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[jcole998]

Deleted device using the control-key, scanned for devices, device again scanned in, clicked on device and got to channels page, scanned channels and that's it. No EPG prompt.

BTW, I can find no trashcan at the top left of the devices page. I used the control key to reveal the delete option.

[mvallevand]

It is on n the device itself not on devices in general.

When you changed admin/password did you also change the port to 8867

Martin

[jcole998]

Yes. In locast\lib\libnextpvr.py in one place:        def __init__(self, ip = '127.0.0.1', port = '8867', pin = '0000', username = 'JohnC998', password= '********'):
I did not change the "port = 8866" earlier in the script.

Now...I went a few steps further:
- After scanning channels, went to the Guide page and manually added the C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\locast-xmltv.xml guide.
- On the Channels page, selected Auto-map. 
- Then went to the About page and clicked Update EPG. Guide was now filled in with program entries for the new channels.
- Tried to tune a program but after a black screen, got a red Failed message at the bottom of the screen.

[mvallevand]

First when you run

cmd /c "C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast\locast.bat" 104

Do you get a URL? If so could you run

pip list -v

and make sure the required libraries are global.

Whatever the server responded when you start is odd to but I do notice it is telling you to run

"c:\program files\python38\python.exe" -m pip install --upgrade pip

Martin

[jcole998]

There is no locast.bat in the locast folder. Can you send it?

Can I do the -upgrade after getting the channels to work?

[mvallevand]

I'd prefer getting this working.

python locast.py install

to make sure you have the required pieces and I have the installer working. It is created right after the two extras files.

Martin

[jcole998]

Ran locast.py a third time. No batch file created. Maybe more logging? Something I can step through?

[mvallevand]

You didn't show me the output from

pip list -v

and I am not sure you updated pip

Martin

[jcole998]

OK. Here is the output I believe you asked for:

C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast>"c:\program files\python38\python.exe" -m pip install --upgrade pip
Defaulting to user installation because normal site-packages is not writeable
Collecting pip
  Downloading pip-20.3.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl (1.5 MB)
    |████████████████████████████████| 1.5 MB 3.2 MB/s
Installing collected packages: pip
  WARNING: The scripts pip.exe, pip3.8.exe and pip3.exe are installed in 'C:\Users\John\AppData\Roaming\Python\Python38\Scripts' which is not on PATH.
  Consider adding this directory to PATH or, if you prefer to suppress this warning, use --no-warn-script-location.
Successfully installed pip-20.3.1

C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast>pip list -v
Package    Version  Location                                                    Installer
---------- --------- ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------
certifi    2020.12.5 c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
chardet    3.0.4    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
idna      2.10      c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
iso8601    0.1.13    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
lxml      4.6.2    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
m3u8      0.7.1    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages
pip        20.3.1    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
requests  2.25.0    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip
setuptools 47.1.0    c:\program files\python38\lib\site-packages                pip
urllib3    1.26.2    c:\users\john\appdata\roaming\python\python38\site-packages pip

C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data\scripts\locast>

How's it look?

[mvallevand]

Bad, the modules are still not loaded for all users you even get a warning message about that fact. So you have python globally modules globally but not the pip installs.

I really think you should try testing with with gsudo command.

gsudo -s

will give you a Local System command prompt where you should again try

pip list -v

If the modules aren't there run

pip install requests lxml m3u8

with

pip list -v

That isn't explaining why locast.bat isn't being created but you need a working python first.


Martin