I have used Birtles XMLTV grabber and Radio Times data since God was a boy ... but, sadly, the data source has now gone.

I have evolved my own ungainly EPG process that requires an XMLTV file as a starting point. What is the best / easiest way to get an XMLTV file from Schedules Direct?

Thank you for listening.

Edit: XMLTVGUI says that it works but I get a broken layout in Settings and I suspect that XMLTVGUI is not compatible with the current SD.

1st, I want to thank everyone in this forum who has helped me out. This is a fantastic community, and, without your help, I would have never got my software going to where it is now.. thanks

With that said, I have a hardware question about my device. Probably a simple one too. I "DO" realize this is a forum for NextPVR, and, not my Happauge 1212, but, I cant think of a better place to ask than here.

The IR blaster that comes with my unit, according to the manual, is a peel and stick eye that is supposed to stick DIRECTLY to my DirectTV receiver. This seems odd. I mean, I really dont mind the stickiness going on the receiver, but, that would mean it is shooting the signal from the bottom of the IR blaster, doesent that seem odd?

The below text is directly from the setup instructions:

Install the IR transmitter (blaster) at your set top box: Attach the
end of the IR transmitter over the remote sensor on the set top box to be
controlled. Placement of the IR transmitter is important! The IR
transmitter only works over a 1 inch distance, so you need to make
sure it is placed over the remote sensor in your set top box

It just seems strange that they want you to place it DIRECTLY on the sensor.

Before doing so, I just wanted to get some opinions.

Hello, I realize this is unlikely, however, I figure I'd throw it out there. I love NextPVR, It is really great software. I am blind and I do watch TV even some programs are actually described. here is an example so you know what I am talking about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT5AsjzgIC4

Currently, I use NextPVR combined with Kodi (The wonderful developer Ruuk created a Kodi text to speech addon for Kodi that works really well.) Also I find NEWA to be very usable.

My wishlist is that there be a way to use NextPVR itself with text to speech software, Such as SAPI. Currently I can configure it and as I said NEWA is very handy. The only thing that seems to be missing is the program itself. I would love to see that happen someday.

Anyways, Thank you for the great program and all the time and effort you have put into it.

Hello.
This is very Strange.
My set top box is able to scan and pick up TV channels in the new apartment, but when I try to connect the digital tv antenna to the kaiser baas USB TV stick and use NTPR to scan for channels, it doesn't find any channels whatsoever. I've even tried telling it to scan all regions and I'm still not getting anything.
How is it that I'm still not able to scan for the channels using my TV card, but if I reconnect the aerial to the set top box, It's able to work? is this a Nextpvr limitation?

Hi All,
I am in need of some help, and, I figured that a good place to start would be here. I will try to keep this as short and as “to the point” that I can.

I just recently purchased a Happauge 1200 PVR for my windows machine (see my windows specs at the end of this post).

Before continuing, the only reason I have this unit is to schedule TV programs to record (by using the included IR Blaster and software called “WinTV scheduler” to change channels on my DirectTV box).

The device records incredibly well, but, the software that comes with this thing leaves little to be desired.
For example, if I schedule a program from 9:00am to 10:00am, and, the next program should start at 10:00am, it never does. It will also sometimes randomly just say that the device is in use and cannot record, and, last, but not least, the scheduler relies on Titan TV. NEVER in my life have I experienced something as awful as Titan TV. By the time the web page loads, I am ready to gouge my eyes out. Also, when the included software saves my recordings out, it doesn’t give me an option to set the parameters of the name. (For example, the show name, the show title, the date,..etc…etc..)

So, all in all, the hardware is good, but, the software sucks…………..bad……… 

I have been googling about different software now for days. There are 3 pieces of software that I found. 1 is SageTV and the other is MythTV and one more called Next PVR.

Sage TV seems to no longer exist? When I go to their website I just see a write up about it, but, no links or downloads. I did manage to find some downloads for Sage, but, there are a number of links. Links for a server, links for a client,….etc….etc… So, one of my questions here, is, will SageTV be way more than I am looking for ?

MythTV appears to be for Linux only, and, I didn’t really start reading too much into the NextPVR software, which brings me here.

I just kinda need some help here. Will NextPVR do what I want without having to use this GOD AWFUL WinTV scheduler with TitanTV?

I had a MAC at one time, and, their EyeTV software was PERFECT for what I want to do. But, it is for MAC only. :/

My setup:
Windows 7 Home Permium 64 bit, i5 processor, 16GB ram, 500gb SSD

After the last update the description only displays a few characters like "Ameri..." as in American movie bla bla.
I am using DVBGuide to extract the EPG data from the broadcast. Looking at the resulting XML-files the description data seem ok.

Is there a setting I haven't found or is there a bug somewhere?

I just got around to upgrading to the latest version of nextpvr. Everything works great except the trailers plugin. I tried downloading to latest version of trailers and still nothing. I need to get a screen grab of the errors so i can be more accurate but the first issue say something about a missing hexadecimal character. Then once i clear that i get that i cannot access the apple thing because it is already in use. Im sure its simple, well i hope at least.

every time I hit the download button both the blue button and from the menu bar it brings me to the forum - is there a glitche.
thanks in advance

Irene

oops fixed..

I installed NextPVR, it reconized mu TV-card and scanned my channels.
To view, i read the suggestion to install MPEG2 decoders, so i installed Cyberlink 11 and the recommended SAF codecs pack.

But again, even after a restart en reinstall, in settings a can only choose the LAV video decoder (which crashed) and the PDR MPEG muxer (which give a blank screen).

So i know i have to install extra decoders. I have done that, but i can't select them.
What do i wrong?

Hi all,

I've had a cursory search and didn't find an answer, but forgive me if I missed something obvious!

I'm trying to set up some timed recurring recordings, and don't appear to have the ability to set a directory for them. I have directories configured, and when I press Record from the EPG it shows me them; but in the man-rec window the option isn't there. Is this by design, or have I missed a feature I can enable?

Thanks,

-Dave