Upgrading from 0.2 to 0.2.3 RC3

[edgedemon]

Hi all,
This is more of a general request for best practices. Since my wife was away yesterday, I decided to take the plunge and try the latest MP version and after a day of struggling ended up reverting back to 0.2 just before she came home!!!
I am looking for advice on the following things
I Have UK cable (telewest) STB which I connect to my Hauppage PVR 500 dual tuner card via composite. Originally in MP version 1.xxx you had to add a CVBS channel and download the channel list and assign channel inputs to composite 1. Since then, with each new version, I have just dropped my original channel list file into the MP directory and everything worked fine. Using TV server v3 I could not see how to replicate this, I would get an error about the tuner not being able to receive a signal from CVBS..
I did go through the videos (which were very helpful) but couldn't work out what I was doing wrong..
Can someone give me a few pointers for getting an STB to work with TV server v3 via composite as adding the composite output did not seem to work for me..?
I also encountered problem with the SQL Express - everything installed fine, but after a reboot the tv server service would not start as it complained about the user not having permissions, although my MP user is an admin of my HTPC box - How do I give that user admin rights within SQL????
I have a DVB-T card which I was able to get working and receive TV, though MP was very slow, and crashed several times, I have the logs created from the debug tool, but suspect it was caused more by my incorrect set up rather than a MP problem, which is why I am posting here.
The main bugbear I need help with is the getting an STB box to work with TV server 3 - if someone can help me with that I am sure that with enough digging around I can fix the rest. I just want to know that nest time the missus is out for a while I can sneak a quick upgrade in without her realising and then sit back and watch her amazement at some of the new capabilities :-)

In the meantime 0.2 is working fine...

Many Thanks

Martin

[edgedemon]

Regarding the instability TV server 3 I mentioned in a previous post, I have attched the output from the debug tool.
The remote was very slow, changing channel caused it to crash or freeze or become inputs. unresponsive..
This was with just my digital tv Nova-t card working as I could not get my MCE PVR500 working with composite and it could be that my set up was wrong rather then a fault with MP

[edgedemon]

Originally Posted by edgedemon

or become inputs. unresponsive..
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Ooops - damn typos....

[edgedemon]

Anyone had a chance to look at the logs yet???