NextDVR and IPTVSmarters

[toddinhali]

Good day all. I'm a technically savvy person, but am new to the IPTV world, so am learning as I go. I have an IPTV provider (Xtreme HD IPTV) and have set up IPTVSmarters with it, and it works very well. However, it does not have built-in recording (in the Windows app, at least), so I'm trying to use NextDVR for the recording piece.

My understanding is NextDVR acts as a background middleman, and should be able to communicate with IPTVSMarters (or whatever player) and forward the streams to it. I have pointed it to the provider stream under devices, and can see all the channels in NextDVR.

Where I'm kind of stuck is getting IPTVSmarters to connect to NextDVR. I had thought I just needed to point the player to 127.0.0.1:8866 but it tells me it's an invalid set up.

Any quick tips to finishing this off? Thanks!

Todd

[mvallevand]

NextPVR doesn't connect to players. It connects to IPTV m3u and EPG lists. Try looking here https://youtu.be/psb8WZQ5ggA?t=136 The video is out of date most users will want to filter groups when they import but you get the idea.

Martin

[toddinhali]

NextPVR doesn't connect to players.  It connects to IPTV m3u and EPG lists. Try looking here https://youtu.be/psb8WZQ5ggA?t=136 The video is out of date most users will want to filter groups when they import but you get the idea.

Martin

Thanks for that, Martin. So, I need to use the native player in NextDVR, at least for the recordings. My provider doesn't seem to provide an EPG list (I've opened a ticket with them so see if they can provide), so it's just the channel list that I get, which is a bit of a pain, but I'll deal with that.

Todd

[mvallevand]

You can use whatever player you want for the recordings, they are standard video files. There are also dedicated NextPVR clients on Apple, Android and Roku, plus interfaces to Kodi, Emby and Jellyfin.

Note the problem is actually called NextPVR

Martin

[toddinhali]

Note the problem is actually called NextPVR

Martin

Yes, more coffee needed for me, clearly.

Todd