I installed nextpvr to use with emby, and i have a problem where the NPVR service stops randomly and needs to be manually started again. This occurs when using emby as the front end, through kodi, and also just using the nextpvr player itself. It happens with quite a high frequency, and makes the server nearly unusable as a PVR. Could someone point me in the direction of a fix for this issue or help me troubleshoot what might be causing this? I'm using the latest release on windows 10 x64, and I'm using an m3u IPTV service. All channels come in clearly and buffering is not a big issue.
I've attached my log directory. I also am wondering if it is possibly related to the decoders I'm using. Is there a preferred decoder configuration for all codecs, such as LAV, or is it best only to use the Microsoft codec for stability? (or is this even related to this particular problem?)
One thing I've noticed is a 'graph stopping...' message at the end of the log file when the crash occurs, but I don't know how to troubleshoot that error.
Thanks
EDIT: I also noticed that a crash.mdmp file was requested in another thread that might be related, so I've attached that file as well.
Hi all, I'm utilizing live TV in Emby with the nextPVR plugin. I pulled EPG data from zap2it with the following command (manual execution of this specific command file):
That should have pulled 7 days of data, correct? But in Emby and in nextPVR, even after I've restarted nextPVR, there is only one hour of data showing. Any particular steps to follow before submitting a log? Thank you.
Had a bunch of recordings fail due to lack of disk space. Found one freak recording that was 125GB and made the wife go through and she found 200GB of stuff she didn't need :(
I had setup a second recordings folder on another drive but you can only set it to choose the drive with the most space - What about having a failover that it will record to if there is too little space on the primary.
My main recording space is on a 2 drive stripe to help it cope with multiple records symeltaneous without throughput issues. The OS drive has 700GB free but being a single drive I only want to use it in the even of otherwise missing recordings.
I'm not too bothers as TV is so bloody crap these days there are only about two series on Free to air TV I actually want to watch but happy wife happy life ;)
In a rush to free up space tonight I deleted an entire series we hadn't gotten round to watching and doing it via NPVR is a bit tedious when you have 20 recordings to delete so I did it through explorer. Will NPVR eventually pick up the missing files and clean up the recordings list or am I going to have to still delete them manually?
No a biggie but I've been down this road before when we realise the 1TB is filling up and have to go through and do a purge.
Last week my recordings no longer had a timeline at the bottom of the screen. Instead it was the program description. From what I recall it was about the same time as I installed Google Chrome as my internet browser. That can't possibly be related can it?
I am just starting down the road with NPVR and Kodi as a front-end. However, I find the Kodi interface a bit fussy and I like the cleaner, simpler NPVR screens so am thinking of just using NPVR. BUT, whilst I can get live TV via Kodi, when I try in NPVR, most of the time I get a black screen and no sound, not always, sometimes it works. I have tried LAV and ffshow decoders but still have the issue.
Any thoughts/suggestions would be welcome.
Thanks,
Stanno
I've been having this problem for a while, sporadically. The default recording settings are to stop 3 minutes after the EPG's end time. However, some recordings actually end several minutes before the EPG's end time instead. I haven't been able to determine the problem and no error messages have appeared anywhere. Yesterday, two shows had this problem - "Scorpion" and "A Very Pentatonic Christmas". Looking at the ndigitalhost-20.log.1 I see the start and stop end of these recordings and the stop times are incorrect compared to those shown in the Nrecord.log.1 file, which is correct per the EPG. I hope someone can help me fix this issue.
I am using Kodi 17 to schedule recordings and NPVR 4.0.4 (170820) with 2 Happaugh recorders along with Windows 10 Home creator's update.
I am getting pixilated video on all channels for a new service I am trying. Random free IPTV sites look fine. Both services work well in VLC and also plays fine on an AppleTV 4 App.. I have played with all the decoder options but that does not seem to be the issue. The only difference in the two streams is the size and quality of the video. See attached screenshots and the relevant section of the log file. If you want the full logs let me know and I will add them.
I had a recording failure last night. Checking the NRecord log I found 'Recording due to start pre-padding, but tuner not available'. Please seen NRecord.log.2 at this time stamp 2017-10-27 22:58:00.133 for this repeating message. A subsequent recording 3 hours later worked fine with no intervention by me. However, it too had the tuner not available message until immediately before the show started at 23:00. We didn't know the one recording had failed and the other had succeeded until this morning when I happened to be checking the 'What's New' GUI.
I have attached logs that we zipped this morning.
My OTA tuner is a HDHomeRun Connect with two tuners. What I think the message means is that when NextPVR requested a tuner for recording, the HDHomeRun box responded that no tuner was available - that both tuners were in use. I do know that that this should not have been true - zero tuners should have been in use when NextPVR requested one.
Can someone confirm that NextPVR does not keep track of what tuners are in use, and that it can only find out that there is no tuner available when it requests a tuner. I am trying to make sure that this could not be a NextPVR problem before I open another problem with the HDHomeRun team. This problem happened last spring and it appears to be usage related - after some large number of requests for a tuner, the HDHomeRun says none are available, and a power off, power on cycle of the HDHomeRun initially eliminates the problem, but it will reoccur after many more requests for a tuner.
