As others have noted, Cox has decided to go all digital which means I had to disable my USB tuners leaving me only my HDHomeRun Prime cable card tuner. Some of the channels on the USB tuners overlapped the HDHR so I had a couple of channels that showed 5 sources with the rest of the cable card only channels showing 3 sources.
I restarted and emptied the EPG then reloaded but I still see in the "channels" page those channels still show 5 sources. I'm assuming I need to get the old overlapped channels back to 3 sources but I can't figure it out.
I tried searching and the wiki but didn't find anything. Can someone help me out please.
I have a HDHomerun 2 tuner ATSC box on my network. The software found it and let me scan it and the first thing I noticed was that the channels all said they were SD, where I was expecting HD on a lot of them. The next problem was when I tried to watch TV live and it flashes some message to the screen so fast that I can't read it, and I don't get any TV. I did create the C:\Temp directory that the first error gave me, that one was a bit easier to read.
I would be willing to donate via paypal if I can get this software to do the job that Microsoft use to do before they took it away in Windows 10.
I own a license for PlayonTV, and while it is very good in many ways, it will not record from my HDHomeRun, and I have a very steady and beautiful picture from a tower mounted high gain yagi. I am a Ham Radio operator and I have a tower next to my home. That makes having a good spot for a TV antenna no problem. I use to use a rotator on the TV antenna, but I found that there is one position that gets the far stations well, and the strong stations I get pointing ion any direction, so it all works out. The coax is RG6 and it goes to a 4 way amplified splitter in the attic, and that feeds 4 TV's, with my HDHomerun being one of them.
I will look more inot the software after I hear back from whatever anyone will tell me from this first post.
I did try to search the forum for HDHomeRUn, but I either did it wrong, or it did not find anything and I did it right.
When I click on Live TV, it now flashes "Please Wait" to the screen and nothing happens.
This could be great news for those of us using NPVR in the US. My service is now going over to scrambled digital, so my tuners will become useless. Don't have any options other than renting cable boxes or buying new cable card tuners. Looking at cutting the cord and going to Broadcast and Internet connections. This may be the answer for me.
Just a big thank you to Sub and all that work on this project. I have been using NPVR successfully with 2 HVR-1600s (for OTA) and a HDPVR2 (for a cable STB). I use Comskip to process the recordings and use Kodi as a front-end (but use it to launch NPVR through its Advanced Launcher plug-in because I prefer the NPVR interface). I use the SearchLite plug-in and get my EPG info from Schedules Direct. After using BTV4 for over a decade I have become a NPVR convert.
However, my HVR-1600s were getting quite old and I had started to notice some reception problems with them (even though I have very good signal reception). I became interested in networked tuners and purchased a HDHomerun EXTEND. The installation went without a hitch - NPVR recognized the tuners and I was able to import the HVR-1600's channel lineup over to the HDHomerun quickly and easily. The whole installation took about 20 minutes!
Again to Sub and the team Bravo on excellent work!
i occasionally get an "unexpected error" Kodi popup when trying to record a programme either via the EPG or the OSD. i have 5 tuners in total, a quad DVB -s PCIe and that has the majority of my channels and a USB DVB t that has one or 2 channels.
I can watch live TV fine on all 4 tuners e.g i have run 4 kodi instances at the same time on different channels (& Multiplexes) an i can see that each tuner is being used by viewing the nextPVR status in the toolbar. Trying to record from one of the clients (that doesn't have the backend on it) still doesn't work, although no error message is produced (RPI open Elec 6), my main HTPC runs windows and the NEXTPVR and KODI RC1
This doesn't happen all the time, in fact I've only seen this happen 2 or 3 times in the last 2 months, mostly after i have rebooted the backend, i've included both NextPVR logs and Kodi
from kodi log-
Code:
12:19:34 T:6484 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting include
12:19:50 T:3844 ERROR: Previous line repeats 1 times.
12:19:50 T:3844 ERROR: PVR - PVR::CPVRClient::AddTimer - addon '127.0.0.1:connected' returned an error: the command failed
12:19:50 T:3844 ERROR: PVR - PVR::CPVRClients::AddTimer - cannot add timer to client '800': the command failed
12:19:56 T:3844 ERROR: PVR - PVR::CPVRClient::AddTimer - addon '127.0.0.1:connected' returned an error: the command failed
12:19:56 T:3844 ERROR: PVR - PVR::CPVRClients::AddTimer - cannot add timer to client '800': the command failed
12:20:02 T:3844 ERROR: Unable to activate the previous window
12:20:17 T:5668 ERROR: CAESinkDirectSound::UpdateCacheStatus: GetCurrentPosition failed. Unable to determine buffer status. HRESULT = 0x88780096
12:20:17 T:5668 ERROR: CActiveAESink::OutputSamples - sink returned error
restarting the recording service, doesnt work either, However i can record using the NextPVR client, hope someone can help!
