live TV/DVR no longer working after upgrade - Fixed!

[gungatim 8]

I just noticed that nothing in my DVR schedule recorded over the past week, tried some ad-hoc recording as well, all I get is the folder, nfo file, but no video file.

 

tried to watch live tv and it just hangs on the server and also tv and firestick aps. end up having to kill the server in task manager and restart it to get it to work.

 

wondering if this is related to the last  upgrades (went to 4.2.1.0 within the same time period)

 - also I noticed some errors in the file attached, relating to a couple plug-ins I added which got put in with the refresh of the upgrade, maybe that has something to do with it?

 

also unrelated but I notice the file says operating system is Windows NT but i'm on Win 10.

 

lastly, I don't have the tray icon any more and I see an error about that as well.

 

this is the first time looking at the log files trying to diagnose so hope you can help!!

embyserver-63701078400.txt

Edited August 22, 2019 by gungatim

[Luke 37022]

Hi there, have you tried restarting the machine?

[gungatim 8]

yes, have restarted twice. I should add the Haupauge tuner does work fine running the Haupage software, just not in emby any longer. I have also tried removing and re-adding both the device and the guide, including remapping the channels but still not being seen in emby.  I am going to try uninstalling those tvfront end add-ins, maybe that has something to do with it.

[Luke 37022]

You mean the WinTV software?

[gungatim 8]

No I mean the tvfrontend TVHclient add-in. deleted and restarted but nothing changed.

 

something is wrong. the Win TV software works fine, I can play live tv in 2 windows simultaneously...but Emby just hangs and freezes up trying to play live tv.

 

2019-08-12 15:30:41.022 Error MediaSourceManager: Error probing live tv stream

*** Error Report ***

Version: 4.2.1.0

Command line: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll -noautorunwebapp

Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0

64-Bit OS: True

64-Bit Process: True

User Interactive: True

Runtime: file:///C:/Users/kira/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll

Processor count: 2

Program data path: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata

Application directory: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system

System.Exception: System.Exception: ffprobe failed for "http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/69cc015ce20f4d7ea07d7843a88a8f02/stream.ts"- streams and format are both null: 

{

 

}

 

 

ffprobe version 4.0.3-emby_2019_04_09-g5abbb1430d+449 Copyright © 2007-2018 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC

  built with gcc 8.3.0 (Rev2, Built by MSYS2 project)

http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/69cc015ce20f4d7ea07d7843a88a8f02/stream.ts:Invalid data found when processing input

 

 

   at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder.GetMediaInfoInternal(String inputPath, String primaryPath, MediaProtocol protocol, Boolean extractChapters, String probeSizeArgument, Boolean isAudio, Boolean forceEnableLogging, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

   at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.MediaSourceManager.AddMediaInfoWithProbe(MediaSourceInfo mediaSource, Boolean isAudio, ReadOnlyMemory`1 cacheKey, Boolean addProbeDelay, Boolean isLiveStream, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

   at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.MediaSourceManager.OpenLiveStreamInternal(LiveStreamRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

Source: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding

TargetSite: Void MoveNext()

Edited August 12, 2019 by gungatim

[gungatim 8]

these are the 2 I uninstalled. I had never set them up but installed them about the same time the upgrade and restart.

[gungatim 8]

everything failed again last night. still no live TV. something wrong with some ffprobe it looks like, whatever that is...

 

latest file attached

 

is there some way to roll back to the version that worked? 

embyserver.txt

[gungatim 8]

can anyone help? ffprobe is trying to do something, I don't know what.

 

the dvr fires, the stream starts, for 6.5 seconds ffprobe apparently tries to identify something about the streaming show, but I can't figure out what.

 

appears there are two files it checks, a Season Id and a Series Id. (but no episode Id??)

 

when it is done, the live stream ends and ffprobe process exits with "1" meaning it failed.

 

the whole time the display is blank (no tv show) and no .ts file is created in the recording folder of the DVR - although the .nfo file and .jpg file for that episode are created just no video.

 

obviously ffprobe figured out what show it was but emby isn't programmed properly for identifying the format?? version prior to 4.2.1 worked flawlessly. 

 

then the final error report says streams and format are both null.

 

I don't know how Emby is programmed, but whatever it's doing with this ffprobe thing is not working.

