NextPVR Not Working

[gilgamesh24]

ok, that seems to have done the trick. But when I close that command prompt, it no longer works. Is it possible to enable it in the background somehow?

[mvallevand]

Maybe reboot the PC and try again in the browser

Mart

[gilgamesh24]

Still doesn't start automatically. Needs to be manually run. Not sure how to fix.

[sub]

Maybe look in the Windows Event Viewer to see if there was any reason the service wasn't starting.

[mvallevand]

The Event Viewer is good idea but since it gives a 500 the service is starting.

Martin

[sub]

Otherwise another set of logs, and the time the 500 error happened, so we know exactly where we're looking.

Alternatively might be something like firewall/antivirus, or the user has installed to a directory that the 'localsystem' account doesn't have access to (so has access when run manually as themselves, but not when running as a service), or permissions have been changed on something causing effectively the same.

[sub]

ie, might need to try changing the service startup properties to run as their desktop account instead of localsystem.

[gilgamesh24]

I found this in another post and it worked for me. Have to update the NPVR folder to NextPVR. I also had to disable the NextPVR Service in Services as that was preventing the server from running correctly. Not sure what the issue was but working now.

For me I created a hidden scheduled task that flagged to run at system startup and to run whether the user is logged on or not, works great.

As an example this will create the simple task from an admin command prompt

schtasks /create /sc onstart /tn "NextPVR" /tr ""C:\ProgramFiles\NPVR\NextPVRServer.exe"" /np

Then go into task scheduler and flag the task as hidden and not to stop after 3 days and then run the task

It can be turned off (without flushing logs) with

schtasks /tn nextpvr /off

and renabled with

schtasks /tn nextpvr /run

[mvallevand]

No that came from an old obsolete instruction I wrote before there was a v5 service or installer. You really shouldn't have used that as you are now responsible for manually updating to new versions since NPVRSetup won't work properly.

If you had followed sub's instruction to change the user I suspect that would have worked schtasks does not run as local system.

Martin

[gilgamesh24]

OK, I switched the service to run from local system to my user account and that did the trick as well. Hopefully no more issues.

THanks for the help!