XBMC support with NextPVR

[steeb]

Dear all (and probably mostly sub )

No idea where to post this so thought I would start here in the familiar and friendly forum of NextPVR. (BTW nice to see a whole xbmc sub forum going, I guess that makes life easier, at least to start)

gEd did advise sticking this on the xbmc forum as per this post:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post442847

which I will of course do if that is where I should be addressing this question?

My problem is as this is all new I am not sure where I should be addressing my question

I am talking here the built in capability that sub has put into NextPVR as a backend to xbmc.

I am still an old dog and afraid to say that everything is running on XP!

I have my backend NextPVR server and tried testing the xbmc add-on on a front-end machine as pointed to me by gEd on this post:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post442730

everything looks good, pvr client enabled etc etc.

Firewalls have been down. (Norton on front-end - security essentials on NextPVR back-end)

TV shows as an option (well actually it says "LiveTV" IMHO that should just say TV?!)

As soon as I click on "LiveTV" I get a very honourable message from xbmc telling me that:

"No PVR Clients have been started yet. Wait for the PVR Clients to start"
"Please check your configuration or check the log for details"

Well I have set the xbmc log into debug mode and nothing shows at all about what I am trying to do.

I have no idea what the NextPVR PIN is in the settings of xbmc? Is that the same password I give to the NextPVR webserver?

In which case it would be helpful if the 2 terms could marry up?

For once I cannot provide logs as there are no logs of any help

cheers

steeb

p.s.

should have added -

Can access NEWA fine from same client machine so would not have thought firewalls etc were the issue?

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[sub]

Just leave the PIN set to 0000.

You'll need to zip and attach your xbmc.log file. On my Win7 machine it's in C:\Users\Graeme\AppData\Roaming\XBMC. I'm not sure where it'll be on XP. You can probably type %APPDATA% into the address bar at the top of the windows explorer to find the AppData location on your machine.

[skl111]

Dear all (and probably mostly sub )

No idea where to post this so thought I would start here in the familiar and friendly forum of NextPVR. (BTW nice to see a whole xbmc sub forum going, I guess that makes life easier, at least to start)

gEd did advise sticking this on the xbmc forum as per this post:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post442847

which I will of course do if that is where I should be addressing this question?

My problem is as this is all new I am not sure where I should be addressing my question

I am talking here the built in capability that sub has put into NextPVR as a backend to xbmc.

I am still an old dog and afraid to say that everything is running on XP!

I have my backend NextPVR server and tried testing the xbmc add-on on a front-end machine as pointed to me by gEd on this post:

http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post442730

everything looks good, pvr client enabled etc etc.

Firewalls have been down. (Norton on front-end - security essentials on NextPVR back-end)

TV shows as an option (well actually it says "LiveTV" IMHO that should just say TV?!)

As soon as I click on "LiveTV" I get a very honourable message from xbmc telling me that:

"No PVR Clients have been started yet. Wait for the PVR Clients to start"
"Please check your configuration or check the log for details"

Well I have set the xbmc log into debug mode and nothing shows at all about what I am trying to do.

I have no idea what the NextPVR PIN is in the settings of xbmc? Is that the same password I give to the NextPVR webserver?

In which case it would be helpful if the 2 terms could marry up?

For once I cannot provide logs as there are no logs of any help

cheers

steeb

Steeb, the logs are located in the Same area the NPVR logs and yours are, Roaming/XBMC on windows 7. and XP should be similar.
I didn't need a PIN to get it to work, so thats not the problem.
You need to put it in the plugins area of the Roaming/XBMC folder, and the similar one for Windows XP, then enable it in the system add ons, and then enable the PVR backend, by going into system live tv.

[steeb]

Thanks all so far,

enabled and showing as I said in menu item of xbmc.

I found the logs before in XP. I enabled debugging in xbmc, as I said before. I know where the logs are! (Sorry to be me and arsey sounding, late here.!)

I attach if in case of any use!

I can't see anything at all that even suggests I started an add-on......

cheers

steeb

[KRA]

As allways, if it fails, try "reset database" in the live-tv settings

[steeb]

As allways, if it fails, try "reset database" in the live-tv settings

Tried that before, try again?

[sub]

Yeah, looks like it didn't even start the addon. Its probably an addon vs xbmc version problem.

[skl111]

Given what sub just said, i would make sure your downloading the latest one from here
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/...master.exe
install it and then this npvr addon.
http://www.dotnetdevelopers.net/XBMC/pvr...extpvr.zip
it's working for me with the exception of that odd error i reported.

[steeb]

Tried that before, try again?

Tried that one again. Have to say v excited about this software. NextPVR really is the one and only TV solution that just works! But think when this integration comes together, even sexier!

Thanks all, I will let the guru's chat.

Always up for testing but of course I am an old dinosaur running on xp. Mind you quite a few others are too!

Seems to be some probs connecting over network?

I would have thought as you are doing that this is a good one to solve as the beauty of NextPVR with xbmc is to have a NextPVR back-end? Which ultimately works over a network

cheers

steeb

[steeb]

Given what sub just said, i would make sure your downloading the latest one from here
http://mirrors.xbmc.org/nightlies/win32/...master.exe
install it and then this npvr addon.
http://www.dotnetdevelopers.net/XBMC/pvr...extpvr.zip
it's working for me with the exception of that odd error i reported.

thanks skl11,

hard to follow all these threads. How are you following them

Will try these just as I was heading to bed to see if any diff.

cheers muchly

steeb