[gungatim 8]

maybe this one will help.

 

live stream opens at 8pm, starts to record, says it will go for 59+ minutes, gets artwork and meta data, 6.5 seconds later stream ends, recording ends, stream closed, temp files all deleted.

the ffprobe starts and fails because no file is there.

 

why did the recording and stream end prematurely?

 

is the bitrate of 20000000 correct?

 

see below log file excerpt

 

2019-08-12 20:00:28.039 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream opened: {"Protocol":"Http","Id":"native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_9d32bba1f5511118e402b86667455c28","Path":"http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/61784c1b2f8140929282928feca56d9a/stream.ts","Type":"Default","Container":"mpegts","IsRemote":false,"SupportsTranscoding":true,"SupportsDirectStream":true,"SupportsDirectPlay":false,"IsInfiniteStream":true,"RequiresOpening":true,"RequiresClosing":true,"LiveStreamId":"06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_9d32bba1f5511118e402b86667455c28","RequiresLooping":false,"SupportsProbing":false,"MediaStreams":[{"VideoRange":"SDR","IsInterlaced":true,"BitRate":20000000,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Video","Index":-1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Protocol":"File"},{"IsInterlaced":false,"IsDefault":false,"IsForced":false,"Type":"Audio","Index":-1,"IsExternal":false,"IsTextSubtitleStream":false,"SupportsExternalStream":false,"Protocol":"File"}],"Formats":[],"Bitrate":20000000,"RequiredHttpHeaders":{},"ReadAtNativeFramerate":false}
2019-08-12 20:00:28.041 Info LiveTV: Will record to J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts for 59.532637155 minutes.
2019-08-12 20:00:28.352 Info HttpClient: GET https://emby.tmsimg.com/assets/p184724_b_v7_au.jpg
2019-08-12 20:00:28.357 Info LiveTV: Copying recording stream to file J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:28.386 Info LibraryMonitor: Season 1 (J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Chicago P.D. (2014)\Season 1) will be refreshed.
2019-08-12 20:00:32.533 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (SMART-TV; LINUX; Tizen 3.0) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 TV Safari/538.1
2019-08-12 20:00:32.564 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.42.100. Time: 31ms. http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2019-08-12 20:00:32.653 Info LiveTV: Triggering refresh on J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:32.654 Info LiveTV: Refreshing recording parent J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows
2019-08-12 20:00:34.891 Info App: Live Stream ended.
2019-08-12 20:00:34.892 Info LiveTV: Recording completed to file J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:34.892 Info LiveTV: Recording completed: J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:34.896 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_9d32bba1f5511118e402b86667455c28 consumer count is now 0
2019-08-12 20:00:34.896 Info MediaSourceManager: Closing live stream 06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_9d32bba1f5511118e402b86667455c28
2019-08-12 20:00:34.896 Info App: Closing SharedFileStream
2019-08-12 20:00:34.906 Info App: Deleting temp files C:\Users\Public\Videos\Pause Buffer\livetv-1684.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:34.909 Info MediaSourceManager: Live stream 06044cf0e6f93cdae5f285c9ecfaaeb4_01413a525b3a9622ce6fdf19f7dde354_native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_9d32bba1f5511118e402b86667455c28 closed successfully
2019-08-12 20:00:34.910 Info LiveTV: Triggering refresh on J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts
2019-08-12 20:00:34.910 Info LiveTV: Refreshing recording parent J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2
2019-08-12 20:00:35.321 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/find/tt0275140?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&external_source=imdb_id
2019-08-12 20:00:38.590 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/4601?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=credits,images,keywords,external_ids,videos,content_ratings&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2019-08-12 20:00:42.521 Info HttpClient: GET https://www.thetvdb.com/api/B89CE93890E9419B/series/71489/all/en.zip
2019-08-12 20:00:42.573 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (SMART-TV; LINUX; Tizen 3.0) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 TV Safari/538.1
2019-08-12 20:00:42.576 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.42.100. Time: 3ms. http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2019-08-12 20:00:46.971 Info HttpClient: GET https://webservice.fanart.tv/v3/tv/71489?api_key=5c6b04c68e904cfed1e6cbc9a9e683d4
2019-08-12 20:00:51.437 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/4601/season/2?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&append_to_response=images,keywords,external_ids,credits,videos&language=en&include_image_language=en,null
2019-08-12 20:00:52.622 Info HttpServer: HTTP POST http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress. UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (SMART-TV; LINUX; Tizen 3.0) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 TV Safari/538.1
2019-08-12 20:00:52.651 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 204 to 192.168.42.100. Time: 28ms. http://192.168.42.106:8096/emby/Sessions/Playing/Progress
2019-08-12 20:00:54.304 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -i file:"J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_chapters -show_format -show_data
2019-08-12 20:00:54.347 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Started.
2019-08-12 20:00:54.450 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 1
2019-08-12 20:00:54.451 Error App: Error in ffprobe
 *** Error Report ***
 Version: 4.2.1.0
 Command line: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll
 Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0
 64-Bit OS: True
 64-Bit Process: True
 User Interactive: True
 Runtime: file:///C:/Users/kira/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll
 Processor count: 2
 Program data path: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata
 Application directory: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system
 System.Exception: System.Exception: ffprobe failed for file:"J:\Recorded TV\OTA Shows\Law & Order  Criminal Intent (2001)\Season 2\Law & Order  Criminal Intent S02E07 Tomorrow.ts" - streams and format are both null:
{
 

