Major Nub Needs Help

[steeb]

The advantage of using HIP for input is that it is very easy to map any button on the remote to any function. And if you use an USBUIRT as IR-receiver you can use litterally ANY ir based remote (most people has one or more lying in a drawer or somewhere).

And of course listen to others wise words of advise though I would have thought in this instance with an MCE remote (if I read that correctly) IRSS should be very easy to set up and go 'out of the box'.

steeb

[Reddwarf]

And of course listen to others wise words of advise though I would have thought in this instance with an MCE remote (if I read that correctly) IRSS should be very easy to set up and go 'out of the box'.

steeb

Nothing nasty said about IRSS Just pointing out that there are alternatives.

[steeb]

Nothing nasty said about IRSS Just pointing out that there are alternatives.

Nothing nasty said about HIP It is very good

[Kevs02Accord]

I really dont know anything about how you've set it up, but if you have some channels accessible via the tuner and some accessible, then you can certainly set this up in NPVR. ie, from a clean data you'd have gone into the HVR-2250's analog settings, click 'import', select tuner, point it at your first xmltv file with the list of channels accessible directly from the tuner, then hit ok. Next click import, select composite/svideo, point it at your second xmltv file with the list of channels accessible via the STB.

I think I messed it up here. I used the same xml list for each tuner. I used mc2xml, I don't think it gave me a way to edit the list, is there another program, xmltv? that I could use?

Nothing nasty said about IRSS Just pointing out that there are alternatives.

Nothing nasty said about HIP It is very good

Haha, well I will probably give hip a try, if that doesnt work, or proves too complicated for me then I will give IRSS a try. Hopefully I can get this whole mess straightened out. Thanks for help thus far.

[sub]

You could do it with one file if you need to, but when you import the channels, make sure you select/deselect the appropriate channels for source. ie, dont tell the application you have 800 channels available via the tuner, or you'll get unexpected results for the majority of those channels. Instead, only enable the channels that you'll have access to via your tuner.

[Kevs02Accord]

You could do it with one file if you need to, but when you import the channels, make sure you select/deselect the appropriate channels for source. ie, dont tell the application you have 800 channels available via the tuner, or you'll get unexpected results for the majority of those channels. Instead, only enable the channels that you'll have access to via your tuner.

Ok, thats what I did this time around. The main tuner has all the channels it cant get, deleted. The second is composite 2 and has all the channels, does this sound right?

[Kevs02Accord]

Alright, tried the hip setup, didnt work. After I installed it I went through the set up wizard, when I got to the add remote part I did as the wiki said. I put the remote in front of the receiver, hit enter, it flashed for 1/2 second to tap the button I wanted to teach it, then immeadiately gave me an error or timeout occurred, retry. Each time I retry it does the same thing. Also, how does npvr have the codes to my stb?

[ElihuRozen]

I think I messed it up here. I used the same xml list for each tuner. I used mc2xml, I don't think it gave me a way to edit the list

mc2xml allows you to pass in a channel file which contains the list of channels you want. I have two different channels lists. One for QAM & one for the STB. I call mc2xml twice, passing in the different channel list files.

[johnsonx42]

npvr doesn't have the codes to your STB. you have to use an outside program for that, like HIP. once HIP can talk to your STB, you configure a channel changer executable in NPVR that tells HIP what to send to your STB.

NPVR------>channel changer.exe (like hipsend or net2hipsend)----->HIP----->ir blaster----->stb

[Kevs02Accord]

mc2xml allows you to pass in a channel file which contains the list of channels you want. I have two different channels lists. One for QAM & one for the STB. I call mc2xml twice, passing in the different channel list files.

Right now I have the two files. How did you select which channels to allow when you used the mc2xml, did it ask you after you dled it? Right now I guess I need to figure the blaster situation out so I can see if my second analog tuner is even working.