CHANNELS DVR with Generic Pipe Capture (PLUTO TV as well)

[hb4]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

did you make sure the mapping in SageTV is the same as the channel # ChannelsDVR is looking for ?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I don't see any sources in SageTV to install and add a lineup so that I can change the physical numbers for the working ChannelsDVR channels, if that's the mapping I need to do.

The first time I set this up, I went through the OpenDCT steps and the sources appeared, I assigned a lineup, remapped the channels, and it was working fine. Sage was able to record favorites.

[nyplayer]

What is the Channel # in Channels DVR ? And what is that Channel # in SageTV ?

SageTV in order to pass the Channel number to Channels DVR it has to be mapped to that Channel number.

Below is my TVE from ChannelsDVR into SageTV you see I had to remap the Channels to the same number in SageTV that corresponds to Channel in ChannelsDVR.

[hb4]

I can't get to that point... The ChannelsDVR sources do not appear in SageTV.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by hb4

I can't get to that point... The ChannelsDVR sources do not appear in SageTV.

Are you sure OPENDCT is running if it is shut it down (make sure it is fully stopped) and look at the OPENDCT properties file and make sure your settings took.

[hb4]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Are you sure OPENDCT is running if it is shut it down (make sure it is fully stopped) and look at the OPENDCT properties file and make sure your settings took.

Shut down OpenDCT service; here is a section of the OpenDCT properties file which I think shows the settings for one of the sources.

sagetv.device.65070847.channel_padding=0
sagetv.device.65070847.consumer=opendct.consumer.DynamicConsumerImpl
sagetv.device.65070847.custom_channels=
sagetv.device.65070847.device_name=Chan1
sagetv.device.65070847.encoder_merit=0
sagetv.device.65070847.fast_network_encoder_switch=true
sagetv.device.65070847.http_password=
sagetv.device.65070847.http_username=
sagetv.device.65070847.last_channel=-1
sagetv.device.65070847.pretuning_executable=
sagetv.device.65070847.stopping_executable=
sagetv.device.65070847.stopping_executable_delay_ms=15000
sagetv.device.65070847.streaming_executable=c\:\\FFMPEG\\ffmpeg.exe -i "http\://192.168.1.115\:8089/devices/ANY/channels/%c%/stream.mpg?format\=hls" -c copy -f mpegts 
sagetv.device.65070847.streaming_url=

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by hb4

Shut down OpenDCT service; here is a section of the OpenDCT properties file which I think shows the settings for one of the sources.

sagetv.device.65070847.channel_padding=0
sagetv.device.65070847.consumer=opendct.consumer.DynamicConsumerImpl
sagetv.device.65070847.custom_channels=
sagetv.device.65070847.device_name=Chan1
sagetv.device.65070847.encoder_merit=0
sagetv.device.65070847.fast_network_encoder_switch=true
sagetv.device.65070847.http_password=
sagetv.device.65070847.http_username=
sagetv.device.65070847.last_channel=-1
sagetv.device.65070847.pretuning_executable=
sagetv.device.65070847.stopping_executable=
sagetv.device.65070847.stopping_executable_delay_ms=15000
sagetv.device.65070847.streaming_executable=c\:\\FFMPEG\\ffmpeg.exe -i "http\://192.168.1.115\:8089/devices/ANY/channels/%c%/stream.mpg?format\=hls" -c copy -f mpegts 
sagetv.device.65070847.streaming_url=

In SageTV properties is this set ....

network_encoder_discovery=true

[hb4]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

In SageTV properties is this set ....

network_encoder_discovery=true

Yes, it is. BTW, I just discovered that the power plug into the motherboard from the power supply was loose; wouldn't re-boot after a shutdown until I pressed it down some. Unless there's more to try, I'm thinking I'll start again re-install Windows, Sage, and OpenDCT on this new server build.

[nyplayer]

Originally Posted by hb4

Yes, it is. BTW, I just discovered that the power plug into the motherboard from the power supply was loose; wouldn't re-boot after a shutdown until I pressed it down some. Unless there's more to try, I'm thinking I'll start again re-install Windows, Sage, and OpenDCT on this new server build.

Agree something might be bad with the install go for it good luck.

[hb4]

Originally Posted by nyplayer

Agree something might be bad with the install go for it good luck.

Thank you for your help!

[boukmandutty]

Hey

If you haven't reinstalled yet stop opendct and run it in console then scroll through. You should see your devices. Try to use one of those you have created to preview the channel and see what happens in the console.

