Can NextPVR import TitanTV .TVPI files to schedule a recording

[FM5]

Thanks FM5.  I will work on the doc over the next week.  Getting the lineups to match was a learning in progress exercise.  I like your suggestion of the "reverse" configuration of the lineups (i.e. change NextPVR and leave Titan as is).  One question though, if you don't create a custom lineup, won't there be channels in the Titan lineup that won't be in NextPVR ?  Thanks again.

I suppose.  It depends.  For ATSC OTA, I get some channels from surprisingly far away, but basically all but one is just a channel in another city that has the same programs as the stations close to me have.  So I don't use those channels in NextPVR, and so I also wouldn't use them in TitanTV.  So the same channels are on NextPVR as are on TitanTV.  

If I make a custom lineup in NextPVR to remove them, then they'd still be in TitanTV unless I make an account and custom lineup there.   So, in that sense, the lineups might be different.  Or I could just mentally skip those channels in one or both lineups.  Granted, that's easier to do when I only have a relatively small number of channels compared to cable/satellite.

I look at it this way: what's the easiest way I can get someone interested in and using the basic functions of this without giving up on it early from it being too complicated or too time-consuming or having to read too much to get it to work.  People don't need a TitanTV account for this, and they don't need a custom lineup for this.  It's good they know ahead of time they need those to streamline this to remove channels they don't use, but if they think those things are required, that's two more hurdles they may not want to jump over to even try it.  

Early in the docu it says, "The best way to see the [Titan TV] benefits is to take a test drive, keeping in mind that if you like it, then you will ditch the default lineup and create your own customized lineup that matches your NextPVR lineup."  That's a great intro.  That's what I'm talking about. (Though I'd tweak that to point out a custom lineup is optional and that channel IDs can be edited in NextPVR.)  It's just then the docu gets more into how to do custom lineups before showing how to do a basic default lineup.

edit: Actually, I get the feeling you wrote that part to get people to go to TitanTV and see how they like the layouts and the extra EPG info, etc. And that's good. But then I think something like that is a great way to then transition into how to test drive a basic default lineup with NextPVR.

[dayvboy]

I'm encountering an issue where it sometimes picks up the wrong channel. Here is a hypothetical example of the issue. Say you have 4 channels that all have the same channel name in the first 10 characters. For example's sake I'll call them channel 1,2,3 and 4. When I request a recording via TVPI file for channel 4, the TVPI utility scheudles it for channel 1 since that's the first channel it finds with a name match and in my case channel 1 also had no epg entry (channel 4 did have epg entry but was never selected). The TVPI file was correct, having the channel name for channel 4 and <rf-channel> tag was set correctly to 4, but the utilitiy scheduled it on channel 1 instead of 4. If I go and prefix 1,2,3 channel names with XX then it selects channel 4 but if they all have the same first 10 characters then it selects the first one it finds.

[mvallevand]

Are you sure the channel 4 name matched the EPG? That loop should finish before the no EPG data logic kicked in. I might have to check if I break on a name match.

I'm assuming users will remove IPTV excess channels they would rarely watch.

Martin

[dayvboy]

actually I think the problem occurred because the start time was off by 1 minute between Titan vs NexPVR, so the log stated "Nothing on at that time" and I guess it then went into the other logic and found the first matching channel name. When I changed the TVPI file start time from 1:36 to 1:35 so that it matched with NextPVR EPG, it scheduled correctly. Any chance of being a bit more forgiving on the start time ?

[mvallevand]

It is set to under one minute so what do you suggest, I honestly don't know or really care what it should be.

Martin

[dayvboy]

Actually its proabably very rare that the start times in Titan vs Schedules Direct (NextPVR) are different so not worth worrying about. Now that I know why it doesn't schedule, its easy to work around. It was a confusing scenario when I first investigated and raised the issue. i'm fine with it the way it is.

[cc58]

I would really like to get this utility working but I receive an error message when trying to execute NextTVPI.exe:

"This app can't run on your PC.
To find a version that will work with your PC, check with the software publisher."

I am running an i3 laptop with 32bit Windows 10 version 22H2 with the latest updates.
Is there a C++ library install required? Or is NextTVPI.exe built only for 64bit?

[mvallevand]

It is build for 64 bit.  I don't have current plans to build or distribute 32 bit version of any of my utilities and I can't test them anyway.  You can let me know if this works.

Martin

[cc58]

It is build for 64 bit.  I don't have current plans to build or distribute 32 bit version of any of my utilities and I can't test them anyway.  You can let me know if this works.

Martin

Thanks for the quick reply!  I downloaded the file and tried record from TitanTV.  It generated a download "program.tvpi".  I double clicked to execute it with NextTVPI.exe.  It didn't work returning the follow error:

Unhandled exception. System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Runtime, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'. The located assembly's manifest definition does not match the assembly reference. (0x80131040)
File name: 'System.Runtime, Version=6.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'

[mvallevand]

I am assuming you are running NextPVR v6?

Martin