Firewire channel tuning woes

[gdippel]

Over the weekend I had to reinstall windows 10 from scratch and fortunately I had a recent backup of my SageTV directory and the drivers to install the STBs for Firewire channel changing. I'm using the EXEMultituner plugin and Timmmoore's channel.exe. I have no problem changing channels on my two boxes from the command line. However, in Sage, only one box responds. I double checked my registry settings etc. and everything seems fine. I did have channel changing working on both boxes before the crash. Any suggestion?

[wayner]

You must have incorrect settings for one of the tuning devices in the sage.properties file. That is where it picks up the parameters that it sends to the channel.exe program.

[gdippel]

Originally Posted by wayner

You must have incorrect settings for one of the tuning devices in the sage.properties file. That is where it picks up the parameters that it sends to the channel.exe program.

I went through the properties file and found I can't put a finger on any specific mis-configuration. I have the STBs daisy chained and even tried each with a direct connection. Same result, I can change channels on both boxes from the command line but only one through Sage. Until I can figure this out I have one STB changing channels using a Usb-uirt I had lying around.

I've attached the proprieties file in case anyone wants to give it a go.

[wayner]

Is it possible that you have a typo in one of the device line names - one of these two lines:

mmc/encoders/-1674637831/90/0/device_name=7ea6afd71b00
mmc/encoders/-431556906/90/0/device_name=164b42d45ff4

And what is your setting for the registry entry for exemultituner?

[gdippel]

Originally Posted by wayner

Is it possible that you have a typo in one of the device line names - one of these two lines:

mmc/encoders/-1674637831/90/0/device_name=7ea6afd71b00
mmc/encoders/-431556906/90/0/device_name=164b42d45ff4

And what is your setting for the registry entry for exemultituner?

This is my registry entry:

C:\Firewire\channelw.exe -f -a0 -n %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%

Same result using tuning panel numbers (without the -n flag)

The above encoder names work from the command line.

[gdippel]

I finally was able to get firewire channel changing to work on both of my stbs using FWChannelProxy in lieu of EXEMultituner. As I could change channels from the command line it obviously was a mis-configuration in the Sage properties file. In my case it was just easier to track it down using FWChannelProxy.