Newbie needs help with his new setup!

[bomberman411]

Hello everyone, I have a big problem with the setup i'm trying to do and I'm hoping someone out there has the same setup as me... here's what I have:

HVR-1800 NTSC/ATSC tuners
ACTiSYS ACT-IR200L IR Blaster (on COM2)
Scientific Atlanta Explorer 2200 STB for my digital channels
Recently installed WinXP Pro with all updates, all drivers installed (and seem to be working correctly)

I receive analog + digital cable channels from Videotron cable company in the Montreal (Canada) area.


Here's how I set it up:

My COAX cable line splits; 1 directly in the HVR-1800 analog connector, 1 to my STB. From the STB, it goes, via component cables (with s-video adapter for video) to my input connectors on my HVR-1800. I also tried using the cable-out COAX connector on my STB to my digital COAX connector on my HVR-1800, but that didn't seem to work either.

The problem I'm having is the setup, I just can't seem to get it right.
Setting up the analog cable is easy and quick, but when it comes to doing the setup for the digital, nothing works.

If anyone out there could help me out by writing a quick setup guide to help me out, I would really appreciate it. My major problem is that I am unsure of my settings, especially in the "Capture Sources" section, and all the seperate individual settings for each capture source.

My ACT-IR200L doesn't seem to be working at all with the STB, even tho i'm pretty sure that the config is right.
I can't even see my digital channels, not even 1. So I can't even map the channels out (since my IR200L doesn't seem to work).

Please help, I need to know what I'm doing wrong! Thanks in advance!

[kayak4ever]

I can't find the earlier post from sub on this, but I think that the output from the cable box is always analog and that the hvr1800 has one digital tuner and one analog tuner. To use the digital tuner, you would need to hook it up directly to the cable and then connect the analog tuner to the set box from the cable company. Note that you will only get "clear qam" stations on the digital tuner - that is digital signals that are not encrypted. Search the forum for "clear qam" to get more information on using the digital tuner with cable.