[gungatim 8]

sure would be nice to get some help with this...is there a support forum somewhere for premier customers?

[Luke 37022]

What kind of drive is your J: drive?

[gungatim 8]

It's a Seagate 8tb. but I already removed it and reset the directory to k drive which is western digital red, and tried the P drive which is  Western Digital blue. I have 7 drives and they don't make any difference...it used to work fine before the upgrades. WinTv still works fine.

[Luke 37022]

And you still can't play live tv either, right?

[gungatim 8]

And you still can't play live tv either, right?

correct. when trying to play live tv it errors out during that ffprobe stage...same with recording. last line says - "streams and format are both null", and prior to that I notice it says "Live Stream ended".

 

Is the stream ending for some reason before ffprobe completes? how can I track this down?

 

also I removed the tvdb plug-in since the check for updates failed this week, tried to re-add it but it won't install. that's why the first line is going to MovieDbProvider I think. I saw some errors trying to reach TVDB website as well last week, maybe it was down.

 

so far I have done a complete re-install of emby, restarted the computer, restarted emby, uninstalled the tv stick, re-installed, remapped channels, refreshed guide, deleted guide, moved directories and hard drives around, all to no avail. (I moved the hard drives because Emby doesn't seem to want to shut off the automatic conversion of ts to mkv I setup on that drive for new content back when it was working. it was just running endlessly making the entire system unresponsive. I think that should be a feature added---some way to turn OFF the conversion stuff.)

 

here is log from trying to watch live TV.

 

 

2019-08-20 00:31:20.361 Info App: MovieDbProvider: Finding id for item: Chicago P.D.

2019-08-20 00:31:20.361 Info HttpClient: GET https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=f6bd687ffa63cd282b6ff2c6877f2669&query=Chicago+P.D.&language=en

2019-08-20 00:31:22.816 Info HttpClient: GET https://private.omdbapi.com?apikey=fe53f97e&plot=full&r=json&s=Chicago+P.D.&type=series

2019-08-20 00:31:23.524 Info LiveTV: Getting media sources for recording from channel 461221 461221

2019-08-20 00:31:23.524 Info LiveTV: Opening live stream for recording from channel 461221 461221

2019-08-20 00:31:23.525 Info LiveTvManager: Opening channel stream from Emby, external channel Id: hauppauge_18

2019-08-20 00:31:23.525 Info LiveTV: Streaming Channel hauppauge_18

2019-08-20 00:31:23.525 Info App: GetChannelStream: channel id: hauppauge_18. stream id: native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_bad7c8d2592a007b59e8310bd41bc57e

2019-08-20 00:31:23.525 Info App: Hauppauge GetChannelStream args "GetChannelStream" "1" "18" "native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_bad7c8d2592a007b59e8310bd41bc57e"

2019-08-20 00:31:26.519 Debug App: Hauppauge response: C:\Users\Public\Videos\Pause Buffer\livetv-11916.ts

