NextEnd v5 trial release

[mvallevand]

Martin,

I'm finally getting around to installing the NextEnd v5 trial. So far, a couple of suggestions:
1. In your installation post, maybe include a link to download and installed the .NET Core runtime files. Here's what I used: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/th...-installer

Brett, thanks for the feedback.

Until .netcore is ubiquitous I wanted users to some research some dotnet options but now that sub is distibuting NScriptHelper that also requires the full runtime, a link somewhere is useful. This one is probably better since it will work for x86 users too. https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/dotnet-core/2.2

2. Maybe address the question of why you would or would not want to install it?

I always installed v4 with the binaries there were two reasons I didn't go with that as my first choice for v5.

1. Users might delete the folder as part of a v5 beta release upgrade.
2. Unlike .net framework sub distributes just the dll's he needs (the correct approach). NextEnd requires one he doesn't send out System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.dll and I wanted to try and isolate this in case it changes anything later on.

OK. I'm also confused about which directory to use for the "Unzip attached zip file into a folder Plugins/NextEnd in the v5 user data folder." It may be because I've been testing since the early days of v5 and sub's moved the default location of the Data directory.

I've got a "data" folder in my C:\Program Files\NextPVRv5 folder as well as the C:\Users\Public\NextPVR-data folder. And neither of them have a "Plugins" folder. Which is fine--I can create it. I'm pretty sure that for my install, NextPVR is using the C:\Users\Public\NextPVR-data folder since that's where my scripts that are being run are located. So I'm thinking that I should put it there?

I can't only tell you that it is USER data directory not the static PROGRAM data directory

It will show in the logs at the beginning when you see the locations of the database.

2019-08-29 20:51:08.462 [DEBUG][1] Database: C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\npvr.db3

Martin

[BrettB]

I can't only tell you that it is USER data directory not the static PROGRAM data directory

It will show in the logs at the beginning when you see the locations of the database.

2019-08-29 20:51:08.462 [DEBUG][1] Database: C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\npvr.db3

When I looked more closely at the latest NRecord log file, I found this:

Code:

2019-09-02 11:41:47.211    [DEBUG][14]    NEXTPVR_INSTALLDIR C:\Program Files\NPVRv5\
2019-09-02 11:41:47.212    [DEBUG][14]    NEXTPVR_DATADIR C:\Program Files\NPVRv5\data\
2019-09-02 11:41:47.214    [DEBUG][14]    NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\

So I guess my confusion is that sub now has 2 "DATADIR"s: one in the Program Files folder and the NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA in the C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data folder. And we should use the latter one.

[BrettB]

Getting further...

It's installed and my startup script now runs it OK. But then NextEnd.exe gets an error

Code:

2019-09-02 12:00:41.977    [ERROR][1]    Unexpected error in EPGEvent.LoadByOID(): System.InvalidOperationException: Must add values for the following parameters: ,
   at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at NUtility.EPGEvent.GetListingsForTimePeriod(DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)

[mvallevand]

Right although I don't always see those items logged you need the

NEXTPVR_DATADIR_USERDATA location.

I will update the notes to say it defaults to C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\ on Windows since users aren't used to the new system yet.

Martin

[mvallevand]

Getting further...

It's installed and my startup script now runs it OK. But then NextEnd.exe gets an error

Code:

2019-09-02 12:00:41.977    [ERROR][1]    Unexpected error in EPGEvent.LoadByOID(): System.InvalidOperationException: Must add values for the following parameters: ,
   at Microsoft.Data.Sqlite.SqliteCommand.ExecuteReader(CommandBehavior behavior)
   at NUtility.EPGEvent.GetListingsForTimePeriod(DateTime startTime, DateTime endTime)

Assuming you are running the dotnet method did you update the two json files?

Martin

[BrettB]

Assuming you are running the dotnet method did you update the two json files?

I did go ahead and go with method A of installing dotnet runtime. I'm only seeing instructions for updating 1 file:

Code:

2. If you aren't running in C:\Program Files\NPVR edit NextEnd.runtimeconfiguration and change the D:\\v5\\programs to your binary folder keeping the trailing blanks

Although, I guess I didn't following the instructions properly because I edited the 1st item to be "C:\\Program Files\\NPVRv5\" rather than the last ("D:...") item. I'll make that change and see if it makes a difference.

[mvallevand]

Editing the first one should have worked.

Martin

[BrettB]

Editing the first one should have worked.

Yeah, I didn't think that was the problem. I'm still getting the same error. But is there another .json file that needs to be edited? I see NextEnd.deps.json in the folder. But I don't see any paths pointing to the NPVRv5 executable directory in there.

[mvallevand]

Do you have the client folder with the server binaries?

Martin

[BrettB]

Do you have the client folder with the server binaries?

I think so. Although, again, there may be something funny since I've been testing for a while. I originally installed the client when it was a separate installation .zip file and put it in C:\Program Files\NPVRv5\client (as I recall) and that folder is still there. But now that sub is distributing the client with the main Windows .zip file, it's possible something is different????