Puzzled about the Service

[jcole998]

I installed the ...190916 version of V5 and ran "InstallService.bat." Got a lot of OKs but service startup didn't complete. I changed the service startup parameter to "Manual" and rebooted. I started the service manually and this time it completed and shows "Running" in the task manager.

I next tried to record while not signed in:
- Start the desktop app.
- Scheduled a future show
- Signed out.

When the designated time arrived, nothing happened(the tuner LED didn't light). I signed back in and started "NextPVRServer.exe." After a few seconds, the tuner LED turned on and the show was recorded to completion.

Is this normal? I thought the service would allow recordings without being signed in. Have I got it wrong?

Thanks.

[sub]

I installed the ...190916 version of V5 and ran "InstallService.bat." Got a lot of OKs but service startup didn't complete. I changed the service startup parameter to "Manual" and rebooted. I started the service manually and this time it completed and shows "Running" in the task manager.

I next tried to record while not signed in:
- Start the desktop app.
- Scheduled a future show
- Signed out.

When the designated time arrived, nothing happened(the tuner LED didn't light).

You'd probably need to supply the logs, and list us know what time to look at.

[jcole998]

My apologies, sub. (At least Martin didn't catch me.:o)

I'll get them to you asap.

[jcole998]

As requested. Recording was scheduled at 2pm ET Chnl 502.

[sub]

Was it this show? It looks like its created the file, and started recording ok. Do you get a file? Does it have stuff in it?

2019-09-21 14:04:13.083 [DEBUG][9] HDHomeRunRecorder.StartStream()
2019-09-21 14:04:13.160 [DEBUG][9] source@1
2019-09-21 14:04:13.160 [DEBUG][9] Requesting: http://192.168.1.155:5004/tuner0/v502
2019-09-21 14:04:13.166 [DEBUG][9] Creating writer: E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.ts
2019-09-21 14:04:13.183 [DEBUG][9] Created Mutex: Global\NPVR-mutex-78624152e8130afcfdfbf329f5cb8278
2019-09-21 14:04:13.185 [DEBUG][9] Created map: System.IO.FileStream
2019-09-21 14:04:13.188 [DEBUG][9] StartStream [E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.ts] allocated handle: 1
2019-09-21 14:04:13.188 [DEBUG][9] StartStream() returned handle=1
2019-09-21 14:04:13.189 [DEBUG][9] Allocated Handle: 1
2019-09-21 14:04:13.189 [DEBUG][9] Started recording (867:1:E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.ts)
2019-09-21 14:04:13.221 [DEBUG][9] Starting: C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\ParallelProcessing.bat "E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.ts" 502 867 21 "CBS Fall Preview Show"

[jcole998]

The show was recorded from 14:04 to completion and plays back just fine.

This show was supposed to start recording at 14:00. 14:04 was when I signed back into the system and started "NextPVRServer.exe." An earlier log shows the program being scheduled. My recollection at the time was that "NextPVR Service" was running the whole time which I thought would start the recording at 14:00.

PS - Where did the file "E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.xml" come from? Same name as recorded .ts file but with .xml.

[sub]

This show was supposed to start recording at 14:00. 14:04 was when I signed back into the system and started "NextPVRServer.exe." An earlier log shows the program being scheduled. My recollection at the time was that "NextPVR Service" was running the whole time which I thought would start the recording at 14:00.

The service was stopped about 13:47, so wasn't running at 14:00 to be able to start the recording.

2019-09-21 13:47:11.518 [INFO][1] Flushing logs
2019-09-21 13:47:11.519 [DEBUG][2] Unloading...
2019-09-21 13:47:11.519 [INFO][2] Flushing logs

PS - Where did the file "E:\NPVR-Capture\CBS Fall Preview Show\CBS Fall Preview Show_20190921_14001430.xml" come from? Same name as recorded .ts file but with .xml.

The app created it. It has some metadata about the recording. v4 always created this file too, but on an NTFS driver it would previously embed it in .ts file. If you were on a FAT or network drive, it'd previously create a separate file. The concept of embedding it as an NTFS alternate data stream isn't cross platform compatible, so v5 doesn't attempt to do that.

[jcole998]

Maybe my facts are uncoordinated. I will try again and let you know what I find. But...

Should I be able to record while signed out if the service is running?

[sub]

Should I be able to record while signed out if the service is running?

Yes, assuming you're using the actual service (ie, not manually running NextPVRServer.exe)