Ceton Infinitv4, Windows 10

[mvallevand]

The short answer is no. The longer answer is the ChannelOID will be different in the XML file so if you are good with sqlite and want to manually edit the ChannelOID with the new value from the database it is possible.

Martin

[Pctravel]

no worries, I'll just manually set it up again.

[AFelectrngineer]

st0rmcat Wrote:
I moved from WMC and jumped into NextPVR very recently.  I have an InfiniTV 6 network tuner and wrote a Windows app that sits in front of the Ceton and emulates an HD HomeRun device, specifically so I could get it to work with NextPVR v5.  It's a quick and dirty app written in Delphi (I know..), but so far it's working for me.  I felt bad just keeping it to myself, so I put it up here in case it might work for someone else:  https://github.com/craigmox/cetonproxy

Is anyone familiar with this app (cetonproxy) from @ st0rmcat?  I have some questions about app that was written for Ceton InfiniTV ETH6. 

- Is that emulation only working in NextPVR or has it been tried with any other software?
- What operating system(s) does it work on?
- Do I need to uninstall the Ceton drivers and then install any other drivers? What drivers? Where can I get the needed drivers?
- Does the app need to be running before launching NextPVR (or other software if it does work on anything else)?
- Is there a step by step guide?

I have an InfiniTV ETH6 with a CableCard and would appreciate any insight and instruction that anyone here might be willing to assist me with. Thanks!

[roundcubesixteen]

MC works great with my Ceton devices in Win7.  Has anyone got Ceton working in Win10. shareit vidmate

[Pctravel]

Yes I'm using Ceton in Windows 10 working perfectly with NextPVR and Kodi interface. Search this thread: Ceton Infinitv4, Windows 10. They show up as "Extra" tuner.

The Ceton proxy also worked in windows 10 but my issue was that for some reason I had to refresh the channels on restart for it to work. Using the setup as described in the above thread it works after restarts without any efforts.

[Pctravel]

First stage prerequisites:

1. A Schedule direct or xmltv EPG source for the channel number
2. Install OpenDCT https://github.com/enternoescape/opendct The notes are a bit cryptic but I will help you there.  These scripts works with the default opendct.properties file but if you have been using SageTV you need to ensure that

consumer.ffmpeg.upload_id_enabled=true

**************You had helped me years ago get my Ceton tuner working with this Extra tuner route. It's been working flawlessly up to 9/5.  Since then SOMETHING has gone wrong and I am no longer able to get the tuner to work. Status still shows all tuners but anytime I click on a channel either with NextPVR channels or Kodi (which is how I had been doing it) it's timeouts and states "Streaming Failed- transcoder exited". 

Not sure which logs would help identify what happened but would really appreciate your assistance once again. Please let me know what you think might help.

Here is a snip of the error log:


2021-09-14 18:09:24.772 [DEBUG][20] {"status": "Starting Device. Please Wait...","final": false,"speed": 1,"duration": 0,"percentage": 0}
2021-09-14 18:09:24.786 [DEBUG][58] StopStream(2097163)...
2021-09-14 18:09:24.786 [DEBUG][58] clientHandle[ede4a030-216a-4be7-a6bb-1aa60a74a0dd] = 2097163
2021-09-14 18:09:24.786 [DEBUG][58] Calling StopStream()
2021-09-14 18:09:24.786 [DEBUG][58] StopStream handle: 11
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] Closing TSWriter....: LIVE&C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [ERROR][58] writer.Close() did not complete in a timely fashion
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] Close@2
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] Closing mapAccessor
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] Closing mapMMF
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] Closing mapFileStream
2021-09-14 18:09:24.787 [DEBUG][58] deleting C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts.map
2021-09-14 18:09:24.788 [ERROR][58] Writer can't remove .map file: The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts.map' because it is being used by another process.
2021-09-14 18:09:24.788 [DEBUG][58] Close@exit
2021-09-14 18:09:24.788 [DEBUG][58] StopStream@exit
2021-09-14 18:09:24.802 [DEBUG][60] Closing extras standard-out
2021-09-14 18:09:24.802 [DEBUG][58] StopStream() done
2021-09-14 18:09:24.803 [DEBUG][58] Unable to delete live map: C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts.map (The process cannot access the file 'C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts.map' because it is being used by another process.)
2021-09-14 18:09:24.807 [DEBUG][58] Cleaning up: C:\Users\Public\Videos\live-WWSI-16852-5.ts
2021-09-14 18:09:24.808 [DEBUG][42] [FFMPEG]: http://127.0.0.1:8867/live?channeloid=81...a60a74a0dd: Invalid data found when processing input
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42] Got request [::1]: /services/service (channel.transcode.status)
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42] method=channel.transcode.status
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42] parameters:
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42]   method: channel.transcode.status
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42]   format: json
2021-09-14 18:09:25.271 [DEBUG][42]   sid: ede4a030-216a-4be7-a6bb-1aa60a74a0dd
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42]   client_ip: ::1
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42]   user_agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/93.0.4577.63 Safari/537.36
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42]   host_callback: ...
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42] GetStatus() got transcoder
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42] GetStatus()@nochild
2021-09-14 18:09:25.272 [DEBUG][42] {"status": "Streaming Failed (transcoder exited)","final": true,"duration": 0,"percentage": 0}
2021-09-14 18:09:28.631 [DEBUG][58] <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<rsp stat="ok">
<Status>
  <Device oid="27" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 1.xml)">
  </Device>
  <Device oid="28" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 2.xml)">
  </Device>
  <Device oid="29" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 3.xml)">
  </Device>
  <Device oid="30" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 4.xml)">
  </Device>
  <Device oid="31" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 5.xml)">
  </Device>
  <Device oid="32" identifier="EXTRA Recorder (extras-DCT-Ceton InfiniTV PCIe (00-80-9f-48) Tuner 6.xml)">
  </Device>
</Status>

[mvallevand]

Is it all channels? I know I read recently that some cableco's including Cox shut off everything but the local stations.

I believe the Ceton logs identify if the channels are encrypted.

Also providing snippets don't usually help. You missed the relevant part of the log.

Martin

[Pctravel]

Is it all channels?  I know I read recently that some cableco's  including Cox shut off everything but the local stations.

I believe the Ceton logs identify if the channels are encrypted.

Also providing snippets don't usually help.  You missed the relevant part of the log.

Martin

Yes, any channel I select but the Ceton Diagnostics shows it's locking a channel in the test. I'm not seeing a service for OpenDCT, should I see that?  I attached the logs here.

[Pctravel]

Is it all channels?  I know I read recently that some cableco's  including Cox shut off everything but the local stations.

I believe the Ceton logs identify if the channels are encrypted.

Also providing snippets don't usually help.  You missed the relevant part of the log.

Martin

Actually I think this log may show the issue.  Looks like it's an Opendct issue? Here is the opendct log.

[mvallevand]

I am not sure if it OpenDCT, Java, or your Ceton. You will need to post on the SageTV forum. Was there a java update around the 5th?

Martin