STB Firewire (IEEE-1394) Support

[jerryb33]

Got the file !!!!!!!!
Tricky way of getting it. Found it in the forum thread.

Will try it - later - recording stuff now for the wife.

[jerryb33]

Just an update, the newer FWChannelproxy2(5/19/2009) files work.

Just changed the dWord in the registry file that came with the above to 6 (-a6) and had no problems.

Hint: Now if we could get the -n incorporated into the file.

edit - forgot to say thanks to all for their input

[aflat]

Originally Posted by johnb003

Hey, I'm working on a new driver for STB using firewire.

I've made a lot of progress so far, and started a thread on avsforum: http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1145429

This is fantastic news. Any chance of open sourcing it, or working on a public depot so people like me can poke around, and possibly contribute?

[TorontoSage]

Referring to Opus4's post 1496 on this page: http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9288&highlight=stb+firewire&page=75 where he refers to MeInMaui's instructions, I get to the instruction #23 where MeInMaui says to "Double click on the ‘Exemultituner.reg’ file you just created to add the key to your registry.", but I get the error:

Cannot import c:\Program Files\SageTV\Common\RemoteCodes\EXEMultiTunerPlugin\exemultituner.reg:Error
accessing the registry

I have the exemultituner.reg file in the EXEMultiTunerPlugin subdirectory and it reads like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Program Files\SageTV\Common\RemoteCodes\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]
c:\\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%

(the MCE2005 STB Controller subdirectory is where the the channelw.exe and all the other programs are that came with it)

I also have the 2.ir file in the same EXEMultiTunerPlugin subdirectory and it reads like this:

2 38000 400 3

(since the panel # is 2)

Does anyone have any ideas what I might have done wrong? I've been at this for a few hours and no luck.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by TorontoSage

I have the exemultituner.reg file in the EXEMultiTunerPlugin subdirectory and it reads like this:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Program Files\SageTV\Common\RemoteCodes\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]
c:\\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%

Please refer back to the original .reg file that is in the downloaded instructions from MeInMaui. All you need to do is update the path to the channelw.exe (with double \\, it appears), but you've gone too far by changing the registry path, removing the registry key name, and removing the quotes on the key value, thus making the .reg file unusable.

- Andy

[TorontoSage]

Actually I checked the file. I mistyped it. I DO have the quotes, as such:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Program Files\SageTV\Common\RemoteCodes\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]
"command" = "c:\\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"


The file that MeInMaui posted is as such:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]
"command"="c:\\getHD\\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

So it is exactly the same other than I put in the new path to the EXEMultiTunerPlugin subdirectory that I have (because that is where it is) and the new path to the channelw.exe file. There is no SOFTWARE/Frey Technologies subdirectory on my WHS and SageTV did not create it and MeinMaui says to modify the file location and that's what I did (or thought I was doing). What should I have done instead? I thought I had to put in the registry path that I did or it would not work and that is the route to the EXEMultiTunerPlugin subdirectory on my WHS C: drive.

I changed the second line to "command"="c:\\getHD\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%" thinking this might be what you are referring to, but got the same error message.

Also I am not understanding what you mean when you say I changed the registry key. What is the registry key and where did I change it?

Sorry but maybe you could be a bit more specific. I am newbie and obviously do not understand these terms you are referring to or what you are telling me to do. I reread MeInMaui's instructions yet again and still don't understand and have been working on this last step for many hours now.

[Opus4]

Originally Posted by TorontoSage

Also I am not understanding what you mean when you say I changed the registry key. What is the registry key and where did I change it?

This is the path to the registry key, not a file path:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]

You've changed this to use a file path, which is not correct for changing the registry value you need to change:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Program Files\SageTV\Common\RemoteCodes\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]

Finally, the example .reg file shows use of '\\' as part of the file path, not '\'. I'm not a registry expert, but I would use the same path formatting as the example, not the format you have used here:
"command" = "c:\\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

Note the original's path use of '\\':
"command"="c:\\getHD\\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"


All you need to do to the original .reg file is change the path to channelw.exe.

- Andy

[Peter_h]

Originally Posted by TorontoSage

/snip
...There is no SOFTWARE/Frey Technologies subdirectory on my WHS and SageTV did not create it and MeinMaui says to modify the file location and that's what I did (or thought I was doing). What should I have done instead? ...

There should be. I run WHS and it is there. Are you sure you are looking in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE? I think you might be confusing registry keys and system folders.

[TorontoSage]

Actually, as Andy pointed out, it's not a file path. I assumed it was a file path since that's what it looked like (and I didn't even know what a registry key was) but anyway, I changed it and now it actually updates.

