Plex Channel for NextPVR

[cpucrust]

There should be no extra setting to play with.

Have you tried plex/web on your computers?

It turned out that I had an old version of Plex Home Theater installed on my Windows PC - even though I did all the updates.

Solution on the Plex client PC:
1) I uninstalled PHT - it did not uninstall cleanly
2) Manually removed APPDATA\Plex
3) Manually removed Program Files x86\Plex
4) Installed the latest stable as of today: 1.2.1.314-7cb0133e
5) NextPVR plugin now works!

Thanks!

[psycik]

It turned out that I had an old version of Plex Home Theater installed on my Windows PC - even though I did all the updates.

Solution on the Plex client PC:
1) I uninstalled PHT - it did not uninstall cleanly
2) Manually removed APPDATA\Plex
3) Manually removed Program Files x86\Plex
4) Installed the latest stable as of today: 1.2.1.314-7cb0133e
5) NextPVR plugin now works!

Thanks!

you also should have been able to try http://plexserver:32400/web to test it also (not the nextpvr EWA address).

[cpucrust]

Yes. The web access worked perfectly. It was an older Plex Home Theater which stayed around, even though the updates were applied.

Are there any plans to add reading of the NPVR EPG data to the Plex-NPVR channel?

Awesome plugin and thanks.

[psycik]

Yes. The web access worked perfectly. It was an older Plex Home Theater which stayed around, even though the updates were applied.

Are there any plans to add reading of the NPVR EPG data to the Plex-NPVR channel?

Awesome plugin and thanks.

I keep thinking about that, and setting recordings etc. But the UI for channels really doesn't lend itself well to operations other than just straight playback. Even figuring out deleting is hard enough.

[cpucrust]

Is it because the Plex Channel API is limited in some way(s)?
I just browsed the source code in Github out of preliminary interest to see what could be done, but unfortunately I'm not fluent in Python at all (spend all my time as C++/C# developer).
Of course, I suspect a thorough understanding of the NextPVR API would also be necessary.

[psycik]

Is it because the Plex Channel API is limited in some way(s)?
I just browsed the source code in Github out of preliminary interest to see what could be done, but unfortunately I'm not fluent in Python at all (spend all my time as C++/C# developer).
Of course, I suspect a thorough understanding of the NextPVR API would also be necessary.

Yeah. The channel api is quite different from the media API in terms of capabilities. So it a matter of working around it.

That's how I learnt. I've not seen any python before I wrote that channel. Like you schooled in C# only.

[EmptyInTheHead]

I noticed that the latest version of NextPVR 3.3.9 breaks the this Plex plugin if you specify the new NextPVR multi-part channel option. For example, in NextPVR you can now specify a channel number as 3.1 instead of just 3. If you do this the channel doesn't get the additional digit and just asks Plex for channel # 3, probably because it doesn't know how to get the additional part. You can work around this by not using the multi-part channel number, or if you already changed them, you can change them back by specifying zero (0) as the second part.

[psycik]

Ok I'll have to have a look and see what's happening.

Have a look in Your logs (plex.log) in with the rest of the NextPVR logs and send them through, and I'll see if I can see what you're passing to the channel.

[skl111]

Yeah. The channel api is quite different from the media API in terms of capabilities. So it a matter of working around it.

That's how I learnt. I've not seen any python before I wrote that channel. Like you schooled in C# only.

Any chance you would change your mind and put in and EPG Listing?

[EmptyInTheHead]

I get this error only from my Android client (Nexus 7). I can't seem to attach a log, but this is a clip that seems relevant from the NextPVR plugin log.

