I just put in a PVR500 card with dual analog tuners on it. All drivers etc went smoothly. Just wondering if I have my setup right. The "capture card type" in the direct recording configuration" has two boards detected in it "Hauppauge PVR500" and "Hauppauge PVR500 with FM".

In config I have defined two capture sources. One says:
Capture card type: "Hauppauge 500"
Board number: "capture device #1"
Source: "internal tuner"

The next capture source has pretty much the same, but with
Capture card type: "Hauppauge 500 with FM"
Board number: "capture device #2"
Source: "internal tuner"

This seems right, according to this wiki page.

I guessed about the board numbers - seems to work though.

One final question: the PVR500 doesn't have any remote capability. This isn't a problem because I used to have a PVR150 which had the remote. If I just pop it back in there (don't really want to use the tuner at all on it) just for the remove, GBPVR isn't going to get antsy about it unless I set up another capture source for it, is it? Is that what the "board number" thing is for?

Unfortunately when I discovered my Lifeview TV Walker mini was a noisy and rather unreliable piece of schistosity, I hurriedly went out and bought a Hauppauge PVR-150. A bit too hurriedly as it turned out, as I bought the OEM 1042 Model, without the remote, but I justified this to myself by:

(a) knowing I had an MVP (which I use 80%~90% of the time anyway) that has a remote and
(b) I could add a remote later and
© It was not too expensive given I had already bought the Lifeview (and abandoned it as a rather bad joke).

As it turned out (b) is partially a no-go either, as the PVR-150 Model I have, (the 1045 model), doesn't have a 1/8 mini jack for a blaster/transmitter, so couldn't be plugged in directly. Never mind, there are other options (I think).

Anyway, I bought a USB-UIRT which changes channels STB beautifully. As an aside, I'm still amazed that I can sit on the sofa downstairs, press my MVP remote, that sends a signal to the MVP, which routes it though the Ethernet cable to my wireless bridge router, that sends a command wirelessly upstairs to my main router, which zaps it through a wired Ethernet cable to my PC (which is my GBPVR centre) then via USB to my USB-UIRT, which zaps my STB which changes channel and sends the video back through a reverse path all the way to the TV. Amazing stuff when you think about it.

So I was sitting on my bed last night playing some music though WMP player on the PC and I thought, well, I could use GBPVR to do this and with a remote I wouldn't have to even get my butt off the bed to skip a song or two.

So my real question is this. I want to sit on my bed and turn on GBPVR (on the PC) and listen to music, maybe watch TV. Are the following all viable options and if so, which option would you recommend?

(a) Use my existing MVP remote to send signals directly to the USB-UIRT's receiver (cheapest option if it works) i.e. not via the MVP Box, which will be downstairs. As I understand the remote control wiki entry and the one on IRREMOTE.INI via IR32.exe, this is only applicable with the Receiver/Blaster that comes with the PVR-150 (or PVR500), so will the Hauppauge MVP remote work at all, say via HIP or Girder?)
(b) Purchase just a MCE Remote (apparently they all come with the Emitter and Receiver ... is it possible to JUST buy the remote itself?) and try and use it with the USB-UIRT that I already have.
© Purchase a MCE Remote with the IR receiver (‘beanbag’, and IR Blaster transmitter and try and use its own native transmitter with GBPVR and the STB (for TV)?
(d) Just leave the MVP remote downstairs, forget the MCE Remote entirely and purchase a 3rd Party Remote (Snapstream's Firefly etc.) and try and use that with the USB-UIRT that I already have.

Final Q: If I decide to buy another PVR-150 and get one with the MCE remote, can I assume it is correct to say that this remote will control GBPVR (via the USB-UIRT), and as it is GBPVR that controls the two receivers, I will be able to control both tuners, even though one PVR-150 is an OEM device? It looks like this "should be" the case as in the same way the USB-UIRT is a USB device, you are sending signals to the GBPVR program (which controls the PVR150) NOT directly to the PVR-150 card, but I want to be sure.

Lots of Q's, Cheers

k.
[EDIT] I did do a search before asking all these Q's, and one of the best posts was this one.
[EDIT] Is the MediaMVP remote equivalent to a MCE remote?

Alright, so I recently purchased the parts for a HTPC. I have the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR150 with the 45 button remote. I am having some issues with the remote. First is with the LiveTV. When I click into it, I get an error saying "Found IR Controller (e2)". I am also unable to change channels properly, only volume up and down work correctly. When I am able to change channels, every time I change the channel I get the same error.."Found IR Controller (e2)". Thats when I change each station one at a time, I get that same message.

