Can't get PVR-350 and PVR-150MCE to work together

[mayamaniac]

I have SageTV 2.1 working well with the PVR-350 to encode shows and decode to the TV. Everything was great until I ran into many show time conflicts. So I bought a second tuner to resolve this, a PVR-150MCE. But I can't seem to get it to work with the PVR-350, and it also interfere with the IR silver remote of the PVR-350 also. I can't start the IR.exe program, it gives me an error on start up.

In SageTV 2.1, the PVR-350 decoding (TV-Out) seems to work, and Sage does see the PVR-150MCE and I can tune channels with it. But I can't tune the channels on the PVR-350, it just get stuck on channel 3 it seems.

So I went to the Device Manager and disabled the PVR-150MCE and restart SageTV and everything is working again. The IR.exe program even runs.

Using driver 2.0.18.22280 for the PVR-150MCE and driver 1.18.21.22266 for the PVR-350. Anyone know of a way to get both cards to work.

[attaboy]

Sounds like you have a similar issue to what I have with eHome and PVR 350. You might try the new .dll from Narflex on this post. It helped some folks, but didn't fix my problem.

[mayamaniac]

I figured it out.

I was just confused by the multiple cards I had in the Sage's Tuner Set Up Wizard. I couldn't tell which card was which and this was a problem as I have one external Digital Cable box and I needed to configure one of the cards to control it. And the other cards uses basic cable (Coax). So I assigned the Digital cable to the wrong card therefore wasn't getting any picture.

As a note, in SageTV, it doesn't matter whether you have a PVR-150 or PVR-350, SageTV display them all as Hauppauge WinTV PVR PCI II Capture. So I couldn't tell which is which, but finally figured it out after trial and error.

I still have the remote control problem however. The silver remote ir.exe program still reports Failed to initialize infrared Remote Hardware at startup. I have the latest drivers for the PVR-350 so not sure what is the problem. Anyone has a clue about this problem, please post. Thank you.