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<blockquote data-quote="Bagal" data-source="post: 358356" data-attributes="member: 27764">1. As far as I'm aware there's no way to do this in MediaPortal. This is something that is easier for Microsoft todo simply because they control the EPG data going into VMC, whereas MediaPortal relies on lots of various sources for the EPG data, would be nice to have it as an option though especially when first setting things up.2. This is because you don't have the TV Server client plugin installed. This can be very confusing for new users, the configuration you are seeing is for the old TV engine that was built directly into MediaPortal, which some users still use, if you had the new TV server client plugin installed, it would replace the TV configuration with its own version that would allow you to specify the server to connect to.I believe re-running the setup should allow you to install the TV server client plugin.With regards to the IR blasting, you won't be able to use the TV Server ServerBlaster plugin (which is pre-installed with the TV Server) as this doesn't work in Vista, so you'll have to use the IR server suite that I mentioned in my previous post.Bagal.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bagal, post: 358356, member: 27764"] 1. As far as I'm aware there's no way to do this in MediaPortal. This is something that is easier for Microsoft todo simply because they control the EPG data going into VMC, whereas MediaPortal relies on lots of various sources for the EPG data, would be nice to have it as an option though especially when first setting things up. 2. This is because you don't have the TV Server client plugin installed. This can be very confusing for new users, the configuration you are seeing is for the old TV engine that was built directly into MediaPortal, which some users still use, if you had the new TV server client plugin installed, it would replace the TV configuration with its own version that would allow you to specify the server to connect to. I believe re-running the setup should allow you to install the TV server client plugin. With regards to the IR blasting, you won't be able to use the TV Server ServerBlaster plugin (which is pre-installed with the TV Server) as this doesn't work in Vista, so you'll have to use the IR server suite that I mentioned in my previous post. Bagal. [/QUOTE]

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