Sorry to ask for details on how this works, but I am trying to avoid a finger pointer match between NextPVR support and HDHomeRun support with me in the middle.
I rebooted my HTPC at about 14:25 this afternoon. I had updated the firmware level on my HDHomeRun and during that process HDHomeRun detected that NextPVR was using some of its function, and asked if it could stop the NextPRV service. To make sure that there were no problems, I decided to do a reboot of Windows which would restart the NPVR Recording Service cleanly.
With the HDHomeRun firmware change, I thought a test to make sure that NextPVR could still access the tuner was appropriate , so I scheduled a recording from 15:00 to 16:00. The recording was fine. However, after the recording the HTPC didn't enter sleep which I would have expected it to - by 18:05 it was obvious it was not going to sleep. The only thing running on the system is NextPVR and then MCEBuddy from 23:45 to whenever it finishes early in the morning.
Unfortunately, like many Windows 10 users I have encountered the screen flickering problem following Windows sleep after the forced update to the fall 2017 Creators release. Only with a reboot of the system can I again see information on my monitor. So I had to reboot at 16:05 to be able to examine the NextPVR log to see what was going on. Hence the logs containing the times of interest are xxxxxx.log.1
When I examined NPRV.log1 and NRecord.log.1, I discovered that starting at about 16:20 this afternoon the system was going into standby and then waking about 1 minute and 10 seconds later. This is not the first time I have encountered this problem - when I researched the problem earlier this month I discovered that a solution that would prevent the problem was to restart the NPVR Recording Service frequently which I have been doing by rebooting the system.
Today I checked the Windows event log again using a filter I created earlier this month. I found the system is entering sleep due to 'Sleep Reason: System Idle', followed by a system waking message just over 1 minute later. The source of the wake up is 'Wake Source: Timer - NRecord.exe'. This is a repeating pattern with time stamps that closely match the 'System is going into standby' messages in the NPVR.log.1 and the 'Resuming...' messages in NRecord.log.1.
Questions:
1) When examining the NPVR.log.1 it appears that NextPVR is busy processing when Windows thinks the system is idle. After the recording finished shortly after 16:00, I have no idea what NextPVR was doing but it is clearly doing something per the logs until the first standby message at 2017-11-29 16:20:08.723.
2) Why did NextPVR wake the system at 2017-11-29 16:21:16.846 (The event log clearly states that it was a NextPVR timer that woke it).
3) Why does NextPVR and Windows enter a battle of trying to sleep the system and wake it after this first sleep / wake event?
4) Is NextPVR doing useful processing just before the sleep and after the wake? I ask as I don't recall NextPVR doing this sort of processing in other NPVR.logs I have looked at. Is it in some sort of a loop?
5) Is there a setting or another solution to prevent this? This experience tells me that stopping and starting the NPVR Recording Service as suggested by others in the NexpPVR forum is not a long lasting solution - the sleep / wake cycle started to occur only 2 hours after my reboot of Windows and after only one recording had been done.
Note: I have added one file to the LOGS directory under USER/PUBLIC/NEXTPVR/LOGS before zipping it. It is called 'Sleep - wake events ....' and is an extract of the Event Log on Windows containing the sleep and wake events from this afternoon. It can be viewed, including details of each event, with the Event Viewer Snapin from Windows.
Environment: Windows 10 plus fall 2017 Creators Update, NextPVR" version="4.0.4" buildDate="171121"
Electricity has become expensive in the Toronto area, and sleeping the HTPC when there is nothing to do is very important. Today's events suggest the stopping and starting the NPVR Recording Service nightly is not a solution. Since many others have encountered this, finding the root cause and developing a solution is important.
I want to try and let my server rest occasionally so I have set up USB drives to boot my PCHs, which work great, but I want to implement WOL to nudge the server. The old posts on how to set this up suggest ether-wake but the link to Martins zip no longer works - any chance I can get a copy from somewhere, assuming that's still the best option.
Cheers for all and any instructions/help.
I recently made the painful switch from Windows Media Centre & Windows 7 to building a new PC with Windows 10. I installed an Hauppauge WinTV HVR-1800 card from an older PC and Windows device manager says the device is working properly.
When I go into the settings for NextPVR and select the devices tab it's listed as Hauppauge WinTV 885. I am using a cable box so I select QAM and run the scan on Default Cable Frequencies, Default Cable Frequencies 70+, and HRC Cable Frequencies and wait for the scan to complete and no channels are listed.
I am using a Shaw Cable digital cable box (ARRIS DCX-32000M) as I need it to decrypt the signal (apparently) and using an HD converter to downgrade the video from the HDMI cable to S-video and connecting that to the tuner card. Not pretty, but it worked on the Windows Media Centre PC.
I tried taking the coxaxial cable from the cable box and connected that to the tuner card and same result: no channels listed.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need to have the WinTV software installed?
Hello everybody idont know if im at the right section but i dont know what else to do please help.
