I trashed my scheduled Recordings table. I was trying to manually change the filename and description in event_details for the Saturday night live special about Prince since the EPG had the wrong data for a repeat episode that was originally scheduled.
I used SQLLite2000Pro to try and update it interactively but the changes wouldn't stick, so I wrote a SQL UPDATE command to update the table, but I was too quick and forgot to add the WHERE OID = nnn clause. So as you may guess, all 3521 entries now point to that same recording with the same event details.
I have a backup of the database from October 2015, so I can write a program to match up OIDs and fix all the entries older than that. The newer entries are almost all in the season/episode format, so I was hoping that with a list of all the files in the recordings directory I can figure out the program logic to update the filenames for the remaining bad entries.
So the last piece of the puzzle is update the event_details field for those. Is there any description of what needs to be in that field or hopefully some way to grab info from THETVDB.COM and build the XML from that? I should be able to parse the program name, season and episode from the filenames of the videos.
Periodically, my provider will offer a free preview weekend of one or more of the premier channels, like HBO, Cinemax, Showtime, etc.
So, I add them to my line up on the SchedulesDirect web site, update my EPG to get them in the my XML file, import them to the appropriate device (HDPVR for HBO & Cinemax, Ceton tuners for the others) and update the EPG again. At this point, I can schedule & record to my hearts content.
Then, the weekend comes to a close. I remove the channels from my SchdulesDirect line-up on their web site. At this point, should I delete the channels from the settings for the device(s) in the Device tab or from the Channels tab? Does it matter?
Note, as indicated in my sig below, I use mc2xml to create an XML from the data on ScheduleDirect since I pre-process it before feeding it to NPVR.
Does Ceton My Media Center phone app work with NextPVR? I use it all the time to add or change my programming for my Silicon Dust HDHomerun tuner. I was thinking of making the switch to Next since no media center in windows 10 :eek:. I just wondered if the Ceton app would still work or is there something like it that I could use on my phone (android) for Next? Thanks a ton for any response! Just trying to get my ducks in a row before making the switch.
Well, first attempt to post crashed so I will try again.
I liked the Dish app that would allow me to set a recording when I could not get home in time for something. I have and can connect to the iNEWA program on my phone but with a problem. If I have the phone wifi to my local network on and use a browser with my actual IP address, I can log in and do most any operation there is. But, if I turn off the wifi and go to my phone data provider(AT&T)I have a problem. I can log in and connect to the iNEWA mobile but nothing will work. Click on the guide and a loading message shows for a long time. Then a message >The server method "Get Epg" failed. About the same with anything I try to do will not work. The port address to the computer that run NextPVR is open (8866). That should not be the problem. Can this be something that AT&T is doing that stops this program from working??? Or ?????
I was using pretty well the schedules direct EPG for Brazil but after a while I saw some channels missing and tried the XBOX Oneguide. It's great for my country and everything is working great here except the artwork.
If I got it right nextpvr is not storing the fanart links on it's database from the xml file. It's using the artwork services configured in the settings.
The problem is that most of what is returning is not right. It's returning movie covers for regular News programs and so on.
My question is. There's something diferente that can be done? Or can a plugin be developed to show the correct images pulling form the tvguide.xml file?
when i load my next pvr an go to try to scan for channels it don,t give me that option i been trying to get this up now for 5 days an cant seem to get pass this scan part any help would be great i,m doing everything in the video step by step to no avail.
I'm looking at reducing the number of USB tuners I have connected to my NUC server by replacing a PCTV292e and Hauppauge WinTV Duet with a single Hauppauge WinTV DualHD tuner (I know this will reduce the overall number of tuners from 3 to 2):
Hopefully I posted this in the right sub-forum, if not, please move.
I have been using NPVR 3.6.6 with a Hauppauge WinTV HVR 2255, running on Windows 7 (64bit), i5-3570 with 8GB RAM. The system is left on 24/7 and is set to "sleep" after 1 hour of use.
NPVR runs well and captures appropriately about 75% of the time. I've noticed that it is having lots of problems lately and reporting that "device failed to start" when it tries to record a scheduled program. The only thing I've been able to do to solve the problem is to restart the computer nightly - this seems to let the next scheduled program record, but then stops again.
Any thoughts would be welcome. I've attached the most recent log files as requested in the "sticky"
I am running WIndows 10 Home.
My HTPC is always on and never sleeps. NextPVR is always running in the background. For the past 4 months or so I am having this problem. If I restart my PC the day before, it's ok. But if I don't restart my PC.the problem always occurs. I have NextPVR set up to automatically record all my favorite shows as scheduled when they air. However, it never records them. When I go to play them back, instead I get the message "Recording service not running at recording time". If I restarted my PC the day before they aired, then it recorded them fine the following night without a hitch. It's a crap shoot as to whether I will have my favorite shows recorded this time or not. If I restart my PC that day or the day before, higher likelihood. If I haven't restarted my PC that week, then forget about it.
If this continues, I will have to find another service. I'm really getting tired of having to babysit NextPVR and making sure that it records my shows by personally having to be there the night before and turn my pc off and back on. I'd rather pay for something that works than use something for free that only works 30% of the time. But I don't even know what is a really good stable DVR software that I could use. I don't care if it costs money. My time is worth more.
I have a Colossus 2 setup and working well for on-demand recording, but I'd like to use NPVR as my DVR. For the life of me, I cannot get the Hauppauge blaster to work with my Xfinity box. However, the Harmony Hub does a wonderful job of changing channels over the Ethernet using an App/Phone/Tablet. Is there an executable/script that lets NPVR call the Harmony Hub to change channels? I searched the NPVR forums and Internet to no avail.
since no media center in windows 10 :eek:. I just wondered if the Ceton app would still work or is there something like it that I could use on my phone (android) for Next? Thanks a ton for any response! Just trying to get my ducks in a row before making the switch. 
