EPG Fail

[gnodab]

Apologies for being a total noob. 
I have a new system setup on a Mac using HDHomerun dual tuner. Channels play and record no issue. However, EPG is never displayed. 

Currently I have all channels set to: DVB/ATSC EPG. When I run manual EPG scan I see: 
EPG Update complete. [0 inserted, 0 updated, 0 skipped]

After scan.. all channel listings are "(no listings)". I have tried to adjust the timeout up to 120, 240, and longer. Still no luck. 

I realize that OTA listings will be sparse. But there should be something, correct? Thanks for the help.

[mvallevand]

The OTA EPG in the US is only supported on Windows.

I did write a utility that gets the EPG from SD for HDHR devices should wish to try it. I did write instructions for Windows users but because of lack of user requests I never followed up for non-Windows users https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=64648 I might be able to help you out if you are interested but documentation for macOS is a bt tricky.

Martin

[gnodab]

Ok.. this actually looks doable. Two questions and then I should be able to handle it myself.
1. On Mac OS will it read and interpret the *.bat file. Or should I make a bash script instead?
2. Should I put the script in the NPVR/data/scripts/ folder, or in the ~/.NPVR-data/scripts/ folder?

Thanks a ton for the help!

[mvallevand]

Great.

- It should be a bash script and don't forget to use chmod +x to make it executable.

- UpdateEPG.sh should be in ~/.NPVR-data/scripts/

the script will be different for macOS. Assuming you have dotnet in your path these script should work (using the installed username)

Code:

cd /home/username/NPVR/
dotnet HDHRGuide.dll   /home/username/.NPVR-data/hdhomerun.xml

You can then test this by running

Code:

~/.NPVR-data/scripts/UpdateEPG.sh

and check the the file that was created.

If that works go to NextPVR web Settings->Guide and add this as an XMLTV source. Then go to Settings->Channels->Advanced toole and automap in channel by channel number.

Martin

[gnodab]

Looks like I'm getting an error when trying to run dotnet on the dll.

Code:

$ dotnet HDHRGuide.exe /Users/<username>/.NPVR-data/hdhomerun.xml
A fatal error was encountered. The library 'libhostpolicy.dylib' required to execute the application was not found in '/Users/<username>/NPVR/'.
Failed to run as a self-contained app.
  - The application was run as a self-contained app because '/Users/<username>/NPVR/HDHRGuide.runtimeconfig.json' was not found.
  - If this should be a framework-dependent app, add the '/Users/<username>/NPVR/HDHRGuide.runtimeconfig.json' file and specify the appropriate framework.

A cursory google search seems to indicate that this is a dotnet to Mac thing.

Note: for anyone finding this in the future. On MacOS the paths will not be '/home/<username>/' as on linux but rather '/Users/<username>/'

[mvallevand]

Does adding this as /Users/<username>/NPVR/HDHRGuide.runtimeconfig.json make it work?

Code:

{
  "runtimeOptions": {
    "tfm": "net6.0",
    "framework": {
      "name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
      "version": "6.0.0"
    }
  }
}

[gnodab]

That did it! Awesome... thanks you very much for your time!