Integrating HD-PVR 2, USB-UIRT and NPVR

[ejb]

Hello -

I am moving over from using BeyondTV because I would like to integrate a HD-PVR 2 which I have connected to my Cable STB. I also have two Hauppauge 1600 tuners which I drive with an antenna for OTA reception. I have gotten the 1600's integrated in and the HD-PVR 2 recognized, EPG loaded, etc. Where I am having problems is figuring out how to get NPVR to send the channel commands to the STB through the USB-UIRT. I am using EventGhost and the USB-UIRT for controlling my Kodi front-end and other programs. I downloaded HIP to give it a try but I am missing something in understanding how to get this configured. I have searched the forum (and the Wiki) and although there are lots of hints I cannot find a post/entry that walks through how to set up NPVR and the USB-UIRT blaster. In BTV this was integrated in the package so I have yet to put this part of the chain together.

Any help or a link to an explanation would be great!

ejb

[Reddwarf]

What exactly is the problem with configuring HIP?

[Graham]

Any help or a link to an explanation would be great!

I found this though it may be obsolete ... http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/HipGuide2

NextPVR is the child of GBPVR that is described in the link. The NextPVR equivalent to the GBPVR screens is at Settings --> Devices and setup the device that is connected to the STB.

[ejb]

I found this though it may be obsolete ... http://gbpvr.com/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Tips/HipGuide2

NextPVR is the child of GBPVR that is described in the link. The NextPVR equivalent to the GBPVR screens is at Settings --> Devices and setup the device that is connected to the STB.

Thank you - that does help clear up some of the questions I had. I will give this a try and see if I can get it set up.

[ejb]

OK - so I have gotten farther than I did before following the steps in the link. In fact, when I run Hipsend from the command line it actually tunes the STB. I even was able to pad the channels and set the gap so that the STB responds very reliably from the command line. However, after I set up the HD-PVR 2 in Settings, when I go to the EPG and try to watch the show there is no tuning of the STB. In the settings, I set it to "executable" and identified the path to Hipsend. The argument is set for "channel". It looks like it should work...

[sub]

With that setting now set, try highlighting your channels (in the Settings->Devices->HDPVR2 screen), and right click and select 'update to current config'.

[ejb]

Went back to devices, selected all the channels associated with HD-PVR 2 and clicked "update to current configuration". Still does not send commands to the STB. I can still command it through the cmd window manually calling hipsend.

[sub]

Try watching TV or doing a recording then zip and attach the nrecord.log, and I'll check if NextPVR is running the command.

[ejb]

So here are the log files. What I tried to do was go to the TV Guide and watch Channel 946 (Ovation). I can tune this if I use a cmd window and type in "hipsend 946". The STB shows the number inputs as they are entered. However, when I use NPVR, nothing happens. The video from the HD-PVR 2 will come up but it will be whatever the last station the STB is tuned to, not the one requested. I looked at "NRecord.log" and it seems the command is being given, the channel is correct and it has the correct location of Hipsend. Thank you for your help.

[ejb]

So I also tried building a little .bat file, which called up HipSend with command "C:\Users\Ed\HipSend.exe {946}" (this is the location of HipSend.exe) and it tuned the STB perfectly. I am a bit baffled.