hava gold

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hello
i just bought the hava gold
HAVA - Play Your TV Anywhere - HAVA Video Streamer; HAVA Place-Shifter; HAVA Mobile TV
its a low cost open source tv broadcaster like slingbox
i was trying to set it up to work with media portal with out success
the have gold is support mce and i found some sort howto explanation


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Re: Looking for MCE "beanbag" alternatives

Postby blake2415 on Mon Apr 28, 2008 3:16 pm
Well, for those that hunger for a pvr solution, the MediaPortal does work with HAVA and it works great. You'll need to add HAVA to the tuners config file using this code: (JUST COPY AND PASTE THIS CODE TO YOUR CaptureCardDefinitions.xml control file in the MediaPortal directory. You can edit this file using notepad but make sure to save it as a xml file and not a txt file)

Then make sure you assign the remote control to the component port to be able to change channels on your cable or sat box. You do this in the advanced setup section of your hava configuraton.

Here's the code:

<capturecard commercialname="Hava Wireless Device" capturename="Hava Video Device" devid="MEDIA">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="false" sw="false" bda="false"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="encoder" video="" audio="" mpeg2="0"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="tvtuner" name="Hava Video TvTuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="tvaudio" name="Hava Video TvAudio" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="crossbar" name="Hava Video Crossbar" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="Hava Video Device" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="encoder" name="Hava Video Encoder" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="2"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="tvaudio" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvaudio" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="4"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="1"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="videncoder" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="videncoder" sinkpin="1"/>
</connections>
</tv>
capturecard commercialname="Hava Wireless test Device" capturename="Hava Video test Device" devid="MEDIA">
<capabilities tv="true" radio="false" mpeg2="true" mce="true" sw="false" bda="false"/>
<tv>
<interface cat="encoder" video="" audio="" mpeg2="0"/>
<filters>
<filter cat="tvtuner" name="Hava Video TvTuner" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="tvaudio" name="Hava Video TvAudio" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="crossbar" name="Hava Video Crossbar" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="capture" name="Hava Video Device" checkdevice="true"/>
<filter cat="encoder" name="Hava Video Encoder" checkdevice="true"/>
</filters>
<connections>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="2"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvtuner" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="tvaudio" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="tvaudio" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="crossbar" sinkpin="4"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="crossbar" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="capture" sinkpin="1"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="0" sinkfilter="videncoder" sinkpin="0"/>
<connection sourcefilter="capture" sourcepin="1" sinkfilter="videncoder" sinkpin="1"/>
</connections>
</tv>
</capturecard>

Once you have this working, you'll encounter a limit on how the channels are received by the media portal program (and others I've tried also) that follow some kind of logic preventing a simple channel interface above and beyond approximately channel 140 something and up. I could never figure out how to stop Media Portal and even SageTv from scanning and finding channels 150+ but putting them in an external box configuration that stopped the simple channel assignment from working and controlling the cable box. So to get around this, when you set up Media Portal, tell it you are not in the USA. I used Italy and this engaged a simple channel scan all the way up. I was able to receive all of my channels and it worked perfectly on Cox Cable and Motorola HD tuner.

With mediaportal, you get your guide through a number of schemes to grab scheduling from the internet/web pages, etc.. However, I found it was difficult for me to get working, so I went to SchedulesDirect and bought a yearly programming subscription. You'll then need the SchedulesDirect plugin which grabs the schedules autiomatically for you. It's $20.00 year for this service. If' you have the time, maybe you can get the WEBEPG feature working on mediaportal and it gets your subs free, but good luck and be ready to spend some time on it.

Overall, if you have a non MCE computer such as XP, this will give you the full pvr solution with HAVA and its a nice package.

Let me hear about your success if you give this a try.

Bill

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