Using a cable box with MP (1 Viewer)

[l33tDad]

Okay, here's the thing, I have a Hauppague HVR-2250 dual NTSC ATSC/QAM tuner which after fighting with drivers, works perfectly well for the analog and QAM stations off my cable system (Time Warner). Thing of it is, we subscribe to digital cable so we get a lot more channels than I can receive with the HTPC I'm building out. Yea, I know that I can hook my cable box to the input of my tuner and do the whole IR blast thing to change stations, but to me that's counter intuitive and seems excessive for what I want to do and plus, I can't watch one thing while viewing something else. My cable box is a Scientific Atlanta 4250HDC which has dual firewire and a USB connection in the back of it. My question is, can I use my cable box as the tuner through firewire so I can unscramble the content we pay for then stream the video to the HTPC and control it via firewire? In addition, since the cable box has *dual* firewire, can I stream 2 sperate video streams?

Thanks

 

[leigh75]

It may be posible to do so if you are running on a 32bit os just do a google for stb drivers. The tim morre page is the one you get the app for changing channels on but you need one more for the drivers I do have them and can send them to you if you like. The thing is I'm in Canada and with rogers so they encrytp ever thing even those they are not supose to but I do think in the US gotta love the FCC for this they can't do so. This dose work for channel changing VIA firewire here and I have it setup works great but you still need IRSS to make it work.

 

[ltpr]

It may be posible to do so if you are running on a 32bit os just do a google for stb drivers. The tim morre page is the one you get the app for changing channels on but you need one more for the drivers I do have them and can send them to you if you like. The thing is I'm in Canada and with rogers so they encrytp ever thing even those they are not supose to but I do think in the US gotta love the FCC for this they can't do so. This dose work for channel changing VIA firewire here and I have it setup works great but you still need IRSS to make it work.

Where can one download the IRSS plugin. I cannot find within the MP plugin area. Thanks!

 

[leigh75]

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...r-ir-functions-disabled-fix-in-thread.100944/
The patch is near the bottom called blast.zip you have to stop the tvserver service and the IRSS service first then just copy and past to the plugins folder! You config it with the perchange settings for mine it turned out to be -a0 -f 3 %2. The 3 after the f is the AVCpanel for my setop box and the string gose in the peramiters feild. For more info look at this thread https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/change-channels-on-your-stb-via-firewire.70929/ hope it helps

 

[ltpr]

https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/...r-ir-functions-disabled-fix-in-thread.100944/
The patch is near the bottom called blast.zip you have to stop the tvserver service and the IRSS service first then just copy and past to the plugins folder! You config it with the perchange settings for mine it turned out to be -a0 -f 3 %2. The 3 after the f is the AVCpanel for my setop box and the string gose in the peramiters feild. For more info look at this thread https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/change-channels-on-your-stb-via-firewire.70929/ hope it helps

Thanks leigh75, I'll check it out.

 

[leigh75]

No Problem at all If I can help more let me know!

 

[ltpr]

leigh75 -- just to make sure, I copy the 2 files TV3BlasterPluin.dll and .pdb into the meidaportal/pluggins/process/ directory correct? Thanks again!

 

[leigh75]

If your running windows 7 they would go into Programfiles/Team Mediaportal/Mediaportal TV Server/Plugins. Just incase as well you are running 32bit os if not it will not work.

 

[ltpr]

I copied the files to the directory that you indicated, yet, when I go into the TV Server Config and try selecting TV3 Blaster Plugin to set it's configuration it gives me the following error ... "Failed to start local comms. IR functions temporarily disabled." Any idea on what I missed or doing wrong? Thank you!

p.s. I am on a 32 bit htpc.

 

[leigh75]

Just one thought here did you install the irss app first? https://forum.team-mediaportal.com/threads/ir-server-suite-aka-irss-releases.75092/ there is the link you need the one for 1.2.0