Kodi sometimes cannot play channels

[aderlopas]

Thanks those logs are indeed extremely verbose NextPVR is logging every packet sent.  There is a problem in the verbose log that sub might need to look at since I don't think this sequence should happen.

2021-11-01 12:59:28.759 [VERBOSE][8] RollingFile.Close()

2021-11-01 12:59:28.768 [DEBUG][88] Got request [192.168.178.43]: /service (channel.stream.stop)

Also I think you have EPG channel art turned on and that isn't going to work very well unless Schedules Direct is your source.

Martin

Many thanks Martin for taking the time to look at this.
And I was wondering what this art setting was all about :-)
I'm going to switch that off as it is not needed.
I'll be waiting for Sub's comments then on how to proceed.

[sub]

You might need to bump the thread in a couple of days. I'm busy with day job stuff, so not a lot of extra bandwidth right now.

[aderlopas]

You might need to bump the thread in a couple of days.  I'm busy with day job stuff, so not a lot of extra bandwidth right now.

No worries Sub, please do take your tiime, appreciate the help.
It works so far if I switch it to real time so no issue...

[mvallevand]

I finally got 19.3 from the Play Store to compare my logs with yours and boy that packet level logging files the logs fast. Mine works fine so it is not specifically Kodi All I did notice is that my live TV only gets one

2021-11-04 11:45:08.679 [VERBOSE][61] RollingFile.Close()

not two. That error message in your NextPVR log does seem to indicate the server is confused by the transactions coming in.

Martin

[aderlopas]

I finally got 19.3 from the Play Store to compare my logs with yours and boy that packet level logging files the logs fast.  Mine works fine so it is not specifically Kodi  All I did notice is that my live TV only gets one

2021-11-04 11:45:08.679 [VERBOSE][61] RollingFile.Close()

not two.  That error message in your NextPVR log does seem to indicate the server is confused by the transactions coming in.

Martin

Thanks Martin, 

I think it is a timing issue.
Was happening sporadically when I had the default Kodi Skin.
Then I changed it to Embruary (which is much heavier) and which responds much slower, and the problem now became constant.
So I believe it must be a timing issue between the client (which handles the timeshift fille if I'm not wrong) and the nextpvr server.

[mvallevand]

Your last Kodi logs were flooding the server with EPG art requests that couldn't be fulfilled. Certainly with a heavy skin and Android is not really a good combination at the best of times. Now that you have turned that off it would be worth looking at a new set of logs.

I also don't know anything about the KaonMedia KSTB6077 device you are using but the fact that it is Android 8 with an older kernel tends to make me feel it is not that powerful. If the logs don't show anything I will probably not go further. Reasonable response time from the CPU and network is expected.

Martin

[aderlopas]

Your last Kodi logs were flooding the server with EPG art requests that couldn't be fulfilled.  Certainly with a heavy skin and Android is not really a good combination at the best of times.  Now  that you have turned that off it would be worth looking at a new set of logs.

I also don't know anything about the  KaonMedia KSTB6077 device you are using but the fact that it is Android 8 with an older kernel tends to make me feel it is not that powerful.  If the logs don't show anything I will probably not go further.  Reasonable response time from the CPU and network is expected.

Martin

Hi Martin, 

This device is given by the tv provider so not changeable easily...

Anyway, I took new logs, issue is at 20:54

Uploading both kodi and nextpvre logs. I hope they will be more readable now.

thanks again for the assistance.

[aderlopas]

I see the below error in kod.log:

2021-11-04 20:54:08.803 T:8648    ERROR <general>: Open - Unhandled exception
2021-11-04 20:54:08.803 T:8648    ERROR <general>: Open - Error opening http://192.168.178.77:8866/live?channelo...timeout=10
2021-11-04 20:54:08.804 T:8648    ERROR <general>: AddOnLog: pvr.nextpvr: Could not open streaming file

However, at least .map file was created see the picture

[aderlopas]

What I don't understand is why the below happens...

2021-11-04 20:54:07.762 [DEBUG][34] stopped live stream for timeshift
2021-11-04 20:54:07.762 [VERBOSE][34] RollingFile.Close()
2021-11-04 20:54:07.763 [VERBOSE][34] RollingFile.Close()

[aderlopas]

By the way, just tried to change the Minutes next to Live TV Buffer Setting to 30 from 120 and now it works.
So it has to do something with how big the live TV buffer is requested to be?