HTTP Tuning Question V9

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by Steve52

I am running windows 10 64 bit on my sage server. I have three directv H23 receivers each connected to an HDPVR. I use Ericvic's network tuning method. I used it for years on sage v7 and I am using it now on V9. Works great with v9.

Can you tune "dashed" channels?

[Steve52]

Originally Posted by jchiso

Can you tune "dashed" channels?

Yes. All of my local channels are like 2-1, 2-2, 4-1, Etc.

Edit
Actually my local channels are from an internal ATSC tuner card. I looked at the locals that are on my directv lineup and they do not have -'s. Do you have -'s on your directv lineup for local channels?

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by Steve52

Yes. All of my local channels are like 2-1, 2-2, 4-1, Etc.

Edit
Actually my local channels are from an internal ATSC tuner card. I looked at the locals that are on my directv lineup and they do not have -'s. Do you have -'s on your directv lineup for local channels?

Thanks. I was really confused when I read your initial reply. I don't get locals via DirecTV, but they do not have dashes assigned to them, as I do not believe that they provide any of the sub-channel programming.

I was referring to the handful of sports channels on which the HD feed is delivered on a dash channel. Are you able to tune any of those with the HTTP tuner?

[Steve52]

Originally Posted by jchiso

Thanks. I was really confused when I read your initial reply. I don't get locals via DirecTV, but they do not have dashes assigned to them, as I do not believe that they provide any of the sub-channel programming.

I was referring to the handful of sports channels on which the HD feed is delivered on a dash channel. Are you able to tune any of those with the HTTP tuner?

I don't think I can answer your question because I don't get any Directv channels that have -'s. My OTA lineup for locals has -'s like I said, but not any of my Directv channels.

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Steve52

I don't think I can answer your question because I don't get any Directv channels that have -'s. My OTA lineup for locals has -'s like I said, but not any of my Directv channels.

I didn't think DirecTV ever uses dashes. There are some broadcast subchannels that they do carry, but they map them to their own non-dashed channels in their lineup.

[jchiso]

DirecTV uses dashed channels for several HD streams of regional sports channels.

[PulsedPower]

Well, I finally found some time to work on this. I used the HxD hex editor to create 4 copies of Ericvic's DirecTVTuner.dll, each one pointing to a unique .php url's that live on a Raspberry Pi that I have that is already running Apache. The php file then uses curl to send the command to the appropriate DirecTV Genie (HR44) boxes. It might be a bit ugly, but at least I can tune the Genie client boxes again.

Everything else with V9 on Win7-64 went perfectly!

If this would be useful to anyone else, let me know!

[jchiso]

Any info you can offer on this front would be useful to me, as I am still without a functional option for tuning all channels on multiple DirecTV boxes ...

[PulsedPower]

Okay, so with the upgrade to SageTV V9, Exemultituner.exe no longer works on my system. My setup is 4 HD PVR boxes connected to a DirecTV Genie (HR44) system. The Genie system has 1 IP address, and requires an addition to the URL tuning to specify the 12-digit MAC address of the client boxes (&client=MACADDRXXXXX), note that the primary Genie box can use a client id = 0. At BobPhoenix's suggestion, I tried Ericvic's DirecTVTuner.dll, and it works fine with Sage V9, and would be fine if I had an IP address for each of the DirecTV boxes, but it doesn't have provisions to specify the client MAC address.

Since I already have a Raspberry Pi with Apache installed on my home network, I decided to modify Ericvic's .dll files with a hex editor, and have it point to some .php files I wrote/installed on the Pi.

I've attached the modified .dll files that need to be installed on the SageTV windows machines, and the .php Linux files that are located in /var/www on my Raspberry Pi.

The .dll files are installed in the exact same way as the original Ericvic setup: the IP address of the Pi needs to be copied into the name of the .ir files, as well as copied inside the .ir files, and once selected, the IP address needs to be selected in the Sage Source Details menu under "Tuner Control" (it defaults to "StubDevice").

On the Pi, the .php files tuner002.php, tuner003.php, and tuner004.php need to have the client MAC ID's for each box entered twice (in both lines of code), and all four of the files need the DirecTV Genie IP address updated.

The voidabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.php file must also be in /var/www, as it dummies out the original call to power on the box (now handled by the tuner00x.php file).