HDHomerun and Dirmon2

[othy]

I'm having a reproducable problem with my HDHomerun and Dirmon2.

When I reboot, the HDHR manager does not recognize the tuners. I can close the manager, run the hdhr setup and re-run the manager and it works fine....until I reboot again.

If I stop and uninstall the Dirmon2 service, it will reboot and find the tuners without a problem.

I was just wondering if anyone else if having this problem. I'm unable to use the Video Tools plugin and it's killing me

Conversely, a flood of "I use both without a problem" responses might help, too--at least then I'd know it's something specific to my system.

Thanks,
Tim
SageMC, HDHR, ATI 550, 7600GS

[Razillian]

I suppose I'll start the flood... I use both without a problem

What program(s) are you using with Dirmon2 and when you reboot and it fails to recognise the tuners, are there any files needing to have something run on them by dirmon2 (commercial skip, etc)?

Is you sage box doing an auto-admin logon, or are you manually logging in after the reboot? XP system or something else?

It is possible (I am totally guessing here) that your sage box might be logging in and firing up the startup applications (like HDHR manager and SageTV) prior to the network being completely ready, which would keep the HDHR manager from being able to communicate with the HDHomerun when it initializes. Again, totally out of my @$$, but your computer might be too busy starting up automatic services (like Dirmon2), resulting in the network startup delay and lack of communication with the HDHR. Dirmon2 might just be the service that puts it over the top on startup time.

If my babble above was true, then setting XP (assuming it is an XP box) to wait for the network prior to login would fix your problem. If my babble is not true, then just take this message as a "my system works fine with both running" post.

[NEOSG]

Originally Posted by othy

I'm having a reproducable problem with my HDHomerun and Dirmon2.

When I reboot, the HDHR manager does not recognize the tuners. I can close the manager, run the hdhr setup and re-run the manager and it works fine....until I reboot again.

If I stop and uninstall the Dirmon2 service, it will reboot and find the tuners without a problem.

I was just wondering if anyone else if having this problem. I'm unable to use the Video Tools plugin and it's killing me

Conversely, a flood of "I use both without a problem" responses might help, too--at least then I'd know it's something specific to my system.

Thanks,
Tim
SageMC, HDHR, ATI 550, 7600GS

I think I remember someone else having this problem on either this forum or the HDHomerun forum. One fix that a person mentioned was changing the account that that dirmon2 service ran under to something other than local system. Sorry i can;t offer more details.

[othy]

Originally Posted by Razillian

If my babble above was true, then setting XP (assuming it is an XP box) to wait for the network prior to login would fix your problem. If my babble is not true, then just take this message as a "my system works fine with both running" post.

This seemed to work--thanks for the suggestion!