2005-10-01, 01:09 PM
I'm in such deep hell right now...
After a wonderful situation finally gaining the wife's trust, managing the new PVR recording world, I decide to go full out and install another PVR-150 card to handle the conflicts on analog cable with no additional set top tuner boxes.
Windows sees two PVR-150s after the driver(s) installs for the second card, shows no conflicts, and that's where the good news stops.
Major bad. Remote: dead, even w WinTV2000.
Neither tuner card records now w gbPVR .93? last Julyish release, despite the first one showing it's recording and the other card is "sleeping" says the recording service tray. LiveTV blew up at first with a nasty Windows error, then worked after a restart or two.
What the hell went wrong? I searched the forums for three hours snatching hints from here and there, hoping this thread might put all the pieces to together, or maybe the WIKI will someday outline this in as much detail as the MVP stuff.
From the WIKI, I installed / configured the second tuner card by giving it a different name.
Then I selected "PVR-150" from the dropdown menu because that's what it is.
And because it's identically the same as the first tuner card, I made this a different Capture Device #2.
Because both cards are running off the same cable feed via a splitter, this second card also was set to cable and I used the same account and channel settings with ZapTV as the first card to make it easy. <=== is this ok to do?
I've read vague references to having each tuner hold a different set of channels, but that sounds very complicated with the ZapTV accounts and all. Moving channels from one collection of channels to the other to manage a conflict sounds very cumbersome. Gow does that show up in the TV Guide part? It almost sounds better to get another machine to throw the second card into.
But I read about dudes loading in seven tuners. How? Definitive directions are needed in the WIKI if each card needs a different set of channels with different ZapTV accounts(?) and how to manage all of that...
The EPG download for the second card went ok using the same original card settings (account / pass etc) - no errors, but:
Did I need to wipe out the first card's EPG to eliminate the potential conflicts that it was warning me of for the last ten days? Is this why nothing right happened this morning - that it still thought there was a conflict?
How does gbPVR allow manage prior recording conflicts with sudden appearance of an additional tuner card? What didn't happen this morning for me was two shows were conflicting starting at 5 a.m. for each of them and neither got recorded, although the grid and the recording service tray lied about it.
Going into "Video Library" from the main screen I expected to see "card2" because of the "card1" has been there from the beginning of using gbPVR and there was no "card2". Should there be?
I didn't plug in the remote sensor on the second tuner card - is that ok?
If I've missed all the step by steps somewhere, please point me in the right direction-- or if you know how to make a second PVR-150 peacefully co-mingle with the first, I'm looking for answers!
Thanks-
After a wonderful situation finally gaining the wife's trust, managing the new PVR recording world, I decide to go full out and install another PVR-150 card to handle the conflicts on analog cable with no additional set top tuner boxes.
Windows sees two PVR-150s after the driver(s) installs for the second card, shows no conflicts, and that's where the good news stops.
Major bad. Remote: dead, even w WinTV2000.
Neither tuner card records now w gbPVR .93? last Julyish release, despite the first one showing it's recording and the other card is "sleeping" says the recording service tray. LiveTV blew up at first with a nasty Windows error, then worked after a restart or two.
What the hell went wrong? I searched the forums for three hours snatching hints from here and there, hoping this thread might put all the pieces to together, or maybe the WIKI will someday outline this in as much detail as the MVP stuff.
From the WIKI, I installed / configured the second tuner card by giving it a different name.
Then I selected "PVR-150" from the dropdown menu because that's what it is.
And because it's identically the same as the first tuner card, I made this a different Capture Device #2.
Because both cards are running off the same cable feed via a splitter, this second card also was set to cable and I used the same account and channel settings with ZapTV as the first card to make it easy. <=== is this ok to do?
I've read vague references to having each tuner hold a different set of channels, but that sounds very complicated with the ZapTV accounts and all. Moving channels from one collection of channels to the other to manage a conflict sounds very cumbersome. Gow does that show up in the TV Guide part? It almost sounds better to get another machine to throw the second card into.
But I read about dudes loading in seven tuners. How? Definitive directions are needed in the WIKI if each card needs a different set of channels with different ZapTV accounts(?) and how to manage all of that...
The EPG download for the second card went ok using the same original card settings (account / pass etc) - no errors, but:
Did I need to wipe out the first card's EPG to eliminate the potential conflicts that it was warning me of for the last ten days? Is this why nothing right happened this morning - that it still thought there was a conflict?
How does gbPVR allow manage prior recording conflicts with sudden appearance of an additional tuner card? What didn't happen this morning for me was two shows were conflicting starting at 5 a.m. for each of them and neither got recorded, although the grid and the recording service tray lied about it.
Going into "Video Library" from the main screen I expected to see "card2" because of the "card1" has been there from the beginning of using gbPVR and there was no "card2". Should there be?
I didn't plug in the remote sensor on the second tuner card - is that ok?
If I've missed all the step by steps somewhere, please point me in the right direction-- or if you know how to make a second PVR-150 peacefully co-mingle with the first, I'm looking for answers!
Thanks-