Why do I still show version 7.0.2 after running NPVRSetup.exe?

[DSperber]

I'm making some organizational changes to my home PC situation.

I'm no longer able to run Windows Media Center (which requires Win7) to support my Spectrum cable TV service (through Ceton cablecard-enabled PCIe tuner card inside my Win7 PC) because Spectrum no longer supports cablecards and tuning adapters (to support their SDV many-to-one unlimited channel delivery method). So I've moved on to an alternative Spectrum cable arrangement, instead using their CloudDVR service and delivering live/DVR output to my four TVs through their Spectrum TV app running on four of their new Xumo streaming boxes. The Spectrum TV app also runs on Android phone, Roku, ATV4K and LG TVs, (all of which are also available to me) among numerous other platforms.

I can still use WMC on my Win7 PC but for OTA ATSC 1.0 only through either my Hauppauge Quad-HD OTA ATSC 1.0 PCIe tuner card, or through my SD Flex-4K (selecting only the ATSC 1.0 channels). However it's a bit of a nuisance out at the client TVs, having to select the WMC "extender" method to watch OTA through WMC and then to switch to the Spectrum Xumo when I want to watch Spectrum cable.

Nevertheless, with my Spectrum cable TV needs now addressed by Spectrum-provided technology, I'm free to explore alternatives to WMC (which requires Win7 on the server PC) since it is now only delivering ATSC 1.0. I have been using the internal Hauppauge Quad-HD OTA ATSC 1.0 tuner forever because it works perfectly with WMC and has 4 tuners and was available 10 years ago. But today, I have the SD Flex-4K as an alternative if I would consider moving to either HDHR or NextPVR software delivery of live/DVR OTA ATSC 1.0 content... via HDHR or NextPVR software client apps running on either (a) my four LG OLED TVs, or (b) Roku or ATV4K streaming devices which are also connected to each TV.

Furthermore, I can finally now move on from Win7 to a Win11 PC for the host to run HDHR or NextPVR server software and hold recordings storage. And I have done that, at least in prototype form as a pilot project. I've taken one of my Win7 WMC (backup) machines and am now booting to Win11 on it (as a second dual-bootable OS). And I've also installed both HDHR and NextPVR "server" on it, utilizing the network-based SD Flex-4K. 

I've also stopped both HDR and NextPVR "server" which was running on my other Win7 WMC (primary) machine, which I still have running, continuing to run WMC for OTA (via the Hauppauge Quad-HD card inside it) and delivering to the WMC "extenders" still at the four TVs around the home. So I'm now using the Win11 machine instead of the Win7 machine to feed the HDHR and NextPVR client apps around the house.

And everything is working fine. No problems at all, now operating in my new Win11 server world.

However, although I have theoretically run NPVRSetup.exe on the Win11 machine order to upgrade from the 7.0.2 (which I was last running) to 7.0.3 (which is supposed to be the current version available for download), I cannot see to impact what gets installed. Still shows 7.0.2.



What am I doing wrong, or what else do I also need to do that I'm not doing?

[mvallevand]

If you have a copy of NPVR.zip in the folder with the installer that will have priority over the online version

Martin

[DSperber]

Excellent catch! That was exactly my story.

Last year I ran into problems because NextPVR 7.0.2 no longer operates on Win7 (you remember that discussion). And not knowing that I had upgraded from my previous 7.0.1 that was running just fine on Win7. The upgraded 7.0.2 didn't work, and I was unable to find a 7.0.1 ZIP file to return to. But I did find a 7.0.0 ZIP file.

After thinking about it I decided to just restore my system backup from a short time earlier, that did still have the 7.0.1 version in it. I restored it and dealt with the minor catch-up needed to get me current again, and was back on 7.0.1 on that Win7 machine.

But on my Win10/Win11 systems I kept current, with 7.0.2. I think I might have been told where to download that latest 7.0.2 ZIP from ("stable"), which unfortunately couldn't give me the 7.0.1 I had wanted for other Win7 situation.

Anyway, sure enough, I put all of these ZIP files in the same folder as where NPVRSetup.exe lives, renamed to identify them, except for the 7.0.2 ZIP which I left as-is from the download. So last night that 7.0.2 ZIP was in fact getting used. I have now renamed it to have a "7.0.2" suffix, so this won't happen again.

Thank you for that quick and easy fix. I'm now at 7.0.3.