FM Radio scans but never stops

[bgowland]

...or should I say it never pauses to give me the option to save any stations as presets. Basically it works fine if I manually enter a freq. and save it but a scan just gives a progress bar from left to right with split-second snippets of anything it finds along the way. When it gets to the end, it starts playing the last station it found (Radio Jackie 107.8 MHz). The gbpvr.exe.native.log shows the following...

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03:28:27.703 VERBOSE put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_FM_RADIO) 03:28:27.703 VERBOSE put_Channel(87500000, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT) 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE getSetting(ListGraphFilters) 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE Graph contains the following filters: 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE - Default DirectSound Device 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE - Capture 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE - TV Audio 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE - TV Tuner 03:28:28.156 VERBOSE getSetting(SaveGraphFiles) 03:28:28.250 VERBOSE ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done 03:28:28.265 VERBOSE SetFrequency(87600000) 03:28:28.312 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000 03:28:28.406 VERBOSE SetFrequency(87700000) 03:28:28.453 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000 03:28:28.531 VERBOSE SetFrequency(87800000) 03:28:28.578 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000 03:28:28.656 VERBOSE SetFrequency(87900000) 03:28:28.703 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000 03:28:28.781 VERBOSE SetFrequency(88000000) 03:28:28.828 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000 03:28:28.906 VERBOSE SetFrequency(88100000) 03:28:28.953 VERBOSE Freq: 87500000

The SetFrequency entries go up to 107900000 each one followed by the Freq: 87500000 line.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

Basically after setting each frequency I ask the driver if there is a signal present, and it returns either true or false. If its true, I popup the window that asks if you want to keep the station. In you're case it must be returning false, but I dont know why.

[tkgafs]

Hi

I'm using a vPVR350 and I am seeing the same behaviour as Brian above, the scanning never stops but you can hear the stations as it passes them.

How do manually add a frequency ?

I tried the add button but was not allowed to type in a frequency

tkgafs

[postaldave]

Hi
How do manually add a frequency ?

I tried the add button but was not allowed to type in a frequency

tkgafs

not that i can get the FM function to work but i can tell you how to add a station manually.

1.hit add

2.the box "adding station" pops up

3.type the 5 digit fm address. for 100.1 fm you would type 1 0 0 1 0
no period or anything else

4.scoll down with mouse wheel or down button to the name function.
type name of station

5.scholl down with mouse wheel or down mutton to "add" hit add.

[postaldave]

Basically after setting each frequency I ask the driver if there is a signal present, and it returns either true or false. If its true, I popup the window that asks if you want to keep the station. In you're case it must be returning false, but I dont know why.

do you what would cause VERBOSE put_channel failed

i've noticed anything i've tried comes up with this in the log.

[sub]

do you what would cause VERBOSE put_channel failed

i've noticed anything i've tried comes up with this in the log.

You'd get this if the tuner doest accept the frequency you're trying to use.

You'd probably get this if your device doesnt have FM tuner hardware (or the drivers dont think it does). Does the card in question work with the Hauppauge radio app?

What type of card do you actually have?

[nkh]

Hey, first of all, the improved FM radio is so much better then the old one that forced mp3 encoding (well, it is if you have a slow computer like me ).

But the Scan function doesn't stop when it finds radio stations here either. I have a PVR-350 and I just tried the scan function in the Hauppauge radio app and it finds the stations perfectly. The antenna input is connected to my cable tv service, so the stations all have the same signal level (I assume).

I don't know if it's because the radio stations are placed 'strangely' in the FM band here in Denmark?

An example of some of the frequencies:

Code:

Sky Radio 100.5 DR P1 101.5 DR P4 Københavns Radio 102.7

This is what gbpvt.exe-native.log says when scanning thoes frequencies (basically the same as bgowland's resluts):

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21:21:09.756 VERBOSE SetFrequency(100500000) 21:21:09.766 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:10.477 VERBOSE SetFrequency(100600000) 21:21:10.477 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:11.188 VERBOSE SetFrequency(100700000) 21:21:11.188 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:11.899 VERBOSE SetFrequency(100800000) 21:21:11.909 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:12.630 VERBOSE SetFrequency(100900000) 21:21:12.630 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:13.351 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101000000) 21:21:13.351 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:14.062 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101100000) 21:21:14.062 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:14.823 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101200000) 21:21:14.823 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:15.544 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101300000) 21:21:15.544 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:16.245 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101400000) 21:21:16.255 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:16.966 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101500000) 21:21:16.966 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:17.677 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101600000) 21:21:17.687 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:18.388 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101700000) 21:21:18.398 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:19.109 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101800000) 21:21:19.109 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:19.820 VERBOSE SetFrequency(101900000) 21:21:19.830 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:20.541 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102000000) 21:21:20.541 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:21.252 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102100000) 21:21:21.262 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:21.973 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102200000) 21:21:21.973 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:22.684 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102300000) 21:21:22.684 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:23.405 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102400000) 21:21:23.405 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:24.116 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102500000) 21:21:24.116 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:24.827 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102600000) 21:21:24.827 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:25.538 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102700000) 21:21:25.548 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000 21:21:26.259 VERBOSE SetFrequency(102800000) 21:21:26.259 VERBOSE Freq: 87550000

[sub]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

[nkh]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

Yup, "static" - "radio" - "static" - "radio"....

[nkh]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

I was thinking... would it help if I recorded the sound while it's scanning so you can hear what it finds?