I also had the problem, that for the remote to work I need the IR software to be running. I checked the box to go directly to the hauppauge software and the fix remote settings button, but no luck.

I also can not listen to any of the web radio channels. It says "Failed to connect to station" for every one.

Also, everytime I close out of the program I get a windows error saying that the program needed to close.

Did I mess up somewhere, I tried re-installing everything but the same things happen. I tried older and newer versions of the Hauppauge software but no luck.

Thanks again for all of your incredible help, this is an amazing program.

I am using verson 0.97.13 and the latest version of the IR software from the hauppauge site.

The 97.13 release seems to be going so well that apart from the normal "How do I.." posts from newcomers to GBPPVR and a few odd quirks, the density of postings seem to have tailed off.

So in my musings on this observation I wondered if sub kept a post-O-meter with the release dates marked on it? Of course the data would probably be skewed by the growing impetus behind GBPVR and PVR s/w in general, and by seasonal fluctuations, but (for me) at least, it would be interesting to see the distribution. Can you tell I'm bored with work today...

k.

"failed to locate configured capture device"

I'm getting this when trying to launch live TV.
I suspect I'm missing the driver for the card somewhere, but I'm not sure where.

Net Radio works fine.

If I'm in the capture source, recording source, Capture Card Type, it says no know cards detected in this machine when I select the "Only show devices detected in this machine".

I've installed the drivers (direct from ATI site) but GBPVR still doesn't seem to recognize the card.

If someone a bit more famaliar could assist me that would be fantastic. I really want to get this software going.

System info

o P4 3.6
o 2GB ram
o Ati X1900 PCI-E v/c
o Ati Wonder Elite
o hdd / dvd
o Windows XP Professional

Hey Guys, im a newbie at this so please bare with me! I am using a Happauge 150 PVR here in Canada and the channels show up in the EPG but when I go to LiveTV an error shows up saying "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object," How do I go about fixing this error so I can watch channels on my computer?

Thanks alot

Using 97.13 with SQlite database. I think it used to work with Access, and I think it stopped working when I changed databases.

The log with errors is attached.

This happens whenever I go into the VA plugin. Help

I starting using GBPVR at Christmas (v0.95.16) and until I upgraded a few weeks ago I probably had a couple of scheduled recording failures. The rate was so low that I didn't notice.

A few weeks ago I upgraded to v0.97.13 and almost immediately had a couple of recording failures, so I removed GBPVR and installed a fresh copy in a new directory. For a while this seemed to have cured the problem but in the last three days I have experienced two failures:

Monday 7th @ 21:01 - I, Claudius
Wednesday 9th @21:01 - I, Claudius

In both instances restarting the recording cured the problem.

On Monday I didn't realise that the recording had failed until 21:15 but tonight I was keeping an eye on the recording directory and after the two failed recording files had been created (6kb each), I restarted the recording service.

On Monday GBPVR successfully recorded "The Sky at Night" which was being broadcast on another channel immediately before "I, Claudius" but tonight nothing was being recorded prior to the failure.

All the logs are attatched.

As an extension of THIS THREAD, I ran Changedatabase to switch from Access to SQLite, but I've enountered another strange issue. I think I just need to stop and leave well enough alone when it comes to my GBPVR install!

I ran Changedatabase on this rather fresh install of GBPVR v0.97.13 and now I have a quite a few "manual recordings" added to my pending recordings list. When I viewed these pending manual recording entries, the information was displayed outside of the text box (down near the bottom of the screen). These manual recordings were duplicates of existing pending/reoccuring recordings that I made via the TV Guide. Not all of the pending recordings had the new "manual recording" duplicates -- just some of them. It appears that only ones that were set to "Record Season (all in this weekly timeslot, this channel)" ended up with the pending manual recording duplicates. Others that were one time recordings or "Record Season (all episodes this channel)" did not add a manual recordings duplicate.

Also, both of my existing "ready" recordings that were recorded last night were changed to being listed as "manual recordings" even though they weren't manual recordings.

I deleted the new manual recording entries in the pending list, but I suspect they will show up again on the list with the next week's EPG update that includes the same reoccuring show.

Anyone else ever see this?

Is there a log that would show what happened in the database conversion?

For anyone upgrading to compro's latest drivers for the t200/t300 they have changed the filter names that are in the BDA.ini file to as follows

FILTER_TUNER=VideoMate Hybrid A+DVB-T DVBT Tuner
FILTER_CAPTURE=VideoMate Hybrid A+DVB-T Capture

Jase