Find out if Andy will allow you to post the updated files. Just got my HDHomeRun tuner today. However, I would like to keep my Ceton tuner, if it could be made to work correctly with the updated files from Andy.

Looks like Andy posted the updated files on his website.

Applied update. Now I've got 7 tuners at my disposal. It's great to see this community coming alive again and the open source version hasn't even been released yet!

I ave been tinkering with this for a while, and seem to have messed it up. I cannot get sage to tune a channel with this. I get an error (-10) no encoders can tune the selected station.

I looked at my tuner logs, and it appears that it is looking for an encoder on my sage server, rather than the HDHR. I have changed all the requisite properties files to my knowledge, and am running it from within sage, not from the command line. I have also turned off the windows firewall.

Attached are my properties files, and a few logs.

Any guidance would be greatly appreciated.

The Properties are wrong in the download they have to be corrected see this post. Follow that corrected properties just change 131A192A to your ID.

http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...6&postcount=63

jvl711,

You need to correct the property file in your download causing confusion. Thank You.

It was worth a try, unfortunately the issue still remains...

re-post your properties files. It works you obviously have something wrong either firewall or properties.

Corrected properties file just change FFFFFFFF to your tuner. The one in the download is wrong.

Nyplayer,

Thank You for your help, I was able to get SageDCT 2.73 to work, the Prime encoder was intriguing, alas I was chasing down a rabbit hole, and could not see an end so I took a tangent.

I started getting the error below on one of my tuners. Every time sage tries to record from this tuner it shows as a failed recording. What address is it referring to?

05/09/2015 14:30:18 - Setting local IP address to: 192.168.1.2
05/09/2015 14:30:18 - Setting local IP address to: 192.168.1.2
05/09/2015 14:30:18 - Starting encoder thread: 131EDFC5-0
05/09/2015 14:30:18 - Error binding (131EDFC5 0): Address already in use: JVM_Bind

Sounds like you might have 2 tuners with the same names ... or same ports.

I'm going to be replacing my Ceton tuner with a 2nd HDHomeRun, so hopefully that will eliminate the conflicts.

I've prepped my properties files to account for the 2nd HDHomeRun and will be turning it up later today.

Music Choice Channel on Comcast
 

Has anybody had issues with the music channels? When I tune to one of the music channels, I just get a black screen. I'm able to tune them on my computer through VLC and also the silicondust app on my Android phone.

I'm thinking it may be something going on with FFMPEG.

This also affects the Ceton tuner I have running through SageDCT. If I switch SageDCT to raw, then the music channel will tune correctly.

However, I'm not happy with SageDCT and the pixelating/drop-outs I get on the recordings and will be replacing the Ceton with another HDHomerun.

For now I'm just remapping the music channels to use my HDPVR through the cable box.

My "PrimeNetEncoder.txt" file just hit 58GB... :eek:

Any idea why?

I assume I can just delete and it will recreate as needed.

-uberpixel

Mine is very very small I suggest you look at it because it should only log to it when you restart the program.

As it turns out, I had a bad stick of ram that was causing some serious instability for my server. I ran Memtest last night to confirm. I suspect that was the reason why PrimeNetEncoder was freaking out. The file was actually so large that I couldn't open it, but from the preview pane I saw entries in the log referring to running out of memory...

Since putting in a good set of ram and deleting the log, I have only the same three entries you've noted.

I suspect that the remaining gremlins I was chasing (capture device failure and recording hiccups) with this tuner option were probably related to this ram issue. I've got my fingers crossed!

-uberpixel

Well I finally solved my halts in recordings I believe. The problem seems to be that i have several green drives and that spin down when not in use. I set the windows power setting to not spin down the drives after a set time period about two weeks ago and that seemed to solve my problems. I haven't had any halts since then. So if anyone is still getting halts even after setting the delay time in the latest version try turning off spin down drives under windows power settings. I prefer saving power but I like to have the full shows also.

It's working good for me as well compared with the results I was getting with SageDCT. However, for some reason my music channels do not work. I get "no signal" when tuning to them. There are no errors in the logs, etc.

As mentioned in a previous post, it is probably something going on with FFMPEG. The music channels are at a lower bitrate than a typical channel. Not sure if there is anything that can be done.

One thing I did do also to eliminate all problems etc... is to make my windows 7 SageTV server act more like a file server by doing some registry tweaks. Windows 7 is limited as far as acting like a file server without any tweaks. The changes I made are in red... Also improves Plex KODI file sharing.

Also if you see the error below in event viewer those settings will take care of that.

Source: srv
Event ID: 2017 or 2019
Level: Error
The server was unable to allocate from the system nonpaged pool because the server reached the configured limit for nonpaged pool allocations.

That is why I go with WD Blacks.

There is also a head parking feature that can be disabled on the green drives. When head parking is enabled, it has been rumored that it shortens the life of the drive.

Only one tuner is being used
 

Hello experts .. I am at my wits end so i am hoping that some one can help
I installed PrimeNewEncoder yesterday and all went well but today i noticed that only one of my tuners is being used. I have reinstalled everything but same results. I am using the encoder on the same machine as my headless sage server.

My config
1. 2 nics, one for LAN and another connected to HDHR
2. Firewall off to remove any related issues

HELP!!!

Sage died yesterday during the NBA game and fortunately we were home, but I need to get this going for Sunday's game; need to record 3 programs in parallel.

