Few Small Hiccoughs Installer for First Time (Solved)

[Lao Pan]

Gave it some thought and avoided some / still had a couple of other hiccoughs when using new installer for first time.

First - Deleted the C:/Program Files/NPVR folder that I have been using v5 from up till now.

Second -   ran sc delete "NextPVR service" from the command prompt (Spotted that - thanks Martin)

Third - Ran the new installer - got a bit of a surprise that its an online installer now.

 On logging in to the server for the first time, nothing was working, then Bitdefender informed me it had stopped some malicious software - that's never happened with NPVR before!

Four - returned 4 files from quarantine (vue.min.js, nextpvr client.lnk, nexpvr tray.lnk and wscript.exe from system32) and made exceptions in Bitdefender.

All appears to be working fine now, although maybe I should run the installer again, just to make sure everything got updated.

I have also changed the service startup to un-delayed, as Kodi runs from the startup folder and both him and the wife get stroppy waiting three minutes for the service to start   Also added restart service to the first 2 fail options in service properties.

[Oempa]

Very helpful, thanks
However I would delete the service before deleting the folder.
Not sure if that really matters

[sub]

However I would delete the service before deleting the folder.

As mentioned above:

sc delete "NextPVR service"

You'd need to run this from a command prompt started with 'run as administrator'.

[Oempa]

First delete service, then the folder. Not the other way around as mentioned above
I was very happy to see that the settings did not get lost.

[arrbee99]

Erm. So. I this a requirement or can I just install without doing anything to previous v5 installs, which I have in C:\Program Files\NPVR.

[sub]

Erm. So. I this a requirement or can I just install without doing anything to previous v5 installs, which I have in C:\Program Files\NPVR.

You should be fine to do that.

[mvallevand]

If think if you upgrade using just the installer you will have troubles because a registry key won't exist. You need to download NPVR.zip and continue to install manually to stay in NPVR or import this registry key before running the installer

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NPVR]
"V5_InstallDir"="C:\\Program Files\\NPVR\\"

Martin

[arrbee99]

Thanks. That was super easy. Picked up the guide and everything.

I guess, seeing as v5 was previously installed in a 'NPVR' directory, and the new one is in a 'NextPVR' directory, I can just delete the 'NPVR' directory ? There's nothing in it I need to keep ?

[arrbee99]

If think if you upgrade using just the installer you will have troubles because a registry key won't exist.  You need to download NPVR.zip and continue to install manually to stay in NPVR or import this registry key before running the installer

Code:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\NPVR]
"V5_InstallDir"="C:\\Program Files\\NPVR\\"

Martin

Seems OK so far touch wood. Its just starting to play Frasier at the moment.

[mvallevand]

I think the only thing that might be left in NPVR of value would be manually created tuning INI files.

Martin