there aren't any entries relating to the Kodi client attempting to connect and in the Kodi log there are only 4 entries. The Kodi log is as clean as I could make it (stop Kodi, delete log, start Kodi, wait for add-on/library updates, turn on debug logging, try to enable NextPVR client, stop Kodi).
Had a hard drive failure this weekend. Got a lot of the files back from Carbonite but am having a lot of difficulty with NPVR, specifically with getting Schedules Direct working again. I can check into their site so I know my password, etc. is correct but trying to get them to work with my channels is not working. I seem to recall I had to make a change in config concerning them (SD-JSON) but I don't remember what I did. Can anyone give me a clue?
Hi, everyone. Martin and I have had a few back and forth discussions about updating the SearchLite UI. I've included my suggestions below.
We're getting into the realm of software style guides - if your familiar with those. What I recommend as we embark on this project is that we keep feature requests out of the UI refresh discussion. After we get it where we want, then (IMHO) feature requests would be fine.
Let me sidebar a bit...
Since the 1940s, we have thought about TV shows in terms of the "TV Guide". If we wanted to watch, "The Mickey Mouse Club", we would schedule our day around when the show was broadcast. We don't think about television that way anymore (except for sports). We want to watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it. The advantage here is that whatever we can find, we can record and watch it when we want to. If we like certain kinds of shows, computers can recommend other shows we might like.
SearchLite exposes the power of NextPVR to accomplish what we want with the new way we watch TV. Searching by Genre, Actor, Title and other ways, enables us to discover television. In my opinion, this is the most important PlugIn a person can install for NextPVR. (Makes you want to cry, doesn't it.) With this in mind, I offer the following suggestions as how it can be optimized. Let's begin.
From a style guide perspective...
Usability should be the same across Plug-Ins. Meaning, they should have the same look and feel. Keyboard commands and remote commands should do the same thing regardless of what plug-in the user is using. The visual appearance of plug-ins should be the "same" as much as programming allows.
1. Recording Screen
The recording screen (screenshot attached) is an example of something that is the "same" in the TV Guide, Recordings and default Search module.
I've attached a screenshot of the SearchLite Recordings. It's similar. My first recommendation is to make it "more similar".
I'd like to see the same options that are in the standard Recording screen: Close, Quick Record, Record, Find All, & Watch. The SearchLite screen has Save NEWA & Theme. A new user isn't going to know what NEWA is. Although it does save my search, I don't think this is the right place to save a search. Theme didn't work for me. I can only guess that Theme would pull up similar genres. I would recommend getting rid of Save NEWA & Theme and replace it with "Find Similar". (Saving searches should go elsewhere - more about that later.) Find Similar would go underneath Find All. When the user clicks Find Similar, it would close the recording screen and pull up a search in the Genre window (more about that later) with Genre's that match the show.
I noticed that when I pulled up the episode in SearchLite, it shows the generic show information rather than the episode information. Also, the channel number is different. The date/time line is different and no Genre is mentioned. I also noticed that the left/right arrows don't do anything. I'm guessing this is because different information is being pulled from the show. Also, the box art isn't downloaded automatically like it is in the main application.
2. Search on Genre, Title, Cast, etc.
In the recordings screen, most work is done in the main window. The functions at the top of the window: sort, filter, man-rec, keyword & forget are higher function settings. These are used less frequently so they are put out of the way.
When I open the recording window, I can scroll from right to left and I'm shown the following windows: "Ready Recordings, What's New, Pending Recordings, Recurring Recordings & Conflicts".
In SearchLite, the top window has the following options, "Keyboard, Recall, Type, Sort, Genre & Auto." Instead, I'd like these features moved. (This is where it get's fuzzy and we'll just have to play around a bit to see how it looks.) SearchLite would have a window that looks the same as the Recording Window. When I scroll left/right I would see "Title, Genre, Description, Cast, Description, Keyword & Saved Searches." The challenge here is how to expose the powerful features of NEWA to a 10 foot interface. The usability choice might be to not have all the search features in SearchLite but have the Saved Searches exposed in SearchLite.
When I click on a Saved Search, a window pops up with the following options: "Close, Auto Record, Delete & Run." The window is mostly blank. I think it makes sense for the left/right arrows to scroll between saved searches. The window should show the search logic in some presentable manner. I'd also like to perhaps see box art of one of the shows that would qualify in the saved search. Auto Record is an advanced feature (which I still don't quite understand) so instructions might be appropriate to the user so they don't fill up their hard drive. Or, this feature could be hidden so the user would have to expose it in SearchLite settings.
The Saved Search window could be the place where advanced search options are exposed.
My suggestion for my item 2 is to make the main section function similar to the Recordings screen.
3. Install
In my mind, the Genre search is the most important item for users to discover new shows. Currently, a batch file needs to be created and setup to expose this functionality. This should be done by default. If we are concerned about overwriting the batch file, the install could prompt the user if they want to overwrite it or indicate to them that this portion of setup was skipped and that they should refer to the documentation.
Second, the install should ask the user if they want to deactivate the default search and enable SearchLite. It should also update the config.xml so SearchLite is in the same place in the menu. I know I can configure the config.xml to put it where I want but this would be a bit cleaner.
So there you have it.
Please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.
Let the fun begin.
Is it possible to wake NPVR server using WOL in KODI? If so, please direct me on the correct steps to take. I have trying to figure this out, but with no success.
I'm trying to set up Live TV using my WinTv 950, ATSC and an external antenna. I've downloaded Next Pvr (using Windows 10) and I'm able
to do a channel scan. The scan has found channels, but I can't get any video or audio. I'm fairly certain that my problems are related to my codecs.
Default codecs are loaded, but I don't have clue on whether they're right, or what I should be using??
