I am making fledgling steps with RPi2, Kodi, X-NEWA so bear with me while I make some comments/observations.
I installed X-NEWA eventually although had to have a few goes before it downloaded the repository. Wondered if the Video was still up to date actually, as it looks different?
Anyhow, got it installed, then could not open X-NEWA on 127.0.0.1 despite being able to access 127.0.0.1:8866 from Windows.
Eventually got it going using the server IP Address directly (which btw oddly does not appear to be "sticky" in the settings, but it is there behind).
Got into the Native NextPVR which is pretty limited for my use (Guide is all scrunched up too?), then got into X-NEWA. Ahhhh... familiarity.
Haven't gone any further than that for now as am looking at shares.
I just noticed that NextPVR automatically chose a different channel (and later time) to record a show that was in conflict with another show that was on the recording schedule tonight.
I thinks that's a great feature, but unfortunately, NextPVR chose a channel that is not broadcast in HD. There are HD channels that it could have chosen.
Is there a way to tell NextPVR to prefer certain channels when choosing an alternate airing to record?
If not, is my only option to delete the non HD channel from NextPVR?
I recently got a trial for HBO Now, and then set about watching easily on my TV. Turns out there's no HBO Now app for my samsung smart bluray player. I saw that Fry's had the Roku SE on promo for the $25 black friday price, so I picked one up. Worked ok, but wasn't really impressed... slow as hell in some spots, and the ecosystem seemed limited. So I looked further... what I really wanted was a device that could do Netflix, HBO, Kodi, maybe even play some games (but I'm way cheap). A bit of searching revealed the Nexus Player would supposedly do all that, and it was on-sale at Best Buy for $50 (funny how a free trial of HBO lead to spending $25 which lead to spending $50!).
I setup the Nexus Player last night, and initially it seemed very impressive. However as the night wore on, warts appeared. First, it routinely lost connection to my WiFi network, sometimes every minute or two, other times running fine for 30 minutes or more. No other device in the house has any issue with my WiFi that I've noticed. A few times it seemed to just quit what it was doing for no reason, and once it locked up and I had to pull it's plug. After installing the last of at least 10 system updates, each of which required a reboot and install time, it lost communication with the remote. Fortunately I had installed the Google remote app on my smartphone, so I proceeded with that for awhile, until a message came up on screen saying the Android Remote Service had crashed and that remote stopped working too. About 15 minutes later that message disappeared and the phone remote started working again... I watched a few more things and finally went to bed. Today I sorted out how to re-pair the included remote.
I'm going to pick up an Ethernet adapter and an OTG cable at Fry's tonight to solve the network connection issues, and hopefully now that the updating is done and the remote is re-paired that issue will be gone along with the random quits/lockup (those all happened before all the updates were in).
Anyone else have one of these things, got any comments, tips, whatever?
Is anyone using a G7 HP Microserver as NPVR server with Windows 8.1, 10 or 2012 R2? I used mine with Vista for several years then upgraded to Windows 8 last year without problems. However it seems there is a problem with the 2011 BIOS fitted which means that with Windows 8.1, 2012 R2 and 10 the network card doesnât connect to the network.
HP released updated BIOS to fix the problem in 2013 but now it is only available to users with a maintenance contract however it is possible to download the file elsewhere on the Internet. With the later BIOS I can install Windows 8.1 but the problem is that NextPVR does not see the server correctly even though the NPVR share is set to Everyone to have Full Control.
I donât use a Windows client but built one to fault find the problem. When the client starts up it gives error âUnable to communicate with the server SERVER-NAMEâ but behind it the TV Guide and Recordings are working. X-NEWA running on OpenElec does not see the server so starts WOL even though the KODI file manager can see the server and has R/W access to the NPVR share. With Widows 10 the situation is worse because it does not even share directories!!
I donât know if this is a fault with my server or a feature of this particular model. I had set up a temporary server on another computer while I tried to upgrade Windows but have now given up and gone back to Windows 8 which should be ok for a few years!
With the passing of each update, and given the sticky was written in Oct 2012 and updated Jun 2014, is sub's XBMC NextPVR plugin becoming closer and closer to the X-Newa one from Martin? If all I want is to reproduce NPVR but also have comskip work, with the black bars, is sub's XBMC NextPVR plugin (now) sufficient or do I still need X-NEWA to achieve this?
Q: COMSKIP IN KODI - is this still an issue - do I still have to:
Is it possible to change the positioning of the menu items in the slideout skin (and if so, how).
I had a play around with skin files but to no avail. Admittedly, I am a bit of a numpty when it comes to skin tweaking.
Also....Would it be possible (feature request) to keep the layout of the slideout menu (i.e. font) without including the "slideout feature" of showing an image of the plugin's last screen image. Whilst I find it kind of neat, my family find this somewhat confusing. However I can't just use the vertical menu as this really looks a but naff (in comparison to the slideout menu)
This request was inspired by my lifting a cool image from (iirc) http://www.deviantart.com to use as a backdrop.
All of a sudden, I can no longer play live TV. At first I got messages that it could not communicate with recording service. It was running but I stop and started it again then continually get the message that it can't find the capture device. The device works fine in Win TV.
Also, I see in the logs (attached) some things I've never noticed before "Unexpected error calling StartStream(): System.ComponentModel.Win32Exception (0x80004005): The system cannot find the file specified". I have no idea was StartStream is.
I am running NextPVR on Windows 10 ... runs great. I loaded Kodi on the latest Fire TV box. I have the Fire TV box, and not the stick, because I want to use an ethernet connection. I was using the FireTV box with a TLC brand LED TV using the HDMI port. It worked beautifully. I connected to the NextPVR server on my Windows 10 box and loaded all of the live TV channels in Kodi. It worked well so I moved the Fire TV box to another room in my home. Still on an ethernet connection. This TV is a Westinghouse LED. Really the only difference in the setup is the TV. And Live TV on the Westinghouse TV doesn't work so well. It constantly freezes, pixelates and is generally unbearable. When I move the Fire TV, with Kodi, back to the TLC TV ... it works fine.
I don't understand how the TV could be a factor but it seems to be. Hopefully there is a an expert reading this post that could shed some light on my problem.
I am using nextpvr version 3.6.6 with windows 10. it was working but now I get blank recordings. tuner is silicone dust hdhomerun. i tried various configurations on the hdhomerun tuner as well as rescanning channels cant make it work. Any ideas? log file is attached.
Thanks,
Paul
