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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klathman" data-source="post: 169668" data-attributes="member: 53773">Another new userThought I'd just drop a note to say that I've joined the ranks of MP users. It hasn't been the easiest road as seems to be fairly normal but I am slowly getting there. Coming from the MCE side of the fence there are a few disappointments for me but I'm hoping that I can at least work around these in the future.Currently I'm running with a PVR150MCE and IR Blaster controlling a sky digibox. Initially I tried to set up TVE3 but had a few problems connecting so moved to TVE2 which allowed me to make a bit of progress. I do plan to go back to TVE3 when I get things a little more under control though.So far I've had HUGE problems with the IR Blaster and remote. The remote worked straight away but the IR Blaster wouldn't. After loads of playing I found the following.1) Don't have energy saver lights turned on and expect MP to get a good IR signal2) Don't have the IR receiver near a plasma TV and expect to get a good IR signal3) Use the MCE Replacement Plugin4) Set the Port to Both but have the IR transmitter on the second port and NOT the first5) Set the IR speed to fast as the STB won't respond otherwise the trasmitter will send it but the STB won't understand it.Once past all that I have recently found that when the box returns from an S3 sleep that the blaster doesn't work and the non-standard remote buttons don't work. I have found some info on this but it was apparently fixed in 0.2.0.5 so I might need to do some more playing. *sigh*I think this may be causing the same problem if I set MP to start with windows as the remote doesn't work for quite some time and sometimes I need to kill MP and restart for it to start responding.Another annoyance is having to do something to start TV fullscreen. I understand the rational but coming from MCE it's a bit of a pain. Also having to remember to go to scheduled rather than Recorded TV if a show is still recording is taking a while. And to end that area I have a recurring show that I wanted to stop last night and the only way to do this seemed to be to kill the whole recurring schedule. Still I'm sure that's a process thing that I can get sorted.Then I also need to do some button allocation changes so that hopefully I can turn off TV in fullscreen rather than having to go to any other menu and hit stop. Again I can understand the rational but I prefer it to work a different way.Then on to how Music is displayed. I'm used to MCEs way of showing album art for folders and subfolders (ie multiple album covers if subfolders with different albums are present.) So I wasn't too happy with share view. So sorting by Artist gave me a shock when the first letter of the Artist name is shown as the top level. I'm sure I could create my own folder.jpg files for each folder but that does sound like a pain.On the plus side XMLTV integration is great. I'm sure the picture quality is better than MCE. The guide with icons looks much better; although anyone know how to make it bigger or show less channels per screen? The timeshifting is much nicer particularly the ability to jump in increasing sizes, the ability to add different source types will be wonderful and accessing media on network shares or even scattered locations is great.From here I obviously want to get the problems above fixed and get the TVE3 working and am also keeping an eye out for the new S2 FireDTV which will be on my shopping list.If anyone has any suggestions to help with the above then I'm all ears too so thanks in advance.</blockquote>

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