HVR-2250 & SageTV 7 clear QAM issue

[mbowling]

Originally Posted by Monedeath

It seems to be that something in 7.0.22 is the culprit behind the broken 2250 QAM tuners in WHS.

I also upgraded from .21 to .22 and my 2250 QAM tuner would not work. I'm using Windows XP. I rolled back to .21 and the tuner is working again.

[bialio]

Same here. 21 works on XP. 22 doesn't.

btl.

[rxnelson]

About the same. XP. Converting from test machine to production machine and 2250 throws errors when trying to add digital tuner during setup. Continue and no channels found. Scans really fast though . Reverted to .21 and no setup errors and channels are found. Scanning takes much longer for whatever that's worth. Still need logs?

[heffe2001]

I rolled back to .20, and it works perfectly again (hit the wrong installer in the addins, doing an upgrade to .21 as I type).

.21 exhibits the exact same behavior on my system as .22, no QAM channels will tune. I sent the above logs to donkey as per his request (from my non-working .22). I've rolled back AGAIN to .20, and all's peachy again..

[jbrandon]

Well after reading this I checked and sure enough I can no longer view or recorded on any of the 2250 QAM tuners either. I don’t have time tonight to look up the file that was messed up several times before but I think it is about time that Sage do a little better job of source code control…

I too rolled back to .21 and all is okay again – at least for now.

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by jbrandon

Well after reading this I checked and sure enough I can no longer view or recorded on any of the 2250 QAM tuners either. I don’t have time tonight to look up the file that was messed up several times before but I think it is about time that Sage do a little better job of source code control…

I'm under the impression that the only difference between the WHS distributions and the Normal Windows one is that the WHS install has a different wrapper to work with the WHS installer.

As the Windows7 users run the same installer as the WindowsXP users run, they run nearly completely on the same code base, with only minimal branching going on if they're managing their code well. Same story for WHS.

So chance are what they changed to fix Windows7 was outside of the Win7 specific branch, and was enough to zap the other Windows users(at least for WinXP and WHS, haven't noticed anything about anyone on Vista).

[heffe2001]

Originally Posted by jbrandon

Well after reading this I checked and sure enough I can no longer view or recorded on any of the 2250 QAM tuners either. I don’t have time tonight to look up the file that was messed up several times before but I think it is about time that Sage do a little better job of source code control…

I too rolled back to .21 and all is okay again – at least for now.

If this were a release version, I'd be inclined to be a bit more angry about changes from one module breaking others, but I can't really complain since I've chosen to run a potentially non-stable Beta/RC.

As for my system, it's running fine on .20, so I'll leave it as-is until Donkey tells me to do otherwise, lol.

[donkey]

Here is a fix
http://download.sage.tv/users/qian/7...howCapture.dll
this HVR-2250 bug affects XP, WHS only.
Thank heffe2001 for helping test.
Qian

[heffe2001]

That fix worked perfectly on my system. I'm still debating loading newer versions of the 2250 drivers though. Last time I tried, the system would blue-screen whenever the 2250 was accessed by the system... It's getting my QAM stuff now tho, so maybe I should leave well enough alone..

[Monedeath]

Originally Posted by donkey

Here is a fix
http://download.sage.tv/users/qian/7...howCapture.dll
this HVR-2250 bug affects XP, WHS only.
Thank heffe2001 for helping test.
Qian

You would think they would have incremented that .dll file to .25 in the 9-ish builds(depending on how you want to count some of the updates that didn't increment the beta/RC's) since the file was introduced as a quick-fix.

Edit: Nevermind, they incremented to .34 in the 7.0.22 build, and it was .33 on the 7.0.21 build as I go back and double check that file. Testing the .35 version of the .dll file now.

Testing complete, had my ATSC Tuner(HVR-1850) and 4 QAM Tuners(HVR-2250s) running at the same time on 7.0.22 so the 3.0.0.35 version of the .dll fixes it. Good work.