Can't find channels on HDHomeRun HDTC-2US

[martinmarty]

I have just installed nPVR 3.3.8 on Win7 SP1 64-bit for use with Kodi 14.1 on Android 4.4.2.

I have an SiliconDust HDHomeRun HDTC-2US tuner with firmware 20141124. This is connected to an antenna and I get about 8 - 12 channels depending on what mood the universe is in. I have been able to watch these channels fine since I set the tuner up at Christmas, using UPnP/DLNA to media players on my TVs.

When I go into nPVR, Devices, I see both of the tuners listed three times: ATSC, QAM and HDHR

No matter which one I select, when I do the channel scan, I get no channels. i.e. The scanning dialog never shows that it finds anything and when I go in Settings/Channels there are no channels listed and when I try to do anything from the main UI that needs a channel, it tells me channels have not been set up.

I have about an hour of experience with nPVR, a few weeks with Kodi and two months with HDHR, so I could be doing anything wrong.

I am attaching the three files from my logs dir.

Any help appreciated.

THANKS!
-Marty

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Since these are via an antenna, then you should be using the ATSC option.

If you're still not getting any channels, the usual reason for this with an HDHomeRun is the firewall getting in the way, so make sure you firewall has exclusions for NextPVR.exe/NRecord.exe/NDigitalHost.exe, or is disabled temporarily. Also, if you've got your HDHomeRun application set to NextPVR, you could try setting it to 'ATSC/QAM Other'

[martinmarty]

Since these are via an antenna, then you should be using the ATSC option.

If you're still not getting any channels, the usual reason for this with an HDHomeRun is the firewall getting in the way, so make sure you firewall has exclusions for NextPVR.exe/NRecord.exe/NDigitalHost.exe, or is disabled temporarily. Also, if you've got your HDHomeRun application set to NextPVR, you could try setting it to 'ATSC/QAM Other'

First I created inbound and outbound firewall rules (on Windows) for the applications you specified. That didn't work so I turned the firewall off entirely, as you suggested. This allowed the channels to be found during the scan. Then when I went to my nPVR running on Kodi, it could see the channels but none of them will play. After changing MP2 decoder to Microsoft I can at least play the channels using nPVR my Windows PC and I can also play them on my Kodi box using (I think) simple PVR addon.

I have made some progress thanks to your helpful and quick responses but I still need to spend some more time on it and I have been sidetracked on another project.

I apologize for not getting back to you sooner to thank you for your suggestions. I will give another status report after I have time to play around with it some more. THANKS.