NPVR to download recordings from STB/DVR?

[Joram]

Ref: https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.ph...#pid611591
>>... you can use the NextPVR web to download recordings.<<

This is an intriguing idea. How would one set the NPVR web app to download recordings from a STB/DVR? I looked around the Wiki but didn't come across anything that seemed directly to address this scenario.

[mvallevand]

Sorry I may have steered your thinking and I didn't elaborate on it because you won't accept using a home LAN for NextPVR I was talking downloading a NextPVR recording using the web interface.

To access any recordings on the STB, you'd need to use Hauppauge capture and start it manually. I did experiment with yauiclient controlling a STB or android box by remote but the lag between key presses makes it awkward.

Martin

[Joram]

Martin, thank you for the explanation. Will keep using Hauppauge Capture for that purpose.

[sub]

There was really no point in us pursuing that type of functionality in NextPVR. There is no way for NextPVR to know what recordings are available etc, and since pretty much set top box in the world has a different UI, it'd be impossible to drive the UI with a remote.

[mvallevand]

I was navigating the remote UI fine with both LIRC and ADB from yauiclient fine and manual recordings worked ok. I gave up because the 3 second delay between the click and the captured screen getting displayed was annoying.

Martin

[Joram]

Yeah, I notice a similar kind of delay navigating the DVR's menu with the DVR remote when working through Hauppauge Capture. When scrolling down the list of recorded programs, it's easy to overshoot and end up on a recording two or three listings down from the one I wanted. So I can see how it would be less than ideal for NextPVR.

[Joram]

Got a chance to experiment a little bit with this concept.

Both Hauppauge Capture and WinTV will display whatever is on the TV screen and also record (capture) it if you press the Record button, including if you switch to the DVR recordings and start playing one. In the case of NPVR GUI, if you have it on Live TV and then use the DVR's remote to play a DVR recording, it will play the DVR recording in the GUI window but record the TV channel that the DVR's tuner is set to.

BTW this is not at all a complaint, only a data point. I could take advantage of it if I wanted to record something else on NPVR while watching a DVR recording via NPVR.

[mvallevand]

You probably need to create tuner a fake channel that doesn't send a blaster command in your tuner script.

Martin