Reading through the various threads, I'm a bit confused as to what settings I should be using. There seems to be a lot of different modes available in the settings!
I'm trying to achieve proper playback of in-progress recordings, and being able to timeshift in live TV would also be nice.
Both client and server are Windows 8.1 x64, and they're connected by 1Gb LAN.
My recordings folder and live TV buffer folder are both shared on the LAN already.
Currently, if a user deletes a channel from the list of channels that a tuner receives, it's very tough to add that channel back. You have to rescan all the channels and start over. Checkboxes sound like a much better solution. Unchecked would mean the channel is hidden. Checked makes it visible.
I was trying to clean up my TV guide by deleting a few channels I didn't have EPG data for. Once I finished deleting about 3 channels, went to the TV guide only to find ALL the guide data missing. The channels were listed, but no EPG data. I did a Empty EPG, and Update EPG expecting to solve the problem, but no luck, still empty. The log appears to be pulling all the data from Schedules Direct, but not being loaded into the DB... What am I doing wrong??
I'm running NextPVR 3.5.7 on Windows 7-64 bit. I use an OTA antenna and tuner card as my input. I have zap2xml providing my EPG data. All of this is working great, and my guide is staying current, and my scheduled recordings are in fact being recorded. In my settings, however, I have checked that I would like the recordings saved with the s01e01 naming format. I do this because I use Emby server to manage my recorded TV along side my personally owned movies and TV series that I have ripped to my hard drive. Emby uses the s01e01 format to identify episodes, and without it it just lists garbage and you have to guess at which episode it is.
The zap2xml creates the xmltv.xml file with all of the guide data in it. When looking at the .xml it shows that the <episode-num system="dd_progid"> and provides an episode number that looks like EP00681911.0304. NextPVR seems to be able to figure out which episode it is from this information and provide the proper metadata in the guide and recording descriptions. So if it recognizes the specific episode, why won't it name the episode with the s01e01 format so Emby can obtain the proper metadata as well?
Is there something I can do to fix this? Is there some batch script that can look at the .ts file created by NextPVR and do an automatic rename to append the s01e01 in the file name?
Ok, now that I got my issue with the IR blaster fixed, I'm still dealing with trying to get Schedules direct setup. I went through the wiki and de-slected all the channels I did not want on the SD site. Then upon importing them, they were all still there. A little more time on the site I found that when using JSON, you have to manage the channel; list in the client and not on the SD site. Is this true or is there a way around it?
The reason I ask is there are over 1000 channels in the direct tv Los Angeles guide and a number of them are flat out wrong or mis-numbered. In the end, I need only about 200. This is going to take forever if I have to uncheck each one as I go though the channels, then repeat the process EXACTLY for the second HDPVR.
The erroneous channels are causing NPVR to try to tune to a channel that does not exist so I can't just leave them in there.
First post on this forum, will receive this mini computer next week and will be testing NextPVR server to see how it runs. I have been using tvheadend server running in OpenELEC on my $35 Android stick (MK808B Plus) and that works very well as a stand alone DVR. Has anyone done this yet?
I arranged for my CableCard to be paired with my tuner (InfiniTV PCIe 6). But all NextPVR shows for live TV is a blank screen with no sound. Ceton's diagnostic app reports no problems. Any ideas what's wrong? I don't want to have to wait for Comcast to send a tech out.
So with MC2XML not working any more, I decided to make the switch to Schedules Direct and I have yet to be able to get it to work. Aside from the channel numbers being totally screwy (which I'm working around slowly) USBIRT is no longer sending the channel change signals to my direct TV boxes. Actually to be more precise, the channel is not changing when I try to watch TV, I'm not sure what the cause is. It is stuck on ESPN, which isn't the WORST problem to have, but I digress...
Attached are the logs when I tried to tune to channel 2, maybe you guys can see something in them. The channel change command should be in the logs around 4:25 - 4:27p today.
When I switched over to schedules direct, I did re-map all the channels, but did not change the blaster program or commands.
Any help would be appreciated, There is only so much sports center I can watch...
For sports events, I like to add time in case the event doesn't end by the scheduled time. With most races, that's 60 minutes. With baseball games, that's typically 90 minutes. If I expect rain during a race, I might want an entire 3 hours.
Unfortunately, NextPVR limits me to a mere 89 minutes. Why?
