Supported Tuners: which ones work, which ones do not?

[weedydeed]

I only been using the new Hauppauge HVR-2250 a short time now, but I can confirm that the HVR-2250 works with the lastest SageTV beta release. Sage had no problems recognizing the tuner card (Listed as Hauppage WinTV-7164).

I was able to test the following sources:

• Analog NTSC via cable x2 : analog tuners work as expected.
  
• ClearQAM tuners x2 : HDTV Picture quality looks great in my setup. I was able to receive all of the clear QAM channels available in my area.

SageTV keeps getting better and better.
Cheers
Windows XP Pro SP3
SageTV 6.4.6
HD - PVR
HVR-2250
Nvidia DualTV

[craigap]

Originally Posted by weedydeed

I only been using the new Hauppauge HVR-2250 a short time now, but I can confirm that the HVR-2250 works with the lastest SageTV beta release. Sage had no problems recognizing the tuner card (Listed as Hauppage WinTV-7164).

I was able to test the following sources:

• Analog NTSC via cable x2 : analog tuners work as expected.
  
• ClearQAM tuners x2 : HDTV Picture quality looks great in my setup. I was able to receive all of the clear QAM channels available in my area.

SageTV keeps getting better and better.
Cheers
Windows XP Pro SP3
SageTV 6.4.6
HD - PVR
HVR-2250
Nvidia DualTV

I'm jealous because it won't work for me. I can install the tuner and sage recognizes it, but I can't add all the tuners without sage completely exiting on me. The tuners I can set up with tune a channel initially, but as soon as I want to change the channel it goes to no signal. I've sent in a bunch of logs, but no word yet.
Tried it with all the latest Sagetv betas.
Vista HP x64
Latest Java

[gplasky]

Originally Posted by craigap

I'm jealous because it won't work for me. I can install the tuner and sage recognizes it, but I can't add all the tuners without sage completely exiting on me. The tuners I can set up with tune a channel initially, but as soon as I want to change the channel it goes to no signal. I've sent in a bunch of logs, but no word yet.
Tried it with all the latest Sagetv betas.
Vista HP x64
Latest Java

More than likely the biggest issue is probably trying this on a 64 bit OS. The people who have it working are using a 32 bit OS.

Gerry

[fac13]

I am getting excellent results with Hauppauge Nova-TD USB sticks (DVB-T).

I run Windows Vista Ultimate 64 bit with 8GB RAM.

I have two sticks working very reliably together (total four tuners).

I am using the 3.11.26108.0 beta drivers.

These sticks are more sensitive than the Nova-T 500 PCI cards I used previously; I can now tune all the channels available in my area without using the amplifier I needed before.

I had to stop using my pair of Nova-T 500 cards because they were very unreliable on 64 bit Vista, even with only 2GB installed.

I recently borrowed a Pinnacle Nano USB DVB-T stick and couldn't tune anything using the latest beta Vista x64 drivers, plus I got lockups in scanchannelsbdauk which only a machine reboot could resolve. That really takes some doing on Vista x64 - well done somebody!

[rtengvad]

Originally Posted by Opus4

Anyone else have a tuner that:
is on the supported tuners list and it does not work

I have problems with both of my FloppyDTV C/CI cards and Sage. Sage is not able to tune the first channel after a Sage or System restart of after system standby.

What I have to do after a restart to overcome this is to manualy and force Sage to tune a channel on every card, and then stop it again. After that everything else is fine - until next restart.

Card 1: FloppyDTV C/CI with Viaccess CAM , Hardware version = 1.26.01, Firmware 1.4.0
Card 2: FloppyDTV C/CI with Viaccess CAM , Hardware version = 1.26.01, Firmware 2.4.0

BDA driver 4.8.0

Has always been an issue.

Rasmus

[floyd_2]

I've recently set up an HTPC with two DVB-T PAL tuners as follows:

Tuner 1: Winfast Px DVR3200 H (PCI-e) using stock drivers. This is a PAL DVB-T hybrid tuner - but I'm only using the digital side of the tuner.

Tuner 2: Dvico Dual Digital 4 (PCI - Black PCB) using latest drivers. This is a twin tuner DVB-T PAL card.

Additionally, my setup uses the following components:

- SBLIVE Audigy 2 ZS PCI sound card configured in 5.1 mode
- Gigabyte Nvidia Geforce 8600GTS video card (Silent Pipe)
- Logitech diNovo Edge keyboard
- Intel Core 2 Duo 3.00GHz CPU
- 2GB RAM (2 x 1GB)
- Windows XP Professional SP2
- Connection to Plasma via standard VGA video cable

The video card has a breakout box for component video, but I'm yet to give it a go as the results from the VGA cable are excellent.

I experienced SageTV interface crashes when pressing STOP during recording / playback of TV and media. It turned out to be the codecs I was using. I upgraded to the Nvidia PureVideo codec (for video only) and that problem disappeared. Interestingly, the Nvidia PureVideo audio codec was laggy, so I went back to the Sage audio codec which is just fine for 5.1 audio.

I have Sage running as a service, but have not gone Client / Server at this stage.

I hope that this helps some others who are considering using the (currently unsupported) tuner cards that I'm using with SageTV. What an outstanding product!

[raven70]

Using Hauppauge WinTV-HVR Hybrid TV Stick 950Q MModel 1191
Win XP
Nvidia Geforce 8800GTS
4GB RAM
AMD 64 X2 3800

Working, but poor video quality. Tuner card works well with Win TV software (very clear picture in regular and HD). I think it is a config issue, and about ready to give up. Had posted another thread, but no replies yet. If I can only figure out why the redering is so poor. Doesn't look like using GPU

[bmac.to]

Originally Posted by gplasky

More than likely the biggest issue is probably trying this on a 64 bit OS. The people who have it working are using a 32 bit OS.

