Hi johnson, thank you very much for your reply.
Yes, I am using a Hauppauge 2250. I am 99% certain my cable is digital (at least I've been paying for it for several years now
). I tried scanning with both QAM devices again using several options (updated logs attached).
I am wondering if this has something to do with my connection or Hauppauge setup. I did not see on nPVR a description of what needs to be installed with the tuner, or required connections. Forgive me if this is a stupid question; I'm trying to figure this out for the first time. This is what I did:
- installed the Hauppauge 2250
- ran the co-ax from the wall to a digital splitter, and ran one output from the splitter to the modem provided by my cable company, and the other output to the Atlanta Scientific Explorer 3100 settop box provided by my cable company.
- from the modem, I ran a WAN cable to a router, which provides the ethernet cable connection to the PC running nPVR (Win7 pro SP1 64bit).
- From the Explorer 3100, I ran a coax to the TV input on the 2250 card, and I also ran composite and s-video from the Explorer 3100 to the AV expansion cable that connects to the 2250. Does my digital signal degrade to analog with this setup?
- I turned on my PC, skipped the MS auto driver install, and used the Hauppauge disk as instructed in the 2250 directions.
- Since I planned to use nPVR, I skipped loading WinTV, and followed the instructions to setup Windows Media Center. When I tried to "Setup TV Signal" in WMC per the Hauppauge instructions, I could receive video and audio in the S-Video and Channel 3 choices. However, I had to cancel before the setup finished due to a WMC "IR Hardware not detected" error. There are solutions on the web to "trick" WMC and get around this error, but I didn't want to go down that path.
- Since nPVR doesn't list WMC or WinTV as requirements, I decided to go straight to loading nPVR.
This is where I stand. Did I need to complete the WMC or WinTV setup? Do I need to uninstall it?
Thank you to anyone that an straighten me out. I'd like to have this running for Christmas.
John