Recordings list empty

[Druhl]

[Relocated from KODI forums]

Hi all.

Have had NextPVR on Windows with addon in KODI on Sony Bravia Android tv working very well for months.

Nothing in my environment has changed in ages but suddenly yesterday the tv hung while displaying a screen saver and I had to power-cycle it manually (have never had a hard hang like that before! I think I will remove that screensaver).

Next launch of KODI and my recordings list was empty. On the NextPVR backend the recordings are all there and playable through its webUI. The NextPVR addon in KODI is otherwise fully functional and communicating with my server (guide, icons, custom groups all present, channels all work).

Uninstalled / reinstalled the addon, cleared PVR data in KODI, ensured NextPVR folder(s) completely removed under addons and userdata after uninstallation, etc.  Nothing will seem to repopulate this list.

Enabled KODI debug logging for addons and PVR and see the following (complete KODI and NextPVR logs are also attached below):

• info <general>: PVR Manager: Starting
  
• error <general>: GetRecordings: Add-on 1 returned an error: server error
  

I see this error on KODI launch, on NextPVR addon restart, and following PVR "clear data" in KODI. A "pvr*.db" file is never created.

There's also a recurring error in the log saying it can't lookup the hostname of my backend server, but I found an old log where this error is also present, but it doesn't seem to affect functionality - and in any case, the server is specified by IP in the addon.

I'm hoping there's some targeted way to fix this without fully nuking my KODI install.

Any ideas greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[mvallevand]

There are too many things going wrong to fully understand but before anything can you reset NextPVR back to the DEBUG log level than you changed in config.xml. At INFO they logs don't help.

After that do an Empty EPG and update the EPG from the web server and then try and load Kodi and provide the logs.

Martin

[Druhl]

Sorry - forgot I'd reduced logs to INFO. They were rolling over super-fast once I started using postprocessing.

Did empty and update epg in web UI, cleared pvr data in kodi a couple times, restarted a couple times, all at debug level.

New logs attached.

Thanks

[mvallevand]

Thanks

1) could you try removing this from your advancedsettings.xml to see if it fixes the scm messages.

<substitute>
<from>special://profile/Thumbnails/</from>
<to>smb://scm/kodi cache/thumbs</to>
</substitute>

2) I probably need your npvr.db3 database to see what is going wrong in it this looks like a parsing error (you can PM me the link)

2025-08-07 09:08:06.514 T:12906 debug <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.nextpvr: DoMethodRequest recording.list&filter=all 14 1848815 323

3) For post processing if you are doing custom work with ffmpeg don't forget to redirect standard output to spare the logs.

Martin

[Druhl]

1) That substitution is actually working correctly - almost 600mb of thumbnails are being successfully redirected to a share on my server instead of being stored locally on the tv (which has ridiculously small local storage). I could still disable it if you just want to see if the message disappears but again, it's actually working.

I have another redirect, not in advancedsettings but just in the KODI GUI under pvr settings, to attempt to redirect channel icons. In the GUI, it browses successfully to that smb path by hostname (scm) without problem, but has never actually redirected anything. But it does seem to resolve the hostname ok.


2) I will pm the link for db3


3) great tip, I actually should have known better!



Thanks

[mvallevand]

OK there is an XML creation issue caused by http recording failure from you IPTV provider and them not providing a reason in the response.

Code:

2025-08-05 23:00:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 512 (<none>).)
2025-08-06 00:30:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)
2025-08-05 23:00:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)
2025-08-05 23:35:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)
2025-08-05 23:35:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 512 (<none>).)
2025-08-05 23:35:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)
2025-08-06 00:00:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)
2025-08-06 00:19:00|One or more errors occurred. (Response status code does not indicate success: 513 (<none>).)

If you can run sqlite the fix to see them is

update scheduled_recording set failure_reason = "Error 512/513" where failure_reason like '%<%';

or just delete them

delete from scheduled_recording where failure_reason like '%<%';

Or simply on NextPVR web go to the Recordings->Failed Rrecordings and delete the 8 recordings with errors 512 or 513, you will want to delete them anyway one way or another

Until sub has a change to format the field correctly the best solution is to find out why you are getting so many errors from your provider..

Martin

[Druhl]

Fixed.

Deleted the recordings with those errors from within the web UI on the server, then relaunched KODI. Recordings were all visible again in KODI.

I think I've occasionally seen errors like that before (there's another - "no data delivered"), haven't been able to tell if it's a drop in connectivity from my IPTV provider or from my ISP (I have wrestled with both). I noticed the timestamps of a few of the failures were identical, on channels that work fine 99% of the time.

I will add that this is the first time it prevented the recordings from populating within KODI though - previously I noted this type of failure from within KODI.

Thank you so very much for your assistance as always. As I mentioned before, I'd fearlessly reduced my logging level to INFO because it's so long since I'd had any problems!

Thanks again.