Locast streaming and recordings failing

[drbenjamin]

Hi Martin

Sorry for the delay in replying, was away yesterday.

C:\Users\drbenjamin>"C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\locast.bat" 1572389491520
Namespace(format='smart', tune='1572389491520', base=None, stream=False, reverse=False, default=None)
1572389491520
extralocast v0.70
Logging into Locast using username xxxxxxx...
Validating User Info...
User Info obtained.
User didDonate: True
User donationExpire: 2021-05-11 07:49:30
Getting user location...
Getting location via IP Address.
Got external IP xx.xx.xx.xx.
Got location as Seattle - DMA 819 - Lat\Lon 48.690903\-123.099075
Getting station info for 1572389491520...
Determining best video stream for 1572389491520...
Found 0 Playlists
No variant streams found for this station. Assuming single stream only.
https://xxxxx) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/82.0


One other thing - when installing I missed the part about using admin for the command window. I then did a pip uninstall on the packages, reinstalled as admin but a couple were still in the user directory. Now I cant find the command to check the install directories, can you remind me where it is?

[mvallevand]

That certainly looks like the addon should be working, perhaps you didn't follow the instructions and install python correctly as administrator for all users.

Martin

[drbenjamin]

Thanks Martin - got it working! In case anyone else runs into the same issue, I found that uninstalling and reinstalling python wasn't enough. The command

"pip install lxml requests m3u8 " installs several other packages (presumably dependencies) that were in my Users directory. I had to open a command prompt and execute

"pip uninstall lxml requests m3u8 chardet urllib3 idna certifi iso8601" to get rid of all of them, then redo the pip install. Lesson learned - dont' forget to run the command prompt as Admin!

[mvallevand]

Great although that is first line in the instructions https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/install-python

1. Open a command prompt as administrator

Martin

[drbenjamin]

Yes it is, and when I ran the "pip list -v"
"Ensure the added modules are not in the user folder", I saw I had made a mistake. The challenge was what to do about it

Thanks again, great to be back on NPVR!

[mrfosheezy]

Hi!

I am having the same issues. I want to run locast.bat , but it's not included in the locast-0.7.0.zip file. Where can i get the locast.bat file?

[mvallevand]

The batch file is in the data folder scripts/locast and the command would be different in each city. Make sure you follow all the step https://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php?tid=62054

Note I don't support posts without logs.

Martin

[MrBultitude]

I have a similar issue with Locast channels: "Streaming Failed (transcoder exited)"

The output of locast.bat 1572389491219 is:

Namespace(format='smart', tune='1572389491219', base=None, stream=False, reverse=False, default=None)
1572389491219
extralocast v0.94
Validating User Info...
User Info obtained.
User didDonate: True
User donationExpire: 2021-11-01 09:37:02
Getting user location...
Getting location via IP Address.
Got external IP xxxxxxxx.
Got location as Seattle - DMA 819 - Lat\Lon 47.4157\-120.2931
Getting station info for 1572389491219...
Determining best video stream for 1572389491219...
Found 3 Playlists
1572389491219 will use 1280x720 resolution at 2700000bps
https://hls.locastnet.org/proxy/sea/vari...ozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:82.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/90.0

[mvallevand]

That m3u8 is working fine here showing a soap. Typically this problem is because you didn't install python or python modules for all users based on the instructions https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/install-python

As noted in the instructions pip list -v is a good starting point.

I hope to release an alternate Extra soon that will run without python.

Martin

[MrBultitude]

I kept the Install for all users checked.

pip list -v shows:

Code:

Package            Version   Location                                    Installer
------------------ --------- ------------------------------------------- ---------
certifi            2021.5.30 c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
charset-normalizer 2.0.4     c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
idna               3.2       c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
iso8601            0.1.16    c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
lxml               4.6.3     c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
m3u8               0.9.0     c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
pip                21.2.3    c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
requests           2.26.0    c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
setuptools         57.4.0    c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip
urllib3            1.26.6    c:\program files\python39\lib\site-packages pip

What's my next step?

Thanks!!