Scheduled recording skips IR blaster, but live TV works

[gabeweisz]

I have one PVR150 and one PVR150 MCE, and am using the PCR150's IR blaster with my cable box. When I watch live TV with the one controlling the cable box, GBPVR always uses the IR blaster to set the channel on the cable box, but when I use scheduled recordings, it does not use the IR blaster to set the channel (it always uses the one without the IR blaster first to record, so I onl see the problem when I try to record two things at once). Can I do anything to try to force it to use the IR blaster for scheduled recordings?

[sub]

Are using the '.exe channel changer' with HaupBlast.exe or the 'Hauppauge IR Blaster Plugin'?

[gabeweisz]

I'm currently using the "Hauppauge IR Blaster Plugin", but was also having similar problems using the .exe channel changer with haupblast.exe from the gbpvr directory.

Thanks for the super quick response.

[sub]

I'm going to drop the "Hauppauge IR Blaster Plugin" in the next release, in favor of the haupblast.exe, so I recommend switching.

Do you get exactly the same behaviour from haupblast.exe?

[gabeweisz]

I've had it look like it's skipping channel changes with haupblast.exe before - but I'm trying it again and I'll let you know in a few minutes.

[gabeweisz]

That worked - thanks much for the help!

This would have seriously hurt the WAF if I hadn't been able to get it working quickly .
GBPVR is an excellent piece of software that just works well in spite of the hardware that it has to cooperate with.