When I import an M3u playlist into the IPTV tuner. It works perfectly but it doesn't import the names for the channels automatically. Where as kodi's iptv simple client can do this perfectly.

Hi,

I am trying to migrate from Windows Media Centre to Kodi with NextPVR for TV.

I am running Windows 7 with 2 x Hauppage TV cards and have downloaded/installed Kodi and NextPVR. I have configured NextPVR and EPG can view live TV on Next PVR.

I have enabled TV in Kodi and selected NextPVR as PVR and checked no other PVR is enabled. Server IP is still set as default which should be okay. Kodi does not import the channels or show TV as a option in the Kodi menu.

Other Kodi elements appear to be working fine and have set up weather etc..

I still have WMC on the same machine but stopped the WMC services and ensured NextPVR service is started and still no luck with Kodi. I have also uninstalled and re-installed both Kodi and NextPVR with no change.

I must be missing something but not sure what is stopping Kodi from starting with NextPVR front end - any suggestions would be appreciated.

Does Windows Media Centre need to be completely uninstalled?

Just had my first HD failure. It was a 2TB WD Green drive with over 49,000 hours of operation. This unit was the video storage drive and has run 24/7 except for occasional maintenance. Testdisk found multiple errors and listed the cause as "old age".

The read errors occurred only on recent recordings. It was being defraged daily and probably writing over and over in the same region. All other files were fine and fully recovered. Its companion (1 TB WD Green) is even older, with 67,000 hours. I replaced both drives, this time with WD Blue 5400 rpm drives and looking for another 50k.

Does anyone else have data on drive life with NPVR?

RIP WD

UPDATE

All have gone to a good home!

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I am a new user running nextpvr on a backend pc with a matricom kodi client.

I am having an issue that when I watch live tv for a while the stream will freeze and sometimes will just say buffering, but never finish buffering.

I looked at the nrecord logs on the backend pc and found this:

2016-09-04 21:45:05.162 [DEBUG][26] Renew lease ok (0x160002)
2016-09-04 21:45:10.252 [DEBUG][26] Renew lease ok (0x160002)
2016-09-04 21:45:35.338 [ERROR][10] Live stream expired without 15 second renewal. (handle:160002)
2016-09-04 21:45:35.338 [DEBUG][10] StopStream(2)
2016-09-04 21:45:39.454 [INFO][10] No more streams active. Stopping device.
2016-09-04 21:45:39.454 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@2
2016-09-04 21:45:39.454 [DEBUG][10] SetIncomingPort@exit
2016-09-04 21:45:39.655 [DEBUG][10] stopping graph
2016-09-04 21:45:39.655 [DEBUG][10] Graph stopping...
2016-09-04 21:45:40.073 [DEBUG][10] Graph stopped
2016-09-04 21:45:40.073 [DEBUG][10] destroying graph
2016-09-04 21:45:40.073 [DEBUG][10] Removing filter NPVR Writer
2016-09-04 21:45:40.073 [DEBUG][10] Removing filter NPVR Net Push Source
2016-09-04 21:45:40.174 [DEBUG][10] deallocating ports
2016-09-04 21:45:40.174 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 1311B323 key 99022 set /tuner0/channel none
2016-09-04 21:45:40.235 [DEBUG][10] Executing: C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config.exe 1311B323 key 99022 set /tuner0/lockkey none
2016-09-04 21:45:40.265 [DEBUG][27] Renew lease failed (0x160002)
2016-09-04 21:45:40.265 [DEBUG][27] liveHandleRenewalTime contains 0 handles:
2016-09-04 21:45:43.267 [DEBUG][27] StopStream(2)

From there the logs continue to show the same two lines:
2016-09-04 20:22:03.929 [DEBUG][40] Renew lease failed (0x16005C)
2016-09-04 20:22:03.935 [DEBUG][40] liveHandleRenewalTime contains 0 handles:

My best guess is that my live tv buffer is somehow filling up the small hard drive space on the matricom client, but I have no idea how to fix that. I have tried turning off timeshifting, but that did not seem to help.

