I have two NMT devices as you can see. The bottom one I use a universal remote that controls the volume on my receiver. The top one is for the device that I seem to have lost the control over the volume.
On a similar possible related item, which remote key should I be using to page through the Ready Recordings? If I hit the key I use to use for this, it jumps to the other recording types like "Whats New" or "Pending".
Whenever I click on UpdateEPG it takes way to long. Don't remeber it taking this long with GBPVR?
My source is XMLTV I created using Zap2xml. It's located inside NPVR's folder. I update the EPG by going to Settings> Channels> then clicking Update EPG. A "Status" box pops up and it seems like it's scanning? What am I doing wrong?
just out of curiosity what would be a good replacement for 2 pvr 150 cards that I have? I may be looking to upgrade 1 or both of them. Right now all I have is basic analog cable in the USA. The abililty to record hd ota recording in the future would be nice but I dont know if my pc could handle it right now.
Basic setup NPvr from my note hopefully this will help new user.
Tuners:
HVR500 dual analog tuners and HVR1600 using OTA NTSC and analog with Set Top box (STB).
Cable:
Limited Comcast basic, OTA local channels and Sport Entertainment channels on STB.
EGP:
mc2xml.exe for EGP creates c:\xmltv.xml from channel list with one xmtv file including all channels from basic cable, OTA and STB.
To make channel list, open up the xmltv.xml with text editor like notepad and copy the channel id (I2.28456035.microsoft.com) into a list. Save and name it xmltv.chl.
NPvr basic setup:
This NPvr setup is in addition of the GBPVR, so all the MS Visual C++ runtime, DirectX and .Net 2.0 already installed previously.
The only extra application I have to install is WinTV7 so that NPvr can recognize my analog tuners.
Start NPvr, then right click to get to Settings.
Devices -
My HVR1600 shows up as 3 devices with name as 418 - OTA, QAM and Analog.
I unchecked the enable for QAM since I don't use it.
Select NTSC and click on device setup button. Hit Scan button Digital Recording Setting. Hit OK when done.
Select Analog, then device setup. Since I use IR Blaster, I set up channel changer pointing to the old HaupBlast.exe from GBPVR
C:\Program Files\Devnz\GBPVR\HaupBlast.exe.
Click Import button to get EPG setup. I select Composite from Input Source since this is from my STB channels. For XMLTV, I points to c:\xmltv.xml where my xmltv resides.
I unchecked all the channels this tuner can't access like OTA or not needed.
One thing I have to do, after import and get back to analog recorder settings, is that the channel number appears the same 418 for HVR1600. I manually change them to the appropriate number.
My HVR500 shows up as 2 devices with 2nd one as (#2). Select each device and go to Device Setup.
Hit Import button. XMLTV already set to point to my c:\xmltv.xml. I unchecked all channels that are not apply to this tuner.
I also manually change the channel number 100 to appropriate channel number for HVR500.
I do the same thing with the 2nd tuner of HVR500.
Channels -
I see multiple lines for same channels. I select them together, right click and merge them into one line. I double click on each ATSC channel to map to corresponding guide channel, and change the number under General so I can group all the ATSC channels together on the TVGuide. Once every looks good, I hit the Update EPG button.
Recordings, Media folders, Decoders, Misc ...etc. are configured.
I also make new section for NPvr in the irremote.ini to use the Hauppauge remote.
I also uninstall npvr several times to play with it. It is good to do a clean uninstall using Control Panel and erase NPVR folder in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data.
Can someone give some pointers on setting up IR Server Suite with NPVR? I installed the software and programmed in IR commands on the translator. Not completely sure what I need in the Programs section of Translator? I imported an old file for GBPVR and was trying to make it work.
I told NPVR to use the IRBlast.exe file but not sure what arugments I need? The GBPVR doc showed "-host localhost -pad 3 -channel {channel}" (without the quotes).
Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. In case it matters I'm using Win7 64-Bit with a Microsoft MCE USB blaster and NPVR.
I tried to search if anyone else in this forum has this problem with concurrent recording analog and OTA on HVR1600.
I am testing by recording one channel over OTA, then attempt to do quick record on analog but NPvr keeps saying "No Tuner available for this recording"; however, if I select "Watch" button on the analog channel, I am able to see the channel on screen.
Can sub or someone show me how to fix this? Thanks.
I have a problem that seems to happen about once a week. Ill come home and find that the "Whats New" screen showing the last recording at about 2AM that morning. I know there were quite a few shows that should have recorded, including one that should have been recording when I walked in. Again, nothing in the "What's New" screen shows that any recordings failed or anything, just shows the last recording at 2AM that morning. I try accessing the System plugin, and NPVR crashes. I try watching Live TV, and I get nothing, just "Please wait" until it finally crashes.
I checked services.msc, and it shows the NPVR Recording service in "Started" status. I also noticed that the computer has been waking up when it is supposed to record something and then goes back to sleep 10 minutes later with sleep reason: System Idle. I tried starting the recording service, but still the same. I tried Re-starting the recording service, and now everything seems to be working normal again, and 13 failed recordings are now showing in the "What's New" screen.
Anybody have any idea why this keeps happening? I posted the NPVR log from when I tried watching Live TV and it crashed, and I posted the NRecord log from before it stopped recording until now.
What is the recommended way of disabling GBPVR when transitioning to NPVR? I don't want to uninstall it until I know I have things working on NPVR. I have bunch of reoccurring recordings setup in it that I plan to move to NPVR once it is working.
