SETUP WinTV HVR-1600 with QAM

[t4uecker]

Originally Posted by stewart710

That's BS, because I can get Comcast (MA) Clear QAM on my HVR-1600 (74041) in SageTV and WinTV6 if I use their old 3.4D1 drivers. When I update to any of there newer drivers I lose Clear QAM tuning. They've obviously disabled or broken the capability in their newer drivers and don't seem to care about it. I did have to buy an Electroline cable Amplifier to boost the signal for their pathetic cards (the unboosted signal is perfectly fine on both of HDTVs and my cablebox). Has anyone else been able to get their newer drivers to work with Clear QAM in Sage?

i just downloaded and installed their latest drivers a few days ago (labeled "cd version 4.6a+" on their site) and it's working just fine with clear qam through comcast.

[reggie14]

I have an HVR-1600 and tune QAM channels from Comcast without any problems. I'm not completely sure what driver version I'm using, but I know I updated them with whatever was on the Hauppauge support site about a month ago. The newer drivers fixed some audio-video synchronization problems I was having on an analog tuner.

Getting QAM channels to appear is sometimes a bit tricky. Too much of a signal is as much of a problem as too little. Sometimes it takes a few tries to get all the channels. Also, there's some sort of frequency file that Sage includes to make QAM channel scanning faster. It might even just be a blank file that, if exists, Sage uses a different way of searching for channels. In any event, I know I had to get rid of that file before I was able to pick up channels. But, off the top of my head I don't know what that file was called.

Edit: I think I'm thinking of the QAM_FRQ_CACHE.ENABLE file. Make sure there is no file with that name in your Sage directory. And, if there isn't one, try adding a blank file with that name and see if it helps. You really should be able to get your QAM channels in Sage if they worked in MCE.

[stewart710]

Well, I never used MCE, so I don't know if it works with that. I have tried scanning both ways, with the QAM enable file, without, sometimes I get 3 SD channels, others nothing. I have the same issues scanning through Wintv6. The only thing that works is reverting to the drivers supplied in the 3.4D1 package. I don't think it could be that the signal is too strong, because SageTV tells me the signal is ~79% on the best channels. I know it is strong enough with the amp, because I can find the channels with the older drivers. I also do the correct uninstall ritual between drivers as well as the BDA register script. I just want to upgrade to newer drivers to try to fix crashes I get in sage while watching live HD.

[vtac]

Hi,

I'm new to site and found this thread searching on Google...

I've got the HVR-1600 (74041) also and running Windows Vista 64 Ultimate. I just downloaded and installed SageTV 6.9.5 with the WinTV Hybrid Full CD 4.8.26270 drivers. I to try and get no QAM channels to work. Hauppauge WinTv does not work.

I'm getting everything but the QAM channels. It thinks it has them but stays on the previous channel.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

[gmijackso]

Not trying to drag this off topic at all, but apparently this "CD package" is the only way to get new drivers now? I tried to install it to see if there were new drivers available and it said that it had updated, but the driver version didn't change.

So can anybody tell me what the current (I guess from the CD package) driver version/date is?

I'm running 1/28/2008 ver: 1.62.26028.0

Thanks!

[mets3145]

Originally Posted by gmijackso

Not trying to drag this off topic at all, but apparently this "CD package" is the only way to get new drivers now? I tried to install it to see if there were new drivers available and it said that it had updated, but the driver version didn't change.

So can anybody tell me what the current (I guess from the CD package) driver version/date is?

I'm running 1/28/2008 ver: 1.62.26028.0

Thanks!

Same with me

[voorhees]

Originally Posted by gmijackso

I'm running 1/28/2008 ver: 1.62.26028.0

I downloaded and installed them last weekend and I have the same ones.

[chrisc983]

I finally got around to adding my two 1600s to my WHS. I have tried several different drivers but I am having no luck with finding any channels. I've tried a direct connect to a cable connection and even an hdtv antenna. I'm wondering if the problem might be related to when I went through the add tuner wizard when I get to the part to choose xmltv line up, its just blank.

[chrisc983]

Got it working but for some reason only one of my 1600s is getting a signal. Any tips?