Any Cox Cable customers here?

[tvmaster2]

I've got a Cox Cable Cisco 4742HD set top box. For years it's been fine, taking the component outputs and feeding a Hauppauge HDPVR.
The other day, two, local broadcast channels started coming up blank when selected via SageTV channel selection tool: KTLA Ch.5 LA and Ch. 7 ABC.
Any chance those two channels have enabled some kind of new copywrite protection from the component outputs? I didn't think that was possible.

The Vizio 24" LED tv that the SageTV server outputs to (via HDMI) may not be HDCP compatible, as the Cox Cisco box throws up an "the settop box's HDMI port requires an HDCP compatible TV input. Please switch to a compatible TV"

Seriously? Now Hollywood is mandating we all replace seven-year-old TV's?

Where's the FCC on this rubbish...

anyway - any idea why these two channels won't display through Sage? The analog composite output of the box sends the channels out fine.

UPDATE: after a day of this and that, turns out Windows Update installed a version of Colossus drivers I swear I didn't ask Windows to install. Once I re-installed the old drivers, that solved half the problems. The other half of the problems, i.e those two channels that SageTV couldn't see? Turns out those two channels were activated in my OTA tuners (was testing a new TV, and the channel scan included them). They are physically within range, but too far to produce an OTA picture. However, Sage decided to use them as the go-to selections for those two Station ID/Logical guide #'s.
Watch out there folks...

[valnar]

I'm a COX Cable customer. They recently forced my to retire the Cisco tuner that was supporting my HDPVR 1212 via component. Fortunately they had a new "Contour 1" model that still supported component. I had to remember how to retrain my USB-UIRT to change channels. It had been years!

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by valnar

I'm a COX Cable customer. They recently forced my to retire the Cisco tuner that was supporting my HDPVR 1212 via component. Fortunately they had a new "Contour 1" model that still supported component. I had to remember how to retrain my USB-UIRT to change channels. It had been years!

Is the new box a Cisco 4742HD? Or was that the box they took back...

[valnar]

I think the old one was a 46xx or something. The new one is a 4742HDC. I believe the "C" means component.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by valnar

I think the old one was a 46xx or something. The new one is a 4742HDC. I believe the "C" means component.

yup, that’s the same one I have. Turns out everything appears to be user error on my part, in the end. 🙀 All is working. The main thing that bugs me about Cox is the infuriating inactive-channel swap, whereby if you don’t change a channel every six hours, the box changes channels itself to a barker station, which Sage can’t reactivate. Only their stupid remote can do that. I’ve setup dummy favorites to change channels every six hours, every day. I can’t see any other way to fool the box.

[valnar]

I don't have that problem at all. I did have to change a setting to stop it from timing out and shutting down, but that's it.

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by valnar

I don't have that problem at all. I did have to change a setting to stop it from timing out and shutting down, but that's it.

Really? Maybe it's just a Cox regional thing (SoCal). If I leave a channel on anything above the basic HD channels, therefore Premium and Pak channels in the upper numbers, after six hours of inactivity, the 4742 changes channels to 1998, a Cox Barker channel, which clearly tells you in writing why this channel has been auto-selected.
Ticks me off...

[valnar]

Originally Posted by tvmaster2

Really? Maybe it's just a Cox regional thing (SoCal). If I leave a channel on anything above the basic HD channels, therefore Premium and Pak channels in the upper numbers, after six hours of inactivity, the 4742 changes channels to 1998, a Cox Barker channel, which clearly tells you in writing why this channel has been auto-selected.
Ticks me off...

I take that back. I am having this timeout issue now. Ugh..

[tvmaster2]

Originally Posted by valnar

I take that back. I am having this timeout issue now. Ugh..

the only way I've found around it is to schedule FAVORITES for lower channel programs at the same time each day, three or four times per-day, like the 11pm, 6am and 6pm news. That way, a manual recording overrides the Favorite, but if no manual recordings are scheduled, the news Favorite keeps the box from turning to channel 1998 (in my area at least).

[valnar]

I fixed it by changing Cable providers. WOW just came to town and I moved to them. Much cheaper, no monthly data limits and tuner that doesn't time out.

[tvmaster2]

I’ll look for WOW in my area. Any idea if they support TiVo with Cable Cards?

[valnar]

They probably do. I had WOW 7 years ago in a different town and I liked them. They are a smaller regional Cable provider though. Check out DSLreports to see if they are in your State.
http://www.dslreports.com/