I have set up npvr to work with my Hauppauge hvr-2250 (listed the wrong card in the title, sorry)dual tuner card (win 7 64bit, antenna). For devices, it finds both analog tuners (#1 and #2), both QAM tuners (#1 and #2), but only one atsc tuner. NPVR sees the second (#2) tuner , but thinks it is a qam tuner. Therefore, I can't scan for atsc channels on it. So I can't record two shows at once (error - no tuner available). Both atsc tuners are id'd on Windows Media Center and can be used to record two shows at the same time. I've searched the forums and can't find any help for this problem. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I believe I've attached the logs if that is any help.
The HDHR Extend has a variety of settings for the level of transcoding it applies to the ATSC MPEG2 stream in order to provide h.264. I have it set to "mobile" because that generally offers the best compromise between quality and recording file size. However, there are certain shows I record mostly for building a library (syndicated sitcoms etc), and I'm willing to sacrifice more quality for a smaller file size. I can always transcode later, but that defeats the purpose of buying the HDHR Extend in the first place!
So, my question is: for any given NPVR scheduled recording, is there a way to pass the quality setting to the HDHR device?
I've been having an issue where occasionally, X-NEWA playback of show recordings wasn't loading the .edl data into the Kodi player. It didn't happen too often, and I'd never tracked down the reason. But tonight, I had a little time so I took a closer look.
It appears that when a show's name/title ends with a period ("Chicago P.D."), the recording folder that NextPVR creates does not have the period at the end ("E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D\" instead of "E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D.\"). But, the row in the SCHEDULED_RECORDINGS table lists the filename with period at the end ("E:\NPVR Recordings2\Chicago P.D.\Chicago P.D..S03E16.The Cases That Need to Be Solved.ts").
When X-NEWA tries to use the path substitution to open the recording file via Samba (and get the .edl file), it fails to find the file because the folder name in the share doesn't match the folder name in the database. So then it falls back to requesting the file via HTTP streaming by OID. NextPVR on the server somehow manages to find the file and stream it, so Kodi does end up playing the file--just without the .edl data. :eek:
Looks like NPVR recording services may have stopped this past Thursday morning. But none of the shows that failed to record (Thursday or Friday) showed under the recordings menu until after I rebooted the computer (on Saturday). Before I rebooted I was trying to delete another failed recording (due to lack of signal) and received the error in the attached screen shot. The restart solved that as well.
Is there a method to get notification for the failed recording service or to get it to recover automatically? I kind of missing feature in the older version that would have a list of recording shows / active tuners listed in the status tray.
On a slightly related note, I think one of my Avermedia dual-tuner cards was offline for several weeks until this past Wednesday morning (resolved during physically pulling the power cord from the computer), resulting in a few shows getting cut off early, such as the last 5-10 minutes of Telenovela and Lucifer (due to lack of available tuners). Should have had 6 tuners available, but only had 4 tuners working. The number of shows and padding specified would have required 5 tuners to work as planned. But short of checking the logs I had no other indication that a tuner was not functioning correctly.
Some type of in application alert, or an email alert in these instances would afford the opportunity to minimize their impact.
"Logs-stopped thursday morning.zip" are the latest from this morning (2-27-16)
"Logs- lucifer an telenovela get cut as end" is from Wednesday morning (2-24-16), not sure if they rolled off from the newer logs.
I'm trying to configure NPVR 3.6.6 as a client for another NPVR 3.6.6. In the client, I set
- act as client (checked)
- servername "mypc"
- database share "\\mypc\users\public\npvr\"
In that path is the file npvr.db3. The client says it cannot find the database share. If I right click on the client on the npvr service icon, it lists the tuner configuration of the server.
On the server side, homegroup is not enabled. The wiki states
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Set the path to the NextPVR data directory on the server. An example might be that your server PC, named "PVR", has a shared folder, "NEXTPVR". You would then enter \\PVR\NEXTPVR as the path for this option. If you are running Windows 7 and have homegroup sharing enabled then it may be already shared as \\PVR\Users\Public\NPVR.
