Initial setup of the Sat-TV cards…
So, I had a spare half hour last night, and figured I may as well fit the two DVB-S2 cards into the PC.
They slotted into the two PCI slots quite happily, and I installed all the drivers off the supplied CD, along with the Hauppage software (I may not use PowerCinema but it seems that the program also installs the IR drivers and so on…)
I unplugged the two feeds from the SkyHD box and connected one to each of the cards, and went into TV server config. Hmm. No cards showing up! I then remembered TV Server runs as a service, so I restarted it, and it picked up the cards fine. I then hit the scan button on each card and waited… Overall they picked up over 700 tv channels (Ape TV?!) and a couple of hundred radio channels. I need to have a bit of a sift, but doing a quick default map I could see the TV channels listed in MediaPortal! Selected one and it appeared on screen after a few seconds… success!
Ok, there are a few issues. Firstly I need to go through and untick all the channels I don’t want (or rather, untick all, and select just the ones I *do* want…!) then sort out the XMLTV stuff as I didn’t seem to have any program details in the MediaPortal TV Guide. Also, the supplied Hauppage IR Remote doesn’t appear to work yet, so I’m obviously missing some steps to make that spring into life. On the plus side, BBC HD worked first time and looked lovely, but I need to do a bit of fiddling for ITV HD as they pipe it down a “red button” option on real Freesat boxes. There are instructions online, and I’ll post the link back here when I get around to doing it!