I want to use Npvr to control my haupauge HD PVR 2 With wintv there blast config app does not detect my COMCAST BOX.
So i went ahead and bought a USB-UIRT and integrated it with HIP and it worked It detected my control and chose NPVR as an auto app to start Hip. I Just cant get it to blast. I looked and used hipsend and nothing i used usbuirt.exemade by someone in the Npvr community and nothing now it detects my remote but it does not blast now when the remote is learned i press test send in hip it changes the channel or powers up my box but when i go to NPVR I DONT KNOW WHAT TO DO TO MAKE IT WORK.
Now I know that there was some refernce on The old GPVR FORUMS or Obselete any help would be appreciated thanks.
Since around the time I updated my NextPVR software to v4.0.4 (170820), I have experienced program crashes each day. I haven't noticed any pattern to it beyond that. Usually I find the NPVR Recording Service is no longer running, though on rare occasion Services indicates it is still running, but I none-the-less have to restart it to restore proper functionality.
Let me back up a bit to describe my installation. I have NextPVR installed on a Win7 pro desktop which is primarily used for this purpose. I have an HDHomeRun tuner (two tuner model) configured on NextPVR. In another room, where my TV resides, i have a Raspberry Pi with OSMC installed and the NextPVR PVR Client. The remote works fine for selecting recordings for playback, but is lacking in other areas such as being able to delete recordings. So... I'm using a laptop to access NextPVR's web interface for that purpose... I also find it convenient for scheduling recordings.
The symptoms I get that indicate the NPVR Recording Service has shut down include the web interface failing, an inability to play back a recording, or missed records. Strangely (to me anyway), sometimes the recordings are missed altogether, and sometimes they just don't show up in the list, but do after I start the NPVR Recording Service.
There is an error in the computer's Application event log... event ID 1000, source "Application Error". I have attached a text file including a few variations on that error, though most of the time it involves "Faulting module path: C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll". It also seems to be NRecord.exe that is reported as the faulting application.
I attached a zipped log file from when I most recently found the NPVR Recording Service not running, as well as another zipped file after i started it. There does NOT seem to be a crash.mdmp file in the temp folder.
Hopefully I have provided enough info to assist in trouble shooting.
Hi all, I set the EPG to update at 0300 in nextPVR, but I notice the epg.xml file in the scripts folder hasn't been updated in a while (3 days). The batch file/command should work since I used the same file to generate the epg.xml file in the first place. I attached logs if someone can take a look to see what could be going on. Thank you.
Restarted the server today and got a notice there was a new version of Npvr so I downloaded and installed 4.0.4(171121). Everything seemed to go fine but... the modern web interface "NOW" screen now has what appears to be a glitch. The page displays correctly but clicking the icon does nothing. It appears the problem is there's no url attached to the channels. The TV guide page works fine though.
I tried a reinstall but no love. Anyone else seeing this?
I installed Nextpvr on windows Server 2008 R2 (Windows updated).
NPVR does not show up in Devices tab (my network Avermedia F200 HomeFree Duet tuner Tv) -analog-
The firwall is desactived
The drivers of Avermedia are installed
In the device tab the device button is off
I tried the CheckFilter diag (see below) and logs files
You can see the logs in attached files
Have you any idea please ?
For the test, on one of my Windows 10 Pc, the tuner is detected.
I tend to like the "Classic" web interface better than the "Modern" one. Partly because it includes some additional info not included in Modern (like Original Air Date). But, some time ago the Manage Recordings view developed a problem when scrolling down the page. I have minimal web page designing skills, but it appears to me that the issue may have something to do with overlapping "frames".
At the bottom of the page, thee is a frame that illustrates the color coding scheme for "Pending", "In Progress", etc. The same is true on the "TV Guide" page. With the latter, if I scroll up the page, that bottom frame stays put as one would expect. But... on the Manage Recordings page, when you try to scroll down through the list of recordings, that bottom frame scrolls up, covering over the info on one of the recordings. If one looks close at the scroll bar on the right side of the window, the scroll bar extends down into the bottom frame area on the Manage Recordings page, but does not do so on the TV Guide page.
I may not be describing this well enough to follow... so in the vein of "a picture is worth a thousand words", I have attached four screen captures. Two are of the TV Guide page and two are of the Manage Recordings page. In each case, there is one screen capture reflecting being scrolled all the way to the top of the list, and another partially scrolled down. I have annotated in red a few key points to observe.
I usually use Firefox, but the same behavior occurs if I use Chrome or Edge. And if I use a different computer. Perhaps most people use the "Modern" web interface and that is why I haven't noticed this being reported earlier.
Hi,
I need to do a completely new install, I've tried to uninstall and then reinstall but my channel list has remained so I am unable to refresh those settings.
Is there a simple way of starting from scratch or how do I manually delete these settings?
I managed to get nextpvr functioning just fine on one of my PCs but the other one is proving awkward.
I think this may involve a database, if so how do I delete that file?
Thak you in advance :)
Hey sub how come there option to use Schedules Direct for setup ATSC tuner in stead of pull the EPG off the tuner which as you know is a bit limited to 24 hour