Sorry for the longish post (my first here!). I've done a lot of searching on the forum but I haven't found a post that mirrors the problem I'm experiencing.
I'm pretty new to NPVR, having used it only for the past 2-3 months. It replaces my longtime PVR -- SageTV -- to record and serve TV, mostly sports broadcasts. TV is provided by way of a digital Charter Cable box. After a bit of learning and configuration, I configured NPVR to work perfectly as a replacement to SageTV. The only difference is I now use Schedules Direct instead of Sage's guide service. My system's key components consisted of an Intel e5200 processor, Win 10 Release Preview, a Hauppauge Colossus, an ASUS PQ5 Pro, and a 500 gb HDD used for temporary storage of the recorded TV videos. Once configured, this system worked great and I consequently suffered no SageTV seller's remorse. :-)
Last week, I migrated the Colossus capture card and the 500 gb hard drive to a similarly-aged but different PC. Its key components are an AMD Athlon64 x2 processor on a Gigabyte motherboard running Win 10 Release Preview. I saved the database and configuration files from the first computer. After installing Hauppauge's WinTV 8 and setting up the IR blaster software (all things Hauppauge -- Live TV, recording, channel changing are working perfectly), I then installed NPVR, immediately closed it and stopped the recording service, then copied my saved database and configuration files. In most respects, NPVR now functions as it did on the Intel PC - that is to say Schedules Direct and the guide work, I can record TV and play it back via NPVR (or any other video player) and serve it via Mezzo across my network to my TV via a Sony Blu-Ray player.
The exceptions (functions that aren't working) however are:
1: NPVR will not change the Motorola DCX3200 channels via the IR Blaster whether watching live TV or when attempting a pending recording;
2. No mouse menu control (play, pause, change channel up, change channel down, etc.) works when watching LiveTV or when paying back a recording.
I'm suspicious that issue 2 may actually be the crux. Could there be a video core component missing that's necessary for the overlay menu to work? One key distinction between the AMD computer and the Intel one is that the AMD was a clean Windows 10 installation back in Dec 2015 to an SSD using MS Media Creation Tool. The previous computer was upgraded over the years from Windows 7, 8, 8.1, (including Media Center) and finally to Windows 10 as the consumer reviews were released. Once NPVR installed, I initially received a message about missing DirectX components. I downloaded and updated all DX components. That seemed to placate NPVR. I've subsequently uninstalled and reinstalled NPVR a couple times.
I've found no instance among forum posts where the NPVR control overlay menu was reported not to function. Neither have I seen a post about IR Blaster dysfunction when the WinTV and the Hauppauge Blaster worked perfectly to change channels. So there it is! Anyone have a experience with such a thing?
Attached are the log files. I reinstalled NPVR, went straight to LiveTV, attempted a channel change up and down, and saved the log files.
Would be great to have a Android TV and/or an iOS App....every corner I turn still brings me back to NextPVR as my bank end but lets face it...with the advent of our clients now being devices like a Nexus Player, Apple TV, iPhone, Android Phone etc. it really would be great to have a native app to connect to the NextPVR server.
I was a GBPVR user a long time ago and I'm so happy I can come back to it now that there is Kodi integration, but going without comskip is frustrating.
Would it be possible to add an option for the nextpvr client to provide the local filepath to kodi instead of the http stream? That way we can just add a simple path substitution like people do with X-NEWA.
I have scanned the digital TV channels and one entire provider (SBS) has not been picked up. In my Leadtek software there were various levels of scanning and after mucking about I managed to get SBS included in the channel list.
So I am wondering if there is a way to tweak scanning to grab problem channels.
Hi. I was using Winfast software for my Leadtek cards, but there seems to be a limited ability to schedule multiple recordings of a given show, based on the Guide. Windows Media Centre has the scheme I am looking for, but will not find the Guide at all. So I found out about NPVR and it looks as if it can "see ahead" in the Guide, which leads me to feel that I should be able to schedule recordings of shows well ahead.
Has anyone used directv.pl and activeperl and made it work with NPVR?
AND if so, how did you do it?
Someone had written a Windows program for GBPVR, but as I didn't have a login for their forums I can not get to it.
I'm moving to NPVR for my recording, which I have everything set - I think - but I need to have the PC directly change channels. The IRD doesn't use the standard IR commands (I had to change them) as there are 2 receivers in the room, so I needed to make sure they didn't "interact".
Sometimes NPVR does not successfully record an episode, but thinks it has.
1. NPVR was only recording the first few seconds of shows. It turned out to be because HD was full due to lots of orphaned .ts files.
