I am trying to setup my device an ATI TV Wonder 650, old but still works. I am coming through a set-top box so all I need it to find is channel 3 but it does not find anything. I know it is working because Media Center finds channel 3. Also, how do I get my xmltv.xml file with my channels imported. I used mc2xml.exe and the file has been built maybe I am placing it in the wrong directory. Maybe I need to have the device setup first. I have attached the logs.
SD Analog devices aren't supported without installing either WinTV for Hauppauge devices or following the guidelines you'll find by searching her for SoftPVR
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mvallevand, Thanks for the help. I am close. Live TV is working, sound and video but the EPG is not loading. The scan only found channel 3 which is correct because I am using a set-top box. How do I get the Channels to match the TV listing into the EPG so the USBIRT can change the channels?
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telii1 Wrote:mvallevand, Thanks for the help. I am close. Live TV is working, sound and video but the EPG is not loading. The scan only found channel 3 which is correct because I am using a set-top box. How do I get the Channels to match the TV listing into the EPG so the USBIRT can change the channels?
In Settings->Channels did you map the channels to your xmltv file or did you import the channels? You did install support for analog devices, right?
I have never got my head round this ... probably because I don't use a set-top-box! With digital channels and tuner I do a scan and get the channels and then specify the EPG source for each channel found during the scan.
With a STB, I would have only one channel (tuned to the STB) and I can't scan for channels. I understand that I get the channels from an XMLTV file but were do I specify the name of the XMLTV file? Would I specify the XMLTV file in the Channel Details dialog box? Would NextPVR know that this was a connection to a STB and build a channel list from the imported XMLTV file instead of building a channel list from the content of a scan? Is there a wiki page to describe XMLTV for a STB?
Thanks
Yes I installed the analog devices. I am trying to import the channels. There is just too many channels to map them manually. I have the xmltv file how do I map it (all channels to channel 3).
Graham I added an analogue capture card to my server so I could record the Video and Sound outputs from my Virgin Media cable box. I setup six channels mainly from Discovery and populated the EPG via XMLTV. I was able to make a recording from the EPG "BUT" I had to select the correct channel on the cable box with the remote!! Very crude but it worked!
From what I understand the "IR Blasters" often mentioned in the forum allow the channel changes to be automated.
jcjefferies Wrote:. I setup six channels mainly from Discovery and populated the EPG via XMLTV.
Thanks ... but how did you setup six channels. I guess that the cable box was connected via s-video or composite so no scanning for channels. Where did you enter the name of the XMLTV file and all that?
Edit: Thanks to a post from Sub and some more groping in the wiki, I found
http://www.nextpvr.com/nwiki/pmwiki.php?...etupDialog and its reference to " Import ... Imports a list of channels from an XMLTV based EPG or Schedules Direct." Apologies if I have sidetracked this thread.
telii1 Wrote:Yes I installed the analog devices. I am trying to import the channels. There is just too many channels to map them manually. I have the xmltv file how do I map it (all channels to channel 3).
Do you have a blaster device to switch channels on the set-top-box?