hava devices and MediaPortal - now works MP 1.0.x (3 Viewers)

[blake2415]

MisterD, THanks for looking. I sent you a PM. I changed that channel back to TUner but it still will not tune the upper channels.

THanks!

Bill

 

[blake2415]

MisterD,

Thank you again for following up. Per your PM, here again are my latest logs.

FYI, the last few things I did was change channels correctly under 120 then a final attempt at a channel around 200... Encore Movie channel.. Again it didn't change the channels but the screen info thinks it did, showing Encore program data, etc. It's like everything works except for the transmission of the channel numbers.

I really do appreciate your help.

Thanks!

Bill

 

[misterd]

To be honest, I have no clue why it doesn't work. MP tunes the "analog" card to channel 210, but uses the same frequency as for the previous channel. Maybe you have to define manually the frequency that has to be used in this case, but I don't know which values you have to use here.
In the last logs you were using the blaster plugin, but not this time.

From TvServer and MP point of view everything works, so it must be something specific of the "card". Perhaps someone else can give a helping hand here, as I have no knowledge about this device.

MisterD

 

[blake2415]

Hello MisterD,

Thank you for making an effort on my behalf. I can't thank you enough!

I have one more possibility that might show a solution. I hope you might have time to look at this and see if it points to anything that might solve the isssue. Back in version .02something version.. the first MP, hava did not work either until this code was used for the tuner...

If you have time, could you look at this code and see if there is anything in this tuner configuration that might solve the problem with the 1.1.3 version? I don't know what I am looking at and I don't like asking you for more help, you have been more than kind towards helping me. I assume the 1.1.3 MP compiles the tuner settings rather than working from an external configuration file, correct?

Here is the working code for Hava in the original MP program. If you can have a look please let me know your take on it.

Thanks MisterD!

Bill
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COPY OF TUNER CONFIGURATION SOLUTION FOR OLD MEDIAPORTAL STANDALONE THAT WORKED PERFECT!

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>

 

[misterd]

This code was only needed to tell MP how it should build the so called graph. The graph is required for controlling the card. With the integration of TvServer this is no longer needed, since this version of MP is able to detect the graph automatically. According to your logs and since channels below 100 are working this is not the problem.

I suspect that the problem has something to do with the channel number, frequency and the blaster plugin. Unfortunately I can't help much in that area.

MisterD

 

[blake2415]

MisterD,

I want to thank you for your help. That was mighty nice of you.

FYI, since my last talks with you, I did make some progress with another PVR solution called BeyondTV. I foiund a tool called HAVAFUN and it can send all the commands from an exe at the cmd level. BeyondTV was a stubborn program that wouldn't change any channels on Hava, but I was able to locate an EXEremote plugin for it and thru that I can now send channel change codes thru BeyondTv to the hava unit. Only problem is I don't like BeyondTV but it works for me at the moment.

My longrange plan is to try and find an EXEtuner utility for MediaPortal and then hopefully I can come back to MP and get it working. That's what I really want to do.

Thanks again MisterD!

Bill