Can NextPVR cause my TV to randomly turn on?

[rosede]

I have a Sony Bravia and I use Kodi 16.1 on a RPi2 and NextPVR 3.9.2 (161119) as the source. I stood up a new NPVR machine a month or so ago. The machine is a Windows 7 Pro installation.

I'm not sure when this started, but I think that it started about the time I stood up the new NPVR machine, but my TV turns on a random times. Usually it happens when I'm not home, or during the night when I'm asleep. However, I witnessed it personally for the first time. I was sitting working at the computer when I heard the TV click on. I watched it start up, and then I saw the channel list populate, just as if I had rebooted the Pi. Whenever I reboot the Pi, it pulls the channel list from the PVR and populates the channel list.

Is there something in the configuration that I might have set that would cause this? Something that would send a signal to the Pi and then to my TV? I've looked through the logs. What I find interesting is that at the top of the NPVR.log is what appears to be NextPVR starting up.

[...startup]
2017-03-22 13:02:50.860 [DEBUG][1] Created mutex. Must be only instance.
2017-03-22 13:02:50.883 [DEBUG][1] Checking if upgrade required
2017-03-22 13:02:50.890 [DEBUG][1] master file is C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Config-master-dont-edit.xml
2017-03-22 13:02:50.974 [DEBUG][1] PluginResolveEventHandler: System.ResolveEventArgs
2017-03-22 13:02:50.974 [DEBUG][1] Known plugin directories:
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (2) C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (3) C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] PluginResolveEventHandler: System.ResolveEventArgs
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Known plugin directories:
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (2) C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (3) C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] PluginResolveEventHandler: System.ResolveEventArgs
2017-03-22 13:02:50.982 [DEBUG][1] Known plugin directories:
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (2) C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (3) C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] PluginResolveEventHandler: System.ResolveEventArgs
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] Known plugin directories:
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (2) C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.983 [DEBUG][1] Looking for assembly in (3) C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\common\NextPVR.resources.dll
2017-03-22 13:02:50.985 [DEBUG][1] Version: 3.9.2
2017-03-22 13:02:50.985 [DEBUG][1] SingleInstance()
2017-03-22 13:02:51.176 [INFO][1] About to connect to remote recording service
2017-03-22 13:02:51.181 [DEBUG][1] RecordingServiceProxy@exit
2017-03-22 13:02:51.182 [DEBUG][1] Rendering for screen size: 1920x1080
2017-03-22 13:02:51.240 [DEBUG][1] Using skin: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\skin\Default\..
2017-03-22 13:02:51.240 [DEBUG][1] Load@1
2017-03-22 13:02:51.242 [DEBUG][1] About to look for plugin directories in: C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\
2017-03-22 13:02:51.242 [DEBUG][1] Skipping non-existant plugin directory: C:\Program Files (x86)\NPVR\Plugins\
2017-03-22 13:02:51.242 [DEBUG][1] Load@1.1
2017-03-22 13:02:51.242 [DEBUG][1] Load@1.2
2017-03-22 13:02:51.250 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: TV Guide
2017-03-22 13:02:51.285 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: Recordings
2017-03-22 13:02:51.290 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: Live TV
2017-03-22 13:02:51.295 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: Search
2017-03-22 13:02:51.300 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: DVD
2017-03-22 13:02:51.305 [DEBUG][1] Loaded menu item: Exit
2017-03-22 13:02:51.322 [DEBUG][1] Menu loaded
2017-03-22 13:02:51.367 [DEBUG][1] Load@2
2017-03-22 13:02:51.411 [DEBUG][1] Load@3
2017-03-22 13:02:51.715 [DEBUG][1] Using Direct2DHelper
2017-03-22 13:02:51.715 [DEBUG][1] Load@4
2017-03-22 13:02:51.715 [DEBUG][1] Load@5
2017-03-22 13:02:51.715 [DEBUG][1] Load@6

This is about 10 minutes after the the TV mysteriously turned on. There are no entries for the time period of when the TV turned on, at least not in the NPVR.log. There are entries in the web.log and NRecord.log for that time period, but they look benign.

Anything that I can look at? Thoughts?

Thank you.

Daryl

[sub]

So NextPVR isn't even connected to your TV? If your RPi is waking your TV, it'll be something Kodi is doing, not NextPVR.

[scJohn]

I would start looking at your HDMI-CEC settings on your computer and the TV. Not sure if KODI also has these settings.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_E...cs_Control.

[rosede]

I've been looking at kodi and CEC, but I don't see anything there either. I didn't think that it was NPVR, but it's one piece of the puzzle and I have to exam everything.

If you're telling me that NPVR isn't sending a signal to the Pi, which could be interpreting it as a wake up or something, then I'll go back to looking at Kodi.

Thanks

Daryl

[rosede]

Digging through other forums, I learned of a CEC configuration menu within Kodi. I had never noticed this menu before. I like being able to use my TV remote to control Kodi, so I left CEC enabled, but turned else off everything. My guess is there was something in there that was causing my TV to randomly turn on.

Thanks for the feedback.

Daryl

[peterh]

I have Kodi on a RPi which is set up for CEC control, and is running the NPVR client. If I restart the NPVR recording service, the Kodi TV powers on. I haven't bothered to investigate further.....just remember to switch the TV off if we're going away for a while

[stustunz]

I have mine set to turn off tv when screen saver starts in kodi works great
I use x-newa though not the npvr addon