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<blockquote data-quote="caskater4" data-source="post: 487131" data-attributes="member: 96488">Hello everyone,I'm obviously a newbie to MediaPortal. My past experiences with PVR software has been MythTV and MCE. To keep this simple and short i've been trying to find a solution wiki or howto guide on setting up my hardware but haven't really succeeded. The server configuration menu is fairly straight forward but there are a lot of ambiguities I haven't been able to sort out.First off I have a Hauppauge HD-PVR box that I just picked up. I have it connected and appears working fine. MediaPortal sees it as an analog device. Obviously I can't do a channel scan on it since that would require the use of the IR blaster to work and MP doesn't appear to know what that is. So how can I set this box up as a TV source? Am I forced to use the Hauppauge recording software and then simply hook up to the media's folder in MP? I would imagine there's got to be a way to have MP drive the whole thing but none of the threads i've seen so far describe anything like that.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="caskater4, post: 487131, member: 96488"] Hello everyone, I'm obviously a newbie to MediaPortal. My past experiences with PVR software has been MythTV and MCE. To keep this simple and short i've been trying to find a solution wiki or howto guide on setting up my hardware but haven't really succeeded. The server configuration menu is fairly straight forward but there are a lot of ambiguities I haven't been able to sort out. First off I have a Hauppauge HD-PVR box that I just picked up. I have it connected and appears working fine. MediaPortal sees it as an analog device. Obviously I can't do a channel scan on it since that would require the use of the IR blaster to work and MP doesn't appear to know what that is. So how can I set this box up as a TV source? Am I forced to use the Hauppauge recording software and then simply hook up to the media's folder in MP? I would imagine there's got to be a way to have MP drive the whole thing but none of the threads i've seen so far describe anything like that. [/QUOTE]

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