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Windows => Television => Topic started by: yinmeout on May 13, 2014, 05:21:25 am

Title: No channels found from HD Homerun using JRiver 05/2014
Post by: yinmeout on May 13, 2014, 05:21:25 am: Hi there - I am very new to J River 24 hours. But I am not new to computing and DLNA in general having used Windows Media Centre since XP. (So don't panic :) )

I currently employ the Silicon Dust HD Homerun DBV-T dual tuner dedicated hardware tuner. It's 99% faultless recording my TV content.
To do this, I run a dedicated Intel Atom using Win7 Media Centre (Win8/8.1 was a straight port from Win7 and wasn't so hot.)
Playback is usually on a TV via DLNA or PC as opposed to involving another (DLNA contrller or possibly software) rendering device.

The reason for this post is that J River can't seem to find any channels from the Tuners it detects in my system.
Repeated channel scans return nothing - zip.

Here's the list of devices J River sees in the system.

KSCATEGORY_BDA_NETWORK_TUNER filters

   Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-0
   @device:sw:{71985F48-1CA1-11D3-9CC8-00C04F7971E0}\Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-0
   Input Pin 'Input0'
   Output Pin 'Output1'

   Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-1
   @device:sw:{71985F48-1CA1-11D3-9CC8-00C04F7971E0}\Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-1
   Input Pin 'Input0'
   Output Pin 'Output1'

KSCATEGORY_BDA_RECEIVER_COMPONENT filters

   Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-0
   @device:sw:{FD0A5AF4-B41D-11D2-9C95-00C04F7971E0}\Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-0
   Input Pin 'Input0'
   Output Pin 'Output1'

   Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-1
   @device:sw:{FD0A5AF4-B41D-11D2-9C95-00C04F7971E0}\Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-1
   Input Pin 'Input0'
   Output Pin 'Output1'

AM_KSCATEGORY_CAPTURE filters

   Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000.
   @device:pnp:\\?\usb#vid_045e&pid_00f5&mi_01#7&165056ab&0&0001#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\global
   Output Pin 'Capture'
   Input Pin 'Microphone'

   Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000
   @device:pnp:\\?\usb#vid_045e&pid_00f5&mi_00#7&165056ab&0&0000#{65e8773d-8f56-11d0-a3b9-00a0c9223196}\global
   Output Pin 'Capture'

KSCATEGORY_ENCODER filters

KSCATEGORY_MULTIPLEXER filters

AM_KSCATEGORY_CROSSBAR filters

AM_KSCATEGORY_TVTUNER filters

AM_KSCATEGORY_TVAUDIO filters

AM_KSCATEGORY_VBICODEC filters

MPEG2 Multiplexer filters

If I click on SHOW STATUS when the scan is "in flight" it shows the following information:

=== Television Devices ===

Device 0: Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-0 (digital)
State: Scanning
Channel:
Recording Rule IDs:
Tuner Type: DVB-T

Device 1: Silicondust HDHomeRun Tuner 1210ADE9-1 (digital)
State: Idle

Device 2: Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000 (analog)
State: Idle

=== Actions ===

If I look at the HD Homerun Box one light is on (Power) and both the other lights are blinking on and off. (Tunner communication).
I enabled loging within J River and then performed the scan opperation once more.

Here is a link to the recorded LOG.TXT - created during the channel scan (failures).

http://1drv.ms/1gyynUX

From my lay persons view the log seems to show that J River is expecting a channel lock and one is not being acquired.

More information.
I can watch Live TV - no problem - on the same computer where this is happening using either MCE or Quick TV (Silicone Dust TV Viewer).
I have reset the HD Homerun Box to ensure there were no lingering connections locking it's Tuners.
Also rebooted the local PC.
Firmware Version is (which I undated today) 20140121 (Current Latest) - but this has not changed the status of this issue.

Negative channels.

P.S.
The EPG is being downloaded to the temporary directory successfully and looks fine.
I mention this because when MCE is set up it always wants the EPG before the channel list - you guys may do it the other way - I can't tell from the info I have read so far.

I am overally very impressed with JRiver and hope to ditch these two products and replace them with J River.
Serviio
Windows Media Center
(Also iTunes for audio)

I already posted in media network about how I customised the TV rendering settings to support AVC_HD without transcoding - a format that I will ultiamtely send J River recorded content to the TV's.
Looking forward to getting this working as it should do.

Thanks in advance for the time spent.
Title: Re: No channels found from HD Homerun using J River 05/2014
Post by: jmone on May 13, 2014, 05:46:33 am: Hi yinmeout,

Lots of us (my self included) use HDHomeRun, it works great and I'm sure we can get you going. The two things to try is:
- Run MC as Administrator the first time you do a channel scan, and
- Make Sure the MC is in the allowed through the Windows Firewall
Title: Re: No channels found from HD Homerun using J River 05/2014
Post by: yinmeout on May 13, 2014, 06:01:45 am: Hi - so simple - I can't believe I forgot that.

Can you elaborate please which exe I need to permit?
I assume "Media Center 19.exe" is the one - BUT:

I ask because I plan to ultimately run the "Server" instance of J River - doing TV recording and hosting the library - headless on a Windows Server / (which is also my NAS box)
So would that be JService.exe then?

Cheers
Title: Re: No channels found from HD Homerun using J River 05/2014
Post by: jmone on May 13, 2014, 06:12:17 am: I have the following in my Windows Firewall:
- HDHomeRun Config
- HDHomeRun Config (CLI)
- HDHomeRun QuickTV
- HDHomeRun Setup
- JRWorker Application (C:\program files (x86)\j river\media center 19\jrworker.exe)
- Media Center 19 (C:\program files (x86)\j river\media center 19\media center 19.exe)

The HDHomeRun ones should already be in there and you probably only need to add the Media Cener 19 one.
Title: Re: No channels found from HD Homerun using J River 05/2014
Post by: yinmeout on May 13, 2014, 06:12:51 am: I added the main EXE to the firewall list and it works now.
So easy to overlook - many thanks.
Title: Re: No channels found from HD Homerun using J River 05/2014
Post by: jmone on May 13, 2014, 06:13:33 am: No Probs - glad you are up and going ;D