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Howto get two HD-PVR working?
I just bought a 2nd HD-PVR for my sage system and am having problems getting it working.
Sage only see's one unit .. doesn't seem to matter which one .. - I can boot with one - either of them .. . Sage works fine. Doesn't seem to be a problem with the 2nd unit. - If I boot the server with both units installed.. Windows Dev mgr only shows one of them. Sage will use the 'new' device - If I add the 2nd device after I boot .. then windows sees both of them (in device manager) .. but sage only 'sees' one. So I reboot .. and we're back to square one .. with only one unit showing in Dev manager. is there some addressing/setup required to have the 2nd unit connect properly? Server is WHS Sage 6.5.6 Externders |
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Did you remember to disable the Sage service when you installed the 2nd HD-PVR? I had a similar issue and kept forgetting to turn off the service after the reboot, before installing the drivers. As it turned out, I ran the hcwclear.exe and removed both HD-PVR's, rebooted, turned off the Sage service, and installed the drivers a second (maybe third) time. After that, they seemed to get picked up by WHS with no problem.
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Thanks .. I'll try that tonight !
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After a reboot you may need to power cycle the HD-PVR that doesn't show up. That happens to me sometimes.
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Unplug/replug the USB cable and it shows in the Windows Device Manager. Sometimes... Not always. And often it doesn't appear at all. This is what I want to solve ..as it's a no-go for me if I have to powercycle the HD-PVR after a server reboot. (don't even want to imagine the "WAF" on that one if it happens when I'm away ...) How does Sage handle it when you cycle your 2nd HD-PBR? Does it automatically find and use the 2nd HDPVR when you replug it? Or do you need to restart the Sage Service ? Wes |
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You may also want to make sure that you have them plugged into two different USB channels on your mb or one in your mb and one on a powered hub. It could be a power issue on that USB channel or throughput for that channel.
Gerry
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Seems like you need to power cycle the 2nd HDPVR and then restart the sageTV service.
They are on two different USB channels as far as I can tell, and I did try the 2nd one on a powered USB hub. No luck. But they do seem to work ok once this little song/dance is done. Anyone else have some magic spell for this? Better question ... Anyone else with 2 or more HDPVR's not having power up problems? Any other suggestions? |
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After a long drawn out exercise, I finally got the two of them to work together and they appear to remain even after several reboots. I ended up going back to scratch with hwclear several times and walked through the setup one PVR at a time with reboots in between driver loads. I think it's just a matter of trial and error until you get it. Once you get it, it seems to remain stable. However, I do believe having them on different USB channels is the key. I didn't at first and the second one kept showing up as "Unknown Device" until I moved it.
I'm going for a third later today, so will see how that goes...
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plawlor,
How did you determine which mobo "hub" a givin port belongs to? Plug something into each port one at a time while looking at and refreshing the Serial Ports section of Device Manager? Or do you have an easier way? Thanks, pat----
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2. Yep. 3. Nope. I almost never need to do this unless I'm upgrading drivers or other software or adding more hardware, such as tuners. Quote:
You may want to revert to the stock STV if you haven't already. Until I have things working perfectly hardware-wise, I'm sticking to the stock STV, so that I don't add any unnecessary complexities. The last thing I want is for the issue to be related to an add-in. Quote:
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Server -- Sage 7.1.9.256 in Service Mode w/Default UI - OS: Microsoft Windows Home Server (2003 SP2) - CPU: Intel C2Q Q6600 2.4GHz, MoBo: Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P, RAM: 4GB OCZ, HD: SYS 1x500GB (SATA, 100GB C: ), DATA 3x1TB (SATA, in Pool, 64K cluster size) Tuners -- 1xHDHomeRun Prime w/CC Clients -- 2 HD200 Extenders and 2 HD300 Extenders |
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Thanks Skirge01
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I did this very thing this past weekend -- added a 2nd HD-PVR where the 1st one was 6 months old.
Actually, WinXP on the server found the 2nd HD-PVR after a single hwclear and reboot. The devices were on different usb headers (one actually on front case ports). I wasted alot of time trying to add the 2nd HD-PVR video source on an extender -- kept freezing on video preview. When I finally broke down and hooked up a monitor to the server and used the server's sage client, I could skip the "video preview" and everything worked perfectly. Another note, not sure of the logic behind this, but my older PVR is on an older set of drivers than the latter one. I also pulled all of the PCI tuners and ran HWClear before adding the HD-PVR's. |
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3rd HD-PVR not recognized properly???
Hi.
I posted this on the SHSPVR Forum as well, but it doesn't appear to be that active... I have been running 2 HD-PVRs on the same server for a while without trouble. In the supplied Arcsoft capture software, TMExtreme, which is needed before Sage will recognize the video source, one device shows up as HDPVR_Device and the other shows up as HDPVR_Device_1. Tonight, I tried to add a third. Windows XP SP2 picks up the device no problem and allows me to install the driver (latest Beta). After the driver install, Device Manager shows 3 HDPVRs. Great...or so I thought. When I go into the capture software, the new one is now HDPVR_Device and does not work. The previous two are now both called HDPVR_Device_1 and the software can't tell the difference between the two of them. I've tried moving the devices around to different USB ports, but no go. All 3 are model E1's. Anyone know what is going on and how this can be fixed? Thanks!
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I'd try the same thing I suggested for getting the 2nd one working. Run hcwclear.exe and remove all the HD-PVRs from Windows, reboot, shut down the SageTV service, and power up each one, one at a time. If prompted to reboot, do so. Assuming everything is recognized correctly by Windows, start up the SageTV service. In my experience, adding an additional HD-PVR after the fact just doesn't seem to work right. It seems like they need to be added at the same time, one right after the other.
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fwiw ... I cannot get both HDPVRs to be active after a reboot. No amount of hcwclear etc seems to work. Only one is recognised at boot time.
I entered a support req with Haugpge ... never did get a reply. So my process now is .. reboot the server shut down sage service power cycle the two pvrs restart sage service sage is happy with both My concern is how to do this when I'm away ..... |
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i'm going to re-install whs from scratch.. we'll see what happens
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Awesome!
Too bad zoltran wasn't as lucky. |
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