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01-07-2009, 11:19 PM
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Trial - Only IR Blaster between me and SageTV!
The Problem:
I can't get my SageTV to tune my set-top box in order to record and watch programs What I'm looking for: a. A driver or solution to allow my current hardware to tune my set-top box or b. An IR blaster I can get that <is> compatible with SageTV and will work The Hardware: WinXP Home SP2 - fresh install with SageTV (AMD Athlon XP2200+ 1.35GHz 512MRAM) Hauppauge WinTV PVR 150 PCI II Radeon 9200 PRO TSES-IR01 IR blaster (win mce remote?) Background: I have a PC set up with Windows Media Center, but I don't like it much. Playback is choppy and poor, and above all, recording things into DVR-MS is a total pain and requires a lot of human-intensive labor to convert the files into something useable. I've tried LinuxMCE, couldn't set it up, and I'm very interested in Boxee tho it seems to not be headed towards a PVR anytime soon sadly, which is a shame cause I'm a huge XBMC fan and have 2 xboxes modded for precisely that purpose. I've left my XPMC box, and got the box with the stats you see above, installed it with a fresh WinXP and then installed the Hauppauge and SageTV. I'm VERY impressed! The little bugger installed fine, found channels for me even tho I'm in Canada, records into MPEG, and the Live TV show is crisp and steady. The interface controls took a little getting used to, but still I can do what I want and it seems even to have some EXTRA features I like the sound of. However, I have one problem: It won't tune channels for me The IR-blaster I have is called TSES-IR01 and has a windows logo. I thought it came with my hauppauge but I get the feeling from my research that it's a Windows Remote. I've done some searches on here for solutions, tried things like: http://www.byremote.com.au/Hip/mce_remote_faq.htm http://forums.freytechnologies.com/f...080#post146080 http://www.byremote.com.au/Hip/mce_remote_faq.htm http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...8-4CAB82F31DC8 http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...8-bf3efccb20ba and so on.. The win device-manager identifies the IR blaster as the eHome Infrared Transceiver, so I tried to download a driver for that, but it sent me to windows Update. So, what I'm looking for is either a driver for this remote/IR blaster combo, or failing that, a recommended hardware to do the same job that I can order or go find that is 100% sure to work with SageTV. I'm so impressed with SageTV so far, I don't mind shelling out a little extra to get a working version! Thanks in Advance! -LL2 Last edited by LoopyWolf; 01-07-2009 at 11:29 PM. 
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01-08-2009, 02:42 AM
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01-17-2009, 02:28 PM
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Ok it arrived yesterday, and I installed it this morning and tried it out..
SageTv recognized it and I was able to program it for the basic buttons, but it still wouldn't retune the channels.. Is there no hardware that just works out of the box with SageTV? I'm not terribly good at setups where you have to look up 6 different web pages, not knowing which is the correct/up to date one, try this driver then that driver and endlessly fiddle with stuff.. I'm not sure how much time I have left on the trial, either, that part took a while to arrive
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01-17-2009, 02:59 PM
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You might also want to post what model of STB you are trying to control. You might even do a search for your model. Sometimes people post their IR commands for the USB UIRT here in the forums and then all you have to do is load them into the USB UIRT files and it just works (that's what I did, saved me some headaches)
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01-17-2009, 05:25 PM
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http://download.sage.tv/SageTVRecorderManual.pdf
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01-17-2009, 06:01 PM
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Quote:
http://download.sage.tv/SageTV_Manual.pdf
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01-19-2009, 05:28 PM
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Just out of curiosity, does your STB have a firewire port on it? I've found firewire to be a much more reliable and faster method of channel changing.
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01-20-2009, 10:06 AM
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EEEE!!! .. excuse me.. no, it's no good I can't contain my glee =)
I tried the steps as you stated, again, and either I did something wrong the first time or something else was wrong, but it WORKS!! I am just testing the scheduled recordings but I AM SO EXCITED!! Not only to have a functioning media center again, but to be free of the dvr-ms microsoft tyranny!! SageTV FTW!!!
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