NextEnd v5 trial release

[mvallevand]

I am trying to avoid installing the runtime and tying in to sub's framework. When you ran did you have the environment variable set,?

[VCR58]

I am trying to avoid installing the runtime and tying in to sub's framework. When you ran did you have the environment variable set,?

Ok. Yes I ran SET DOTNET_ROOT="C:\Program Files\NPVR from a CMD prompt, then start /b "" "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\Plugins\NextEnd\NextEnd.exe" --monitor

[mvallevand]

Ok thanks for testing and glad you got it started. I will do some more research and testing on machines without the runtime. At least it reuses the the required non core files.

Martin

[jcole998]

As a V4 NextEnd user, I'd like to get the V5 version working also. I'm trying to follow this thread but it has raised a few questions:

My V5 NextPVR binaries are in "c:\Program Files (x86)\NPVRV5". I've changed "NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json" to replace the line "D:\\V5\\programs\" with "c:\\Program Files (x86)\\NPVRV5\". Is this correct?
After copying "hostfxr.dll" into "c:\Users\Public\NPVR-Data\Plugins\NextEnd", I get the same error as VCR58 indicating that I need to download .NET Core 2.2.

Going to the Microsoft site, I'm presented with a myriad of download choices! Do I download the 64- or 32-bit runtime? I'm running 64-bit Win10 but the V5 binaries are in the 32-bit Program Files folder.

Can you help?

Thanks.

[mvallevand]

@JohnC V5 is a 64 bit app so technically you have it in the wrong folder you need two back slashes at the end in runtime json and and also that environment setting. I suspect unzipping with NextPVR will also work. I need to test later. All else failing install the ,64 but runtime

Martin

[VCR58]

...Going to the Microsoft site, I'm presented with a myriad of download choices! Do I download the 64- or 32-bit runtime?

If you choose the 64 bit runtime it will install both 64 bit and 32 bit. At least it did for me.

[jcole998]

Thanks to both. Moving V5 to the correct folder should be easy. But...concerning the download, do I need both .NET and ASP.net?

[mvallevand]

I did some more testing and it appears if you install NextPVR.exe and the dll's in the zip with sub's package, it will work without a dotnet if you don't copy the json files.

@jcole998 NextEnd doesn't need ASP.net but you shouldn't need the runtime if you do the above step.

Martin

[jcole998]

Thanks, Martin. Saw your post after installing dotnet. dotnet installation cured the errors and entries is the NextEnd.log file look just fine so I think I'm past that problem. Extra steps can introduce unwanted errors if I don't follow them correctly so I'll skip them for now. Might be a fall-back just in case. Does NextEnd monitor NASACAR as it has done in the past for V4?

Thanks again.

[mvallevand]

This version of NextEnd is just a v4 port so it should work the same and uses the same server with the same response handling.

This version isn't very great at logging because it rolls with every recording. I was hoping that sub would have time to add log feature to toggle logging but that didn't make it to this past beta.

Martin