Three tuners, no clue how to setup

[roadkill401]

I spluged and got myself a second tuner card (HVR 1600). Now I am totally lost on how to set up this as a device.

I have the AVerMedia A180 configured using the BDA recording plugin. This still works fine. But I am lost on how to define the device number for the new HVR card. If I use the same BDA method, it will detect the HVR1600, but if I set this to device #2, the software crashes with an exception error. It seems to work if I leave this as device #1

If I do this, then I can seem to get the ATSC parts working. But then I get confused as to how I get the Analog part in. The Software doesn't seem to let me re-define the ATSC (HDTV) channels to a higher set of numbers so as not to confuse a digital channel with an analog.

If I put in the analog setup the same as the above, then it wants to choose the Analog as being the tune to channel and ignores the Digital ATSC channels all to gether.

Is there something basic that I have compleatly missed. Am I setting up the HVR 1600 correctly? HELP ?

[David]

Your analog and digital channels will be treated as separate channels, and you will have to decide if you want to record a show in analog or digital.

The device number refers to the number of the device of that particular type (using that specific driver). All three of your tuners should list as device #1, since you do not have more than one from the same tuner "family".

On the last tab of the config app, you can set the preferred channel number displayed. This seems to work great in EWA, but I have not yet figured out how to make that work in the GB-PVR app. I use EWA to schedule all my recordings, so not a loss there to me.

For digital channels, I use a channel number formatted as 1ccd, where cc is the channel number with left padding of zero for single digit channels, and d is the decimal channel number. Channel 58.4 becomes 1584 in EWA.

[roadkill401]

Your analog and digital channels will be treated as separate channels, and you will have to decide if you want to record a show in analog or digital.

On the last tab of the config app, you can set the preferred channel number displayed. This seems to work great in EWA, but I have not yet figured out how to make that work in the GB-PVR app. I use EWA to schedule all my recordings, so not a loss there to me.

I have taken a look at the config tab and there is a section that lets you re-define the channel numbers, but as I think that you said, this doesn't seem to have any effect inside of GB-PVR

You mention some EWA program. What is this? Another idea that I had was in referance to the graphic ICON for each channel. If GB-PVR identifies all the digital channels as being a different icon link, then I could photoshop up the channel numbers as a jpeg picture and solve the problem that way. I just don't know where to look to fiigure out how to link the software to the icon file.

Thanks for your time and help. it is much appreciated.

[flyswatta]

EWA=Enhanced Web Administration http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utili...edWebAdmin

There are also some "logopacks" with instructions on where to put the logos (if you make them yourself)
http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Utility/ChannelLogos


Channels with the same name will (IIRC) take the higher number channel and only display it. You could have 2 separate channel feeds, one with analog only channels, and one with digital channels and then associate the proper listings with the appropriate device. So what happens is that when you select the program to record that channel is only associated to one device, so it will record it. Ie. Channel 4 Fox --> "Analog Tuner", Channel 4.1 FOXDT --> "Digital Tuner".

I think David mentioned that you can't have a '.' in a channel number, so he changed it to (in this case) 141 so that he knew it was digital. Channel 33.1 would become 1331.

[roadkill401]

thanks for the link. It has helped me get the right number to be displayed. I will go through the icons that you can download and put up the pretty logo to go along with it. This way i at least can differentiate between the Digital channels and the analog.

What it seems to do inside the channel tab is to allow you to sort the order that they display inside the TV guide, but not the number/name associated with the channel.

It might be displaying the correct name (ie for 2.1 it is WGRZDT and for 2.2 it is WGRZDT2) but as the screen only allows for 4 characters to be displayed, the both appear as WGRZ .. the correct name for the Analog signal.

This will work just fine for me. YAY ;-)

Now i will just have to look into that EWA to see if this is something that I can use.