I have just replaced the innards of my media server that was running mythtv under ubuntu, with a new low powered AMD system.
Although the old setup ran reasonably well, for various reasons including ease of maintenance I would now like to run windows, especially since as part of my family's Windows 8/10 transition I have recently liberated a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate.
That is now just running on my newly installed hardware, but I would ideally like to move to Windows 10 to future proof it and generally minimise future tinkering.
My question is whether people generally believe NextPVR is sufficiently stable under Win 10, to enable me to create substantially a set up and forget installation with Kodi, or whether I should stick to Windows 7 and MMC for now.
NPVR has been working fine for years but now, for some reason, NPVR has stopped recording, in that it seems to be recording but nothing is created.
I can see live TV and select different channels, the EPG updates and I can select programs to record. When it should be recording Services shows NPVR Recording Service running but no longer is there a program resulting. A search for the .ts file finds nothing on the hard drive also.
A similar thing has previously happened where an empty Folder was created but a reboot fixed that and reboots are not fixing it now.
I am running Win 7 and the latest update.
Attached are the log files (hopefully). I had a look at them but I don't know what I am looking at.
Hi there, I am a new user to NextPVR and currently have version 3.5.7 installed.
I used to use WMC but since that was dropped in Windows 10, I decided to use NextPVR. I've been reading the forums and making some progress but there is one setting that I can't seem to get to work, assuming I understand it correctly. Under SETTINGS - MISC2 - I have enabled the options "Handle MCE Remote Events" and "Start NextPVR with MCE Remote Green Button" as I was expecting this launch/open NextPVR when I press the "big green button" on my Windows Media Center Remote however nothing happens. With those options set, shouldn't that open NextPVR when I press that button on the remote or am I missing a configuration option somewhere? Just curious if this works for other people.
Hoping for some help here. I was using NextPVR and the world was a beautiful place... then I had to reinstall Windows. Now nothing seems to work.
I have no antivirus running atm on my Windows 10 machine.
I'm using the HVR-1250.
From the TV Guide I get the error "Unable to communicate with recording device".
If I try and start the NPVR Service I get "Unable to start service: Sytem.inValidOperationException Error.
The error from the NPVR log:
2015-10-04 20:42:28.697 [ERROR][1] Unexpected socket exception calling StartStream(): System.Net.Sockets.SocketException (0x80004005): No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it 127.0.0.1:8968
Server stack trace:
at System.Net.Sockets.Socket.Connect(IPAddress[] addresses, Int32 port)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket(AddressFamily family)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.CreateNewSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.RemoteConnection.GetSocket()
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.SocketCache.GetSocket(String machinePortAndSid, Boolean openNew)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.SendRequestWithRetry(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.Tcp.TcpClientTransportSink.ProcessMessage(IMessage msg, ITransportHeaders requestHeaders, Stream requestStream, ITransportHeaders& responseHeaders, Stream& responseStream)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Channels.BinaryClientFormatterSink.SyncProcessMessage(IMessage msg)
Exception rethrown at [0]:
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.HandleReturnMessage(IMessage reqMsg, IMessage retMsg)
at System.Runtime.Remoting.Proxies.RealProxy.PrivateInvoke(MessageData& msgData, Int32 type)
at NShared.IRecordingService.StartStream(Int32 channelOID, String target, Int32 previousHandle, ChannelMapping& channelMapping, String& reason)
at NShared.RecordingServiceProxy.StartStream(Int32 channelOID, String target, Int32 previousHandle, ChannelMapping& channelMapping, String& reason)
2015-10-04 20:46:10.013 [DEBUG][1] storing Position (1):2221,108
2015-10-04 20:46:10.013 [DEBUG][1] storing Size (1):1581,919
2015-10-04 20:46:10.016 [INFO][1] Exiting...