I would post kodi logs, but I am not sure how to pull those off the matricom box.

Another ex-MCE user here.
I have set up NPVR with DVB-S and DVB-T tuners, and EPG Collector to get guide listings. All good - no problems.
Then set up a front end with Kodi/LibreELEC running on a RPi3. Again (eventually) everything works.

But I think there is a problem with Kodi because it randomly forgets my painstakingly organised TV channel line-up (that is, the channel numbering sometimes reverts to whatever the NPVR channel scan produced).
I would like to renumber the channels in NPVR and then use the 'get channel numbers from backend' option in Kodi as this seems the cleanest solution.

I know I can edit the channel numbers one by one in the NPVR channel settings, but knowing my luck I would renumber fifty channels and then realise I need to slot BBC1HD in between BBC1 and BBC2...
Google has not been my friend with this one - I've found a few similar queries but no efficient solution.
I've played around with trying to write out the contents of the npvr.db3 database file to edit the channel numbers but I'm not sure that is the way to go.

Is this an issue or am I just not seeing something obvious? :confused:

Thanks.

Hi all,

I'm new to TV Tuner cards. I've spent a week or two looking into what to do. It still seems like rocket science.

Here is what I am trying to accomplish: I have Comcast. I naturally hate them more than almost anything. I refuse to pay them an extra penny, so I want to bypass renting a DVR and use my PC to stream video (so I don't miss football games at work). I only need to record 1 show at a time, and get 1 channel at a time. I planned to use software to setup recordings while I'm at work.

My current setup: I have Win 7, 64 bit, a Cisco RNG150 STB connected directly to my Hauppage Win-TV HVR 1260 tuner card (ATSC/QAM) with a s-video cable (I don't care about image quality). From other forums, people have said this device should work for this purpose. - I may be able to use Windows Media Center... not sure yet, will try it later too.

So, NextPVR detects my card. It shows up 2x: as ATSC, and as QAM. When I scan for channels with either device, I don't find any.

I feel this should theoretically work...at least to detect the 1 channel my box is tuned to. I know I've probably missed something, or my setup may be wrong. Do I need to do anything to the existing co-axial cable line? It just goes from outlet>cablebox.
As far as I understand it, all the STB does is take Comcast's encrypted, digital signals and decrypt them. It then pushed them out unencrypted (I think in an analog format, but probably also digital). After the signals hit the box, it is unencrypted.

The other NextPVR settings are basically default, including decoders. I don't have any EPG I know of.

I could use some assistance troubleshooting this in a logical order, before I tinker with settings and make anything worse.

Thanks.

Recently, all but one program recording has stopped just after 14 minutes on the local NBC network affiliate. The problem programs have all been one hour programs. Recordings on all other networks are as scheduled in length. This problem was occurring on two separate installations of NextPVR. I contacted Schedules Direct to check if there was a problem with their EPG. They checked - no problem. Out of desperation, I reinstalled NextPVR on both PC's. Problem disappeared.

I've started having some issues where my server that I have my tuners and NextPVR installed doesn't wake up to record shows, and it doesn't stay on when it actually IS recording. Does NextPVR have a program or something that it runs only when it's recording that I can tell the LightsOut program to watch for to keep from going into Standby? Also, my system used to wake up to record shows fine, but I installed the latest version a few weeks ago and now it's not. Could the latest version be what's causing the problem? Should I uninstall and reinstall the whole thing? If so, is there a way to keep the settings (like the EPG data and tuner info)?

Thanks in advance for any help you can give!

hello there far more intelligent people,

i try to do things the easy way and am having trouble with the tv guide updating...
here in little old New Zealand, our tv guide is now being sent in a format that Nextpvr can read natively, so no need for any 3rd party xml grabber...yay..
but i have to manually update the epg by going into the settings\channels\updateepg...

so boring...

i have seen talk of people writing batch files for the likes of xmltv to auto update, so i thought why not write a script for nextpvr to update the epg for me...
but what should i write in the .bat file in the scripts folder...

or do i write a batch file that i can run from the windows scheduler ?

...help me ob-wan kanobi...your my only hope (message repeats...)