[hb4]

Originally Posted by boukmandutty

Hey

If you haven't reinstalled yet stop opendct and run it in console then scroll through. You should see your devices. Try to use one of those you have created to preview the channel and see what happens in the console.

I don't know how to preview the channel without any sources and hence lineup available in Sage.

[boukmandutty]

Sorry misunderstood your issue. Is the channels dvr server on a different computer than the one sagetv is on?

Did you update to the latest java?

Also, are you sure you added the devices correctly just like ENE describes in the original instructions? What I mean is,

1. With opendct stopped did you first input the names of the devices you wanted in the line that begins:

generic.pipe.device_names_csv=

each name followed by a comma?

2. Did you then restart opendct in console mode and let it run for a bit so it could first create the fields in the config file?

[hb4]

Yes, I did all that, but I'm pretty sure I had PC problems. This is a new motherboard, etc. and it had a glitch that scrambled a file and that turned out to be an unclipped power mb power plug. Fixed that, and today re-installed Windows, Sage, and OpenDCT and am now able to see the new tuners in Sage, and map the guide, but a none of the channels I've checked will play (No Signal). This is the latest Sage 32bit W10 system; Java 8 Update 191 is installed.

I see 'Async encoder halt detector found a halt;' in sagetv_0.txt and ' DEBUG BasicCaptureDevice - Consumer is not in progress.' plus some other errors. in opendct.log.

What the heck is the Consumer? If it's me, then that's correct - I'm not making much progress.

I will do a more methodical check tomorrow and report back.

Bill

[hb4]

Followup on Sage/OpenDCT failure to record....
Reinstalled W10, Sage, OpenDCT, Channels DVR
Set up ChannelsDVR, Sage, OpenDCT Generic Pipe Capture
Configured four sources from Channels in Sage: Chan1, Chan2, Chan3, Chan4, and remapped a few channels.
Ran Sage and started OpenDCT.

Sage let me install sources, but hung when trying to play video. Then I re-installed ffmpeg and installed and configured OpenDCT Sage seemed to hang on configuring the lineup, but after about 40 seconds my remapped test channel finally began to play and record video. Sluggish, but it worked. It did drop out onece and recover, so I have two ts files for that recording. I am hoping that once it completes the epg update things will start responding better.

So, so far so good.

[hb4]

Well, I may have spoken too soon; I had three recordings that were scheduled, but only two actually recorded

I uploaded the sagetv_0, 1, 2, and 3.txt files... sagetv_1,2,and 3.txt are all the same length and have 10000 instances of this pair of lines over about 8 seconds:

Mon 12/6 20:00:10.675 [VideoFrame-524b544a5048@5e22f9] VF processing job null nPlayin=true
Mon 12/6 20:00:10.675 [VideoFrame-524b544a5048@5e22f9] isRec=false rd=3600001 base=4531887 eos=false

After leaving it alone for a day or so, things seem to be working OK, however. I'll report back here in a couple more days.

[boukmandutty]

Are you using a 64bit version of Sagetv? If you are, try the 64bit version of opendct and see what happens.

[hb4]

Originally Posted by boukmandutty

Are you using a 64bit version of Sagetv? If you are, try the 64bit version of opendct and see what happens.

I'm using 32 bit SageTV -

[hb4]

I had a bad recording drive and removed it; Sage seems to be working correctly - for now.

[hb4]

A follow-up....
My TVEverywhere/Xfinity + Channels locals experimental > ChannelsDVR>OpenDCT>SageTV setup has been working well for the last two weeks or so, but had a hiccup trying to record the Seahawks game. I suspect it was an issue with the stream from OpenDCT because it recorded it in two parts and when playing back it would constantly seek back to the beginning of the second part.

A pause, commercial skip, or skip forward would do it. I finally waited until the game was over and watched it on ChannelsDVR (on which I've taken to duplicating Sage recordings). Played fine. Subsequently recorded some weekday news programs and they worked just fine.

Is there a way to pass the Sage recording through a decoder in more or less real time to clear whatever glitches there might be in the stream from ChannelsDVR? I'm replaying the Sage recording through the miniclient on a FS4K.

[boukmandutty]

I have had the same problem using the mini client, but is was more pronounced when I used to directly capture and encode using one of those BMI devices. The recordings would play for a bit and then jump back to the start and just start looping sometimes. They played flawlessly when I used a pc based client and skipping within them using the remote never led to erratic behavior. I have had the problem much less of using the TVE capture hack though.

One option I tried was to re-encode the recording as mp4 using SageTv. It was too cumbersome to do that for every recording though.

Also, try switching from Exo to IJKPlayer in the settings for the mini client.