NextEnd v5 trial release

[BackwardsK]

It's not turning off the check, it's the user specifying where to check. If the user can just point the plugin to the ip it should try and continue to grab the port from config.xml (or allow the user to specify the port as well, optionally) then things should be ok.

But now I'm wondering... based on the output, it must have been able to query the nextpvr server to determine the game details, right? How was it able to query the game details at the start but then fail this check that causes it to bail?

[mvallevand]

NextEnd is designed only to run on the server so an IP isn't needed, it is never used or checked, just that check for open port. NextEnd uses undocumented NextPVR C# library API so some calls will use the database directly, I am not sure how they actually are implemented. I am just grateful that sub allowed this to work for over a decade from v3 to v7 without me having to change much.

Martin

[BackwardsK]

That's unfortunate, thanks for the details. Guess it's 3 hour padding on all sports recordings instead.

[mvallevand]

Or you can fix your setup, VPN or whatever that is doing the blocking.

Martin

[BackwardsK]

Unfortunately, not an option for this build.

[BackwardsK]

And just to confirm, I wrote a quick C# app that makes the GetActiveTcpListeners() call and sure enough it throws a System.UnauthorizedAccessException on this box. A little more digging and, indeed, access to the active listeners list on the system is restricted. Static padding on the recordings it is!

[mvallevand]

What if you add nextpvr user to netdev

Martin

[BackwardsK]

No root access on this box for me.

[mvallevand]

I just did a minor update to the server to handle the team move from Arizona to the Utah Hockey Club

Martin

[VCR58]

When upgrading to v7 I noticed that NextEnd was not starting,

I found that a file called "MediaInfo.Wrapper.Core.dll" was missing. After locating this file in my backup snapshots I added it to the nextPVR system folder (Linux) and then NextEnd worked again.

Is "MediaInfo.Wrapper.Core.dll" included with the v7 distro? If not, should it?

Thanks