HD Homerun Question - Antenna or Digital Cable?

[dmanindfw]

When setting up the HD Homerun box, I select GBPVR as the app but it also asks if I am using Digital Cable or OTA Antenna. I believe this is so it can pull the correct channel lineup from Schedules Direct. In the past I used Knoppmyth which required that I use OTA in setup ALTHOUGH I am actually pulling the unencrypted HD channels from digital cable. With that being said in the HDHR setup I selected digital cable as this just seems more intuitive to me. FYI, I have both channel lineups set up on the Schedules Direct site. So is the digital cable lineup the one that I should use???

[whurlston]

It depends (not what you wanted to hear). If set the application to GBPVR, then it does not matter whether you set the lineup to OTA or Digital Cable. The HDHomeRun will auto demodulate.

If you set the application to Media Center, setting the lineup to Digital Cable will enable the QAM remapping. This method still works in GBPVR but it is no longer needed.

[dmanindfw]

It depends (not what you wanted to hear). If set the application to GBPVR, then it does not matter whether you set the lineup to OTA or Digital Cable. The HDHomeRun will auto demodulate.

If you set the application to Media Center, setting the lineup to Digital Cable will enable the QAM remapping. This method still works in GBPVR but it is no longer needed.

So I just upgraded from 1.2.9 to 1.2.13 and had already mapped my channels using the previous method (Media Center instructions?) using your instructions on the Silicondust web site. However, as I am having trouble getting my HD channels working with 1.2.13 I went back through the setup and config of my HDHR box, I specified GBPVR and used the digital cable lineup. I still can't seem to get my HD channels working again through my HDHR box though.

I have posted this problem at: http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...post289103.

Do you have any thoughts on this subject? Secondly, based on what I told you above, it appears as though I did this correctly. Can you confirm that I did the appropriate thing?

[whurlston]

If your channels were mapped using the old MCE instructions, GBPVR is trying to tune the stations in the 2-69 range instead of the native channel (70+). Which looks like the case from this entry in you logs posted in the other thread:

2008-07-30 00:10:00.640 VERBOSE SubmitTuningRequest(T:9,80,8~P:1~V:64~A:65~PMT:71~PCR:64~N:>80.8 KTVTDT (000(AC3)))

There are two methods you can do to fix it:

1) Set the application back to "Media Center" and "Digital Cable" in the HDHomeRun Setup and comment/remove the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. Everything should work as before.

2) Set the application to "GBPVR" in the HDHomeRun Setup and then rescan and remap your channels in the GBPVR Config. You will need to have the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. It would probably be easier to remove that capture source and set it up again.

I had skimmed your other thread and saw the OnAir entries and missed that you had an HDHomeRun, sorry.

[dmanindfw]

If your channels were mapped using the old MCE instructions, GBPVR is trying to tune the stations in the 2-69 range instead of the native channel (70+). Which looks like the case from this entry in you logs posted in the other thread:

There are two methods you can do to fix it:

1) Set the application back to "Media Center" and "Digital Cable" in the HDHomeRun Setup and comment/remove the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. Everything should work as before.

2) Set the application to "GBPVR" in the HDHomeRun Setup and then rescan and remap your channels in the GBPVR Config. You will need to have the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. It would probably be easier to remove that capture source and set it up again.

I had skimmed your other thread and saw the OnAir entries and missed that you had an HDHomeRun, sorry.

Thanks so much whurlston! Just to be clear, do you expect that this will take care of my problem that I outlined in the other thread?

[whurlston]

Yes. The HDHomeRun was using the old tuning strings so you would either have to update the tuning strings for the new config (option 2 above) or go back to the old config (option 1 above).

[dmanindfw]

If your channels were mapped using the old MCE instructions, GBPVR is trying to tune the stations in the 2-69 range instead of the native channel (70+). Which looks like the case from this entry in you logs posted in the other thread:

There are two methods you can do to fix it:

1) Set the application back to "Media Center" and "Digital Cable" in the HDHomeRun Setup and comment/remove the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. Everything should work as before.

2) Set the application to "GBPVR" in the HDHomeRun Setup and then rescan and remap your channels in the GBPVR Config. You will need to have the "TUNING SPECIAL=1" in your bda.ini. It would probably be easier to remove that capture source and set it up again.

I had skimmed your other thread and saw the OnAir entries and missed that you had an HDHomeRun, sorry.

Whurlston, I tried deleting my sources for HDHR and following option 2 that you listed above. I scanned for channels using the HDHR setup or config app (don't remember which off of the top of my head). All worked fine. I then updated my EPG listings in GBPVR. However, when I went to map the channels I got an error saying essentially that the BDA device (HDHR?) was in use already...sorry don't remember the exact wording. I stopped the GBPVR recording service, reregistered filters, in the HDHR setup, I reinstalled the windows and HDHR components, etc. but still couldn't get past this step. Any thoughts?

[sub]

Zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

[dmanindfw]

Zip and attach the logs and I'll take a look.

Here you go...

[whurlston]

It is not finding the tuner filter:

2008-08-01 00:31:33.718 VERBOSE FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 10129C19-0
2008-08-01 00:31:33.718 ERROR Failed to find BDA tuner filter: S

Can you run filtercheck.exe and post the filtercheck.log along with the HDHomeRun entries you created in your bda.ini?