Can't connect to http://127.0.0.1:8866/ on Xubuntu 22.04

[mvallevand]

You must use apt for the first install and that looks good so now you can just us dpkg

It doesn't look like dotnet installed because of a network error. You may need to sudo rm /tmp/dotnet-install.sh and run dpkg That could be old cached data so try Ctrl F5 to clear it.

If you want to see if your tuner is detected ls /dev/dvb should show them. Probably best to check that before continuing now.

Martin

[rakircher]

I ran "sudu" lshw and found my tuner:
*-input:2
      product: Hauppauge HVR-1600
      physical id: 3
      logical name: input13
      logical name: /dev/input/event13
      capabilities: i2c
This HVR-1600 tuner worked fine with my old (previous) Win 7 and NPVR that was running on the same computer that I am using now. I thought I was safe because MS stopped supporting Win 7, but then they started sending updates again and ruined everything before I knew what happened, so that NPVR and win 7 could not run anymore on this computer.  I switched to Debian 11 and the on-line NPVR v5 which installed easily, but did not recognize my WinTV-HVR-1600-ATSC/QAM/NTSC tuner card.  I was stuck, no help, and gave up. Unfortunately, it never occured to me SAVE my NPVR Username and Password.

A few months later I learned about PPA supported by Hauppauge and Xubuntu 22.04 to install the tuner card.  I expected the HVR-1600 to be obsolete, and planned on buying the WinTV-DualHD AFTER I got NPVR v5 working with Xubuntu 22.04.  As Martin suggested before continuing (good advice), I should check /dev/dvb for the detection of the tuner, see result:

dick@NPVR:/dev/dvb/adapter0$ ls ; demux0  dvr0  frontend0  net0 (4 devices detected)
My existing HVR-1600 tuner card is not detected.  If the WinTV-DualHD is suppored by NPVR then I will buy it and try again, but first I need a way to Login by registering with a Username and Password.  How do I do that, I can't find a way to Login without my forgotten Username and Password?

The attached Terminal Log is for removing "/tmp/dotnet-install.sh" and then running: "sudo dpkg -i nextpvr-helper.deb".  There were errors.

[mvallevand]

What does this show on your machine

curl -s https://nextpvr.com/nextpvr-helper.txt

Martin

[sub]

If the WinTV-DualHD is suppored by NPVR then I will buy it and try again, but first I need a way to Login by registering with a Username and Password.  How do I do that, I can't find a way to Login without my forgotten Username and Password?

The default login to NextPVR is admin/password. It's probably still set to that.

[rakircher]

I successfully ran "curl -s https://nextpvr.com/nextpvr-helper.txt"  and there was no output, no error messages.

I connected to http://127.0.0.1:8866 without a problem.  There is no detected  tuner card, but I tried doing 3 things that I thought should work and none of them did.

1.  In "Settings", I entered my new Username to replace "admin", and my new password that was blank, but it wanted my old password, so I used "password" for it.  So far, I have restarted NPVR several times with browser address of http://127.0.0.1:8866, and have not encountered a single Login screen yet.  Maybe, it is because I am still logged in from a previous session, but I am unable to determine if the Login function is working, and if my Username and Password is entered into NPVR to be what I intended it to be for 1st-time future use.

2.  After starting NextPVR, it displays "Available Storage  Default(0% free - 0.00GB)" which is definitely wrong with my 1TB hard drive.  My Settings for Recording Directory is "/home/dick/NextPVR/Recordings", and those directories exist.  The other Setting entered is for Live TV Buffer Directory for which I have entered "/home/dick/NextPVR/Live_TV_Buffer", and it also exists.  Just to try something else, I copied "NPVR.zip" file into each of those directories, and that did not change the "0% free" in the "Available Storage" display.

3. Lastly, I entered ALL my information for Schedules Direct ...Username, Password, etc., and the "Guide" shows nothing but the times.  I know this won't work without a tuner card and scanned channels, but I cannot find any Schedules Direct files that I expected to be downloaded and ready to use.

Is there anything else that I can try that should be working at this point before I place an order to purchase a tuner card such as the "WinTV-DualHD"?  Any ideas are appreciated.

[mvallevand]

You are no do doubt having problems and I expect you are seeing "hits" from the browser cache

curl -s https://nextpvr.com/nextpvr-helper.txt should give output 1.5 as it did in your post 1 (after preinst)

Until that works the install will fail. Maybe add -v to see if other information is available.

Martin

[sub]

1.  In "Settings", I entered my new Username to replace "admin", and my new password that was blank, but it wanted my old password, so I used "password" for it.  So far, I have restarted NPVR several times with browser address of http://127.0.0.1:8866, and have not encountered a single Login screen yet.  Maybe, it is because I am still logged in from a previous session, but I am unable to determine if the Login function is working, and if my Username and Password is entered into NPVR to be what I intended it to be for 1st-time future use.

You can always start an incognito browser session to try the login.

2.  After starting NextPVR, it displays "Available Storage  Default(0% free - 0.00GB)" which is definitely wrong with my 1TB hard drive.  My Settings for Recording Directory is "/home/dick/NextPVR/Recordings", and those directories exist.  The other Setting entered is for Live TV Buffer Directory for which I have entered "/home/dick/NextPVR/Live_TV_Buffer", and it also exists.  Just to try something else, I copied "NPVR.zip" file into each of those directories, and that did not change the "0% free" in the "Available Storage" display.

You'd probably need to post the logs for us to be able to tell you why it's reporting 0% free. It's possible the NextPVR service cant get to /home/dick/NextPVR/Recordings.

3. Lastly, I entered ALL my information for Schedules Direct ...Username, Password, etc., and the "Guide" shows nothing but the times.  I know this won't work without a tuner card and scanned channels, but I cannot find any Schedules Direct files that I expected to be downloaded and ready to use.

It doesn't create an files with Schedules Direct stuff in them. It's only going to download the channels and listings etc when you've setup your tuner.

[rakircher]

For the "Available Storage  Default(0% free - 0.00GB)" problem, attached are the Log files.

[mvallevand]

Once you get your curl problem figured out I would completely clean out your old nextpvr settings from when you had troubles before.

sudo apt remove nextpvr-helper
sudo apt purge nextpvr-helper

Then reinstall from the beginning.

How old is your motherboard? It must not be very recent if it still has ISA slots for the 1600.

Martin

[sub]

For the "Available Storage  Default(0% free - 0.00GB)" problem, attached are the Log files.

2022-06-22 01:24:43.081 [DEBUG][7] Checking disk space for: C:\Users\Public\Videos\/
2022-06-22 01:24:43.081 [ERROR][7] Unexpected error querying available disk space (C:\Users\Public\Videos\/): System.IO.DriveNotFoundException: Could not find the drive 'C:\Users\Public\Videos\/'. The drive might not be ready or might not be mapped.
at System.IO.DriveInfo.CheckStatfsResultAndThrowIfNecessary(Int32 result)
at System.IO.DriveInfo.get_AvailableFreeSpace()
at NShared.Extend.SystemRequestHandler.GetSpace(String path)

If this is not what your recording directory is set to, it might be being cached, and restart might be required. (otherwise change your recording directory to a valid path)