Help!! Need to set channel.

[nlspears]

Hi All,

I am a newb using GB-PVR. I have a Dish Network dual tuner receiver. I have my tuner card connected to the second tuner that has a default channel of 73. How do I go about setting up GBPVR or the tuner card to see this channel. An help is appreciated. Thanks.

[sub]

Is that connected via coax from the Dish box to your capture card? If so, then you'll need to create a capture source, configured for the correct card type, and set to use the 'Fixed-Channel, External Tuner' source option, and type 73 in the 'Constant channel' box.

You'll most likely also want to add an IR Blaster to you setup so that GB-PVR can tell the Dish box to change channels when it needs to.

[nlspears]

Yes, it is connect via coax from the receiver to the tuner card.

[nlspears]

As for the ir blaster. The tuner uses UHF. How do I go about changing the channels this way?

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Normally with a set top box, you'd add an IR Blaster to you setup (like MCE Blaster, USB-UIRT, Actisys IR200L), and you learn the remote control signals you wish to emulate, then when GB-PVR needs to change channels it replays these IR signals. For example, if GB-PVR wanted the set top box to be tuned to channel 63, it would replay the IR signals for '6' followed by the IR signals for '3'.

[nlspears]

Okay, I think I am not understanding this clearly. I am using my dvr only for viewing over my network from other computers. Therefore, it will only be recording and not playing on any televisions. If I am just scheding recordings, do I need a channel changer?

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The coax coming from you Dish box will only ever be carrying the (single) channel your Dish box is currently tuned to. Without a channel changer GB-PVR will only ever be able to record the channel your Dish box is currently tuned to - you have to manually change channels on you Dish box at the right time to make sure GB-PVR recorded the right thing. Make sense?

[nlspears]

Ahh, okay. Hmmm. What do you suggest? I see several channel changer options. If I want to computer to do the changing to I select .exe changer?

[sub]

If I want to computer to do the changing to I select .exe changer?

All of the options use the computer to do it.

The .exe option is typically used by people that either, (a) use serial cable with a set top box that supports this as a method for changing channels, or (b) use an external app to control an IR Blaster.

[nlspears]

Okay, so I have an issue. My computer is in a different room than the receiver, and the only way I can change the channel is through UHF. Is IR the only way?