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ahbrown41

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MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« on: March 23, 2005, 02:25:10 pm »

I have MC set to use Tivo port 9000 and library port 9010.  Whenever I restart my machine the Tivo beacon service from the Tivo Desktop 2.0 fails to start while MC is running.  As far as I know, the beacon service from tivo uses port 2190.  So I am not sure how MC is interfering..  If I stop the Tivo service in MC then I can start the Tivo beacon daemon.

Does MC have a beacon component too?  Can it coexist with the one from Tivo?

Sadly I need to download shows via the Tivo software as MC does not currently support this.

Thanks!
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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #1 on: March 23, 2005, 02:47:55 pm »

MC has a TiVo Beacon Lite, that it only starts if it can't find the TiVo beacon from TiVo.
Just start the TiVo beacon service first, and that should fix the problem.

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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2005, 02:54:09 pm »

If it is a service (like it is) how can I change the load order.  I have windows login automatically (Very secure).  Perhaps because I do this, MC is somehow loaded before the Tivo Beacon.

This could be an issue..
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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2005, 03:24:11 pm »

google "windows service dependencies".  That might help.

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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2005, 03:47:03 pm »

Well I will then have to make MC a service and make it have a dependency on the Tivo beacon service.

I suppose I could do this, but I cannot imagine this will not become an issue for many others as well.

Perhaps I will post the .reg file...
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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2005, 04:02:31 pm »

Could you explain how Media Center starts before the Tivo Beacon does? I'm not sure I follow how this happens...

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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2005, 04:17:22 pm »

Well I used tweakUI to auto login to winXP as It is only used by me.

I guess by shear luck MC loads first in this configuration.  I guess I will use SrvAny.exe and make MC a service.
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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2005, 04:36:07 pm »

Strange, I thought services would come up before the auto-login stuff.

I could add a delay in, that might help...

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Re: MC Interferes with Tivo Beacon (v2.0)
« Reply #8 on: March 23, 2005, 04:55:53 pm »

Yeah I agree, that is quite strange.  Not sure the delay would be the best "long term" solution.

I'll think about it.....hmmmmmmmm
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