Plex Channel for NextPVR

[raxxy]

Cheers mate; late reply.

Rasplex recently started using a profiler to force-transcode unsupported codecs, so now I have the best of both worlds.

[MrFusion]

Hi,

First, many thanks indeed for writing this channel!

Got a small problem though...

Over the last week I've installed the latest Plex, NextPVR, Plex app on Samsung BD-H6500, Plex app on Android mobile, Plex app on iPad, and NextPVR channel (from the Live branch).

Issue I'm seeing at the moment with the NextPVR channel is that I can see both live and recorded TV on the Android and iPad, but can only see recorded TV on the Sammy. When I try to start live TV I get the spinny dots for a while, and then get a "file not found" error.

Any hints and/or suggestions for where to start looking?

Thanks!!

[psycik]

Have a dig around in the plex settings and see if you can force transcoding.

Something else you can try is what happens when you try watchng a recording that us in progress?

If could be a fault in how long your samsung waits for a file to exist. As with live everything has to wait until the file has some cibtent. And maybe your blue ray is a little impatient.

[smacrae]

Hi psycik....this channel passed my attention...so wow...you really have playing back of Recorded and Live TV? Just deletions and adding recording is done va the Web Interface from ones tablet or computer right?

Really cool...could I see a few screen grabs? Pretty please....

Just wondering also:

1. Is the latest on GITHUB Live TV enabled?
2. My NextPVR has a password, is your plug-in able to use this?
3. When I tried to go in to preferences from PHT it doesn't allow me to access...do I have to manually edited?

[psycik]

Hi psycik....this channel passed my attention...so wow...you really have playing back of Recorded and Live TV? Just deletions and adding recording is done va the Web Interface from ones tablet or computer right?

Really cool...could I see a few screen grabs? Pretty please....

Just wondering also:

1. Is the latest on GITHUB Live TV enabled?
2. My NextPVR has a password, is your plug-in able to use this?
3. When I tried to go in to preferences from PHT it doesn't allow me to access...do I have to manually edited?

Um, not sure if I have any screen caps anywhere apart from what might be in this thread. And I'm actually between houses at the moment so the NextPVR server has gone into storage.

Regarding your questions.

1. Is the latest on GITHUB Live TV enabled?

Should be if I've done it right. I made a Live fork, but I believe I've moved it back - if not, check the live fork.

EDIT; Looks like no - I'll need to figure out how to merge the fork and the master.

2. My NextPVR has a password, is your plug-in able to use this?

Probably not, it's not something I have on my local instance....you mean your nextpvr has a password even on local network?

3. When I tried to go in to preferences from PHT it doesn't allow me to access...do I have to manually edited?

It should go. To be honest most of my testing was via IOS app and Plex/Web - but the settings were done pretty early and I'd not had any reason to change them.


I'll start up a VM with a basic NextPVR install on it, so I can at least test functionality and a couple of basic updates (and verify that the latest nextpvr hasn't introduced a bug I'm unaware of.

[psycik]

Probably worth starting a thread in 3rd party threads for support, unless you're happy to keep using the one thread for resolving problems.

[smacrae]

I am failing to find the latest version...what I have is from GIT hub on the first post which doesn't have Live TV....any change a link can be posted here to the latest version that have Live TV?

Also, just wondering the feature set...does 'resume' partially watched programs work? If this and Live TV worked and a way of having the metadata show better that would be great....remember here in Australia the metadata in the EPG doesn't include season/episode etc....so just grabbing what is in the EPG for titles and summary would be good enough....

[psycik]

I thought I'd promoted the live branch to be the master,. When I looked at it, it seemed to have the new code as I expected. Is this not the case?

I did have some issues getting plex to tell nextpvr a recording had been partially watched. Not sure if it works the other way though. Channels are not like normal plex videos, so don't expect to start at a certain point.

[psycik]

Also like you we don't have season/episode info, so it should be taking from nextpvr metadata.

[smacrae]

Thanks psycik, I have the latest from the GIT HUB that you have provided a link to in the first post on this thread and only "What's New" and "Recordings" show, not Live TV or EPG options...also on the date of a program one it is selected is shown, no metadata for summary etc.

-SM