This post got me thinking that being able to control what channel group was presented to Kodi for the EPG may be a nice feature. (I actually think Martin does this in his Kodi interface). There could be dozens and dozens of channels that I potentially may want to record from, but on a regular basis, not see in the Kodi interface. Maybe I only want to see HD channels (or SD), or maybe only Movie channels (and not all the shopping networks, etc..).
So I'm completely new here. This is my first post. Please be kind.
I've been using Windows Media Center for years. Love how easy it was to setup and make work. However, I'm getting a little anal about the noise my HTPC creates with all it's fans and stuff. So I've bought myself a Raspberry Pi 2 in the hopes that Kodi will be able to perform as well as WMC does. The thing about the Pi, it doesn't have PCI(e) slots for tuners. That's not really a problem though since I have a custom built Windows Server (2012 R2 Standard) I've been working on. I use that to store all my music, pictures, downloaded tv shows and movies. I use Emby also. It dawned on me; Why not use the server, which is on 24/7 in the other room, to do all my recording, and just transfer all the tuners into that. When I learned that Kodi has support for this sort of thing, I immediately started researching what I needed to do. I have 4 tuner cards, with 1-2 tuner's built into them. Each is built by Hauppauge. To be safe, I only removed one card for testing for the moment. I installed the card, then the drivers and rebooted. Windows Server seems stable, and the Device Manager is sitting happy. I then installed NextPVR. Then a quick glance through the settings yielded an alert about DirectX Runtime not existing. Looking up how to install that on a Server brought me to a webpage that said it is installed automatically through Windows Update. Well poop. Windows Update didn't install it, of course. So I just skipped that for now, thinking I could probably install ffdshow or LAV filters and everything would be good. I then found a download for just that, and also one for SAF filters. I installed them both, then rebooted. Now NextPVR is happy as far as decoders. I then went through the process of setting up the tuner. The tuner I have installed is the HVR-1600, which comes with 1 Digital (ATSC) tuner and 1 Analog (NTSC) tuner. However, when I load it up in NextPVR, it correctly identifies the first tuner as ATSC but incorrectly identifies the 2nd as QAM. It is not a QAM, it is analog. The ATSC tuner is connected to an HD Antenna to pick up the free Over The Air (OTA) HD in my area. The analog tuner is connected to my cable which I use their provided "cable-ready tv service". We have a DVR in the living room, but without a box it's just cable-ready. So anyway, I went through and scanned for channels with the ATSC, and it correctly found about 10 of them. Then I tried to scan for the channels on the analog and it's not finding anything. It went through like 100 channels. The window says "Digital Channel Setup", but it's not a digital tuner.
I've upgraded my PC (an intel nuc) to windows 10 recently. All was working fine in win 8.1 and after the upgrade I also upgraded Kodi to one of the last nightlies. It's now asking me for a diferent version of nextpvr witch I was not able to find anywhere. Also after upgrading to 10 if live tv is on on kodi and I try to acess for instance the newa interface on the cellphone to check for the guide it kills the live transmission on kodi and after doing that it returns the guide on the phone. That was not happening before. I can provide logs if that's necessary.
So I have SD and HD variants of channels in my lineup. I don't want the SD channels to appear in Kodi. I've created a channel group called Main that has the HD channels but I don't know a way of only sending the EPG data over for main to kodi. I would like to do this to speed up kodi startup.
If I can't do that i would want to disable the SD channels in NextPVR. Is there a way to disable the channels or do I have to delete the channels?
I'm a long time SageTV guy, just built my first NextPVR setup (Hauppauge Colossus 2 and USB-UIRT, plus IR Server Suite), and everything seems to be setup right except I cannot get the IRBlaster function to work to change channels inside NextPVR. If I go to the command prompt and enter the "IRblaster -channel 600" to change the channel to 600, it works. But inside the program setup, no good.
I've changed the Device, Channel Changer config to Changer: "Executable" and selected the Executable: "C:\Program Files (x86)\IR Server Suite\IRBlast.exe" and the Arguments: "-channel {channel} -delay 500 -host localhost" - but no soap.
My wife has a habit of doing this, turns on npvr just before the the top of the hour or before hour:30, brings up the guide, decides what she wants to watch, by this time the time advances such that the most left part of guide is no longer current, press play to watch the channel she wants to see, but npvr does nothing because she selected a show that is now in the past.
Is there a way, when the guide is being displayed, to auto advance the guide's time when the hour or half hour advances?
I have all my channels from Sydney Australia scanned and working and configured to use DVB/ATSC EPG in the Channels Settings. I have an EPG Update Hour set in the Misc2 tab and the Auto Update EPG boxed ticked also. However my EPG will not update at this hour or any hour for that matter.
The EPG will update just fine if I manually do it by pushing the Update EPG button on the Channels tab. Currently I am having to remember to manually update the EPG everyday to record my favourite shows.
The install is just a default full install and I havenât changed anything in the Program or Data Directories although I have noticed there is no UpdateEPG.bat file in the data directory.
I am open to using XMLTV if anyone can point me in the right direction or let me know how to configure this for Sydney, Australia.
I am running 64 bit Windows 10 after upgrading from Windows 7 hence it uninstalling Windows Media Centre.
Attached is my log files. I hope someone can help me out.
For the first time last night I had an opportunity to test the new recording logic that will record a show at a later time if it conflicts with something else. In my case this was S02E02 of the Librarians getting bumped to a later time because it conflicted with The Walking Dead. I had noticed earlier in the week that there were multiple entries for the second episode of The Librarians in the upcoming log, but I decided not to do anything about it and see what happened. Two things happened:
1- I got 10 files of that episode of the Librarians all created at the same time.
2- those 10 files were not in the location specified by the series recording. They were instead in the default directory (which I don't use).
The recording itself looks fine. I moved one copy to the correct location and fixed my Kodi library and now everything is fine. I guess next time I see this about to happen I'll go delete all the duplicate upcoming recordings and see if that helps. I've attached my NRecord.Log for the recording.
First, thank you for building such a nice web admin interface!
I would like to add my own search tools to the epg display, on the same line as the imdb icon. This will help me search for local content's descriptions on local provider. Ideally, there should be some user setup to allow this as opposed to hard coding it in the c# code.
