Channel Changing not working properly on DirecTV HD-DVR

[jpaddock3000]

Not sure if this should be in the hardware forums, but I'm having a problem where Sage is sending the wrong channel change on my HD-DVR. I have 1 HD-DVR and 3 standard receivers. Channel changing on the standard receivers work great. The only time tuning doesn't work on the HD-DVR is if I'm tuning into a standard def channel when their is an HD channel as an option. Since right now, I don't have a way to capture HD, I'm only subscribed to standard def. Any time I tune into USA, TLC, HGTV, etc. I get a message saying that I haven't subscribed. I have excluded the HD channels from the program guide as well.

I'm using exemutlituner plugin to do my channel changing with the directv.exe program. Doing channel changes outside of sage works perfectly fine.

Any help would be great.

Also, the reason I got the HD-DVR even though I can't capture HD, it was FREE!!! Plus the HD-DVR, you can do Video on Demand. I haven't played with that yet though. Just thought I would answer that question ahead of time.

Thanks

[TallMomof2]

What is your tuner card/device? Hauppauge's HD-PVR is the only consumer level device that can record all the HD channels.

[jpaddock3000]

Originally Posted by TallMomof2

What is your tuner card/device? Hauppauge's HD-PVR is the only consumer level device that can record all the HD channels.

I'm just using the PVR-500 to capture SD. I'm not using the HD functionality right now. I might plan on doing that a few months to a year down the road. The problem is Sage is trying to tune into the HD channel when I'm telling it to tune the SD Channel.

[TallMomof2]

Go into your channel setup and unmark the HD channels for your PVR-500. Make sure the SD channels are marked.

If that doesn't work you might want to submit a ticket.

[jpaddock3000]

OK, so DirecTV made an update on all HD boxes that will have the channel auto tune to the HD version of the channel if available. So, I went ahead and modified the batch file of directvmultichg.bat to show:

rem  Created Oct 20 2008
rem  This batch file uses the DirecTVChannelControl executable designed for GBPVR
rem
rem  This batch file and the "directv.exe" file go into the SageTV directory
rem  Registry command: DirecTVMultiChg.bat %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%
rem
rem  The %1 represents the tuner device (%DEVICE%) number passed from SageTV
rem  The %2 represents the channel (%CHANNEL%) value passed from SageTV
rem  Both values used as arguments to the executable batch file

rem  Each device must be assigned to a COM port
SET /A CURDEVICE = %1

IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 1 SET USEPORT=1
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 2 SET USEPORT=2
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 3 GOTO HDDVR
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 4 SET USEPORT=4
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 5 SET USEPORT=5
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 6 SET USEPORT=6
GOTO tunechan



:tunechan
rem  This is the command for generic 3-digit channels
directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key %2
GOTO end

:HDDVR
IF %CURDEVICE% EQU 3 SET USEPORT=3
directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key %2
ping -n 3 localhost
IF %2 EQU 202 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 206 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 207 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 209 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 212 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 213 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 215 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 217 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 218 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 224 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 229 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 231 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 241 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 242 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 244 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 245 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 247 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 248 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 249 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 265 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 266 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 269 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 273 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 276 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 278 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 280 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 282 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 284 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 286 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 290 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 292 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 296 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 299 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 311 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 327 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 331 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 335 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 355 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 359 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 360 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 362 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 501 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 504 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 512 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 514 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 520 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 521 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 522 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 537 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 538 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 539 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 540 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 542 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 544 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 603 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 607 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 610 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
IF %2 EQU 618 directv.exe -port COM%USEPORT% -box D10100 -key ch_up
GOTO end

:end

Since port 3 is my HD-DVR, it gets its own section in the batch file. Since there are many non HD channels, I had to put an IF statement for the exact channels to look for. I've tested this and it works pretty great. Not sure if anyone else will need it, but thought I would post the fix.