Digital Cable card setup info needed (1 Viewer)

[trev123]

MediaPortal Version: 1.1.1
MediaPortal Skin: StreamedMP-1.4.2.2136
Windows Version: Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit
CPU Type: Intel Core 2 2.13GHz
Memory: 4GB
Motherboard: Dell XPS
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT
Video Card Driver: 258.96
Sound Card: Sound Blaster X-Fi
1. TV Card: Ceton InfiniTV 4
1. TV Card Type: ATSC
1. TV Card Driver: 20101027_1_0_1_17
Satelite/CableTV Provider: Comcast/Xfinity - Cable Card in Ceton PCIE card and working with Windows Media Center
Location: United States/California

Windows Media Center working flawlessly with the Cetons card and cablecard from Comcast whos name is now Xfinity. Don't like the interface so I installed MediaPortal today.

Default install of MediaPortal, following the instructions as best as I can. First program to run after install is TV-Server Configuration. disabled Media Center via "Additional 3rd Party checks". When I do a scan to search for channels none are found. Not sure how to setup the cablecard or my location. The wizard in Windows Media Center asks for this information but I can't find it in MediaPortal if it's even there. I have rebooted and still the same results. I have tried both Generic and ATSC setting in the card properties section.

Any help would greatly be apreciated. Please see attachments for some additional information.

 

[trev123]

I guess no one knows how to setup Comcast/Xfinity digital cable in the United States with Ceton corps card or MediaPortal just doesn't have support for this configuration yet.

Again, if someone can help please post a response but it's been awhile since my initial post and no replies so I'm thinking I'll just have to use Windows Media Center.

 

[guytpetj]

Try settings below, that's what I use to get the non-encrypted cable channels from Comcast.
nothing happens until channel 21 during scanning, as of then channels will be added.

 

[wishywashy]

Isn't that a CAM enabled card? Try checking the "CAM enabled" box and see that fixes it.

 

[trev123]

Thanks for the information. I'll try the settings which have been posted and get back to you soon.

 

[trev123]

Hi All,

Ok, I enabled the card for CAM as wishywashy suggested because my card is enabled for paytv which is what CAM is for. I also tried "guytpetj" suggestion of checking "Tune QAM instead of ATSC" and changing the QAM tuning frequencies to QAM Standard. I tried search for channels with all the different combinations of the suggestions from wishywashy and guytpetj with the same result, "physical channel: 2frequency:-1 modulation:Mod8Vsb: No signal"

Other settings I've tried:
CAM Setup:
CAM enabled - Checked and Not Checked
Decode count - 0 and 1
CAM model - default or Astoncrypt 2
Grab EPG - Checked and Not Checked
Preferred network provider - Generic and ATSC

So I've tried a lot of setting for this to work, changing this and that and nothing has worked thus far. I hope someone will see the following images and what I have wrote as well as others to give me a new setting to try and hopefull that will work.

 

[thattexaskid19]

Install WinDVR 3 Trial and see if that changes anything

 

[mm1352000]

Hi there

Could you please post your TV Server log files? I'm particularly interested in the error and TV log files...
On XP you can find these in C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\log.
On Vista/7 they'll be in C:\Program Data\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal TV Server\log.

 

[thattexaskid19]

did you get it working...? i just got my ceton in the mail yesterday and want to get it set up too! please let me know