UK - Question and Hardware recommendation for analogue and digital setup

[turrican]

Hi all,

Just recently discovered GB-PVR and looking to get some kit to use its great abilities!
I currently have Digital DVB-T Freeview, and also Analogue cable TV (Yes, analogue cable TV!).
When I moved in I piped tv cables and installed a wired network throughout the house to each room. I am now looking to utilize some of it!

First and foremost is the question, can I get 2 x analogue and 2 x DVB-T tuner cards, or 2 x hybrids which do both digital and analogue, and this will all work ok with gb-pvr?
The reason I would want to keep the analogue is because they pump Sky One down the analogue cable, but I can't get that on the DVB-T.
I guess ideally I would like to get a programme guide which lists all the channels from the digital (digital EPG), plus Sky One from the analogue cable system (presumably this would use the web for a tv guide listing?).
Not sure if this is possible ...

The DVB-T tuners I am looking at is the WinTV Nova-T PCI card tuner, which sells for around £40 at Pc World. I am looking to get a couple of these so I can watch and record at the same time.
That is if I can't do dual analogue AND digital at the same time!?

Anybody any suggestions for good tuner cards that would suit my purpose?
Anybody know any cheap places to buy these from?

I am also looking to get a couple of Hauppauge Media MPV's so I can watch/control all this from the bedroom and the living room.
I can't seem to find anywhere that has these in stock, tried the usual ebuyer, dabs, etc no joy. Are they not making them anymore? Anybody know where I can get a couple from?

Any and all help would be most appreciated for a newbie!

[herbs]

I had 2 analogue cards and two dvb-t (nova-t and the nova-t usb2) cards working at the same time, but I was using the tuners on the analogue for channels 1-5 and the dvb-t for the freeview channels. I use Alan birtles xmltv listing download http://www.birtles.org.uk/xmltv to grab 14 days of epg.
I don't think the hauppauge hybrid cards will do analogue and dvb-t at the same time.
I have a mediamvp if you want to buy it off me, it's out of warranty (if its a two year warranty then it's in warranty with approx 6 months left) but works fine I basically don't have a need for it now i moved into a smaller place. PM if your interested in it, if your not interested novatech have them http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/specp...?HAU-01004. The reason you might be having trouble getting one is the wireless version has been coming out for the last 9 months but it isn't here yet.

[reboot]

I would add a PVR-500 for your analog (dual tuner).
If you only need one analog channel at a time, get a PVR-150.
They work seamlessly with gbpvr and the Nova-T's.

[turrican]

Thanks for the responses. I am now testing the water having purchased a single nova-t (working fine) and a single media mvp which I managed to purchase from the local Pc World for just £36 ... however it was a customer return (the only one they had). Its a version D3A so I thought what the hell, i'll give it a go ... I can always take it back if it doesn't work! On to the nightmare!

I have set everything up, the MVP is connected to the PC via an ADSL router which is acting as a DHCP server. The pc gets an IP, my netgem freeview box (which has net access) gets an IP, but whatever I do I just can't get this MVP to work ... it just flashes between the two boxes on the screen. Never worked yet ...
I have unplugged the freeview box where I know its definately connected ok and replaced it with the MVP .. still no joy.

I have installed the hauppauge software (latest beta version 25.23209)
I have both MVP services running fine.
I'm running Windows XP Pro, firewall turned off and no software firewall.

Yet it doesn't work ...
Am I missing something really stupid here or do I have a faulty Media MVP?

Is there any way I can find out if the MVP has obtained an IP address?
I have tried pinging the available range of IP's my router is set to assign, and I get nothing back ... doesn't look to hopeful!

Please help otherwise it looks like its back to the shop with the MVP!

[bgowland]

I have installed the hauppauge software (latest beta version 25.23209) I have both MVP services running fine.
I'm running Windows XP Pro, firewall turned off and no software firewall.

Yet it doesn't work ...
Am I missing something really stupid here or do I have a faulty Media MVP?

Use 'Services' to set both of the Hauppauge services to manual or disabled. Start the GB-PVR Config app and find the Playback tab then set 'Number of servers to autostart' to be 1. Restart your machine.

Cheers,
Brian

[martint123]

Is there any way I can find out if the MVP has obtained an IP address?

On my cheapie adsl modem/router I can use the web interface to see the DHCP table of allocated IP addresses - have you something similar? Mac address of the MVP should be on a label underneath.

Something like:=

IP Address MAC Address
192.168.1.5 00-0D-87-D2-66-0A
192.168.1.6 00-09-6B-64-53-66
192.168.1.7 00-0D-FE-00-53-05
192.168.1.10 00-0C-29-61-F4-E4