FM Radio scans but never stops

[bgowland]

...or should I say it never pauses to give me the option to save any stations as presets. Basically it works fine if I manually enter a freq. and save it but a scan just gives a progress bar from left to right with split-second snippets of anything it finds along the way. When it gets to the end, it starts playing the last station it found (Radio Jackie 107.8 MHz). The gbpvr.exe.native.log shows the following...

Code:

03:28:27.703    VERBOSE    put_Mode(AMTUNER_MODE_FM_RADIO)
03:28:27.703    VERBOSE    put_Channel(87500000, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT, AMTUNER_SUBCHAN_DEFAULT)
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(ListGraphFilters)
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE    Graph contains the following filters:
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE     - Default DirectSound Device
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE     - Capture
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE     - Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Crossbar
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE     - TV Audio
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE     - TV Tuner
03:28:28.156    VERBOSE    getSetting(SaveGraphFiles)
03:28:28.250    VERBOSE    ConexantRecorder::StartRecording() done
03:28:28.265    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(87600000)
03:28:28.312    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000
03:28:28.406    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(87700000)
03:28:28.453    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000
03:28:28.531    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(87800000)
03:28:28.578    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000
03:28:28.656    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(87900000)
03:28:28.703    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000
03:28:28.781    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(88000000)
03:28:28.828    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000
03:28:28.906    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(88100000)
03:28:28.953    VERBOSE    Freq: 87500000

The SetFrequency entries go up to 107900000 each one followed by the Freq: 87500000 line.

Cheers,
Brian

[sub]

Basically after setting each frequency I ask the driver if there is a signal present, and it returns either true or false. If its true, I popup the window that asks if you want to keep the station. In you're case it must be returning false, but I dont know why.

[tkgafs]

Hi

I'm using a vPVR350 and I am seeing the same behaviour as Brian above, the scanning never stops but you can hear the stations as it passes them.

How do manually add a frequency ?

I tried the add button but was not allowed to type in a frequency

tkgafs

[postaldave]

Hi
How do manually add a frequency ?

I tried the add button but was not allowed to type in a frequency

tkgafs

not that i can get the FM function to work but i can tell you how to add a station manually.

1.hit add

2.the box "adding station" pops up

3.type the 5 digit fm address. for 100.1 fm you would type 1 0 0 1 0
no period or anything else

4.scoll down with mouse wheel or down button to the name function.
type name of station

5.scholl down with mouse wheel or down mutton to "add" hit add.

[postaldave]

Basically after setting each frequency I ask the driver if there is a signal present, and it returns either true or false. If its true, I popup the window that asks if you want to keep the station. In you're case it must be returning false, but I dont know why.

do you what would cause VERBOSE put_channel failed

i've noticed anything i've tried comes up with this in the log.

[sub]

do you what would cause VERBOSE put_channel failed

i've noticed anything i've tried comes up with this in the log.

You'd get this if the tuner doest accept the frequency you're trying to use.

You'd probably get this if your device doesnt have FM tuner hardware (or the drivers dont think it does). Does the card in question work with the Hauppauge radio app?

What type of card do you actually have?

[nkh]

Hey, first of all, the improved FM radio is so much better then the old one that forced mp3 encoding (well, it is if you have a slow computer like me ).

But the Scan function doesn't stop when it finds radio stations here either. I have a PVR-350 and I just tried the scan function in the Hauppauge radio app and it finds the stations perfectly. The antenna input is connected to my cable tv service, so the stations all have the same signal level (I assume).

I don't know if it's because the radio stations are placed 'strangely' in the FM band here in Denmark?

An example of some of the frequencies:

Code:

Sky Radio 100.5
DR P1 101.5
DR P4 Københavns Radio 102.7

This is what gbpvt.exe-native.log says when scanning thoes frequencies (basically the same as bgowland's resluts):

Code:

21:21:09.756    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(100500000)
21:21:09.766    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:10.477    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(100600000)
21:21:10.477    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:11.188    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(100700000)
21:21:11.188    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:11.899    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(100800000)
21:21:11.909    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:12.630    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(100900000)
21:21:12.630    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:13.351    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101000000)
21:21:13.351    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:14.062    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101100000)
21:21:14.062    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:14.823    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101200000)
21:21:14.823    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:15.544    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101300000)
21:21:15.544    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:16.245    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101400000)
21:21:16.255    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:16.966    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101500000)
21:21:16.966    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:17.677    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101600000)
21:21:17.687    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:18.388    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101700000)
21:21:18.398    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:19.109    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101800000)
21:21:19.109    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:19.820    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(101900000)
21:21:19.830    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:20.541    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102000000)
21:21:20.541    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:21.252    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102100000)
21:21:21.262    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:21.973    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102200000)
21:21:21.973    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:22.684    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102300000)
21:21:22.684    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:23.405    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102400000)
21:21:23.405    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:24.116    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102500000)
21:21:24.116    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:24.827    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102600000)
21:21:24.827    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:25.538    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102700000)
21:21:25.548    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000
21:21:26.259    VERBOSE    SetFrequency(102800000)
21:21:26.259    VERBOSE    Freq: 87550000

[sub]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

[nkh]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

Yup, "static" - "radio" - "static" - "radio"....

[nkh]

Do you hear the stations as it scans past them?

I was thinking... would it help if I recorded the sound while it's scanning so you can hear what it finds?