I would like to be able to launch NextPVR, have it tune to a particular channel at a particular time and immediately present the video for viewing.

Many times I find myself missing a live telecast because I'm at the machine but immersed in another task. I know I can record it for later, but I'd rather not commit to watching it later. There may be no time later. Having the telecast just pop-up in front of me is appealing.

Thanks for listening.

I'm on a quest to oust Kodi from my chain of distributed house-wide TV viewing. I'm having trouble getting NPVR to reliably show Live TV with weak signals.

First some pre-amble:

My line of sight to the main DVB-T transmitter for the area is blocked by trees. It's spring and the leaves are coming in so my DVB-T signal has weakened. I used to have NPVR record DVB-T and it coped really well with drops in signal and corruption of the resulting .TS files. Live TV playback was troublesome.

Over the winter I added a DVB-S twin tuner (PCI) on UK Freesat. This gives me all the main channels for my recordings on two tuners. I kept the two USB DVB-T sticks for four more DVB-T receivers to cope with (1) When as a household we need to record three things at once and they don't share the same transponder etc on DVB-S (2) to get a few channels that are available on DVB-T and not a UK-Freesat DVB-S or otherwise legally free to air on DVB-S. For those in the UK, mainly "Dave" and "Quest". So I set my preferences and channel order so that the DVB-S tuners are used first for recordings, then DVB-T only if necessary (overflow or oddball DVB-T channels) and set my live channel preference to be reverse so that the DVB-T tuners would be used first for live stream/small time shift.

And I'm very happy with recordings. I've been using the Kodi plug ins and using Kodi on various PCs around the house to watch the recorded TV, as well as WD Live boxes that get copies of the .TS files where I don't want a PC next to a TV.

Kodi can "call up" a live TV stream via NPVR and it sort of nearly works. Streams play for a few minutes then there is a click-crunch-pause-blip and then the stream continues.

But NPVR natively does something different. Logs included...

In this log from a client to an NPVR server called "DVB-S" (but including the DVB-T tuners just to confuse you!):

* I allow the remote client to start up and grab a whole pile of stuff
* I right click and use the channel selector to pick Channel 1 - BBCNE&C - a good strong signal on DVB-T
* After quite a while (understandable) the channel is tuned and begins to stream.
* I change channel (on the fly) to 2 - BBC Two
* This fails and I have a blank screen
* I choose stop
* I use the channel selector to tune to 2 - BBC Two
* This time it succeeds
* I am able to stop playback of the live stream
* Then I tune to Dave - a weaker DVB-T channel
* It plays for a short while then I see tell-tale mosaic-ing of the picture
* Rather interestingly - in the debug window (which I had on in case it helped), the playback position became a massive negative number but the file extent (in time) continued to progress
* I was able to press stop without a crash
* Then I use the channel selector to pick QUEST which is the weakest signal I can receive
* I get a few frames, debiug shows the massive negative position and playback stops
* I press stop then exit NPVR

Now here's my sort of question and thinking...

Does the playback engine in Kodi for .TS files handle over-running the end of the file/stream more gracefully than that in NPVR? I could see how with my dodgy recordings or "trick play" like pausing and fast forwarding and rewinding that there could be circumstances where my "playback position" would not correspond with availability of stream or file to playback? When nearing the end of the stream/file does Kodi kind of pause or slow down to see if more appears (true end). Does the NPVR engine just see that the playback position (presumably "clocked" from local time) is beyond the timestamp for the end of the data and end?

I see odd behaviour with dodgy recordings with my WD Live boxes, especially in "trick play" like pausing, fast forward and rewind - the progress bar blips back and forth and sections repeat over and over again, like the WD Live box is periodically trying to resolve "clock time" with "playback position" with "file-sequence time".

I guess that advice is going to be to run more cable from the satellite dish, find a PC with more PCI slots and add more tuners on DVB-S for live playback and give up on some channels that are DVB-T only and watch their catch-up web-streams instead. But if you have insight into the way that NPVR plays back TS files/streams then that would also be great - in particular what is the significance of the massive negative number in the debug window when the end of file/stream seems to be over-run. Investigating this might lead to improved "trick play" in live streams and make NPVR time shifting even on "clean" files even better.

Thanks in advance.

I use NextPVR to stream from AppleTV apps in the form of http://IP:PORT/transcode?channel=600&res...k&client=1

It works great but... Buffer file gets created in the Buffer File directory, and ffmpeg transcoded file is created in the Recorded TV directory. Since both are temp files, I think it would be a better idea to get then both on the temp buffer size. But anyway... my problem is the ffmpeg transcoded ts file does not get deleted once the connection is closed. Is there any script I can use or setting I can adjust to force an auto cleanup?

Problem number 2 (since it has to do with streaming I though I'd use the same post): I need to restart the Recording Service after a couple of streaming calls. It just stops responding. Any help?

