unable to connect to recording service

[gunterhausfrau]

I had a hard drive crash, so a good time to start fresh with nPVR. I thought I had everything set, but I keep getting "unable to connect to recording service" error when I try to go to live tv.

When I go to setup it lists tuners "Hauppauge WinTV-7164 BDA ATSC/QAM Tuner" and when I scan it finds channels.

Is it odd that I actually have WinTV-HVR-2250?

Could that be the issue, and if so, a way to set it straight?

Thanks.

[Reddwarf]

I had a hard drive crash, so a good time to start fresh with nPVR. I thought I had everything set, but I keep getting "unable to connect to recording service" error when I try to go to live tv.

When I go to setup it lists tuners "Hauppauge WinTV-7164 BDA ATSC/QAM Tuner" and when I scan it finds channels.

Is it odd that I actually have WinTV-HVR-2250?

Could that be the issue, and if so, a way to set it straight?

Thanks.

Have you allowed Nrecord.exe and NextPVR.exe in firewall settings?

[gunterhausfrau]

The ap needs to go through the firewall to run live TV? In trying to get it to work, I installed WinTV that came with the board, and that seems to get live tv, but still the error with nPVR.

I can try the firewall settings later, but doesn't seem obvious to me...

[sub]

The ap needs to go through the firewall to run live TV?

Usually people wouldnt have to fiddle with the firewall settings, but there is TCP/IP communication between the front end and background recording server. The default Windows firewall fine with this communication happening, but we have seen a few people in the past using thirdparty firewalls that have blocked this communication, requiring the user to explicitly allow this.

[Reddwarf]

Usually people wouldnt have to fiddle with the firewall settings, but there is TCP/IP communication between the front end and background recording server. The default Windows firewall fine with this communication happening, but we have seen a few people in the past using thirdparty firewalls that have blocked this communication, requiring the user to explicitly allow this.

I have experienced this on some installations with the windows firewall too. Once I even had to open the ports manually.

[sub]

Maybe, but most dont have to.

[gunterhausfrau]

it wasn't the firewall, but I'm not sure exactly what did it. Likely it was a rebooting thing once I had it set up. I was a bad user, and fiddled with several things. Thanks for the help, I'll try to be better about tracking fixes.