[Southways]

Windows 10 x64. Kodi 17.5
NextPVR been working fine (& still does).
Kodi installed without any concerns & all other (non-TV) features work perfectly. Love it.
When trying to activate NextPVR add-on, the result is:
"Add-on couldn't be loaded.
 An unknown error has occurred".
I have uninstalled & re-installed (twice) including cleaning the registry. Same result.
I have tried configuring it to use the 192.168.0.5 address that Kodi reports as the machine. Same result.
I have a log file, but don't seem to have a way of attaching it to this post. The key lines seem to be:
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17:30:17.893 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version Addons27
17:30:17.894 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version ViewModes6
17:30:17.896 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version Textures13
17:30:17.897 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version MyMusic60
17:30:17.899 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version MyVideos107
17:30:17.903 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version TV29
17:30:17.908 T:7876 NOTICE: Running database version Epg11
17:30:18.106 T:224 WARNING: JSONRPC: Could not parse type "Setting.Details.SettingList"
17:30:18.170 T:224 NOTICE: initialize done
17:30:18.170 T:224 NOTICE: Running the application...
17:30:18.171 T:224 NOTICE: starting upnp client
17:30:18.173 T:6104 NOTICE: ES: Starting UDP Event server on port 9777
17:30:18.173 T:6104 NOTICE: UDP: Listening on port 9777 (ipv6 : false)
17:30:48.249 T:5400 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
17:30:48.249 T:5400 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method....0&device=xbmc
17:30:48.249 T:5400 ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method=session.initiate&ver=1.0&device=xbm c>
17:30:48.252 T:5400 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
17:30:55.997 T:5400 ERROR: PVR::CPVRClients::UpdateAddons - failed to create add-on NextPVR PVR Client, status = 1
17:31:10.321 T:808 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
17:31:36.939 T:6828 ERROR: Previous line repeats 2 times.
17:31:36.939 T:6828 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::GetSpace - buffer underrun - W:42600, P:28384, O:42304.
17:31:36.972 T:6828 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::GetSpace - buffer underrun - W:53184, P:40136, O:53176.
17:31:37.005 T:6828 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::GetSpace - buffer underrun - W:312, P:51728, O:304.
17:31:38.340 T:6828 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::GetSpace - buffer underrun - W:28872, P:14944, O:26752.
17:31:39.440 T:6828 WARNING: CWin32DirectSound::GetSpace - buffer underrun - W:36216, P:22328, O:34160.
17:35:35.650 T:224 ERROR: CCurlFile::FillBuffer - Failed: Timeout was reached(28)
17:35:35.650 T:224 ERROR: CCurlFile::Open failed with code 0 for http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method....0&device=xbmc
17:35:35.650 T:224 ERROR: XFILE::CFileCache::Open - failed to open source <http://127.0.0.1:8866/service?method=session.initiate&ver=1.0&device=xbm c>
17:35:35.654 T:224 ERROR: ADDON: Dll NextPVR PVR Client - Client returned bad status (1) from Create and is not usable
17:35:39.614 T:224 ERROR: PVR::CPVRClients::UpdateAddons - failed to create add-on NextPVR PVR Client, status = 1
17:38:14.177 T:224 ERROR: Control 55 in window 10040 has been asked to focus, but it can't
17:39:19.732 T:808 ERROR: XFILE::CDirectory::GetDirectory - Error getting
17:40:40.226 T:224 ERROR: Previous line repeats 3 times.

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Any help would be appreciated.
Happy to try Kodi 18.0 if you think it will help.
Thanks in advance.

[Karellen]

Hello Southways

Please provide the full log with Debug mode enabled. Snippets are next to useless, especially without debugging mode.

[Ark :D]

This problem has been happening with my setup, intermittently, for quite a while now.  I have a clean log file (as in, I enabled debug, exited Kodi, deleted the existing log file, re-opened Kodi, experienced the error, and made a copy of the resulting logfile).  I don't see any way to attach it to this post, and I suspect it's too long to paste the entire thing in there, but I will try in the next post.

[Ark :D]

Here is the log:

@Karellen- Log removed

[Ark :D]

Log file, continued:

@Karellen- Log removed

[Karellen]

@Ark

We do not allow logs to be pasted into the forum.

Please use a pastebin type site and link back here. pastebin.com

[Ark :D]

My apologies!

Here is a pastebin link:  https://pastebin.com/fAUUywSU

[sub3]

It looks like you've told the addon to contact NextPVR at http://192.168.0.99:8866, but it's not finding a NextPVR server at that address.

Can you open that URL in a web browser and see the NextPVR web UI? If not, double check you've got the right address, and maybe make sure you don't have firewall software blocking it.

[Ark :D]

Sub,

Yes, that is the correct IP for my main HTPC which runs NextPVR.  Additionally, the web UI works perfectly.

As I said, it's an intermittent problem.  Sometimes I'll be watching TV (either via Kodi on one of my satellite HTPC's or through Kodi on the same PC as NextPVR) and it'll stop working, then when I reload Kodi, I'll get the same "couldn't load the NextPVR addon" error.  I can't imagine this is coming from unreliable network communications;  I have wired gigabit in my house and I never notice any network degradation.

Thanks for looking into this guys, it's been driving me nuts.

[sub3]

You'd probably need to supply the NextPVR logs, so we can see the request is making it there.

[Ark :D]

I will attempt to replicate the problem for log collection purposes (shouldn't be hard, it usually happens several times everyday), but in the meantime, I'd just like to point out that it also happens just as often with the Kodi instance that is installed on the same machine as NextPVR, thus ruling out any network connectivity problem.

I'll post a reply with logs as soon as I can.

[Southways]

Sorry - been travelling.
I did a fresh install of Win10, latest NextPVR & checked fully operational including recording, & Kodi 17.6
**Same issue.** (Grrrr)
Then uninstalled Kodi & PVR with a registry clean (CCleaner), reboot & installed NextPVR - but only checked that the TV reception worked... did not record anything.
Installed Kodi 17.6

---  SUCCESS  ---

Although not conclusively tested (I don't want to break what works), it would seem that recording with NextPVR prior to installing Kodi may be less than ideal.

Thanks.