<?xml version="1.0"?><version><component name="NextPVR" version="3.8.3" buildDate="160929" display="NextPVR 3.8.3"><url>http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?58636-3-8-3-Available-(25th-Sept)</url><installer>http://www.nextpvr.com/NPVRSetup_3_8_3_160929.exe</installer></component></version>
2016-10-25 07:07:02.511 [INFO][3] current online version: 3.8.3 (160929)
2016-10-25 07:07:02.511 [INFO][3] last notified version: 3.8.3 (160929)
2016-10-25 07:07:04.473 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2016-10-25 07:07:12.903 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error doing Schedules Direct login: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.DoPOSTRequest(String url, String token, String body)
2016-10-25 07:07:12.903 [ERROR][1] System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.DoPOSTRequest(String url, String token, String body)
2016-10-25 07:07:12.903 [ERROR][1]
2016-10-25 07:07:13.024 [DEBUG][1] Unable to get SD token: Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader)
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json)
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.GetToken(String& error)
2016-10-25 07:07:13.184 [DEBUG][1] Lineups:
2016-10-25 07:07:13.184 [DEBUG][1] Unexpected error getting lineups: Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader)
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Parse(String json)
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.GetExistingLineups()
2016-10-25 07:07:13.197 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2016-10-25 07:07:13.206 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2016-10-25 07:07:15.546 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()
2016-10-25 07:07:15.804 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error loading channel list: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadDataInternal(Uri address, WebRequest& request)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(Uri address)
at System.Net.WebClient.DownloadString(String address)
at NShared.SchedulesDirectManageLineupsForm.SchedulesDirectManageLineupsForm_Load(Object sender, EventArgs e)
2016-10-25 07:07:17.960 [DEBUG][1] LoadLineups()@1
2016-10-25 07:07:17.960 [DEBUG][1] LoadLineups()@2
2016-10-25 07:07:18.057 [ERROR][1] Unexpected error doing Schedules Direct login: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.DoPOSTRequest(String url, String token, String body)
2016-10-25 07:07:18.058 [ERROR][1] System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable.
at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()
at NShared.SchedulesDirectJSONEPGSource.DoPOSTRequest(String url, String token, String body)
2016-10-25 07:07:18.058 [ERROR][1]
2016-10-25 07:07:18.058 [DEBUG][1] Unable to get SD token: Newtonsoft.Json.JsonReaderException: Error reading JObject from JsonReader. Path '', line 0, position 0.
at Newtonsoft.Json.Linq.JObject.Load(JsonReader reader)
Hey, this is my first post, although I've been using NextPVR for 2-3 years, off and on. My name is Jim, I'm 65, retired/disabled, and one of my "superpowers" is getting stuff to work. Currently, I'm using NextPVR on a consumer-level Toshiba Satellite running Windows 10. I hope this post helps someone to use NextPVR more effectively. NextPVR is the best program of its type: it is so well thought-out, and generally does exactly what it needs to do.
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1. Create the following batch file:
Code:
net stop "NPVR Recording Service"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NextPVR.exe" -updateepgonly
net start "NPVR Recording Service"
Save the file somewhere you have access, and give it a name, such as UpdateEPG.bat. You will probably need administrator-level access to perform the next step.
2. Create a scheduled task which calls this batch file 1 or more times a day. The important thing is that you change the user to SYSTEM, which will allow the net stop and net start commands to work properly. No other special attributes are needed, although I like to select the option, "Run this task on demand" for testing purposes, or if I just need to run it to update the EPG again for some reason.
(This is not a tutorial on using Task Scheduler, although you may ask any questions, and I will attempt to answer them.)
3. Finally, uncheck the options within NextPVR to auto-update the EPG at a set time, and to update the EPG during live TV. (This last is not as exciting as it sounds: it can only update the channels at the same frequency as the one you are watching, and you must watch for at least 1 minute to get it updated.)
Here are some observations about using NextPVR with a TV card or USB TV stick:
A. Your tuner can only do one thing at a time. If you are watching live TV when the background task runs, the recording service will be stopped and restarted but the EPG will not be able to update. You will not receive an error message when this happens.
B. This batch file should give you exactly the same results as manually updating the EPG from the settings, and it will take just as long. How long? 60 seconds per frequency (not per channel: a single frequency can include more than one channel). This means the update could take 10 or 15 minutes or longer depending on how many data streams are retrieved. The 60-second duration is hard-coded into the program and is a very clever way to make sure that the EPG update does not get stuck or take too long.
C. Therefore, it is up to you to decide when the task will run. You cannot record a show and update the EPG at the same time. My own task is set to run at 1:05 AM, 9:05 AM, and 5:05 PM; i.e., once every 8 hours. I have a particular channel which gives me only 10 hours of EPG, so I need more than a single daily update.
D. The concept of turning the recording service off and back on was derived from some articles in the forum archives. When the recording service turns back on, it will take a "fresh look" at your scheduling requests. This is primarily useful for recording TV series by name. Note that OTA data does not give you season and episode numbers, so the setting option to prevent duplicate recordings will not have any effect with this method. Sometimes I end up with a few duplicates of The Outer Limits, but this is no big deal. In fact, it helps, in case one of the recordings did not get good reception.
E. If you're using a USB TV stick, it may not work properly after your computer does a soft boot. You will know this when you are no longer retrieving EPG data, or cannot watch a live show. Generally, unplugging the USB stick for a few moments and then plugging it back in will do the trick. Then you can run the task on demand (if you selected that option when setting up the task).
F. This is cool: there is one exception to not being able to watch live TV while also recording a program: when the channel you wish to watch is on the same frequency as the channel recording, you can do both! The tray icon will turn red whenever you are recording a show or running NextPVR.
With this in mind, I offer the following suggestions as how it can be optimized. Let's begin.