Hello,
I would like to start by saying I have been using Nextpvr for about 7 months with a single hd pvr2 gaming edition and it has been awesome. This is my first post to the forum. I just bought a new hd pvr2 GE and can not record or watch live tv with the second unit plugged in. I can unplug either unit and everything works, so both units work independently but not together. I have attached a snippet from the log. I have installed the latest driver from the Hauppauge support site. Any help or pointers would be most appreciated.

I've dug around the program and searched around online and some people mentioned that Kodi 16 would include this support, but I can't find it. Currently I have to open NextPVR to schedule a recurring recording instead.

I know I can manually set up a schedule in Kodi, but I'm more looking for the ordinary DVR functionality that NextPVR has where it automatically knows which episodes are new, and only records new episodes. Is that there in Kodi somewhere that I'm missing?

Hi all, I've walked through the steps of configuring NextPVR + Kodi and things are working well! Recordings, EPG sharing, recurring recordings, etc.

However, in my area (Seattle, WA, USA) some channels only get programming data for a couple of days out. If I miss an EPG update, it means that I miss a recurring recording.

When I click "Update EPG" in the Channels settings page, it works great. Takes a while, maybe 5-10 minutes, but when it's done all the EPG data that I need is there. But when I wait for the scheduled time, I never actually see anything happen.

I tried a few times setting the scheduled time to a couple minutes out, clicking OK, and waiting, but nothing happened. Tried both with NextPVR running and not running.


One obvious reason could be that I haven't done any configuration of a batch file at all, but I thought it should still work since I'm just doing OTA and not XML-based updates - is that incorrect understanding on my part?

I've included logs. I tried once with the timer set to 5:43PM and once a little earlier, didn't work either time. Then around 6:10-ish I did a manual update and it worked great.


Thanks for your assistance!

Hardware:
Intel NUC DCP847DYE with 8GB
HDHomerun Prime
Sony STR DH-520
LG 55LM6700

Software:
Windows 8.1
Kodi Jarvis 16.1
NextPVR 3.6.6

NextPVR properly plays and records live tv as well as playing back recordings - that is both video and sound are present. Kodi now only displays video, no sound (on Sunday it did both) for both live tv and recordings.

I have NPVR running on my laptop, using HDHomerun tuner. This is working well.

I have kodi running on my android phone on the same network and am able to access livetv and recordings fine.

Now for the problem. I have kodi running on a minimx box (android 5.1) but it is on a different router on a different subnet. I get the signal lost message over and over. Since Kodi on my phone is working fine, I believe the problem is because the minimx box is on a different subnet. Is there any way that I can get to my NPVR server from one subnet to another subnet?

When playing from my HDHomrun Prime, my video stops after a while then starts back up after around a min. It doesn't seem to do it with recordings and Its probably something simple but I cant quite figure it out. Can anyone give me more info on what it could be. Hopefully I did the log files right. Thanks

Mainly posting this here for future reference for myself and obviously to help anyone else that might stumble upon the same issue I had.

I recently had to rebuild my NextPVR server, and in doing that I decided to add a second Colossus card as well as a second Dish Network HD receiver. And that is where the fun began. How Hauppauge hasn't figured out how to address more than one capture card for their IR blasting still remains a mystery to me, but no worries. Doing a quick google search, I came upon this most excellent write-up IR Server Suite (IRSS) Channel Changer Guide. Most excellent work by BTJustice for sure, so thanks. I had a spare MCE receiver/blaster lying around, so off I went to get two functioning colossus cards complete with IR control.

Where I would add my little portion to this already excellent guide is this:

1: After installing IRSS and checking that it does recognize the IR receiver/blaster you are wanting to use, immediately restart your computer. This threw me off for quite a long time because Translator would not work at all. I saw a few references in my search of Translator "failing to learn IR" immediately, and this was the case with me. Restarting fixed all of these issues. I also used the most recent IRSS download that I could find, so no issues with the version as far as I could tell.

2: This definitely applies to Dish Network receivers (possibly others as well), and was something I just happened to remember from my SageTV days: Dish Network IR codes are multiples. So, when in Translator and learning a new digit, press the button in twice in quick succession. This gets both of the IR hex codes learned.

3: Test each digit with Translator after entering it. Yeah, this was something that I failed to do initially, so my IR was failing. Once I tested each button, I figured out which ones weren't working and got it all sorted out.

4: I did quite a bit of enabling/disabling colossus cards in the NextPVR settings while going through this. I'd recommend a restart of the system every time after making changes to this. Things kept getting strange when I wouldn't restart, so once I decided to add this step, I could keep track of where I was failing much easier.

All in all, I only scratched my head in disbelief a few times during the few hours I spent getting this sorted out. You have a super nice piece of software here Sub, and I'm rather grateful to be using it right now.