no epg

[sub]

I've also added an xmltv feed (http://www.xmltv.co.uk/feed/1897) which has also failed to provide me with anything.

There is no listings in the xmltv content returned by that url, so not surprising you got no listings. It's just returning a list of channels.

[Shog63]

Hello again,

I dug out an old Pinnacle USB DVB-T adapter, and plugged it in. To allow the nextpvr image to access a USB device, I had to add the following two lines

Code:

--privileged \
--volume /dev:/dev \

Some would say this is not secure, because the image will get access to all devices under /dev. It is a lot less convoluted than trying to divine and add specific devices, and if it was not running in a container it would get that access in any case.

This gave me an additional 145 channels (over the 163 the HDHomeRun found), but they were all mapped to weird channel IDs over 700. I was asked if I wanted to update my EPG due to the change channel line up, and did so. I ended up with all the original channels with empty data, and the new ones all populated. I did notice that it took a *lot* longer to grab the EPG with this device than the HDHR. As it was all messy, I removed all channels, and deleted every tuner apart from this one and ran a scan for channels again - getting the lineup I expected. And then re-ran the EPG grab.

Result:
   

To me, it seems the issue is specific to the HDHomeRun, although it may be related to netwoking. Whilst troubleshooting not being able to see the USB tuner, I came across a section on networking for the "docker run" commands, giving possibilities such as "bridged", which is the default and it seems to me should work, "host" which is a lot more efficient apparently and looks to me as though it would similarly share addressing with the hosting, er, host. Here's an extract:
With the network set to bridge a container will use docker’s default networking setup. A bridge is setup on the host, commonly named docker0, and a pair of veth interfaces will be created for the container. One side of the veth pair will remain on the host attached to the bridge while the other side of the pair will be placed inside the container’s namespaces in addition to the loopback
 interface. An IP address will be allocated for containers on the bridge’s network and traffic will be routed though this bridge to the container.

The bit about the IP address gives me concern. 

I'll update if I find out more.

[sub]

I think before docker I tried running it with dotnet directly on mac, would doing that be helpful?

Yes, even if temporarily, because then I'd be able to give you updated files with more logging so we can get more insight into what's happening.

Basically you just need to install .NET Core 3.1 from https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/do...-installer, then unzip http://nextpvr.com/stable/mac/NPVR.zip and run "dotnet ./NextPVRServer.dll".

[sub]

To me, it seems the issue is specific to the HDHomeRun, although it may be related to networking.

Yes, it is HDHomeRun specific.

I'm probably going to need to get someone to try an update NShared.dll, which logs the data it's received from the HDHR, so I can get a bit more detail on what is happening.

[mvallevand]

It isn't too hard to update a file for testing if you know what you are doing because Linux lets you copy open files.

-copy the file you want to the source that you have defined as for Docker
- run

docker exec -u 0 -it nextpvr /bin/bash
cp /config/NShared.dll .

- restart the docker shell.

Martin

[Shog63]

I notice my nextpvr client also has issues trying to connect to the backend.... I'm suspicious of the networking.

[mvallevand]

The NextPVR client only works on windows on the host machine. Read the documentation this information an more options.

Martin

[sub]

If someone wants to give it a go, this version of NShared.dll will create epg-dump-x.ts files in your recording directory when it tries to update the epg using an HDHR.

[madmanuk]

If someone wants to give it a go, this version of NShared.dll will create epg-dump-x.ts files in your recording directory when it tries to update the epg using an HDHR.

Thanks.
I was just starting to set this up for testing when my wife called me for a meal.
I will get back on it as soon as I have finished eating.

[Shog63]

The NextPVR client only works on windows on the host machine.  Read the documentation this information an more options.

Martin

I was trying to connect from a Kodi client on the network on Windows 10 - should that work? I can see channels, but not EPG of getting video up...