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<blockquote data-quote="tomtj" data-source="post: 867716" data-attributes="member: 121328">Hi jessek12,You will need to have the tuner card before you can get your guide listings to work. When you have the card you will have to load the drivers, run a channel scan through the the Media Portal TV (server?) configuration shortcut. The results of the scan show up in a mapping under the same shortcut, you will add the mappings you want displayed to your card, and those channels will be what gets populated in the guide listing. MediaPortal seems to service a whole range of remotess and I would expect it to work without problems. I use a Windows Media Center remote and I navigate through the channels menus etc, just fine.I'm not a real hardware type, so don't know about the PCI PCIe, I think I would use whichever slot you care to sacrifice. If you really want to spare a slot I use a HDHomeRun tuner from Silicondust, it connects through ethernet so you don't need a slot. If you go that way there is a firewall setting that needs to be adjusted if you can't get the channel scan to find channels.The wiki is your friend and can be pretty useful to get started.Good luck ... Tony</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tomtj, post: 867716, member: 121328"] Hi jessek12, You will need to have the tuner card before you can get your guide listings to work. When you have the card you will have to load the drivers, run a channel scan through the the Media Portal TV (server?) configuration shortcut. The results of the scan show up in a mapping under the same shortcut, you will add the mappings you want displayed to your card, and those channels will be what gets populated in the guide listing. MediaPortal seems to service a whole range of remotess and I would expect it to work without problems. I use a Windows Media Center remote and I navigate through the channels menus etc, just fine. I'm not a real hardware type, so don't know about the PCI PCIe, I think I would use whichever slot you care to sacrifice. If you really want to spare a slot I use a HDHomeRun tuner from Silicondust, it connects through ethernet so you don't need a slot. If you go that way there is a firewall setting that needs to be adjusted if you can't get the channel scan to find channels. The wiki is your friend and can be pretty useful to get started. Good luck ... Tony [/QUOTE]

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