2019-08-20 00:31:26.519 Info App: Live stream opened after 0.0097ms

2019-08-20 00:31:26.519 Info LiveTV: Returning mediasource streamId native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_bad7c8d2592a007b59e8310bd41bc57e, mediaSource.Id native_4165bdd3ae66a7c9abc5efccb7553d53_bad7c8d2592a007b59e8310bd41bc57e, mediaSource.LiveStreamId null

2019-08-20 00:31:26.520 Info MediaSourceManager: Waiting 3000ms before probing the live stream

2019-08-20 00:31:29.532 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Execute: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\ffprobe.exe -analyzeduration 3000000 -i "http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/ec38b5613fe5440cbd78e8fb33132224/stream.ts" -threads 0 -v info -print_format json -show_streams -show_format -show_data

2019-08-20 00:31:29.624 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Started.

2019-08-20 00:31:30.581 Info HttpServer: HTTP GET http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/ec38b5613fe5440cbd78e8fb33132224/stream.ts. UserAgent: Lavf/58.12.100

2019-08-20 00:31:37.971 Info App: Live Stream ended.

2019-08-20 00:31:37.972 Info HttpServer: HTTP Response 200 to 127.0.0.1. Time: 7391ms. http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/ec38b5613fe5440cbd78e8fb33132224/stream.ts

2019-08-20 00:31:37.992 Info MediaEncoder: ProcessRun 'ffprobe' Process exited with code 1

2019-08-20 00:31:37.995 Error MediaSourceManager: Error probing live tv stream

 *** Error Report ***

 Version: 4.2.1.0

 Command line: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system\EmbyServer.dll

 Operating system: Microsoft Windows NT 6.2.9200.0

 64-Bit OS: True

 64-Bit Process: True

 User Interactive: True

 Runtime: file:///C:/Users/kira/AppData/Roaming/Emby-Server/system/System.Private.CoreLib.dll

 Processor count: 2

 Program data path: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata

 Application directory: C:\Users\kira\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\system

 System.Exception: System.Exception: ffprobe failed for "http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/ec38b5613fe5440cbd78e8fb33132224/stream.ts" - streams and format are both null:

{

 

 }

 

 

ffprobe version 4.0.3-emby_2019_04_09-g5abbb1430d+449 Copyright © 2007-2018 the FFmpeg developers and softworkz for Emby LLC

   built with gcc 8.3.0 (Rev2, Built by MSYS2 project)

 http://127.0.0.1:8096/LiveTv/LiveStreamFiles/ec38b5613fe5440cbd78e8fb33132224/stream.ts: Invalid data found when processing input

 

 

    at Emby.Server.MediaEncoding.Encoder.MediaEncoder.GetMediaInfoInternal(String inputPath, String primaryPath, MediaProtocol protocol, Boolean extractChapters, String probeSizeArgument, Boolean isAudio, Boolean forceEnableLogging, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.MediaSourceManager.AddMediaInfoWithProbe(MediaSourceInfo mediaSource, Boolean isAudio, ReadOnlyMemory`1 cacheKey, Boolean addProbeDelay, Boolean isLiveStream, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

    at Emby.Server.Implementations.Library.MediaSourceManager.OpenLiveStreamInternal(LiveStreamRequest request, CancellationToken cancellationToken)

 Source: Emby.Server.MediaEncoding

 TargetSite: Void MoveNext()

[gungatim 8]

It is now working.  I played around trying to figure out why the live stream stopped. I made a couple changes to the settings in WinTV, not sure which one fixed it but I think it is the buffer.

 

I had turned the buffer setting to zero "0" from the default of 10 mins. This is because my hard drive filled up with these temp.ts files and I had to go in and delete them all which took an hour. for a couple weeks I kept going in and deleting them every day until I just went ahead and got rid of the buffering since I don't need to pause or rewind live tv.

 

I THINK (please confirm) that Emby is looking for those temp files and uses them for displaying live tv and recording in the DVR. since they do not exist, there was nothing for Emby to find and thus ffprobe fails.

 

can you confirm this is how it works? and what value should I use (currently set at 3 mins), anything >0?

 

see attached pics. the only other setting I changed was the hardware acceleration in WinTV, so that may have fixed it but I haven't done a test with it turned back off to verify.

