NPVR - Getting started, current patches, tips and tricks **!!!!PLEASE READ!!!!**

[steveum]

I am one of the people that have yet to make the leap from GBPVR to NPVR. This thread certainly goes a long way to consolidating a lot of the posts I have been following over the last couple of months. It is very well written. There are couple of things that are still holding me back though:

Is there any thread or instructions on how someone can migrate their recordings from GBPVR to NPVR?

Is there any threads or instructions on setting up the EPG to Schedules Direct when you have multiple line ups?

[johnsonx42]

ooohh... dangerously close to a support request... off with his head!!! :eek:
ok, just kidding...

NPVR can import a recordingsdump.xml from GB-PVR to get your existing recordings. This is mentioned in the release notes for 1.5.19. I will perhaps add a note about this somewhere in the sticky.

For importing season recordings, there is a utility written by kendrak24 which I've linked in the sticky under Utilities. In my book it's easier just to recreate season recordings unless you have an huge number of them (which kendrak24 apparently did).

With multiple lineups on SD, as far as I know MC2XML (and XMLTV I guess) will just merge all the lineups into one file; then in NPVR you just link the physical channel to the EPG channel you want (instead of the other way around as in GBPVR). I don't have multiple lineups though, so I really can't say for sure. I guess I'd say try pulling down your epg with MC2XML and have a look in the file, see what you get.

For further help, new support thread please.

[martint123]

NPVR can import a recordingsdump.xml from GB-PVR to get your existing recordings. This is mentioned in the release notes for 1.5.19. I will perhaps add a note about this somewhere in the sticky.

I'm curious if anyone knows if the reverse works? i.e. export npvr and import into gbpvr (for dual use when testing "just in case") I guess, vidimport would do the trick though.

For importing season recordings, there is a utility written by kendrak24 which I've linked in the sticky under Utilities. In my book it's easier just to recreate season recordings unless you have an huge number of them (which kendrak24 apparently did).

Sadly this crashes for me and as yet no reply in his thread.

How do you "just recreate a season recording"? I have quite a few in gbpvr and AFAIK the only way to create them is from the TV Guide which is no good for many of mine which are designed to catch things that only appear once in a while and are not currently in the EPG.

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[johnsonx42]

Sadly this crashes for me and as yet no reply in his thread.

Can anyone confirm if that utility works at all? If it's mostly unusable, then I shouldn't have it listed in the sticky.

How do you "just recreate a season recording"? I have quite a few in gbpvr and AFAIK the only way to create them is from the TV Guide which is no good for many of mine which are designed to catch things that only appear once in a while and are not currently in the EPG.

Yes, you do have to find them in the TV guide first. I did have some season recordings that are currently off the air but may come back later; I guess I'll just have to pay attention or miss a few. It's only TV after all.

[mvallevand]

How do you "just recreate a season recording"? I have quite a few in gbpvr and AFAIK the only way to create them is from the TV Guide which is no good for many of mine which are designed to catch things that only appear once in a while and are not currently in the EPG.

I don't think it would be possible in GBPVR directly on a blank database either. You can do this in NPVR using NEWA and I will be adding this to SearchLite when UJB has returned and he and I discuss a couple of things

Martin

[martint123]

I don't think it would be possible in GBPVR directly on a blank database either.

I don't think so either, but before gbpvr there was video tape (for me anyway) so there was no equivalent upgrade path, but their ought to be with a successor product (carefully avoiding the upgrade word).

You can do this in NPVR using NEWA and I will be adding this to SearchLite when UJB has returned and he and I discuss a couple of things

I really must get round to reading the NEWA docs and find out how how it can search future EPG entries. As the base gbpvr and it's pc client were sufficient for all our needs, I had no need for EWA, so never investigated properly.

[ACTCMS]

I really must get round to reading the NEWA docs and find out how how it can search future EPG entries. As the base gbpvr and it's pc client were sufficient for all our needs, I had no need for EWA, so never investigated properly.

EWA's autosearch/autorecord feature along with the CLI utility can be used to have EWA scan the EPG on a regular basis (I do it daily) to look for shows based on character strings (and a few other things - channel, etc) so that if you add an autorecord for "matrix" it will automatically record any show with the string "matrix" in the title (or optionally subtitle or description). EWA accounts for about 99% of my recordings, although you can get some stuff you don't want, but it's easy enough to delete stuff...

[martint123]

OK thanks for that. I've had a bit of a search, but can't seem to find a CLI for NEWA, so will keep my eyes open. (there again, it may be me, but I can't seem to find much one NEWA at all....).

[ACTCMS]

OK thanks for that. I've had a bit of a search, but can't seem to find a CLI for NEWA, so will keep my eyes open. (there again, it may be me, but I can't seem to find much one NEWA at all....).

Sorry, I was referring to my experiences with GBPVR's EWA - I'm not sure if the CLI will still work with NEWA, but I'm sure if I ask UJB very nicely, he will convert it.

[Reddwarf]

EWA's autosearch/autorecord feature along with the CLI utility can be used to have EWA scan the EPG on a regular basis (I do it daily) to look for shows based on character strings (and a few other things - channel, etc) so that if you add an autorecord for "matrix" it will automatically record any show with the string "matrix" in the title (or optionally subtitle or description). EWA accounts for about 99% of my recordings, although you can get some stuff you don't want, but it's easy enough to delete stuff...

This again brungs my toughts to the intelligent plugin (see Wishlist -> Shows you may want to watch). A typical task for such a plugin