I am having one of the stranger problems I have ever had. I set up my OTA tv with Windows Media Center and a AverMedia USB tuner. At first I had a weak signal and cut outs. I got the antenna higher and got to where I got a good signal on nearly all of the main local channels. Possibly some at first but especially later on I started getting very strange audio but with no video problems at all. When I would click on a channel the main audio (say the commentators on a sports event or the host on a talk show) would be very weak yet the secondary audio like the on field sounds or the laugh track were normal level. The commercials were nearly always fine. This was all pretty intermittent. I might be able to go to another channel or back and forth and it would work, but usually not. A channel may be working fine but starting a recording may kill it. I thought maybe some kind of wmc fault or the tuner fault, but this continued when I set up NextPVR to use it. Even going to a Hauppauge pci tuner has the same problem. I have added an antenna signal booster which shows up a stronger signal in wmc tests and added a couple channels and although with a perfect picture with never any hiccups I still have the audio problem. I had contacted a local tv station and they did say that there is different audio on some programming so it could possibly be one of the stereo channel being the problem. I use my pc and sound system for many other uses and it does not nor has it ever had any kind of similar problem at all. Any ideas on this or where else I can ask?
Edit: I have been trying this setup on and off today and it has worked fine all day. I am not fully comfortable that this will continue though so I'd still like any ideas if possible. I am hoping this went away somehow, but we'll see.
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Will 3.6 be so "different" that it will be like learning a totally new program or will the "changes" sort of blend in with the configuration we already have?
Ok thinking about trying NextPVR software. Right now long time user of Sage TV. Reason thinking about trying NextPVR. In Saged TV I have been using 3 capture cards. All Hauupauge cards, one PVR-150 connected to Verizon STB Via S-video/audio cables. No HD but can get all the cable channels. Two other cards 1600 connected to Antenna to get HD over the air which is what I mainly watch. BUT when its real windy outside have problems getting the over the air channels.
So I thought I would just connect the 1600 cards to the Verizon cable TV line (NO STB) and tune in via Clear QAM which would give me all the channels I get with antenna in HD but no need for antenna . Problem Sage TV is kinda dumb in that I have my PVR-150 card which is connected to the Verizon STB set to tune in ONLY the cable channels I don't get with the 1600 cards. That worked fine when I used antenna for the 1600 cards but when using Clear QAM when setting what channels each card should tune it couples all the cards ,,for example I say to for both 1600 cards to tune in 2-1 which is NBC over the air it also sets the PVR-150 card with that channel or another example I set the PVR-150 card to tune in 550 which is USA network it also sets that for both 1600 cards which since there tuning in via Clear QAM they cant tune in 550 yet it tries anyway. Hence making this setup not usable. It couples all there cards channel numbers. Iam like WTF.
So can NextPVR have 3 capture cards, one capture card connected to a STB and two other cards connected to cable line BUT no STB and have different channels for the card connected to STB. Another example. I want only the two cards connected to the cable line with no STB to tune in 2-1,4-1,7-1,23-1,29-1,49-1, but NOT any of those channels for the PVR-150 which is connected to the STB . So say I have the Blacklist set to record it would only try to use the Clear QAM tuners not and try to use the PVR-150 as I only want that card to tune in channels like USA,TNT,FX,TBS.
I decided to try Kodi 16 today. Tried to enable the PVR add-on for NextPVR. It complains that you need NextPVR version 3.6 or older. What up with that? I don't see a download for 3.6 yet, is it coming soon?
for a few days things have been fairly stable. Now last night we had all our recordings simply not work. The recording folders were created but no files. ALso, tuning wouldnt' work. Restarting all services left NPVR in state where it complained about "no tuners available". The only fix was to reboot the machine.
I am using the latest version of NextPVR (3.5.7) with the webclient to X-NEWA on an RPi 2. I have noticed that sometimes after playing a recording, it exits back to the Recordings list, but it takes several seconds for it to update. It seems like this situation happens more often when the recording service is recording several shows at the same time, but I'm not sure if that is just coincidence.
The situation just happened again after I watched a CSI: Cyber. I captured the logs which are attached. In looking at the webclient.log, I see that the RELOAD_RECORDINGS took 13 seconds between LoadList@1 and LoadList@2.
If I'm watching a recording while it's being broadcast, and the broadcast then finishes while I'm still watching it, IGL can't access the file to rename it. Logical, I guess, as that would break the stream. It's shown as an access error in the logs.
Is there a way, Martin, to check for such an access error (or maybe there's another flag you can check) and delay the rename until it's no longer being watched?
I recently modded the Confluence skin for Kodi to show the Original Air Date for programs in the info pop-up by adding the following code to C:\Program Files (x86)\Kodi\addons\skin.confluence\720p\DialogPVRGuideInfo.xml, within the only <content> block in that XML file:
The code did work, but original air date for every single program is showing up as Wed, Dec 31, 1969, regardless of whether or not the program has a valid original air date. I know all the programs I tested have valid original air dates that were correctly parsed from the XMLTV data because the correct date shows up in the XML files that accompany recordings made by NextPVR, as well as in NextPVR's own front-end GUI when I modify the NextPVR's skin's Popups/EventDetails.xml file to include the @originalAirDate text.
Is this an error in the plugin interface for NextPVR, or an error in the NextPVR plugin for Kodi, or did I just write the Kodi skin modification code incorrectly?
I'm running Windows 7 with Version 3.3.8 NextPVR. All of my recordings are scheduled manually. Every Saturday I have a scheduled refresh for Recurring programs. So imagine my surprise tonight when I find that recordings that were scheduled for 9 PM actually occurred at 8 PM. I don't understand why the recordings that are scheduled for a certain time isn't honored after a switch from Daylight Savings time to Standard Time.
Please let me know how I can avoid this next Spring when certain parts of the United States 'spring' forward an hour.
