Major Nub Needs Help

[johnsonx42]

hip can receive and send IR commands. my understanding is that you need to install HIP and configure it so that it knows how to SEND ir commands to your cable box. once you have that sorted out, then you can have NPVR call hipsend or net2hipsend to tell HIP what to do.

you don't have to use HIP to receive your MCE remote commands though - NPVR already knows how to do that. so that's why I said you needed to look at the HIP section in the wiki from part 6 on.

[sub]

I have the 2250 av panel hooked up, l/r in, composite video in, and the ir blaster/ receiver hooked up. I was wondering how do I use, or tell npvr to use that as the input?

From memory, the AV panel on the 2250 adds channels that can be accessed via 'composite2', so when you import or add channels, select the 'composite2' input.

[Kevs02Accord]

Ok, that makes a little more sense. Do you have a different link for the net2hipsend? From the wiki and forums it seems easier to use, however the wiki link doesn't like to anything.

Also, I have 2 separate tuner sources, 1 coax connection to the 2250 main board, the other composite from my stb. However, when I want to watch live tv it only pulls from the coax source, is this because of the blaster situation, or is there an option I am missing?

[Kevs02Accord]

Ok, to be honest I just figured that out last night, so what happens when I watch live tv? since my coax connection only goes to 100, will the other tuner pick up the channels, 100 and on?

[steeb]

I am a great fan of IRSS (IR Server Suite). I find it easier to use than HIP. IRSS should do what is being asked. The old wiki info about it is a little out of date and I don't think the latest download of it has the IRBlast.exe working correctly unless it has been fixed. However I'm sure someone round here has an older version.

steeb

[sub]

Ok, to be honest I just figured that out last night, so what happens when I watch live tv? since my coax connection only goes to 100, will the other tuner pick up the channels, 100 and on?

Whether it uses tuner or composite or svideo depends on what input option you had selected on the screen where you add/import channels. The default selection is 'tuner', but it has other options for composite/svideo for those connecting set top boxes.

[Kevs02Accord]

I am a great fan of IRSS (IR Server Suite). I find it easier to use than HIP. IRSS should do what is being asked. The old wiki info about it is a little out of date and I don't think the latest download of it has the IRBlast.exe working correctly unless it has been fixed. However I'm sure someone round here has an older version.

steeb

I heard about that, maybe I will see if I can find an older version. What do you think about the registry editing for the mce remote? There was a thread about not needing any software, just a modification to windows registry.

Whether it uses tuner or composite or svideo depends on what input option you had selected on the screen where you add/import channels. The default selection is 'tuner', but it has other options for composite/svideo for those connecting set top boxes.

Ok, so since I have 2 sources I have the first analog device set to tuner, that has my 1 to 100 channels, the second analog device is set to composite 2, that should have all the channels since it comes from the stb. Is there some thing I did wrong in my set up options? For some reason live tv only displays channels 1 to 100.

[Reddwarf]

hip can receive and send IR commands. my understanding is that you need to install HIP and configure it so that it knows how to SEND ir commands to your cable box. once you have that sorted out, then you can have NPVR call hipsend or net2hipsend to tell HIP what to do.

you don't have to use HIP to receive your MCE remote commands though - NPVR already knows how to do that. so that's why I said you needed to look at the HIP section in the wiki from part 6 on.

The advantage of using HIP for input is that it is very easy to map any button on the remote to any function. And if you use an USBUIRT as IR-receiver you can use litterally ANY ir based remote (most people has one or more lying in a drawer or somewhere).

[sub]

Ok, so since I have 2 sources I have the first analog device set to tuner, that has my 1 to 100 channels, the second analog device is set to composite 2, that should have all the channels since it comes from the stb. Is there some thing I did wrong in my set up options? For some reason live tv only displays channels 1 to 100.

I really dont know anything about how you've set it up, but if you have some channels accessible via the tuner and some accessible, then you can certainly set this up in NPVR. ie, from a clean data you'd have gone into the HVR-2250's analog settings, click 'import', select tuner, point it at your first xmltv file with the list of channels accessible directly from the tuner, then hit ok. Next click import, select composite/svideo, point it at your second xmltv file with the list of channels accessible via the STB.

[steeb]

I heard about that, maybe I will see if I can find an older version. What do you think about the registry editing for the mce remote? There was a thread about not needing any software, just a modification to windows registry.

AFAIK there is no need to edit the registry anymore, this was something way back with the beginnings of IRSS. Hence some info out of date.

The latest version I seem to have downloaded is 1.4.2.4068 which I guess is the one that didn't blast correctly. I'm running 1.4.2.3496 which is good. Over on the IRSS forum you will see a comment from a few weeks back about the blast not working in the later version from a member of this forum. I don't know what the result was and whether they got a reply. It could be fixed.

Try searching this forum too, there have been some comments about it recently. I think it was suggested replacing the new IRBlast.exe with an older one if running the new version but don't know if anyone tried that or if it worked. Good luck

steeb