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tgorgdotcom / locast2plex

A very simple script to connect locast to Plex's live tv/dvr feature.
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Can't Tune To Any Channel On Any Device After L2P Upgrade #145

Open DanTheTechMan opened 3 years ago

DanTheTechMan commented 3 years ago

Hello,

I am using Locast2Plex via the command line with Python 3.8.6 (as I am unable to go the docker route) on my Plex server running on a NAS device that runs Windows Storage Server 2008 R2 Essentials (please don't comment on how old my OS is or how it's technically reached EOL, and please don't tell me that L2P won't work on my current OS. The OS works just fine for me and I still receive the monthly updates, and L2P should work just fine on my OS, as the minimum required version of Python for L2P to work is lower than the latest version of Python that is compatible with my current OS). I have been very happy with it, up until yesterday (11/30), when I upgraded L2P from version 0.5.3 to version 0.6.2, and, ever since that upgrade, I have been unable to watch any channel on my lineup. Plex is able to find the "device" and load all the channels, and the EPG works fine (the guide is fully populated and stays current), however when I go to actually try to load any channel to watch it I get the following error:

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This happens with any channel, across all my devices. Obviously, the error message varies with the device. I had a similar issue before the upgrade, however, it was localized to only one specific device (which I believe was caused by a power surge, as I have my Plex server running on a NAS device, and when the power blinked, it reset my NAS, which triggered an automatic scan of the HDDs inside my NAS for any potential damage, and those scans take up a lot of system resources. Luckily, no damage was found, however, the scan did take almost a full week to complete). I have tried everything I could to fix it myself, to no avail. I am not by any means a developer or coder. I am great with troubleshooting computer issues, unless it involves editing lines of code. My thought is this is at the code level, as I tried going to my Locast account directly through a web browser, and the stream loaded fine. So, this has to be an issue with L2P itself. Any help would be greatly appreciated, however, if I end up having to edit code to rectify this issue, please be patient with me. Thanks in advance.

tgorgdotcom commented 3 years ago

Hello. Could you share the log that is shown on the locast2plex window when it is encountering this error?

DanTheTechMan commented 3 years ago

I run L2P as a Windows service, so there is no command line window open. Does this script allow for more than one instance to be run? If not, would the log from Windows Event Viewer work?

tgorgdotcom commented 3 years ago

Just checked nssm's docs (I remembered you were using that in an earlier post to get it set up as a Windows Service). What you can do is recreate the service with the following changes:

  1. Go to the I/O tab
  2. In the stdout and stderr fields, specify a new filename for each. These are where any log output would go.

Then, try re-running the service. When you get the error, you should see some output in the newly created files.

I hope to work on some proper logging soon.

DanTheTechMan commented 3 years ago

Ok. Thanks. I'm actually not going to be able to try that for at least a couple of weeks, as I'm about to move residences. When I get a chance, I'll try that and get back to you. Who knows, maybe once I'm all set up at my new place, and recreate the tuner in Plex (since I will be in a different zip code), this issue will go away. Anyway, thanks again.