MIgrate recordings windows to linux

[ottoguy]

Is there a way to migrate the "scheduled recordings" from a windows v4 install to a linux v5 install?  I saw a windows thread about copying the database.  Not sure if that would work to linux?

[Graham]

Is there a way to migrate the "scheduled recordings" from a windows v4 install to a linux v5 install?  I saw a windows thread about copying the database.  Not sure if that would work to linux?

Copying the database should work ... Also, you can export recordings in V4 and that will produce two xml files with one file containing recurring recordings and one file containing ready recordings.  You should be able to import one or other or both of these files in V5.

But copying the database to Linux will create problems with file paths for existing ready recordings.

http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?....Recording
https://github.com/sub3/NextPVR/wiki/Add...g-defaults

Backup the V4 and V5 databases at every opportunity so that you can go back when you discover that I am all wrong

Edit: On second thoughts ... I suspect that copying the database from Windows to Linux might not ne a good idea ... I suggest that you try the export <-> import first.

[mvallevand]

For Window or Linux it will only work if you don't have to remap channels. "All channel" recordings would be safe others would be iffy based on tuner type.

Via Kodi there is an option to change the channel number on a recurring recording but the API current rejects the change. It might work one day.

Martin

[Graham]

For Window or Linux it will only work if you don't have to remap channels.  "All channel" recordings would be safe others would be iffy based on tuner type. 

I don't have time to test it right now ... but ... I suspect, from previous experience, that NextPVR uses the channel name and not the channel oid when the xml file is imported ... so the recordings are portable from one installation to another provided that the channel names are the same.

[baj1]

What's the best way to get the channel names from the Linux config? I don't see an xml file in /var/opt/nextpvr for my HDHR device, and don't see a channel export in the web config like there was in v4.

[mvallevand]

Channels scanning is different so you can't migrate them over.

I wrote a program that will migrate all recording you just need to set the paths up so the new server can see them.

Martin

[baj1]

Channels scanning is different so you can't migrate them over.

I wrote a program that will migrate all recording you just need to set the paths up so the new server can see them.

Martin

Maybe I wasn't clear.  I want the channel names in Linux so I can edit recurring-recordings.xml export from Windows/v4.25 and search and replace the Channel Names with the Linux Channel Names so I can import my recurring recordings in v5.  Or is this what you are saying is not possible?

[sub]

dotnet NScriptHelper.dll -service:channel.list

[baj1]

Mmmm, that results in an error.

/opt/nextpvr/system$ /opt/dotnet/dotnet NScriptHelper.dll -service:channel.list
A fatal error was encountered. The library 'libhostpolicy.so' required to execute the application was not found in '/opt/nextpvr/system/'.
Failed to run as a self-contained app. If this should be a framework-dependent app, add the /opt/nextpvr/system/NScriptHelper.runtimeconfig.json file specifying the appropriate framework.

[mvallevand]

NScripthelper doesn't run on linux I posted a workaround somewhere on this forum if you search.

Martin