I have been using SageDCT for some time but that failed 2 days ago

Logs as below

----------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-0
06/05/2015 18:36:39 - Unknown Command: BUFFER HDHomeRun Prime Tuner 0 Digital TV Tuner|2|83886080|D:\RecordedTV\HDHomeRunPrimeTuner0on1270017000DigitalTVTuner-0.mpgbuf|Great
06/05/2015 18:36:39 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:36:39 - Stopping Recording: 13195F9B 0
06/05/2015 18:36:39 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - Switching Channel for Tuner: 13195F9B 0
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - Local IP: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - Listening Port: 7000
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - ffmpeg Transcode Port: 5000
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - Starting transcoder: D:\RecordedTV\MLBBaseball-SanFranciscoGiantsatPhiladelphiaPhillies-14716188-1.ts
06/05/2015 18:38:00 - Passing stream to file unaltered
06/05/2015 18:38:01 - Switch channel: 720
06/05/2015 18:38:01 - Send stream to transcoder: 5000
06/05/2015 18:42:34 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:42:34 - Stopping Recording: 13195F9B 0
06/05/2015 18:42:34 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:42:34 - Stopping the stream:
06/05/2015 18:42:34 - Recording stopped
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-0
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - Switching Channel for Tuner: 13195F9B 0
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - Local IP: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - Listening Port: 7000
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - ffmpeg Transcode Port: 5000
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - Starting transcoder: D:\RecordedTV\MLBBaseball-SanFranciscoGiantsatPhiladelphiaPhillies-14716188-2.ts
06/05/2015 18:47:37 - Passing stream to file unaltered
06/05/2015 18:47:38 - Switch channel: 720
06/05/2015 18:47:38 - Send stream to transcoder: 5000

---------------------------------------------------------

06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-1
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-1

-----------------------------------------------------------

06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:36:27 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-2
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Setting local IP address to: 169.254.65.17
06/05/2015 18:44:25 - Starting encoder thread: 13195F9B-2

Because there is a time frame involved, the first question is; do you have a complete system image from a short time ago, when the system was still running properly?

When you say that you reinstalled, did you also reinstall SageTV from scratch?

Post your primencoder properties file and your sagetv.properties file.

PS are you trying to get SAGEDCT to work too or the PrimeEncoder only one can run at a time.

Frankly i moved to PrinmeNetEncoder as SageDCT failed. In my setup I have SageDCT service disabled

thanks for your help

Your tuner ports for the other 2 tuners were wrong they are corrected below. They are wrong in the DOC I have asked for this to be corrected. Just make corrections to the prime encoder properties file... and restart,

that's it ... thank you !!

To answer KryptoNyte, i do have a image but i wanted to ask the forum first before i go the restore route tomorrow. In general Sage has been rock solid

thank you again

You are welcomed.

1) Were you ever able to figure out what caused the problem with SageDCT?

2) Do you see any difference in quality between running SageDCT and PrimeNetEncoder?

Since i have a lot of experience with both SAGEDCT and PrimeEncoder. I will give you reasons why I switched to Prime Encoder.

1. SAGEDCT was not being updated with PrimeEncoder it is a matter of dropping in the most recent ffmpeg.exe.

2. PrimeEncoder uses the HdHomerun software for channel change. This means that I can also use it with the new OTA tuners (which I do). Sage remuxes the TS OTA files to mpg Incorrectly. I could not even extract closed captions ... no problem doing this when using PrimEncoder files.
See this thread.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/showthread.php?t=61971


3. If you have a Powerful PC you can transcode to h264 on the fly.


$. I was getting breakups with SageDCT.

I would recommend it for anyone that uses a Prime.

From my end, i don't have a working SageDCT solution so at this point i can not comment. I have not had a lot of issues with SageDCT in the past; some failures related to SageDCT loosing the connection with the tuners once in a while and frequent video tearing. So i was thinking of moving to PrimeNewEncoder sometime over the summer. But the recent SageDCT failure accelerated that move.

PrimetNetEncoder Properties errors
 

I installed this last night in a crisis because the latest HDHR Firmware broke SageDCT last night.

There are a couple of lines that I had to change beyond the tuner.id=

For tuner1 and tuner2, I had to update the ports and transcoder ports in order to get those tuners working. I assume that this is correct:

OOB Config
tuner1.port=5001
tuner1.transcoder.port=7001

tuner2.port=5002
tuner2.transcoder.port=7002

Modified Config
tuner1.port=7001
tuner1.transcoder.port=5010

tuner2.port=7002
tuner2.transcoder.port=5020

Yes see my post.
http://forums.sagetv.com/forums/show...&postcount=108

Maybe you should post in the SAGEDCT thread what problems you had and how the firmware broke SAGEDCT. Might help other users.

Is the HDHR firmware upgrade ever forcibly applied, or does it always prompt a user?

Everything is optional there is a prompt if an upgrade is available that is strictly up to you ... but with the new changes etc... and the new soon to be released DVR software it is prudent to upgrade if you plan on using the new DVR etc...

Also it would be nice if it was posted exactly what was happening in SAGEDCT.... with the new firmware I am sure Andy can fix it.

Yeah, I did see that the same thing was already reported, but will add a "me 2". I thought I had scoured this thread before posting this, but obviously in the panic of all the sudden no tuners, I must have missed that post.

Yeah the Programmer to this great piece of code ... is busy at the moment and stated he will get back soon... I am sure he will the update the docs.

I'm curious if anyone is actually using this feature regularly and if so, what their system is. I tried it for a while on my AMD A10-A6800K based server and the 3 tuners from the Prime if all recording give the quad core quite a workout. :)

I've since turned the transcoding off and went back to running SJQ at night to do Handbrake conversions.