How to run NextPVR as a process (without the terminal)

[mvallevand]

I followed your instructions and if you didn't say to do it, I didn't do it but I checked and no I don't have anything for dotnet or most applications there.

Martin

[Allan]

I would expect it to be under "microsoft", which is how I understand system settings sees dotnet on your machine. Stuff shows up by itself (but the OS either prompts you to permit access - in the case of full disk access, for instance - or tells you something is running in the background - in the case of background items).

[mvallevand]

I got prompted which added that first background access screen but nothing is in Files & Folder

Martin

[Allan]

Still hitting a wall on running as root. Weirder - I can put the plist into launchdaemons and use the launchctl load command without sudo (running as my user) and it runs fine (although it barks that this should not be in the launchagents folder). If I try sudo launchctl load, however - with everything else the same - I get "exited due to SIGABRT | sent by dotnet[1429], ran for 167ms".

I am baffled.

[mvallevand]

Just on a wild hunch after a problem today what do you have with

sudo ls -lt /var/root/.aspnet/
sudo ls -lt /var/root/.aspnet/DataProtection-Keys

Maybe the file wasn't created fory you.

In user mode you will see them in ~/.aspnet

Martin

[Allan]

Not such a wild hunch!

ls ~/.aspnet
DataProtection-Keys       dev-certs

Whereas:

ls -lt /var/root/.aspnet/
s: /var/root/.aspnet/: No such file or directory

However, copying the contents of ~/.aspnet to /var/root/.aspnet/ did nothing (still "exited due to SIGABRT"). 

drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  128  4 Feb 16:11 .
drwxr-x---  14 root  wheel  448  4 Feb 16:28 ..
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96  4 Feb 16:11 DataProtection-Keys
drwxr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  96  4 Feb 16:11 dev-certs

permissions of the key in the DataProtection-Keys directory is set to 600

I'm hoping that copying is not the way to fix this and there was some other thing I'm supposed to do.

BTW, I also have an invisible dotnet folder in my user directory. No such directory in /var/root

[Allan]

Solved! I now have nextpvr launching and running when my computer boots up, without logging into a user account.

The launchdaemon works if I add a username key with my user name. When this worked, I deleted the .aspnet and .dotnet folders from /var/root/ with no negative effect - not surprising, mind you, because nextpvr is now accessing my home folder for settings, etc. and should not be looking in the root user directory for anything.

I'm going to experiment with it for a bit and will then post new, detailed instructions to replace the instructions for a launchagent in the first message.

In the interim, if anyone is trying to run it using a launchdaemon, and is using an external drive for their recordings, please note that external drives do not, by default, mount until you log in to a user account. For the easy fix to change that default behaviour, see this post https://gist.github.com/jabenninghoff/f1...73f5d15819