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As I do not have homegroup enabled, does it mean I have to manually share the folder NPVR on the network? Which are the most restrictive permissions for this? (e.g. read only, one user per client I want to connect)? Which password protection can I use (if any)?
I tried sharing the folder \users\public\npvr, with sharename "npvr", and changed the database share to "\\mypc\npvr", but get the same error.
edit1:
Hmmm, I cannot access the share via windows explorer also... something with access rights... I probably need to resolve this first...
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I can seem to make a share for the folder and mount it as a disk in the client computer, but I have no access to the contents. Most likely, this is why NPVR also fails with it... Any suggestions on how I can give a client access to the folder? The folder is shared (with everyone, full control) but another windows cannot access it.
I have NextPVR set up to record OTA TV shows and drop the recordings into a plex channel. Streaming the shows works ok in plex. I also have comskip set up with NextPVR for parallel processing and comskip processes the shows and creates the edl and txt files properly. However I can't figure out how to tell plex to use the edl file to skip over the commercials (or even if that is possible with plex). Can this be done, or is there a better way to do what I want?
I've looked into MCEBuddy a little bit. The problem there is that I often like to be able to watch the recording as it is being recorded but MCEBuddy processes the recording after it's done recording.
NextPVR is not responding this morning. Everything was fine last night - successful recordings and watched recorded programs. Now NPVR is slow to start and respond to commands. When the recorded programs page finally comes up it is empty. The log file shows numerous "database locked" errors. Zip of log directory attached. Thanks for help
I have what I hope to be a simple question / request that will help Newbies like me:
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I just built a RaspberryPi2 piggybacked to the Pi "official" 7-inch display. Used NOOBS to load Raspian-Jesse. Then loaded Kodi 15.2 [current version yesterday].
Connected via Cat-6 to my home network so now I do have the functionality to play music from my NAS drive & listen to streaming Radio from the internet. Very Cool.
I am going to install the Pi+Display in an very old kitchen intercom "base unit" to replace the tube AM/FM radio.
Oh, and I have PLEX on my main network desktop PC to catalog all the NAS audio + video [however NextPVR is NOT in the available channels on PLEX ??].
That does play on my networked ROKU and networked PCs. Really cool.
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My question is: what do I need to do next to be able to watch/listen on my RaspberryPi/Kodi to the local TV station while we make breakfast?
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It would be really nice if the "read this first" document would start with a very high-level "how this technology works" layer-by-layer explanation.
If that could be added then Newbies like myself might not feel so lost.
Thanks, Jim
I am also trying to get the ASUS PS3-110 detected by NPVR. After following the instructions in READ BEFORE POSTING concerning Analog Tuners, I found the ASUS PS3-110 in the AnalogDevices.xml file. Seems the only thing missing is a software encoder.
ASUS PS3 is given as:
<Device filter="ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog Capture">
<Name>ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog Capture</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
</Device>
Even though ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog is listed in the xml, it still does not make the NPVR device list.
Shouldn't there be a valid <FilterEncoder> given as illustrated below before it can be listed in the NPVR list?
<Device filter="ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog Capture">
<Name>ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog Capture</Name>
<Type>SOFT_ENCODE</Type>
<FilterEncoder>ATI MPEG ENCODER</FilterEncoder>
</Device>
Another TV tuner program I tried had a list of possible MPEG software Encoders given. One source was an encoder embedded in the ATI Parental Control & Encoder program. The ATI Parental Control & Encoder program can be downloaded from http://ati1.software.informer.com/downlo...o-encoder/. After this program file was downloaded and installed, the TV tuner program was able to identify the installation of the ATI MPEG ENCODER which was on its list of software encoders. The ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog tuner ran successfully from this TV tuner program after installing the ATI Parental Control & Encoder program.
Is there a list of software encoders for NPVR that would be compatible with the ASUS PS3-110 BDA Analog for referencing in the AnalogDevices.xml file?
