PVR350 Setup

[johnburton]

I have been reading recent posts with interest as over the last couple of weeks I have been attempting to get just Live TV going with varying levels of success. In the last week I have downloaded latest GBPVR software, latest Hauppauge software and VIA drivers and have gone back wards to the point where when I change channels the correct Logo shows at the bottom but the picture remains on one channel (TV3).

I will outline my setup and the steps I am following.

I have a PVR350 card with external antenna installed with a MVP attached. I configured WinTV with following channels (in NZ) TV1 54.50, TV2 174.50 TV3 195.50, CH4 210.50 which all runs perfectly.

I disabled the two MVP services and installed GBPVR.

I set up my first source as "TV1", Recording Source as "Direct Recording Plugin" with Type Hauppauge PVR350, Country New Zealand, Capture Device #1, Source Internal Tuner, Antenna.

In the EPG Source Settings I let the screen come up and just clicked OK, as I wasn't sure what I should enter against the source name.

I clicked the OK and updated the  Source and exited.

Using the Tuning Assistant (that I downloaded from the GBPVR website) I obtained the following channels and frequencies, TV1 Channel 7 54.25, TV2 CH 63 171.25, TV3 CH 76 193.25 CH4 CH 85 209.75, I noiced the frequency numbers didn't tie up with the values I expected.

I went back into config and added a channel with the value 7 against the TV1 source.

I repeated this for the other 3 channels, setting up each as a separate source.

I started GBPVR Mediamvp Service (the recording service was also running) and then  ran GBPVR and clicked on Live TV. Only TV3 plays, irrespective of what channel I select.

The same problem occurs whether I run Livetv on my PC or MVP tv.

Can someone point me in the right direction please.

I would like help on how to obtain a XMLTV file onto my PC for TVNZ.

There may be other settings that I should be making, if I haven't mentioned anything else it could be that I haven't done it.

Regards John

[johnburton]

I can advise that I solved my problems.
I think what confused me was that when I used the Tuning Assistant I chose the cable option rather than the antenae option, as although I am using an antenae I am also running my SkyTV decoder output through the same antenae.

Because the SkyTV didn't show up in the 11 channels available in New Zealand I took the cable option for New Zealand because it says "or non standard frequencies".

So I ran this through taking the channel numbers for my 4 local stations and also picking up the SkyTV channel (generated by the decoder).

As reported this gave me no joy as the only channel that was common with the correct channels was TV3 which I got.

So the lesson here is that the cable option does not pick up the standard frequencies - it picks up the channels and displays them in the view, but if you use the channel numbers it provides then no joy. - this may be a bug.

In order for me to configure my SkyTV channel, since it didn't show up in the standard frequencies, and I coculdn't use the non standard frequences because of the problem described above, I changed the country to UK and located the correct channel, which subsequently worked.

LiveTV is now operating - I will now be working to download a XMLTV grabber - so far I have found references to Perl
and Python which is all mystery to me right now.

John