Recordings sometimes cutoff and EPG not updating

[stonedemoman]

Howdy, first off I must confess both programming and Linux are not in my wheelhouse of familiarity and I am just now starting to learn. Please ELI5 if you can figure out the issue/what I did wrong.

I started off installing the official nextpvr docker image on my synology NAS. Watching LiveTV over my IPTV provider worked great on my Nvidia shield TV Kodi client, but I noticed some recordings would get cut off at some point during the process and this error would repeat in the log:

[36] HTTP input source starting

[36] Unexpected error in HTTP input source: System.Net.WebException: The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found.

  at System.Net.HttpWebRequest.GetResponse()

  at NShared.Shim.InputSourceHTTP.WorkerThread()

Since then I've switched to marklambert's custom image with comskip and I'm happy with the results of my IPTV service except for two issues:

• Some recordings (once or twice a day maybe) are getting cut off and returning the same error I described earlier.
  
• EPG is not automatically updating, but works fine manually updating from a web url XMLTV source. (I noticed this yesterday when the guide data stopped)
  

Small side note: I'm curious what the <EPGUpdateHour> option is for in config, as adjusting the automatic epg update time only changed the <EPGUpdateTime> option below it.

[mvallevand]

The 404 will come from the provider so the only solution is a more stable provider. It does look like sub is calling too many times with that 404 which could get you locked out.

The hour is obsolete. Makes sure you have the time set up in the guide. It is also possible that your timezone needs to be set for your Docker to match the real timezone. If you do a forum search you should be able to find the setting. If you are really in the US the logs are showing for later times then happen in the US

Martin

[stonedemoman]

The 404 will come from the provider so the only solution is a more stable provider.  It does look like sub is calling too many times with that 404 which could get you locked out.

The hour is obsolete.  Makes sure you have the time set up in the guide.  It is also possible that your timezone needs to be set for your Docker to match the real timezone.    If you do a forum search you should be able to find the setting.  If you are really in the US the logs are showing for later times then happen in the US

Martin

Hello Martin,

Just wanted to get back to you and say I really appreciate your advice. Thank you so much, I think the issue has been corrected with EPG updates after I followed instructions in another thread about the timezone environment variable not applying to docker container.

Additionally, my main router happened to be reset when I installed a UPS to my NAS and I have not had a failed recording since. This may just be a fluke of course, but is it possible 404 can be caused by an internal network error?

[mvallevand]

The nature of the error "The remote server returned an error: (404) Not Found" doesn't look like a router error, but it never hurts to do a planned restart of a router from time to time.

Martin