"Other Web Client" on two Pi's

[GlowTube]

I run NextPVR on two Pi's, one Pi4 and one Pi5. The Pi4 runs NextPVR via a Docker container, while the Pi5 runs it via installation with the Helper. This week I upgraded both Pi's to the latest version of NextPVR, v7.1.0.260607. This question concerns the behavior of the "other" web client across the two machines.

On the UI on the Pi4 (Docker), I see the main menu item "UIClient" just to the right of "Scheduler." Clicking on this brings up an alternative vertical menu structure (that I had never used before) which seems powerful. It appears to work fine; I like it.

On the UI on the Pi5 (Helper), "UIClient" does not appear on the main menu. If I go to the Settings page, and press the button "Where is the other web client?" the web page goes black, and a tiny square of pixels is shown in the upper left corner (using Chrome on Windows 11). The running NextPVR server process then exits with the following in systemctl:

Code:

Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi server.sh[12437]: Fontconfig warning: "/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/05-reset-dirs-sample.conf", line 6: unknown element "reset-dirs"
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi server.sh[12437]: /opt/dotnet/dotnet: symbol lookup error: /opt/nextpvr/system/runtimes/linux-arm64/native/libSkiaSharp.so: undefined symbol: FT_Get_BDF_Property
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=127/n/a
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Jun 11 11:06:48 CherryPi systemd[1]: nextpvr-server.service: Consumed 9.062s CPU time.

[BrettB]

On the UI on the Pi5 (Helper), "UIClient" does not appear on the main menu. If I go to the Settings page, and press the button "Where is the other web client?" the web page goes black, and a tiny square of pixels is shown in the upper left corner (using Chrome on Windows 11). The running NextPVR server process then exits with the following in systemctl:

Did you try doing a Ctrl-F5 (or whatever your browser's equivalent is) to force a reload of the web page on the Pi5? Some times after a server upgrade, you need to force your browser to reload from the server rather than using a cached copy of the (old version's) page.

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On the UI on the Pi4 (Docker), I see the main menu item "UIClient" just to the right of "Scheduler."

Sorry, I hadn't meant to release it with UIClient in the web page menu (I tried there to see what it would look like, and had meant to remove it). There will another release in the next week to fix a couple of other things, and I'll remove it.

Regarding the uiclient not working for you, we'll check the 'libSkiaSharp.so: undefined symbol: FT_Get_BDF_Property' error.

Unfortunately the RPi devices are unlikely to have enough CPU grunt to work adequately with this uiclient though, since it requires transcoding video etc.

[mvallevand]

The deb installer doesn't have libfreetype as a requirement sub may have added or you never tried before

Perhaps try

sudo apt install libfreetype6 libfontconfig1

Martin