MP TV Server Newbie (2 Viewers)

[wicked_n_raw]

Hello All,

This is my first venture into Media Portal and I need some help . I am using one of my HTPC at the moment with windows 7 and the silicondust HDHomeRun Prime with a fios cable card. After 3 days of staying up late and reading all the threads and wiki's, I still can not get it to find the right channels. I tried scanning in atsc and qam. ATSC only give me 79 channels, and qam standard gives me 659. I had cam on both times and I still get a lot of unknown channels or duplicate channels that can't be played. I get some duplicate channels that can be played but I have no idea what channel number they are.

I ultimatly want to set this up on my windows home server 2011 and have my HTPC's as clients but I need to learn how to set it up as a stand alone first.



Furron

 

[mm1352000]

Hi Furron

I don't know how you're managing to get the HDHomeRun Prime to work at all - it is not supported (I have tried to get it working for other people and it refused to work). Please post your TV Server logs so that I can see what is going on:

1. Open TV Server configuration.
2. Click "open log directory" in the top left hand corner.
3. Zip up all the files you find there and post them here.

mm

 

[wicked_n_raw]

Hi mm1352000,

Thank you for the quick reply. I am including the log file that you asked for.

It is not supported oh no

regards,
Furron

 

[mm1352000]

Hi again

Thanks for the logs.
I was totally confused when you said you had managed to find channels. Now I see in your logs that it appears like you have a regular HDHomeRun as well as a Prime - is that the case?

It is not supported

Correct - and the reason is that the Prime is totally different to the original HDHomeRun. I've talked with Silicondust and at this point it seems like support would require a huge amount of work, and at the end of that we would only be able to support clear QAM and "copy-freely" content. I could be wrong but that is honestly my understanding at the moment...

mm

 

[mm1352000]

Well it seems things change quickly!
Last time I spoke to Silicondust was about a month ago. Since then they have enabled access to the Prime in such a way that MP can support clear QAM tuning. The Prime tuners will appear twice - first like "HDHomeRun Prime..." which cannot be used and second like "HDHomeRun..." which can be used for clear QAM tuning. That is why I was so confused when I saw your logs. Apologies for that.

So to be as clear as possible: clear QAM should be supported via the 3 "HDHomeRun..." tuners. CableCard encrypted channels are still not supported.

Make sense?

mm

 

[wicked_n_raw]

Yes that make sense, because I just have the prime. So the only way that I can get encrypted channels is with WMC? If so that sucks.

regards,
Furron

 

[mm1352000]

So the only way that I can get encrypted channels is with WMC? If so that sucks.

Yes and ***yes*** - it really does suck! The unfortunate truth is that there is very little chance of us ever getting certified by CableLabs - too costly and time consuming, and we don't want to close our source code or restrict our functions (which would be required for CL certification). As a result we will only be able to offer "copy-freely" content, and that will only happen when we can find the time and developer resources to implement it...

mm

 

[wicked_n_raw]

Thanks! This does make a difference.

regards,
Furron

 

[ssrjazz]

So the only way that I can get encrypted channels is with WMC? If so that sucks.

Yes and ***yes*** - it really does suck! The unfortunate truth is that there is very little chance of us ever getting certified by CableLabs - too costly and time consuming, and we don't want to close our source code or restrict our functions (which would be required for CL certification). As a result we will only be able to offer "copy-freely" content, and that will only happen when we can find the time and developer resources to implement it...

mm

That is extremely disappointing to hear. One of the whole reasons I got the HDHomeRun Prime was so that I could -get- encrypted channels with Mediaportal. Guess I won't be using this fantastic software much anymore.

 

[mm1352000]

Hi ssrjazz

I'm sorry, but I explained the issues clearly above. A lot of the control is out of our hands.

mm