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<blockquote data-quote="pfilippone" data-source="post: 1300836" data-attributes="member: 171757">(Holy moly!) Update:After more hours spent troubleshooting this issue than I care to admit publicly, I finally have things working again.&nbsp; Notes:- It does not appear that the Hauppauge USB Dual tuner was the problem. I returned it and got a HDHomerun Flex Duo 2 and saw the same issue. I eventually learned the new tuners (HDHomerun and Hauppauge) for some reason require lots more CPU power than the old units did. I was running fine for years on a Gigabyte Brix mini PC with Celeron J1900 and Win7. On a hunch I tried Megaportal on a Beelink mini PC with Intel N100 and Win11.&nbsp; That fixed the issue!&nbsp;&nbsp; (The problem was not the Windows version, as I had tried Win10 and Win11 on the Brix with the same issue)- Then I learned Kodi 21.1 Omega has a (bandwidth?) issue with the new tuners. In Kodi when selecting a TV channel, I would get the hourglass for several seconds, then kicks me out to the channel menu.&nbsp; As a test I set the option in Kodi&gt;MediaPortal config &quot;Wait time after tuning a channel&quot; to the max (3000 ms). That caused Kodi to display a few seconds worth of TV before kicking me out.&nbsp;&nbsp; I downgraded to Kodi 18.8 Leia and was working fine to watch TV, set the wait time setting back to zero and was fine.I'll check the Kodi forums to see if there's any posts about the Kodi issue mentioned above. If not, I will post about my findings.All this turmoil because my Hauppauge tuner died.Thanks for reading. I hope this pain I went through may help somebody someday.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pfilippone, post: 1300836, member: 171757"] (Holy moly!) Update: After more hours spent troubleshooting this issue than I care to admit publicly, I finally have things working again. Notes: - It does not appear that the Hauppauge USB Dual tuner was the problem. I returned it and got a HDHomerun Flex Duo 2 and saw the same issue. I eventually learned the new tuners (HDHomerun and Hauppauge) for some reason require lots more CPU power than the old units did. I was running fine for years on a Gigabyte Brix mini PC with Celeron J1900 and Win7. On a hunch I tried Megaportal on a Beelink mini PC with Intel N100 and Win11. That fixed the issue! (The problem was not the Windows version, as I had tried Win10 and Win11 on the Brix with the same issue) - Then I learned Kodi 21.1 Omega has a (bandwidth?) issue with the new tuners. In Kodi when selecting a TV channel, I would get the hourglass for several seconds, then kicks me out to the channel menu. As a test I set the option in Kodi>MediaPortal config "Wait time after tuning a channel" to the max (3000 ms). That caused Kodi to display a few seconds worth of TV before kicking me out. I downgraded to Kodi 18.8 Leia and was working fine to watch TV, set the wait time setting back to zero and was fine. I'll check the Kodi forums to see if there's any posts about the Kodi issue mentioned above. If not, I will post about my findings. All this turmoil because my Hauppauge tuner died. Thanks for reading. I hope this pain I went through may help somebody someday. [/QUOTE]

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