VOD channels no longer showing in channel list (but showing under device)

[thecubasekid]

Hi All,

i am having issue with VOD not showing after setting up a new device and importing from m3u.

when  import i see all the VOD channels, and they are in the correct group, however, when i save, the VOD channels do not show in the 'channels' list and do not get sent to Kodi. i can see them if i expand the device and they are all present but in channel list they are missing, the channels that do show have correct number both before and after the VOD channels, so in the channel list where the VOD channels should be, the numbering just jumps by 150 (the number of VOD channels currently i have). it is as though nextpvr is filtering them out from the channel list.

i did see some lines in the logs about filtering VOD, so i tried changing <SendVOD>false<SendVOD> to <SendVOD>true<SendVOD> in config.xml, restarting and re-importing to a fresh DB. i no longer saw the lines in the log about filtering VOD, but ultimatly still no change with VOD still showing under 'device', but missing under 'channels'.


The stream urls for the VOD channels all end in .mkv.

If i set all my stream urls in the m3u file to be behind redirect urls in m3u editor, so there is no reference to .mkv in the url anymore, all channels including VOD import correctly when setting up a new device, unfortunately using redirect urls has adverse effect to playback as nextpvr no longer streams as-is and trans-codes, and my box cant handle the extra cpu hit so playback constantly stalls and freezes on all HD content (most of may channels are 720 or 1080). If i turn off redirect url in m3u editor and update m3u in nextpvr, the stream urls are updated to show actual, but the VOD channels disappear from the channel list again (but still remain under 'device')

Is there a setting somewhere i need to change to get the VOD to show in channel list and be passed to Kodi?

it is odd as i had this working in the last release 5.04, and was still working when i updated image to 5.05, but for some reason i simply cannot set up a new device and get it to work anymore. i even tried going back to image 5.04  and setting up the new device to confirm if this is something introduced by 5.05 but it would appear not, as i get same result. The only change from when it did set up the new device and include the VOD channels in the channel list correctly, is my number of VOD channels has increased from around 70 to around 150. if i drop my old DB back in that has 70 VOD  channels it works again and the channels show in the channel list and are passed to Kodi. i even compared the two DBs, working and non working cross referencing 'channel' 'channel_mapping' 'channel_group' and a few other tables, column by column on some sample VOD and also working channels and cannot see any difference, other than an increased VOD channel count on the non working DB.

note i tried repeating all this using windows version also, and got the same behavior.

Thanks!

[thecubasekid]

*Update - now working*

not sure what the deal is, i didn't look at nextpvr for maybe an hour as had some work to do. went to re-visit the lists looking for any clue and found the VOD channels now showing in the channel list matching the device list, with no additional actions taken by me. restarted kodi and all channels including VOD were sent to kodi and are working.

The only conclusion i can draw is that when setting up a new device to add channels and keep the integrity of my channel ordering, i need to leave for an extended time before checking channel list / starting Kodi!

[Graham]

The only conclusion i can draw is that when setting up a new device to add channels and keep the integrity of my channel ordering, i need to leave for an extended time before checking channel list / starting Kodi!

It would be helpful if you could post your logs so that we can see what is happening.  Thanks.

It might be that something can be done about the apparent delay.

[thecubasekid]

actually it is still not working, i was looking at the web page for my windows client that i tested with redirect urls and mistakenly thought there was delay in adding the VOD channels, and on my docker client i was too fast to import device after turning off the redirect url in m3u editor so redirect urls were used hence channels being sent. the original issue of VOD showing in device but not in 'channels' and not getting send to kodi still exists. i will clean the stream url from my log and upload...

Thanks

[Graham]

i have them, but didn't post as i saw some stream url with my user/pass in there, and it started working before i had chance to sanitize them...

You can put the zip on Dropbox or somewhere and send a PM to Sub with a link to the zipped logs ... Sub might be able to fix it so that, in future, the logs don't contain user/pass info.

[mvallevand]

Remember for Kodi support you need the Kodi debug log.

Martin

[thecubasekid]

thanks - but it seems it is not getting so far as Kodi although i can get debug log if needed, the channels are missing in the channel lists in nextpvr itself,

Logs covering device creation and screen cap of channels from devices page and channels page post import to illustrate attached.

i did the import to a fresh DB and i am using version 5.0.5.200518

i have the flag <SendVOD>true<SendVOD> set in config.xml

in the screen caps channels 2341 and 2532 are standard stream urls. The missing channels 2342 - 2531 are all VOD channels and the stream urls end in .mkv

there was not a stream url to clean in these logs. i think because i didn't do epg update after import. on the older logs i also did epg update after import and the stream url appeared to be printed when that process finished, or perhaps when i started Kodi shortly after and it pulled the channels (it printed the stream url of the first channel in my m3u) i can try to recreate and clean / post if needed.

any advice would be most appreciated :-)

Thanks!!

[thecubasekid]

So i got it working (really this time!)

i decided to grab a Kodi debug log ready in case it was needed, and saw the below error, one for each VOD channel.

ERROR: cb_transfer_channel_group_member: Cannot find group 'IPTV Channels' or channel '9489'

what is odd is that i can see this and the other vod channels mapped to group 1 which is the IPTV Channel group according the the channel group name table in the DB

i normally delete the group 'IPTV Channels' from nextpvr as it is just a duplicate of the 'all channels' group kodi creates.

i figured i likely will have done this when i had it working previously, so deleted this group from nextpvr and hey presto! the vod channels suddenly show up in the channel list in nextpvr matching the device channel list. bounced kodi and it came up with all the Vod channels in correct groups and no errors in Kodi log!!