Anyone working on an XBox One app? Is there an API exposed from NPVR to allow for a xbox one app that would show an EPG grid, recorded shows, and play live/recorded shows?

Hi Sub,

I've moved to SD as I could not get the genre mapping from Clickfinder working -- the Clickfinder team keeps "inventing" genres and keeping up was a nightmare.

The SD lineup for my cable provider has hundreds channels, and they seem to come up in the channel mapper in a random order (or some order from SD which is not evident) -- all I am seeing is a listing similar to

0 - ZDFGER
0 - ARDALP

and it's driving me crazy trying to decipher which abbreviation would apply, especially when the list has hundreds of entires.

Some questions:

1. Can you find a way to sort the SD channel abbreviation listing in the channel mapper alphabetically?
2. Does SD have a more verbose channel name description available?

For the SD team here, I'm in Germany in 60318 Frankfurt and using the Unity Media digital cable list.

Thanks,
Dane

For the first time I got to use NPVR remotely outside of my home network. To my pleasing I had everything setup correctly in the network and NPVR worked like a charm. I had intended to try it out with my Android but something even better was available.

I recently was in the hospital and they only had abc/nbc/fox/cbs and a whole host of specialty hospital health programs/channels. Primetime would have been tolerable but day time, overnight and morning was miserable TV viewing. They did have a decent selection of pay per view with fee's added to you hospital bill.

I noticed when the hospital TV turned on it went through a few processes that made me think the TV was "smart". This hospitals TV's were smart tv's and even had a browser. It took me a day of getting sober from my procedure and some tinkering with the remote to figure out how the TV's smart features worked.

I finally got a browser opened and I pointed it to my NPVR home address and NPVR was there in the Modern Interface waiting like an old friend. I have a short, stupid domain that I use for my home network and I had a folder redirect setup to my NPVR making it easier to find. This is not it but it is like 123.com/npvr and it goes to NPVR much like 127.0.0.1:8866 would.

I got to enjoy TV options that weren't at the hospital, was able to watch recordings and even record a few that I would have missed by not being at home.

On a side note, one of the nurses came in and saw the "Netflix" type stuff on the TV and was wondering how I figured out how to pull all that up because they knew the TV's had "special" features that would let patients check their emails, Facebook, etc but they were too busy doing healthcare related stuff to learn the new TV system.

I gave her a little show and tell of my NPVR and also showed her how other patients can get to the smart features of the TV.

I would have had a couple miserable, boring days and a few months of waiting for an unplanned show to be in rerun's but NPVR saved the day.

I've noticed that when my son is playing on the pc that hosts NextPVR and I'm steaming through the iOS app, the display stutters. Is there a way to protect and prioritize the connection between my app and the pc, and keep the streaming strong? If so, how do I do that? I want to prioritize my streaming over his playing.

If I do a recurring series, all episodes, will NPVR look in its series folder to see if the episode is already there even if it is not in the database.

For example, (totally made up series name) If I want to record series "NPVR This Week" and I already have "NPVR This Week.S02E20.Importance of uploading your logs files when asking for support.ts" but it is in the EPG guide and not in the database, will NPVR schedule that episode or see it in the folder and not schedule it?

Second question, what happens if NPVR names things "NPVR This Week" (all caps) and I have something named "NPVR this week"? (Not all caps) Will it recognize it is the same even though the words aren't capitalized?

*Don't miss the irony of the fake episode name, no logs needed for this question.




I've looked around the forum for an answer. I have either missed it or there is no questions asking this. I probably didn't dig deep enough.

Hi there,

Have just got NPVR up and running for the first time and it is working fantastically.

I have set up a SD account and importing EPG is perfect.

Only one thing is really confusing me though - what is Schedules Direct and where does it get its information from?

The reason I ask is that I have a Freesat (DVB-S2) and Freeview (DVB-T) tuner.

I get loads of channels which exist on both, which I have combined.

I also have channels that exist only on Freeview (e.g. Dave) or Freesat (e.g. Challenge +1).

I assumed that I would simply download the EPG for, say, ITV 1 London and it would just provide the information but I have the option to have ITV from either Virgin, Freesat, Freeview or Sky.

I have just tested and the Freeview version is much better than the Sky one - it provides details of the Season and Episode.

I though Schedules Direct was a standardised set of information for all channels, but this must be wrong. Where does the information come from?

Hi,

I set NPVR to record (I thought) the main daily news show at 20.00hrs every day. My thought was that if I missed it live I could always look at it from my own machine. That actually works, but...

...It appears that NPVR looks at the name of the show (NOS Journaal) in the EPG and does not honor the time originally set. As there are multiple shows (that are constantly replayed throughout the day) with the the exact same name NPVR entered into a recording frenzy that fills my HD and keeps my computer awake throughout the day and night. It will never enter sleep mode any more. See attached jpeg.

I cannot find any way to disable this recording schedule, despite have searched for it in the Wiki and forums. I also cannot find a file on my computer that looks as if it holds the schedule. The only way to stop NPVR recording is to uninstall it. But when I reinstall NPVR starts recording the news shows again as if nothing happened.

Please, how do I stop the program constantly recording the news shows? Thanks.

Hi there,

I am long-time Argus TV user and have been very happy with it.

However, as you may be aware, development on it has pretty much ground to a halt - many of the users are looking for decent alternatives.

I have spent the last few weeks having a look at the Linux alternatives (MythTV and TVHeadend) but soon realised that this was a mistake - (too tricky to set up, massive problems with resume, no support for Stablebit).

Anyway, I have heard NPVR mentioned, numerous times, as the natural successor to Argus and I am dying to try it out.

What is my best option for trying it out on my server? Should I install Windows 10 on a spare hard drive or risk installing it alongside Argus?

NextPVR 3.8.3
Windows 10

I couldn't find anything about this in a quick look through documentation and forum search, so please let me know if there's somewhere to go here for these answers.

Is it possible to edit scheduled recordings by editing a configuration file directly instead of using the GUI which seems to have some limitations? For example, could I edit recurring-backup.xml (or a different file) in Notepad and would NextPVR then apply those changes? If so, can I enter exact start and stop times and change start/stop padding to 0, and can I change the name to something besides Default?

Thanks,
Jim

I have some recurring manual recordings scheduled and I would like to create custom artwork that would be displayed in the NPVR program as well as on the web server.

I tried putting a picture named "Fox Sunday _.landscape.jpg" into "C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Media\Shows", as well as a file named "Fox Sunday _-catalog.xml" containing the following