Dual STB config using 2 Hauppauge Colossus 2 cards

[three6zerocool]

OK, thanks.

I have to number the STB channels as per their actual channel numbers on the STB, else they don't IR Blast to the right channels.

The m3u imported ones end up with different channel numbers, so am manually editing the channel info in NextPVR settings, and changing the channel numbers to what they originally were.
This works and IR Blasts to the correct channel on 2nd STB.

I have not changed the names yet tho.
ie. When I imported the m3u in, it appended the correct channel number to the actual name.
eg 'Sky TV1'  which is channel 1,   became '1-Sky TV1'  on channel 619.

I changed the channel number above back to i, and it blasts correctly, but I have two channel instances with the names above.
Was wondering if I change the channel names to be the same, if that will merge the two?
(or will it create a giant mess)  (grin))

..Dean..

[three6zerocool]

Thanks Sub,
 I will try it and see what happens...

I had just about given up on the concept of two STB's on different machines.
I think what screwed that first attempt up was copying over the config and database files from my main NextPVR on Windows 11.

IR Blasting was a complete nightmare on elm street to get workiing, and also driver install issues with colossus2 on Windows 11.

Under Windows 10, it was so much easier to setup and configure.
At this very moment Windows 10 is bugging me to upgrade to Windows 11.

..Dean..

[mvallevand]

You can force the m3u files to have a channel number with tvg-chno="" You can also remove the number from the name in the m3u. As I noted the sub's m3u is really designed for generic VLC playback not other applications for IPTV

Martin

[mvallevand]

If you have python installed this can easily parse the m3u if you want.

Code:

import re
file1 = open('c:/temp/channel.m3u', 'r')
file2 = open('c:/temp/newchannel.m3u', 'w')

Lines = file1.readlines()

groups = re.compile(r'([^,]+),\s([^\s]+)\s-\s(.+)')
for line in Lines:
    if (line.startswith("#EXTINF")):
        m = groups.search(line.strip())
        file2.write('{} tvg-chno="{}",{}'.format(m[1],m[2],m[3]))
    else:
        file2.write(line.rstrip())
    file2.write('\r\n')

Martin

[three6zerocool]

Update:

I ended up not using the dual NextPVR server approach, and instead installed two colossus cards in the same computer.
Although the Hauppauge blast config can only use one of the cards, I used IRSS instead for the IR blasting for second card.

I had an original MCE IR blaster,  but I had issues with trying to get it working in a reliable fashion.
It was just really flakey, and would work sometimes, but then next channel change would miss a digit constantly.

I then remembered I had a USB UIRT I have had for many years, so I tried that with IRSS, and it works really well, so finally have the dual STB up and working.
The  USB-UIRT works so much better than the MCEIR , that it surprised me.

I discovered that the default settings for the USBUIRT in IRSS was to send the code 3 times, which really caused some issues, but after setting it to 1, it worked correctly.

Sub was of course right, and with both colossus cards using identical channel names, it auto merged them, giving all the STB channels 2 sources.

..Dean..