Detected Digital ATSC tuner cannot find any channels after scan

[shspvr]

Yes it’s the 850. I did one better and wiped my windows 10 and reinstalled everything. Same issue. The Tuner is old so perhaps that’s something to do with the incompatibilities.

That true as it is very old as of right now it 17 years old

[mvallevand]

If digital consistently works with WinTV sub can probably get this going like something small in v5.

Martin

[dorthensensens]

To beat a dead horse, I'm posting my findings, but I got it to work! Kind of. It's a work around for certain but I noticed that on the tuner device, there are two lights. One for the device being powered and active, the other for trying to lock a channel. I noticed that these lights remained on when I used WinTV or the other apps where the tuner worked. For NextPVR, I noticed the device power light would turn off when I tried to initiate a OTA scan. So What I did was have winTV active just before I ran a scan on NPVR. I quickly shutdown WinTV and the device was able to scan and get channels in NPVR. I can also watch channels on it but again, only when another application "activates" the device like winTV. Small steps.

[mvallevand]

If you set (or unset) keep device primed on the devices page does that change the behaviour?

Martin

[dorthensensens]

No change with that setting on or off. Thank you for the suggestion.

[sub]

No change with that setting on or off. Thank you for the suggestion.

You would have needed to restart after changing the setting. It's only used the very first time the device is used.

[dorthensensens]

Thank you for explaining that detail. After the reboot, the behaviour remains the same.

[sub]

I've just had a dig through my boxes of tuners, and unfortunately can't find my HVR-850. I did have one, but annoyingly I think if I might have thrown it in a clear out of old a couple of years back.

[kohli69]

Make sure you have no cable splitters in use when you try the test different tuners will have different selectivity. I am assuming you are in the same location For the logs, make sure you attach the zipped log and if they are too big use the cloud (like Google Drive, OneDrive etc)

[dorthensensens]

So ... after LOTS of fiddling, I be gotten it to work. To make a long story short, I needed to attach the older single channel tuner to the PC AFTER I attached the dual tuner and install drivers. For some reason, installing drivers while both were attached caused a problem. But all’s when that ends well. Thanks for all of your support. I’ve bought both the iOS and AppleTV client software to show support.