 

I attached two screenshots of the two settings I changed; the acceleration for MPEG-2/H.264 was unchecked while the HEVC was checked, now they both are, second pic is the Disk Buffering setting which I had set to zero.

 

Thanks!! (hope this helps someone else)

[SHSPVR 119]

It is now working.  I played around trying to figure out why the live stream stopped. I made a couple changes to the settings in WinTV, not sure which one fixed it but I think it is the buffer.

 

I had turned the buffer setting to zero "0" from the default of 10 mins. This is because my hard drive filled up with these temp.ts files and I had to go in and delete them all which took an hour. for a couple weeks I kept going in and deleting them every day until I just went ahead and got rid of the buffering since I don't need to pause or rewind live tv.

 

I THINK (please confirm) that Emby is looking for those temp files and uses them for displaying live tv and recording in the DVR. since they do not exist, there was nothing for Emby to find and thus ffprobe fails.

 

can you confirm this is how it works? and what value should I use (currently set at 3 mins), anything >0?

 

see attached pics. the only other setting I changed was the hardware acceleration in WinTV, so that may have fixed it but I haven't done a test with it turned back off to verify.

 

I attached two screenshots of the two settings I changed; the acceleration for MPEG-2/H.264 was unchecked while the HEVC was checked, now they both are, second pic is the Disk Buffering setting which I had set to zero.

 

Thanks!! (hope this helps someone else)

 

Yup you need check temp folder and clean out all the temp that side affect with WinTV.

Personally I go with NextPVR setup a M3U tuner is better way to go have look at this this page below

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/69226-recording-episode-or-series-in-specific-nextpvr-folder/

Hope lee the Emby team will do there own integrated TV tuner software that can directly talk to TV device with out relay on other 3rdparty

[gungatim 8]

Yup you need check temp folder and clean out all the temp that side affect with WinTV.

Personally I go with NextPVR setup a M3U tuner is better way to go have look at this this page below

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/69226-recording-episode-or-series-in-specific-nextpvr-folder/

Hope lee the Emby team will do there own integrated TV tuner software that can directly talk to TV device with out relay on other 3rdparty

does NextPVR work over the air? I have slow, very limited, very expensive satellite internet only, so I can't really stream. I usually hit my cap about 2 weeks into the month and still need to use it for work...i'm in an area not covered by cable, fiber, wisp, etc. nothin but sat...

[gungatim 8]

for others, I found this related thread below. looks like I was correct, the pause buffer needs to be there, it is used by Emby for the TV. apparently others have had this problem of filling the hard drive as well...it is what caused all this in the first place!

 

https://emby.media/community/index.php?/topic/57438-live-tv-pause-buffer-fills-hd-and-crashes-server/

[SHSPVR 119]

does NextPVR work over the air? I have slow, very limited, very expensive satellite internet only, so I can't really stream. I usually hit my cap about 2 weeks into the month and still need to use it for work...i'm in an area not covered by cable, fiber, wisp, etc. nothin but sat...

 

Depend on what you mean by Over the AIR as Antenna for local Over the Air channel setup ?.

It run on same system as Emby server you don't need the internet for NextPVR to work as you be using it as TV server to sent the recording to Emby all on same system local

Edited August 22, 2019 by SHSPVR

[gungatim 8]

Depend on what you mean by Over the AIR as Antenna for local Over the Air channel setup ?.

It run on same system as Emby server you don't need the internet for NextPVR to work as you be using it as TV server to sent the recording to Emby all on same system local

yes, antenna for local over the air tv channel. how does NextPVR pick up the local broadcast channels? can I use the same Hauppague USB tuner dongle? or does it require an internet address to some tv rebroadcast site (I think they call that IPTV?)?

Edited August 22, 2019 by gungatim

[SHSPVR 119]

Yes NextPVR dose pick up the local broadcast channels and it can even pull EPG off the local channel to but it only good up 6 hour to 48 hours depend on channel by using v4 keep do in mind that v5 is still in beta, then you have two option to go with install Emby NextPVR Plug-in or build make M3U and used Emby EPG data

Clear Emby LiveTV by remove the tuner and EPG be uninstall WinTV software

Edited August 22, 2019 by SHSPVR