Analog

[Jzzhn]

Unfortunately, a lot of us live in rural areas where cable companies have a monopoly and are shoving old analog cable on us. ATSC offers very limited options in my area. I have installed NextPvr and it works great with ATSC. However it does not detect my analog tuner which would enable analog cable options, it only detects digital and QAM, I have no QAM. I installed Hauppauge SoftPVR and ran the .bat file. The AnalogDevice.xml configuration file was not present in the C:\Users\Public\NPVR-data after the successful install. I happened to have an old copy of that file, from an old win7 install on my hard drive. I modified that with the required information:
<Device filter="ATI AVStream Analog Capture">
              <Name>ATI Analog</Name>
              <Type>HARD_ENCODE</Type>
              <FilterEncoder>ATI AVStream MPEG2 Multiplexer</FilterEncoder>

and moved it to the \NPVR-data directory, but it did no good. How should I proceed? Log file attached.

[sub]

Unfortunately Analog is only available in NextPVR v4.x at this stage.

It should make into v5 at some stage in the future, but I couldn't tell you when that be.

[Jzzhn]

Thanks for the reply. What is the best way to downgrade to v4.x, any way to keep the work I've already done while doing this?

[sub]

any way to keep the work I've already done while doing this?

No, sorry. You'd need to uninstall v5. Install v4 and set it up from scratch.

[BrettB]

any way to keep the work I've already done while doing this?

No, sorry. You'd need to uninstall v5. Install v4 and set it up from scratch.

What do you mean by "keep the work I've already done while doing this"? If you're referring to keeping/transferring any recordings you've made, you should be able to do that by making sure you have an export of recordings from the V5 system and then importing that into the v4 system.

[mvallevand]

I think that there is a reasonable solution for analog, FM, and DVB card server Windows users who want the benefit of v5

Create a normal NextPVR v4 installation, configure your tuner and set the v4 web port not to use 8866. You don't even need a guide. Export the m3u list from v4 and use this an an IPTV source in V5. Then setup the guide and recordings in v5 and let v4 run silently for years.

I used this successfully from months until sub added extra support.

Martin

[Jzzhn]

I think that there is a reasonable solution for analog, FM, and DVB card server Windows users who want the benefit of v5

Create a normal NextPVR v4 installation, configure your tuner and set the v4 web port not to use 8866.  You don't even need a guide.  Export the m3u list from v4 and use this an an IPTV source in V5.  Then setup the guide and recordings in v5 and let v4 run silently for years.

I used this successfully from months until sub added extra support.

Martin

Thanks, this seems the best solution. Being new to this, where is the export of m3u, and the port configuration, and what port should I use instead or 8866? also, I have a subscription to Schedules Direct, should I enter that under v4 or v5? I'm quite a noob. Thanks.

[mvallevand]

You can use any port. Many users use 8867 when running both versions.

The m3u is available via the url http://127.0.0.1:port/channels which you should be able to enter in NextPVR v5 when prompted in IPTV

You don't have to configure the guide in v4 since v5 will do all the work, but getting the right channel names for the m3u might help if you have a lot of channels.

The solution could benefit if sub creates a version of v4 that turns off discovery.

Martin

[boxcar32]

Just seeing this thread. I now can play FM radio in version 5. Thanks!

[Brucek2839]

Hello,
Are you saying that ver 4 will allow a analog tuner to be run? If I am reading this right that would be great...So much cheaper to create an analog channel...
Thank you