Hey, everyone ---- perhaps someone with more knowledge than I can solve this problem...
I just purchased an brand new, old stock Avermedia M791-B still sealed in it's box for like $8 on ebay --- couldn't pass that up
A couple questions ----
I had an old Avermedia M791-B installed in a Windows Media Center Box, and I was able to get FM radio on this card.
Why can I not get FM radio on this card via the NextPvr application --- I can get FM radio on a Mygica hybrid dongle, but not this card -- (I did modify the "Analog.xml" file as per instructions on this forum) --- I scan the tuner, and it comes up with a few analog signals (nothing on those NTSC signals, but that's to be expected) -- but no FM channels were tuned.
I then tried to manually enter the frequency under the 'Add FM" button --- no luck, just static. I then tried to import the stations the Mygica hybrid dongle picked up, no luck, just more static.
Is there a way to get the FM radio to work on this card ?
Second, I know this card has 'hardware MPEG2 encoding' ---that's why I picked this card up, hoping to relieve some of the encoding burden on the CPU (there are 5 other tuners on this box) ---- but does the card only hardware encode the analog signals, or does it also hardware encode the digital ATSC signals as well ?
Or, in layman's terms, why isn't the Original Air Date data for program listings in NextPVR's EPG database being transmitted over to the Kodi/XBMC client?
I rely heavily on being able to see the original air date of programs, to the point that I've modified Kodi's Confluence skin to be able to display it in its PVR Guide Info Dialog. However, at the moment it only displays the epoch date for all programs. I know that NextPVR is successfully reading that data from the XMLTV file because I've also modified NextPVR's skin to also display the original air date of programs in its Event Listing Popup.
I've brought up this issue before in the Kodi/XBMC forum: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...n-Kodi-EPG
However, since it received no attention, I decided to take the matter into my own hands, and look through the code for NextPVR's Kodi/XBMC client until I found the problem, and then bring it up again in this forum to ensure that it gets properly fixed.
I finally found the reason for the issue on line 497 (as of the time of this post) of pvrclient-nextpvr.cpp: https://github.com/kodi-pvr/pvr.nextpvr/...extpvr.cpp
Specifically, within the cPVRClientNextPVR::GetEpg function, the firstAired property of the EPG_TAG broadcast variable is being set to zero before being passed onto Kodi via the PVR->TransferEpgEntry function, which explains why it is displayed as the epoch date in my modification of Kodi's Confluence Skin.
How much work would it take to implement this feature now and properly set the Original Air Date field in the Kodi/XMBC client?
Is it just a matter of modifying the front-end client plugin to read the parse the date string and convert it into seconds since the epoch, or does the back-end also have to be modified to transmit the Original Air Date data in the first place?
For that matter, if it's not too much work, could the corresponding data for the other unset properties of the EPG_TAG broadcast variable also be transmitted from NextPVR's EPG Database and set in the client if the data is available from the XMLTV file?
I ask because in the process of learning how to modify the Kodi/XBMC Confluence Skin to display the Original Air Date, I also learned that several of the currently unset EPG_TAG properties can also be displayed in Kodi/XBMC skins. By coding these properties to be transmitted and properly set in the client, you could avoid further complaints from those who code and use Kodi/XBMC skins designed to display this data.
At the very least, could you please code the Original Air Date data to be transmitted and set in the Kodi/XBMC plugin? This data is often available for most program listings in a typical XMLTV file, and I would appreciate being able to have access to it in Kodi, and I thank you very much in advance for taking the time to improve the NextPVR plugin for Kodi/XBMC.
After all, with Kodi version 16 Jarvis about to be officially released, it seems like a good time to be updating and improving the plugin anyway, so I'm hoping that you'll add this improvement to it, and I once again thank you in advance for doing so.
Cox finally killed QAM so I've hooked up a good antenna and the Hauppage USB device finds channels just fine. The HDHomeRun Extend can detect all the same channels in it's app but NPVR doesn't.
I've attached the logs but don't understand what this means:
Quote:StartStream Exception: System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
at Native.DigitalRecorderBase.LockChannel(Int32* locked, Int32* present, Int32* strength, Int32* quality)
at Native.DigitalRecorderBase.Run(String& message)
at NShared.DigitalRecorder.StartStream(ChannelMapping channelMapping, String target, String& reason)
at NDigitalHost.RecorderRemote.StartStream(ChannelMapping channelMapping, String target, String& reason)
I've reset the device, rebooted, checked the firewall and all the usual but must have missed something. Help appreciated.
Also, any reason why a few of the stations don't even show a full day of guide data? Most show 3 days but 2 only show 6 hours of guide data. This DTV stuff is new to me so maybe that's the way it's supposed to be.
Not really NPVR related... but which tools do people use here to edit recordings: trim front/back and remove ads? I don't need much more editing than that, so are there any simple tools for this?