2. Often NPVR will think an episode has recorded but it really hasn't because of a bad signal from antenna.
I had the option "Avoid duplicate recordings where possible" selected in setup. It looks like NPVR keeps a database of all episodes recorded - even after deleting them. So you can't re-record an episode. Normally that is ok except in the case of not-recorded-but-NPVR-thinks-it's-recorded episodes. If you un-check this setting, you can re-record an episode but you might end up with multiple copies. For example, PBS shows the same episodes of my daughter's favorite shows in the mornings and afternoons.
So my question is: Is there a setting that will allow the recording of ANY episode EXCEPT if it exists on disk?
I have always been a fan of 'it is aint broke, don't fix it'.
Well, I am not sure if my install of 3.2.9 finally needs updating, since for some time now, Channel 9 here in Sydney, is not showing any DVB EPG data, whereas there isn't a problem with the other free to airs. A search of the forums didn't really help, partly because searching to 'epg' has too few letters. Nothing untoward appears in NRecord.log, and not surprisingly, Channels, 7, 10 , ABC and SBS are all present, but nothing shows for channel 9.
Prior to moving to 3.6.6 (that will probably out of date soon too), can anyone confirm if updating NextPVR will resolve my EPG problem? Or have I inadvertently changed a setting?
I am running on a Pentium Dual Core E5400 2.70 GHz with 2GB RAM and Windows 7 32 bit, so this is getting old. Will 3.6.6 additional resources that my old media-centre may no longer be able to handle?
So I am migrating from a Win7/WMC to WinX/Kodi/NextPVR setup, so fresh installs of everything. However, I can't get the EPG (from schedules direct) to populate correctly. It is fully populated (unlike other recent posts), but all the listed shows are wrong. I have tried my zip code (78240) and neighboring zip codes to no avail.
I contacted Schedules Direct (email exchange below) and they believe it is something in NextPVR. I have attached my logs.
Any advice or suggestions are much appreciated.
Thank you.
-Raife
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On Sun May 22 22:30:19 2016, ABCXYZ@hotmail.com wrote:
> I recently sent up NextPVR for 78240. I am trying Schedules Direct
> on trial. I am getting my TV through an over the air antenna. I
> have 6 channels in my lineup, 4.1, 5.1, 9.1, 12.1, 29.1, 35.1. Om
> 5/22/16 t 9:22pm all the listings were wrong. 4.1 EPG showing Spurs
> Nation, actually Dateline
This is the raw JSON that would have been sent to NextPVR:
{
"startTime": "2016-05-23T02:00Z",
"endTime": "2016-05-23T03:00Z",
"duration": 60,
"qualifiers": ["CC", "HDTV", "Letterbox", "New", "Stereo"],
"program": {
"tmsId": "EP000191552889",
"rootId": "12911060",
"seriesId": "184061",
"subType": "Series",
"title": "Dateline NBC",
"episodeTitle": "After the Party",
"releaseYear": 2016,
"releaseDate": "2016-05-22",
"origAirDate": "2016-05-22",
"titleLang": "en",
"descriptionLang": "en",
"entityType": "Episode",
"genres": ["Newsmagazine"],
"longDescription": "Four years after a 28-year-old dies after hosting a New Year's Eve party, a jury must decide if it was suicide or murder.",
"shortDescription": "Four years after a 28-year-year old's death, a jury must decide if it was suicide or murder.",
"episodeNum": 46,
"seasonNum": 24,
"topCast": ["Lester Holt", "Keith Morrison", "Josh Mankiewicz"],
"ratings": [{
"body": "USA Parental Rating",
"code": "TVPG"
}],
"preferredImage": {
"width": "240",
"height": "360",
"uri": "assets/p184061_b_v5_ac.jpg",
"category": "Banner-L1",
"text": "yes",
"primary": "true",
"tier": "Series"
}
},
"station": {
"stationId": "30606",
"callSign": "WOAIDT",
"affiliateCallSign": "NBC",
"affiliateId": "10991",
"preferredImage": {
"width": "360",
"height": "270",
"uri": "h3/NowShowing/28717/s28717_h3_aa.png",
"category": "Logo",
"primary": "true"
}
}
}
If that seems accurate, then we know it's NextPVR or a configuration issue.
> I am concerned I will lose my trial period awaiting an answer...
We extend trial periods all of the time during troubleshooting, so don't worry about the trial period if we're actively working on things.
Have you posted a message to the NextPVR Support Forum?
If you work with sub and figure things out then respond to this ticket once your issue is resolved and I will extend your trial so that you get a full week of "real" listings.
