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.

Thanks,
Matt

Hello,

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...

edit2:
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.

Thanks!


Jörg

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.

Any help is much appreciated.

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?

Hi ALL,

I have a Dell PC hooked to my TV acting as an HTPC. It used to run Win 7 and Win Media Center(WMC) with a Hauppauge TV tuner to record OTA channels. I now upgraded to Win 10 which no longer supports WMC so I installed NPVR and its working pretty well. The Dell came with an IR remote which supposedly was the standard when working with a Win PC and in fact all of its buttons functioned properly with WMC, including the "green" button that would start WMC. With NPVR many of the buttons on the Dell remote do work, but unfortunately not all of them. Specifically the green button and the blue button (to bring up the info bar during a video) do not work. I posted in the support section and got a lot of help and was even given some modified parts of NPVR to try to get all of my remote to work. Unfortunately those efforts were not successful.

So now I'm asking the community to tell me what remote they are using so I could buy one and then learn those buttons into my Harmony remote. So please post what brand and model IR remote you are using and if that remote's green and blue buttons are recognized by NPVR.

Thanks,
Gerry

Not that I used their software just an FYI for anyone who may have done...

DRM defeaters defeated? SlySoft ceases operations

Cheers,
Brian

Hi there
If you go to the main nextpvr.com homepage, all you get is a brief outline of what the program can do, but there are no download or forum links. Is this a bug with my browser or is this affecting everyone?
Thanks

In the eventviewer i find this error below

TimeStamp: 21/02/2016 19:32:23