Can't view or record TV after 1.0.16: Error: Object reference not set to an instance

[Wilf]

When I select a program to watch from the TVGuide (or elsewhere), I get "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Logs are attached. Thanks for any suggestions! Wilf.

[fb_de]

got the same problem. I'm using a pvr350 and pvr150mce, I can get neither of them to show livetv.

Sorry I have no suggestions, just wanted to mention you're not the only one.

Frank

[stustunz]

When I select a program to watch from the TVGuide (or elsewhere), I get "Error: Object reference not set to an instance of an object". Logs are attached. Thanks for any suggestions! Wilf.

do you have any plugins loaded

[fb_de]

one more thing: when I start up the tuning assistant, select my card and my country, and hit OK, the tuning assistant dies.

Regards,
Frank

[fb_de]

well what a coincidence... I've tried for several hours, but it appears that the only thing I did wrong in order to have the cards show livetv is to set the signal to "cable". When I set this to "antenna" it works. (weired anyway, because I have cable tv, and no antenna)....

The tuning assistant still dies anyway, though.

Frank

[stustunz]

have you had gbpvr going before?
sounds like you may need to reinstall gbpvr from scratch its often easier than trying to find out whats wrong

have you had the cards going with any other programs

when you added your cards to gbpvr did they show up if you ticked the only show tuners on this machine (or what ever it says)

[fb_de]

no i haven't had gbpvr installed on this machine, yet. I ran them both in media portal - worked ok there, but I didn't like media portal so much, so I went to give gbpvr another try (used it ~2 yrs ago).

Both cards show up in the config as you described. The only confusing thing is that gbpvr config says that it also detects a pvr250 with FM radio, which I don't have.

I find it so difficult to match the right channels to the epg without the tuning assistant. That's one part I liked about media portal. My provider says that e.g. the station ARD is on channel S08 (I'm making it up here), and I thought I simply enter S08 in the channels list, but gbpvr wouldn't let me. I can only enter number-only channels (0,1,2,3,...)

Regards,
Frank

[sub]

got the same problem. I'm using a pvr350 and pvr150mce, I can get neither of them to show livetv.

Reproduce the problem, then zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[fb_de]

I must apologize for the panic. I'm not getting this error any longer. Unfortunately, I've been changing settings frantically, so that's it's hard to say what the problem was. I suspect it may have to do with having selected the wrong "capture device #1, or #2".
I'm now getting live tv just fine.

The only thing that remains an issue is the tuning assistant crashing. It's a dreadful task to identify the right source channels for the tv programs, simply trial and error. I assume that the tuning assistant would help me with that.

Is there a methodology for deducting the "gbpvr source channel number" from what my cable provider specifies as Channel K01, k02, ...S01, S02,... ?

Thanks,
Frank

[stustunz]

unless the cards use the same driver they should be both capture device#1