Gerry

I have two HVR-2250's in my Sage box running on Vista 64-bit - everything runs fine. I have been running this way since August of last year. Sage sees a total of 8 tuners (4 NTSC and 4 ATSC) and handles all of them correctly. However, I am only running 3GB of memory - perhaps going above 4GB could be the root of the problem?
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[scat]

Originally Posted by bmac.to

I have two HVR-2250's in my Sage box running on Vista 64-bit - everything runs fine. I have been running this way since August of last year. Sage sees a total of 8 tuners (4 NTSC and 4 ATSC) and handles all of them correctly. However, I am only running 3GB of memory - perhaps going above 4GB could be the root of the problem?

The 4GB memory resolved, see below

Note if you have a Hauppauge PVR 500 you will be limited to 3GB memory.

Driver Release 7.6.1.27023 (1/23/09)
* SECAM AM Audio Fix.
* Appropriate CIRCoInstaller Support in INF for Vista and later.
* ATSC/QAM tuner sensitivity improvements.
* 64Bit OS "greater than 4G" memory issues resolved (black/green screen issues).
* Support for "EnableAutoOffset" reg patch.
This improves situation for Australian users whose signals are re-broadcast on non-centered frequencies
but whose streams report the original (way off) frequency.
* Failure on "First Tune" resolved.
* Support for the hcwWilt_RegisterAdapterObject_ registry patches.
The "Std" version fixes a Microsoft Bluescreen on some 64Bit [Dell and potentially other] machines which bluescreen under some circumstances.
This is NOT a Hauppauge bug and unfortunately we are presently powerless to detect this situation dynamically.
But this registry patch will resolve the issue.
* TDA10048 SNR fixes and efficiency improvements.
* QAM Suppport on Fiji/Win7 by default. Overrideable via reg key.
* Introduce 888x, 88Ax, 898x, and 89Ax models for programming.

Scat

[hingepin]

I have 2 AVerMedia AVerTVHD Duet cards installed and all 4 are working like a champ!

See my specs in my sig. I'm running an NF4 Ultra mobo and was having issues with an 8500GT 512gb pci-e card. Switched to a 3450 and couldn't be happier! I may skip buying an additional HD200 for now and use my existing HD200 in the livingroom and use the "server" as an HTPC in the basement!

[reeven]

Leadtek PVR3000 working ok, with original drivers, but at channels search blue screen appear, in SageTv, ChrisTV, Mediacenter.
Use latest Beta drivers for this problem.
The remote work with Sage, if you turn on in Winfast Wizard: Use remote with MCE, after this remote working in all pvr's partial.
Sage has the advantage with changing remote buttons, it's the first time i see this in an pvr.
But, after installing Sage my Mediacenter Live Tv does not start, because of an .dll from Sage.

[blammo585]

I don't know if anyone pays any attention to this thread any more or if this card is on the list, but a VistaView DA-1in1-I does not work properly with SageTV. The ATSC tuner works fine, but I cannot record or watch live TV from the S-Video input. I've tried it with Sage installed on XP and with Vista and doesn't work on either. When you try to play, it says something about an audio compression error. I had read a review on this card and the review even tried it with Sage and claimed it worked, but not for me. I thought the card was defective, but tried it in an MCE 05 PC, and it worked perfectly.

[Opus4]

blammo585: I suggest you contact support so SageTV can follow up on it.

- Andy

[blammo585]

Originally Posted by Opus4

blammo585: I suggest you contact support so SageTV can follow up on it.

- Andy

I think I did, and no one ever got back with me.

[Jackal]

I've also got 2 Avermedia AVerTVHD Duet cards installed and all 4 tuners going. Running Win7 with Avermedia Win7 Beta drivers.

[reeven]

Leadtek PxPVR2200 worked ok by default, no tweak no nothing, splendid image and fast channels switch with cyberlink powerdvd ultra 9 codec, fddshow audio and EVR mode in Win7.

[Ryokurin]

I do not know if I have a slightly different version then the people who claimed it work but the AverTV HD duet A188c is not working for me. Sage sees it, but it does not see any channels in QAM or OTA. Fresh install of 6.6 on Vista. Avermedia software works.

On a side note, I did notice that on a clean install the scanning of the card is really quick. It scanned the entire 190 something QAM channels in probably 3 minutes. When I used the beta native recording patch it took 15-20 minutes, similar to the hvr-1600.

Oh well, off to take my 15% hit.

Edit: I'm going to hold off on saying its compatible. Either the v16 update of Java or UAC was stopping sage from seeing new channels. A different tuner did similar until I turned those two things off.

Edit2: I may have had a dieing HVR-1600 causing all of this.

[lolachampcar]

Pre-modified R5000 ViP211 received. Some dropped recordings. Moved to _15 Java and the problem appears to have gone away.

Buyer beware.....
You buy the R5000, you install the R5000 (modified receiver or modify your own reciever) then you get to pay an additional $50 if you actaully want to USE your R5000 with Sage!!!! You will only find this out when you go to download the software.

Had it not been for the above experience, I would be a perfectly happy newbie as the quality is fantastic!

[thymceelie]

Not working so far and I bought two. Didn't think to check the list to see if it was supported :\

[wacole]

Replaced my Hauppauge HVR-1600 with SiliconDust's HDHomeRun and found the tuner sensitivity MUCH better on OTA which is what we use exclusively. It is more expensive but I needed to get a Baltimore channel and we live just south of Washington, DC. Set up was easy. But I still get stumped by SageTV's EPG setup process when I need to remap. Oh, well maybe that gets simplified in the next release.