NextEnd v5 trial release

[mvallevand]

Thanks Craig, you are right I forgot the -i You can also just edit the file with a text editor.

Martin

[CDinger]

In case anyone else decides to try NextEnd on a non debian version of linux here is what I did.

Follow sub's installation instructions non deb install
Download dtv scan files https://linuxtv.org/downloads/dtv-scan-tables/
Personally, I just opened the tar and moved the single file I needed (us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB-062009) to /usr/share/dvb/atsc/us-ATSC-center-frequencies-8VSB-062009

Download and unzip NextEndv5 into your home directory
~/.NPVR-data/Plugins/NextEnd

Modify NextEnd.deps.json file using sed and create a backup of original NextEnd.deps.json file. Replace <username> with the name of your home directory.

Code:

sed -i.bak -e 's/\"\/\"/\"\/home\/<username>\/NPVR\/\"/g' NextEnd.deps.json

Create ParallelProcessing file in ~/.NPVR-data/scripts/ParallelProcessing.sh

Code:

#!/bin/bash
/opt/dotnet/dotnet /home/<username>/.NPVR-data/Plugins/NextEnd/NextEnd.dll --oid $3 --postgame 5

Modify NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json (red text is the modificaton)

Code:

{
  "runtimeOptions": {
    "framework": {
      "name": "Microsoft.NETCore.App",
      "version": "2.1.0"
    },
    "additionalProbingPaths": [
      "C:\\Program Files\\NPVR\\",
     [color=#E82A1F][b] "/home/<username>/.NPVR-data/",[/b][/color]
      "D:\\v5\\programs\\"
    ]
  }
}

I also created a service to start NPVR at startup rather than by terminal entry of "dotnet ./NextPVRServer.dll"

cd /etc/systemd/system
use your favorite editor to create file "nextpvr-server.service" and copy or type in the entries below. 

Code:

[Unit]
Description=runs server.sh
Requires=network-online.target
After=network.target network-online.target multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=simple
User=<user>
WorkingDirectory=/home/<username>/NPVR
ExecStart=sh server.sh start
Restart=on-failure
RestartSec=1500ms

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Now enable the service with

Code:

systemctl enable nextpvr-server.service

Start the nextpvr-server

Code:

systemctl start nextpvr-server.service

For me this worked like a charm.

Craig

[mvallevand]

Thank you for sharing.  You should probably redirect Nextend output to /dev/null to keep some unnecessary junk out of the logs.

Martin

[CDinger]

Done, thanks for the input.

Craig

[mvallevand]

Note that starting with version 5.0.1 of NextPVR, the only the dotnet NextEnd.dll approach work

I should have a new .netcore 3.1 Windows version next week

Martin

[VCR58]

I'm having difficulty getting nextend working with linux. When Linux is started nextend-monitor.log is generated but I don't think it is actually monitoring anything when recording a game. Last night's NFL game ended on time but there was no nextend.log generated so it seems there was no monitoring of the game progress going.  I started recording the game about an hour before it ended.

The logs, script files, and modified NextEnd.deps.json file (and the backup file) are attached. In the scripts folder there was an extra file generated sometime during the recording which is also attached.

Thanks!

[mvallevand]

Linux needs $ for parameters not % so your line

/opt/dotnet/dotnet /var/opt/nextpvr/Plugins/NextEnd/NextEnd.dll --oid %3

should be

/opt/dotnet/dotnet /var/opt/nextpvr/Plugins/NextEnd/NextEnd.dll --oid $3

Martin

[VCR58]

Note that starting with version 5.0.1 of NextPVR, the only the dotnet NextEnd.dll approach work

I should have a new .netcore 3.1 Windows version next week

Martin

To get NextEnd to start after installing NextPVR v5.0.1I had to modify NextEnd.runtimeconfig.json to look for dotnet 3.1.0 rather than 2.1.0 

"version": "3.1.0"

[mvallevand]

That's odd but I don't understand dotnet backwards compatibility.  Did you remove old versions?

Martin

[VCR58]

That's odd but I don't understand dotnet backwards compatibility.  Did you remove old versions?

Martin

I believe I did. It looks like there is only 3.1.0 versions in the dotnet folder.