Firewire with two SA 4250HD stopped working using EXEMultiTunerPlugin

[Zadkiel]

Hi All,

I have had my firewire channel changing working great for more than a year and suddenly it stopped working yesterday.
I did notice that both the 4250's were turned off, so maybe they got an update from Rogers.
I did a complete power down on everything and the powered up as normal (4250's, HDPVR's, PC)
This is the configuration:
- AMD PC (M3A78-EM) with 4GB of RAM
- 4x1.5TB disk (2 sets of RAID-1)
- Windows XP w/sp3
- 2 sets of (Hauppauge HDPVR (USB) + Rogers SA 4250HD (Firewire))
- Pinnacle Remote Kit for Windows Media Center (USB IR)
- EXEMultiTunerPlugin is controlling the 2 SA 4250HD's as device 3 & 4

I tried manually changing the channels with:
channel -f -a4 3 5
or channel -f -a6 3 5

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

David.

[DMT]

Same thing happened to me.

Before the STB update, Channel -f -a4 -n <Device ID> <Channel Number> worked. After the update, Channel -f -a6 -n <Device ID> <Channel Number> worked.

So I just edited my registry to the new parameter -a6 and everything is good again.

Fortunately I had an old post from Andy (Opus4) that documented this!

[Zadkiel]

Thanks, that fixed it.
Have a great night!!

[pvrpenguin]

Glad I found this post. I've been scratching my head all day over why firewire changing suddenly stopped working. It feels a little big brother-ish to have Rogers update my STB without my knowledge which ended up breaking all my recordings.

Hopefully this doesn't happen again.

[derfeus]

Hi Folks,

This problem isn't with SageTV directly but I thought perhaps someone here may have encountered it or have suggestions to resolve my problem.

Basically I've had SageTV working nicely now for about 8 months on my Windows 7 PC. I use Timmoore's STB channel-changing software to send the channel change commands to my Scientific 4250 HD STB. It has worked perfectly up until a few days ago. Now I can't change channels from Sage. I can't even change channels from the command-line (by-passing Sage).

The 4250 device is still listed and enabled in Device Manager.

Has anyone encountered this and been able to overcome it? Just thought I'd ask.

Thanks!

-Fred.

* merged *

[delgross]

Could someone point me to the documentation for the channel command and or the exemultitunerplugin. My Motorola 6200s have been working for years and with a recent update channel changing stopped working. It does work from the command line with the usual channel command line.
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[Naylia]

I started running into issues with EXEMultiTuner at some point also, I'd consider giving FWChannelProxy a try. You can find it in the download section.

[delgross]

Thanks. That was what I was starting to consider.
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