2014-11-19 15:57:21,367 (2e8c) : INFO (logkit:16) - LiveMenu: URL set to http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=61&si...exapp-plex
2014-11-19 15:57:21,367 (2e8c) : INFO (logkit:16) - CreateVideoClipObject: Playvideo: http://127.0.0.1:8866/live?channel=61&si...exapp-plex
2014-11-19 15:57:21,368 (2e8c) : WARNING (objectkit:200) - Media part has no streams - attempting to synthesize
2014-11-19 15:57:21,375 (2e8c) : DEBUG (runtime:106) - Sending packed state data (111 bytes)
2014-11-19 15:57:21,375 (2e8c) : DEBUG (runtime:918) - Response: [200] MediaContainer, 13933 bytes
2014-11-19 15:57:29,789 (2458) : DEBUG (runtime:717) - Handling request GET /video/nextpvr/videoclipobject?channel=7153&container=mp2ts&include_container=True&includeRelated=1&includeRelatedCount=0&rating_key=3&summary=A%20Dentist's%20Dilemma%3A%20My%20Ex-Wife%20and%20Ex-Girlfriend%20Are%20Plotting%20Against%20Me!%3A%20Rick%20says%20his%20ex-wife%20and%20ex-girlfriend%20have%20teamed%20up%20to%20ruin%20his%20life%20by%20keeping%20him%20away%20from%20his%20child%3B%20they%20say%20he%20is%20controlling%20and%20abusive%2C%20and%20they%20fear%20he%20is%20a%20danger.&title=KTVK-HD%20%3A%20Dr.%20Phil&url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A8866%2Flive%3Fchannel%3D3%26sid%3Dplex%26client%3D1d214f67959008f-com-plexapp-plex
2014-11-19 15:57:29,792 (2458) : DEBUG (runtime:814) - Found route matching /video/nextpvr/videoclipobject
2014-11-19 15:57:29,792 (2458) : CRITICAL (core:572) - Exception (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins\Framework.bundle\Contents\Resources\Versions\2\Python\Framework\components\runtime.py", line 843, in handle_request
result = f(**d)
TypeError: CreateVideoClipObject() got an unexpected keyword argument 'includeRelated'

2014-11-19 15:57:29,795 (2458) : DEBUG (runtime:106) - Sending packed state data (111 bytes)
2014-11-19 15:57:29,795 (2458) : DEBUG (runtime:918) - Response: [500] 518 bytes
2014-11-19 15:57:29,957 (2390) : DEBUG (runtime:717) - Handling request GET /video/nextpvr/videoclipobject?channel=7153&container=mp2ts&include_container=True&includeRelated=1&includeRelatedCount=0&rating_key=3&summary=A%20Dentist's%20Dilemma%3A%20My%20Ex-Wife%20and%20Ex-Girlfriend%20Are%20Plotting%20Against%20Me!%3A%20Rick%20says%20his%20ex-wife%20and%20ex-girlfriend%20have%20teamed%20up%20to%20ruin%20his%20life%20by%20keeping%20him%20away%20from%20his%20child%3B%20they%20say%20he%20is%20controlling%20and%20abusive%2C%20and%20they%20fear%20he%20is%20a%20danger.&title=KTVK-HD%20%3A%20Dr.%20Phil&url=http%3A%2F%2F127.0.0.1%3A8866%2Flive%3Fchannel%3D3%26sid%3Dplex%26client%3D1d214f67959008f-com-plexapp-plex
2014-11-19 15:57:29,959 (2390) : DEBUG (runtime:814) - Found route matching /video/nextpvr/videoclipobject
2014-11-19 15:57:29,959 (2390) : CRITICAL (core:572) - Exception (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\admin\AppData\Local\Plex Media Server\Plug-ins\Framework.bundle\Contents\Resources\Versions\2\Python\Framework\components\runtime.py", line 843, in handle_request
result = f(**d)
TypeError: CreateVideoClipObject() got an unexpected keyword argument 'includeRelated'

2014-11-19 15:57:29,960 (2390) : DEBUG (runtime:106) - Sending packed state data (111 bytes)
2014-11-19 15:57:29,960 (2390) : DEBUG (runtime:918) - Response: [500] 518 bytes