2015-10-04 20:46:10.016 [INFO][1] Done.
from another log:
015-10-04 20:26:54.283 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()@3: IPTV Device
2015-10-04 20:26:54.283 [DEBUG][1] CaptureSource.LoadAll()@4 plugin
2015-10-04 20:26:54.296 [DEBUG][1] ssdp got data (265) from: 192.168.0.11:1900
2015-10-04 20:26:54.301 [DEBUG][1] Ignoring: HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: Linux, UPnP/1.0, DAP-1522 Ver 1.41
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:00:09 GMT
Content-Type: text/html
Content-Length: 110
<title>404 Not Found</title>
<h1>404 Not Found</h1>
The resource requested could not be found on this server.
2015-10-04 20:26:54.304 [DEBUG][8] UPNP scan started
I don't understand. NextPVR was working perfectly pre-install.
I've also allowed every instance of NextPVR through the firewall.
I've recently discovered that when playing back recordings through my PCH A110, some of the picture (quite a lot, actually), is being cut off. The picture also appears to be stretched horizontally. I've noticed for some time that the menus are somewhat cutoff, but not to the point where they're not readable, so I never worried about it. But there surely must be some adjustment for this? Is this something that is set within the Settings of NPVR, or is it in the settings on the A110 itself? If someone could point me in the right direction I would be grateful.
I'm trying to troubleshoot my PC waking up immediately after going to sleep (after 1 hr 5mins).
I looked at the Event Viewer logs filtered on "Power Troubleshooter" (in logs) and there are a number of events (example below) referring to NRecord.exe which occur after the completion of the wake to record. I also know that PostProcessing.bat calls comskip.exe.
Code:
The system has returned from a low power state.
Sleep Time: 2015-10-03T22:09:32.453496600Z
Wake Time: 2015-10-03T22:10:33.966870600Z
Wake Source: Timer - NRecord.exe
Is it likely that what is logged as NRecord.exe is actually comskip.exe, called from NRecord.exe via PostProcessing.bat but logged as coming from NRecord.exe in EventViewer?
If not then any suggestions why NRecord.exe would keep waking the PC every 3 or 4 mins, after it has finished recording?
Finally, what can I do to avoid this behaviour (Server is in the bedroom so is quite sensitive to WAF...).
I have next all set up other than what to put in for the channels I want to access. I would like to use the channels from DexterTV, Phoenix and IPTV, but I have to list those in the settings and I don't know how to determine what goes in there. Can anyone help me get that info? Thanks.
I'm trying to get a script running that checks if a recording is in progress before updating the EPG. My updates are scheduled to run at 5am, not a time I normally have recordings going, but ever once in a while it presents a problem. I messed around with this a while back but couldn't get it working. Having lost another recording has motivated me to fix it. I good while ago I found a snippet that is supposed to check if a recording is in progress and wait until it's done before starting the EPG update. Unfortunately running the bat file seems to put the script into a loop and never actually does anything. I added some simple logging to the script so I could see were the problem occurs. There's nothing recording but the script just keeps restarting itself. Could someone script savvy take a look and see if there's any glaring errors that might be causing
Code:
@ECHO off
REM Update EPG only if not recording
ECHO -------------------------- >> epg.log
ECHO Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - %time%>> epg.log
CD /d "%~dp0"
:loop
set chknpvr=1
"c:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NScriptHelper.exe" -isInUse | find "NOT RECORDING"
set chknpvr=%ERRORLEVEL%
if %chknpvr% NEQ 0 timeout 300
if %chknpvr% NEQ 0 goto loop
if %chknpvr% EQU 0 "C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\NextPVR.exe" -updateepgonly
ECHO updateEPG BAT complete - %time%>> epg.log
exit
And here's a portion of the log that gets generated.
Code:
Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:07:56.88
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:07:58.18
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:07:59.50
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:00.80
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:02.09
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:03.43
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:04.73
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:06.01
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:07.30
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:08.58
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:09.89
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:11.23
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Starting new updateEPG BAT file run - 13:08:12.52
Hi All
I need some help getting some basic functionality going with a HDHR Prime. I recently upgraded to W10 on one system. I just want to be able to view some basic channels using my HDHR Prime as the tuner. So I installed the latest NPVR release and I have totally forgotten how to set it up for using that tuner. Do I still have to use a network tuner plugin? Or is there a native way to do it. The tuner does not show up in the tuner list in config.
