HD Homerun Scan

[ydekmekji]

GBPVR seems to find about half the channels when it scans on the HD Homerun... i can't find but seem to recall that there is a way to add those channels.

for example, i'm trying to add 124.450, which shows up fine on the hd homerun viewer, but gbpvr can't find it.

[ydekmekji]

And for clarification purposes I searched the forums and can't find anything that's helping. some channels are showing and others are not on GBPVR config...

[johnsonx42]

if you can sort out all the required parameters, you can manually add channels to the scan.cache file in the BDA directory, then they'll be available in the channel list. I don't know if the HDHR viewer gives you all the needed parameters; you should be able to figure them out with TSReader: http://www.tsreader.com/tsreader/index.html

[whurlston]

124.450 does not appear in either the GBPVR scan or your Silicondust lineup. Does it show up in the HDHomeRun setup scan?

[ydekmekji]

it does show up in the HDhomeRun setup scan

[ydekmekji]

I have no idea how to use TSReader--can you help? I got some of those channels showing (i.e. 124.450), but i don't know what i'm supposed to look for to edit that file

[johnsonx42]

all I can advise is to look at the data in one of your scan.cache files for a known channel, then look at that channel with TSReader. You can ferret out which parameters are which. V: is the video stream, A: is the audio stream. PCR is a clock reference, usually the same as the video stream. PMT is the program map table. This isn't exactly something I've done every day, more like once so I can't really offer step-by-step directions.

To help GB-PVR scan the missing channels, I think I've seen sub advise increasing the following parameters in config.xml:

Code:

<BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds>1</BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds>
  <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds>15</BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds>

Maybe double each one and scan again.

Finally, I've seen sub say more than once "Try NPVR instead. It has much better scanning logic than GB-PVR".

[whurlston]

I don't have TS Reader on this machine and it's been a while since I used it. I'll post some screenshots later tonight with instructions on how to read and implement the tuning parameters though.

@jx42: His logs indicated that he had already adjusted those config settings to 5/25. Increasing BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds even more may help though, maybe to 45.

[ydekmekji]

OK, so i don't know which one worked, but increasing my PSI (I tripled the numbers) did the trick (I even picked up channels that my tv doesn't pick up). I also changed the HD Setup to Other rather than GBPVR. Again, not sure which of the two did the trick, but whatever i did worked, so i'm content.

However, I'd love the screenshot and instructions on how to read and implement tuning parameters

PS--HD Homerun is fantastic once i got it working! way better than my Hauppauge 1600's qam/atsc input

[whurlston]

However, I'd love the screenshot and instructions on how to read and implement tuning parameters

I forgot all about doing this tonight, sorry. Bump this again tomorrow or PM me a reminder and I'll take care of it.