Black Screen for TV Guide

[Bunkermentality]

Recently I've noticed a new behaviour. If I leave NextPVR unattended for some time (maybe 30 minutes or more) when I return to it the screen is black. I can get the screen to respond by requesting Live TV and this works OK. I can also navigate the EPG from Live TV. If I shut the NextPVR screen and restart it the Channel Guide is displayed.

I haven't changed the power scheme or made any other Win10 changes. The only other change is to relocate my recording folder to a NAS drive. Recordings are working OK.

I've seen other descriptions of black screen incidents but these symptoms are different to those I see. Some responders ask about Decoders. I'm using EVR Video Renderer and LAV for Video and Audio Decoders. I haven't made any changes to NextPVR settings other that for the Recording Directory.

Any ideas on this are most welcome.

Paul

[Graham]

If I leave NextPVR unattended for some time (maybe 30 minutes or more) when I return to it the screen is black.

Do the values at ... NextPVR Settings --> Misc --> Screen Saver Settings ... do anything for you?

[Bunkermentality]

Do the values at ... NextPVR Settings --> Misc --> Screen Saver Settings ... do anything for you?

They do, they talk to me. This is currently set at 10 minutes Random Photo. When I set it to 1 minute it does timeout with a blank screen. No sign of any random photo. I've been running NextPVR for some time and have never seen any random photos. Setting this to FixedImage helps as I can at least see that a screen timeout has occurred. After the screen timeout I can regain control of the Channel Guide.

So this suggests that there is something related to the RandomPhoto setting that is causing a malfunction and the Channel Guide to become locked. Also this is a recently new behaviour. Why is this? We may never know.

But I'm happy as I have a working solution with timeout reset to 10 minutes. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

Paul

[sub]

On the Settings->MediaFolders screen, have you set the picture folders to point to directories that contain your pictures? These are what it uses for the random photo screen saver.

[Graham]

No sign of any random photo.

NextPVR Settings --> Media Folders --> Picture Folders ... is where it looks it looks for random photos.

[Bunkermentality]

NextPVR Settings --> Media Folders --> Picture Folders ... is where it looks it looks for random photos.

I hadn't looked at the media options up to now. Very neat. Thanks for bringing it to my attention.