HDHomerun - GBPVR - No Channels Found

[Rudgey]

:confused: Hi - in need of help here!

I am running GBPVR on my WHS along with HD HomeRun but cannot get LiveTV.

GBPVR installed fine and I can access it from a client Vista PC to see and play all videos, photos, music,etc.

I also have the XMLTV EPG data working (I think) - importing from digiguide and exporting out to a data.xml file.

I installed HDHomerun and can detect all the freeview channels using the HDHomerun utility.

When I try and detect the channels in GBPVR - I get nothing, no channels, zilch. It looks thourgh 6 channels C34, C31, C48, C21, C24,C27 and finds nothing - not a glimmer! I've attached some screen shots in teh hope someone will easily spot what I've done wrong.

Help really appreciated!

Thanks

Mark

[whurlston]

1. Make sure you add Config, PVRx2 and GBPVRRecordingService to your firewall exceptions.
   
2. Adjust <BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds> to 3 and <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds> to 25 in config.xml
   
3. Zip and post your logs showing a scan.
   

[Rudgey]

Thanks

• Firewall Exceptions Set
  
• config.xml updated
  

But still nothing.

Zipped Log File attached. I emptied the EPG and reloaded and then scanned!

Help appreciated

Mark

[whurlston]

Can you post the config.exe-native.log as well? Make sure it's a matching set.

[Rudgey]

Here it is.

Thanks

[whurlston]

I see a couple of errors that I have never seen before so I would need sub to tell if they have any bearing on why a signal is never detected or not:

Code:

2010-02-09 19:17:49.753    VERBOSE    FindFilterByName failed to locate filter: Video Mixing Renderer 9
2010-02-09 19:17:49.753    VERBOSE    VMR9 not available - using system default renderer
...
2010-02-09 19:17:49.924    VERBOSE    connecting TIF to demux(1)
2010-02-09 19:17:49.924    ERROR    ConnectFilters:Failed(2)
2010-02-09 19:17:49.924    ERROR    ConnectFilters:Failed(2)

You could try re-installing your BDA components using the HDHomeRun Setup's Advanced tab. Just click the button beside "Repair/Reinstall Windows Components". Other than that, I'm not sure. I've never run the HDHomeRun from WHS before.

[Rudgey]

Made some progress but starting to loose the battle I think.

I have used the repair/reinstall on the HDHomerun utility. I have also installed VLC player which seems to play live TV much better with HDHR.

In GBPVR Config amazingly I now pick up quite a few channels, although very oddly not any of the main channels like BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, etc.

Even more oddly when I try to watch LiveTV using the channels that it has picked up I simply get a blank screen. It does pick up EPG so I can see what I could be wathing if only I could see something.

I have attached the logs again incase this provides some insight. Thanks.

I do wonder whether the 'filter' error is part of the problem?

Thanks again

Mark

[whurlston]

In GBPVR Config amazingly I now pick up quite a few channels, although very oddly not any of the main channels like BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, etc.

Try adjusting <BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds> to 5 and <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds> to 35. This will giveGBPR a lit more time to find/get the PSIP data.

Even more oddly when I try to watch LiveTV using the channels that it has picked up I simply get a blank screen. It does pick up EPG so I can see what I could be wathing if only I could see something.

Zip and post your pvr.exe.log and pvr.exe-native.log after reproducing the problem.

[Rudgey]

Try adjusting <BDAPsiScanStartupSeconds> to 5 and <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds> to 35. This will giveGBPR a lit more time to find/get the PSIP data.

This has improved it slightly again. For some channels I only had Audio#2 and now I have the audio and the full channel name but still none of the main channels BBC1, 2, ITV, 4, CBBC, etc

Zip and post your pvr.exe.log and pvr.exe-native.log after reproducing the problem.

Logs attached - same problem - blank screen.

Thanks again

[whurlston]

This has improved it slightly again. For some channels I only had Audio#2 and now I have the audio and the full channel name but still none of the main channels BBC1, 2, ITV, 4, CBBC, etc

Try adjusting those values up incrementally by 5. I think <BDAPsiScanWaitSeconds> is the only one you wil need to adjust from here but could be wrong.

Logs attached - same problem - blank screen.

Thanks again

Can you post the logs from the client as well?