But, funny how one can look at something so many times and not realize there are two sets of '\\' but now I don't know if it should be typed:

"command" = "c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

or

"command" = "c:\\Program Files\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

(ie whether the double slashes should be after the first subdirectory or the last one)

[Peter_h]

You should double slash all of the slashes. It should look like this.

"command" = "c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\\MCE2005 STB Controller\\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

[Peter_h]

So, I just checked my setup and I do not have any of the slashes double slashed and it has been working for months.

Can anyone shed some light on the difference between using the single and double slashes and the proper way to do it in the registry?

EDIT: I opened up the old windows 2000 scripting book and a single slash is a special character. Technically what I have shouldn't even work. Double slashes are how you pass a single slash in the registry.

[TorontoSage]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

You should double slash all of the slashes. It should look like this.

"command" = "c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\\MCE2005 STB Controller\\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

Ok, I am trying that. I didn't even think of that option! Thanks.

Update: I tried that and channel changing did not work so now I have gone back to single slashes (in all my years in the computer biz I never have seen double slashed ever used). But, it still doesn't work. When I change the channel using the remote, he overlay guide shows the next channel information, but the picture always stays the same.

I am still able to do channel changing from the command line, though, using: channel -f -a4 <device number> <channel number> which for me to change to channel 545 is: channel -f -a4 2 545 (as my SA 4250HD is device 2). I am wondering though, even though this is probably not the problem, but why do you use the channel program in the command line, but the channelw program in the registry key? Using either program works from the command line.

Anyway, now I am really stumped.

[Peter_h]

Please paste exactly what you have in the value data field using the code tags. IE

"c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

To expand on the \\, the double slashes are needed because the \ is a special character. For example a single \ along with "t" such as \t will insert a tab. A double slash translates to \.

[TorontoSage]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Please paste exactly what you have in the value data field using the code tags. IE

"c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\MCE2005 STB Controller\channelw.exe %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%"

To expand on the \\, the double slashes are needed because the \ is a special character. For example a single \ along with "t" such as \t will insert a tab. A double slash translates to \.

I can't cut and paste as I am on 2 different machines, but it is exactly as you have above. . I did notice that the directory is MCE 2005 STB Controller not MCE2005 STB Controller (ie no space) and changed it but that didn't make a difference. BTW, I am rebooting in between each change. I am now going to take out all the double slashes and see if that makes a difference. You don't have double slashes and it seems to work for you, right?

[Peter_h]

Are you sure it is exactly like that? This is exactly what appears when you click on the command and is displayed in the "Value Data" field?

If so, there are a few problems.

1.) You should not have quotations in the Value Data field.
2.) You need to also pass the switches that you used to make it run from the command line. You posted that you used -f and -a4 in a post below.

Try this out.

c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\\MCE 2005 STB Controller\\channelw.exe -f -a4 %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%

That should work. Let me know what happens.

Edit: Yes, you need to reboot every time you make a registry change.

[TorontoSage]

Well neither all double slashes nor all single slashes work. I tripled checked the route to the subdirectory and it is correct. I retried changing the channel from the command line prompt in the MCE 2005 STB Controller subdirecty and the channel changes. But using the SageTV remote on the HD 200 won't change the channel, even though the program info overlay changes. So there must me some problem with how the program is being accessed through that registry key edit thing I did, but I don't know what.

[Peter_h]

Are you using device ID or unique ID?

The command that you said worked earlier had a "2" correlating to device ID. What does your exemultituner file look like? What is it named? Can you post the contents?

Again, please post contents of your regedit in a code box. It will be a lot easier for me to help you if I can see exactly what you are doing.

[TorontoSage]

Originally Posted by Peter_h

Are you using device ID or unique ID?

The command that you said worked earlier had a "2" correlating to device ID. What does your exemultituner file look like? What is it named? Can you post the contents?

Again, please post contents of your regedit in a code box. It will be a lot easier for me to help you if I can see exactly what you are doing.

Ok I know I am going to sound really stupid, but I have never heard of a code box. What is it and how do I post it? I am going to try switching to my WHS server so I can post it from there, but when I opened IE before there and tried to post in the forums my posts would have no formatting and just be one long run-on sentence, so that's why I switched to my laptop to post.

[Peter_h]

When you hit reply, look for the #. That will bring up the code tags. Just paste your contents in between the tags.

A code box is the best way to display... code.

[TorontoSage]

OK here it is cut and paste directly from the file:Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Frey Technologies\Common\EXEMultiTunerPlugin]c:\\Program Files\\Timmmoore\\MCE 2005 STB Controller\\channelw.exe -f -a4 %DEVICE% %CHANNEL%&quot;The file name is exemultituner.reg
Edit: see this is the problem when I post from internet explorer on my WHS I lose all the tags. Have to email it to my laptop, hold on