2013-12-02, 10:26 PM
Alright so I will take the hit, I am a noob when it comes to NextPVR and XBMC. I will try to explain what my goal is, what I have done, and where I am stuck.
I was previously using WMC with 5 Xbox 360s for extenders around the house and I am trying to find something that is more universal for the family. I also want to replace the XBox 360s with something that takes up less power.
I searched and found several different options, but for my purposes, I think that XMBC with NextPVR should work.
I have 3 different Analog or ATSC tuners (some dual) that total up to a 5 tuner system.
In addition I have a Ceton InfitiTV 4 with a cable card. This makes my system a 9 tuner system that WMC seems to be able to handle on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
I am able to get all of the tuners going except for, you guessed it, (being a noob) the Ceton device.
I have followed the steps on the wiki and have followed the PDF instructions over and over again.
// Over and over again implies that I uninstalled, and reinstalled both NextPVR and the Ceton Drivers. I found it easier to just replace the npvr.db3 file with a backed up one [C:\Users\Public\NPVR ->(npvr.db3)].
I also have placed the Plugins for the network recorder here:
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\NetworkRecorder ->NetworkRecorder.xml
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\NextPVR data directory ->NetworkRecorder.dll
Even just trying to get one of the tuners is a pain. But rather than posting a repeating algorithm for 4 tuners, I will just give you a copy of what one looks like.
This is located in the NetworkRecorder.XML file
///////////////////////////////////////////
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings>
<PluginSettings>
<NetworkRecorder>
<FriendlyName>Cable Card 1</FriendlyName>
<SocketOpen>true</SocketOpen>
<RollingFile>true</RollingFile>
<h264Mode>2</h264Mode>
0 - Standard MPEG2
1 - h264 video
2 - h264 video if channel name ends with "HD" ie. CNNHD
<RecordingsReplace>before?after</RecordingsReplace>
<LiveReplace>before?after</LiveReplace>
Replace text "before" in source with "after" in destination filenames. Example <RecordingsReplace>C:\Recordings?\\192.168.1.1\MyRecordings</RecordingsReplace>
<RemoteNPVR>true</RemoteNPVR>
Create Recordings from another NextPVR setup on your local network.
<stream>true</stream>
Use http streaming for NetTarget
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6970</port>
<delay>2000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
</Settings>
///////////////////////////////////////////
The extra lines are in there because NextPVR tends to at least try to work.
When I boot up NextPVR, the tuner(s) show up fine, and I can add channels just fine (kind of), however, after adding a channel, still on the device setup page, under the tuning column, I get "7148 Not defined"
When I try to go to livetv or launch XBMC (already set up with a PVR frontend) I either get "Device is used for recording, exit?" or "Tuner not available" <-XMBC
Again, when I set up the other tuners, I don't get any of these problems.
I have also tried to add all 4 Ceton tuners and have all 4 channels sources, yet the same error. I have stopped all WMC services and I am at a loss here.
I saw on other posts, people suggested that they redo the steps on the PDF; I cannot count how many times I have done that. There has to be something somewhere where I am not including. I do know that my channels are QAM256 and the frequency for any given channel don't seem to match the codec in NextPVR but then again, NetworkRecorders don't access that info anyways, well as far as I know.
Does anyone have ANY advice for my situation of not being able to tune these Ceton tuners?
Thank you,
Paul
I was previously using WMC with 5 Xbox 360s for extenders around the house and I am trying to find something that is more universal for the family. I also want to replace the XBox 360s with something that takes up less power.
I searched and found several different options, but for my purposes, I think that XMBC with NextPVR should work.
I have 3 different Analog or ATSC tuners (some dual) that total up to a 5 tuner system.
In addition I have a Ceton InfitiTV 4 with a cable card. This makes my system a 9 tuner system that WMC seems to be able to handle on Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
I am able to get all of the tuners going except for, you guessed it, (being a noob) the Ceton device.
I have followed the steps on the wiki and have followed the PDF instructions over and over again.
// Over and over again implies that I uninstalled, and reinstalled both NextPVR and the Ceton Drivers. I found it easier to just replace the npvr.db3 file with a backed up one [C:\Users\Public\NPVR ->(npvr.db3)].
I also have placed the Plugins for the network recorder here:
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\NetworkRecorder ->NetworkRecorder.xml
C:\Users\Public\NPVR\Plugins\NextPVR data directory ->NetworkRecorder.dll
Even just trying to get one of the tuners is a pain. But rather than posting a repeating algorithm for 4 tuners, I will just give you a copy of what one looks like.
This is located in the NetworkRecorder.XML file
///////////////////////////////////////////
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Settings>
<PluginSettings>
<NetworkRecorder>
<FriendlyName>Cable Card 1</FriendlyName>
<SocketOpen>true</SocketOpen>
<RollingFile>true</RollingFile>
<h264Mode>2</h264Mode>
0 - Standard MPEG2
1 - h264 video
2 - h264 video if channel name ends with "HD" ie. CNNHD
<RecordingsReplace>before?after</RecordingsReplace>
<LiveReplace>before?after</LiveReplace>
Replace text "before" in source with "after" in destination filenames. Example <RecordingsReplace>C:\Recordings?\\192.168.1.1\MyRecordings</RecordingsReplace>
<RemoteNPVR>true</RemoteNPVR>
Create Recordings from another NextPVR setup on your local network.
<stream>true</stream>
Use http streaming for NetTarget
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>6970</port>
<delay>2000</delay>
</NetworkRecorder>
</PluginSettings>
</Settings>
///////////////////////////////////////////
The extra lines are in there because NextPVR tends to at least try to work.
When I boot up NextPVR, the tuner(s) show up fine, and I can add channels just fine (kind of), however, after adding a channel, still on the device setup page, under the tuning column, I get "7148 Not defined"
When I try to go to livetv or launch XBMC (already set up with a PVR frontend) I either get "Device is used for recording, exit?" or "Tuner not available" <-XMBC
Again, when I set up the other tuners, I don't get any of these problems.
I have also tried to add all 4 Ceton tuners and have all 4 channels sources, yet the same error. I have stopped all WMC services and I am at a loss here.
I saw on other posts, people suggested that they redo the steps on the PDF; I cannot count how many times I have done that. There has to be something somewhere where I am not including. I do know that my channels are QAM256 and the frequency for any given channel don't seem to match the codec in NextPVR but then again, NetworkRecorders don't access that info anyways, well as far as I know.
Does anyone have ANY advice for my situation of not being able to tune these Ceton tuners?
Thank you,
Paul