Hi, I'm new here, but been using NextPVR for year or more and love it. Recently, for some odd reason, my scheduled recordings weren't showing up. Then I noticed the TV guide is also gone (I see my channel line up, but no programs). I'm using Schedules Direct and have an active subscription. I don't know what's going on, any ideas?
I'd appreciate the help
I noticed today that if I press ctrl-k on the client machine while watching LiveTV, I get the "Recording..." message but no recording file is created. Going further, I cannot schedule anything to be recorded from the client. Usually the TV Guide entry changes to red when it is to be recorded but now nothing happens. Everything works just fine on the server.
Logs are attached and the relevant section is at the beginning of NRecord.log.
When I enable the closed captions in kodi (enable subtitles), the closed captioning works great. However, the text is center-justified. It is extremely difficult to read when center justified because the lines grow outward from the center as it is fed to the screen--it is very annoying and difficult to read.
How can we force the text to be left-justified like conventional TVs and set-top boxes do?
I recently installed (fist install) nextPVR on a vista machine I have. The install completed ok. I was able to go through and get all the ATSC stations configured. However when trying to watch live TV I got the message "Unexpected socket exception calling StartStream(): System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8968".
From what I read in the Forums there should be a windows backend service called 'NPVR' that handles the ability to watch live tv. So I went to look for the service, there was no service installed. I verified this using the NPVRServiceControl app. It also stated that the service was not installed.
Is there any way for me to install just the service without having to reinstall nextpvr? I also dont want to lose all the work I have done from the tuner config side.
This one has me wondering how can something work when it does not have anything to work with? I have two Silicone Dust HD Homerun connect units. So I should have four tuners. After a scan for channels in NextPVR, I come up with no sources for one of the PBS channels. This can be seen from the enclosed screen shot by the arrow. Channel shows up in the channel list. Tower is only 8 miles away so that is not the problem. If I go to the guide and attempt to set this channel (21.1) to record, I get an error message "No tuner is available to record the requested show." No tuners are in use at this time. But, if I want to watch the channel it plays without any problem. How can it play when there is not tuner or source for it???
Rescans don't fix the problem.
Ideas?
I've set up Npvr and Kodi in my new home, and I've tried for days to get Npvr to write the files to my Freenas Server. I've got the server set up, and I can manually write files, so the Windows 10 machine has permission to write, in my experience, this is the test for making sure things are working. However, I cannot seem to get Npvr to write files to it. I'm enjoying the setup overall, except that I only have 32G free on my SSD, and it fills up quick and starts to fail.
Not sure what background info would help....so here it is.
Posted by: Elmo Putney - 2016-04-14, 09:58 AM - Forum: Wishlist
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Came back from hols and a week later some of the wifes recordings started failing - I checked live TV and there was nothing there, they were Sat channels that had moved to different transponders.
Would it be possible to have a nightly or weekly "self check" where NPVR cycles through each channel and each tuner with the channel mapped to it to (if idle of course) to see if any data gets delivered and perhaps issue a warning of some sort if no data was delivered.
I know this would not catch a channel that moves onto an existing mapped frequency but for my purposes it would highlight 99% of any lineup changes, tuner issues or antenna/dish issues that occur - or if a channel goes encrypted.
I have a HTPC running Windows 7 Pro, Kodi, NextPVR and Silicon Dust HDHR3 as the tuner. I really like the setup and it is working great with one exception. I am trying to record the show Woodsmith Shop which shows locally on a PBS station sub channel. The show appears to record, shows up in the listing of recorded shows, and when I start to play the show is shows that some 33+ minutes have been recorded. However when the playback gets to the actual start of the show, the time jumps ahead to 32 minutes and none of the actual show is shown. When looking at the file sizes on the disk it is apparent that the show did not record, just the extra time before and after the show. I can however record the show on a Channel Master PAL7000 that I also have.
Any thoughts of a video add-in instead of a pvr add-in? I get the sense (haven't dug into the api) that the pvr add-in interface is somewhat limited and being a video add-in leaves you to do as you please. I know this is the direction SD went.
I have a Pinnacle PCTV Dual Hybrid Pro PCI Express. Everything ran smooth under Win 7. Then I decided to migrate to Win 10. Since then I no longer receive any TV channel. Driver of the TV card seems to be found by Windows. But no channels. I've made a new channels search.
