Current outstanding issues with HDHomeRun Prime + NextPVR + XBMC

[werkkrew]

Ah okay, well I look forward to the next official release then.

[Dark_Slayer]

The bulk of my testing is done with digital devices (DVB/ATSC). The way the HDHomeRun Prime works has several key differences from normal digital devices. Unfortunately I'm not able to test with an HDHomeRun Prime, due to lack of sample hardware and lack of cable headend I could use it with. However, I do have a DVB-T HDHomeRun, which is reasonably similar.

I've had a hunt through boxes in the roof, found my DVB-T HDHomeRun, and dusted it off. Initially when I tried it, I could go somewhere between 2-6 channel changes in XBMC before the channel change would fail and I'd have a frozen image from last channel. I tracked this down to a timing issue between the previous live tv stream closing and the new one being created. I've made a small change, and have now gone something like 30-40 channel changes without any lockups.

It doesn't seem to leaving any files behind in my live tv buffer directory.

Sub, I can't thank you enough for taking the time to go out of your way and test similar issues. If it would do you any good I would ship my HDHR Prime to you when I buy the 4-tuner version (supposedly due this quarter), but sadly I can't foresee anyway that you could test cablecard content. From the tuner negotiation perspective, I think the HDHR is quite similar. You still had to download the hdhr setup correct? At least the cli version to enable the tuners in the HDHR.

Did yours have the 2 green indicator lights? When using the current 2.6.2 release in XBMC would issuing a "stop" command release the tuner? I keep getting this sticking feeling that not releasing the tuner for so long is causing a host of other problems.