HDHomeRun Prime + XBMC = Futureproof?
#16
(2012-10-30, 20:22)tdavis Wrote: Funny, in contrast, Comcast allows self install of cable cards (mandated by FCC, I've read), both times, I simply plug them in into the HDHomerun Prime, call the 800 comcast number, read off a few numbers.. and bingo, it's up and running.

No tech visit, no multiple phone calls to get things working; and has been almost flawless (I had one incident that was wierd, power cycling the Prime's fixed it..)
I wish my experience could replicate yours Confused

I want My HD HomeRun Prime to work. I just want it to work with more than Windows Media Center (I understand that's Time Warner Cables fault).

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#17
My experience was pretty painless with Comcast, as well.

They had to try a few different things before Premium/Cable channels were working, but now it works like a charm.

So far I'm only using it with WMC, but I might venture out and try MythTV if someone could point me in the direction of a Windows build...
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#18
(2012-10-31, 03:14)newoski Wrote: My experience was pretty painless with Comcast, as well.

They had to try a few different things before Premium/Cable channels were working, but now it works like a charm.

So far I'm only using it with WMC, but I might venture out and try MythTV if someone could point me in the direction of a Windows build...

mythtv backend is linux only that I know of.. but of course, I could be totally wrong. See

http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/MythTV_on_Windows

and I was shocked on how easy it was to get the cable card installed and running on Comcast. I was prepared for a long drawn out battle.
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#19
(2012-10-28, 19:17)sd-jafa Wrote: HDHomeRun Prime has some new features to make life easy for viewing and DVR apps.

For example, you can save a recording with a simple http-get:
wget http://<ip addr>:5004/auto/v2?duration=1800
(this will save a 30 minute recording of virtual channel 2, auto selecting a tuner)

And XBMC is part of our internal testing of DLNA support.

Nick - Silicondust

Nick, is this in firmware that is so far unreleased? I seem to have 200120405, which according to your website is still the current version, and the above http-get functionality doesn't work for me. If it is new, any idea when it will be released?

Thanks,
Lozman.
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#20
forgive me if this is the wrong place for this, I am just looking for clarification I am looking into the possibility of purchasing the HD HomeRun Prime to use when I make the switch to Forodo later this year to take advantage of the PVR functionality. I understand that the Premium channels will not be recordable, I am with time warner, and the reason I am looking into this product is to be able to record HD channels like ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN U ect. Is this the road I should be going down or is there another alternative that I am missing? Thanks all.
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#21
(2012-11-08, 18:00)Hudson_Hawk04 Wrote: forgive me if this is the wrong place for this, I am just looking for clarification I am looking into the possibility of purchasing the HD HomeRun Prime to use when I make the switch to Forodo later this year to take advantage of the PVR functionality. I understand that the Premium channels will not be recordable, I am with time warner, and the reason I am looking into this product is to be able to record HD channels like ESPN, ESPN2, ESPN U ect. Is this the road I should be going down or is there another alternative that I am missing? Thanks all.

From what I have seen, Time Warner does not flag anything as 'Copy-Freely' except for your local channels (ABC, NBC, etc..). Everything else gets listed as 'Copy-Once', and I think Windows Media Center is the only PVR that can record those, and they can only be viewed on the PC that recorded it.

Unfortunately, I am also in a Time Warner area.

For more info, look at:

http://www.missingremote.com/forums/cabl...aster-list
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_Control_Information
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#22
well crap, where would I find information for at&t uverse as that is the only other option in my area. Thanks all.
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#23
(2012-11-05, 21:03)Lozman Wrote: Nick, is this in firmware that is so far unreleased? I seem to have 200120405, which according to your website is still the current version, and the above http-get functionality doesn't work for me. If it is new, any idea when it will be released?
Hi,

You need to install the beta release which is available from the "HDHomeRun Beta Forum" on our website.

Nick

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#24
My daughter has TWC and a Prime. Running on WMC perfectly. I built her HTPC and was there for the initial install done by TWC and a self install when she moved to a new home. The TWC install had some hiccups as the installer had never seen a prime or an htpc setup. It took him a few phone calls but was done in one ibis it. My daughter's service was local only, cost her only a few bucks. A couple if months ago they called her and said that they had made changes and she would be receiving about 180 channels and they couldn't block cablecard from receiving them. They just wanted her to know if she would pay 4.95 a month to lock in a contract at that price, so how, as long as she doesn't change her service she pays 4.95 a month. Needless to say, she is very happy with TWC now.
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#25
New user, previously using Windows 7 Media Center Edition.
Honestly the setup of this thing with an EPG and the HD HomeRun Prime is absolutely a complete pain in the ass that I have still to get working. I can do the uPNP connection no problem but getting live TV working and a guide seems to be absolutely the worse configuration out there and not a single comprehensive guide out there. Any help would be appreciated I want a single PVR Head/Client with all 3 tuners configured for XBMC on OpenElec with a guide for Comcast Philadelphia area. I have searched the OpenElec forums I have tried the XBMC forums been through the TVHeadEnd configuration and still nothing, Anyone have a link to a end to end guide for configuring the XBMC with an HD Homerun Prime 3 tuner cable card tuner with an EPG?
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#26
(2014-07-29, 02:32)hardrivn Wrote: New user, previously using Windows 7 Media Center Edition.
Honestly the setup of this thing with an EPG and the HD HomeRun Prime is absolutely a complete pain in the ass that I have still to get working. I can do the uPNP connection no problem but getting live TV working and a guide seems to be absolutely the worse configuration out there and not a single comprehensive guide out there. Any help would be appreciated I want a single PVR Head/Client with all 3 tuners configured for XBMC on OpenElec with a guide for Comcast Philadelphia area. I have searched the OpenElec forums I have tried the XBMC forums been through the TVHeadEnd configuration and still nothing, Anyone have a link to a end to end guide for configuring the XBMC with an HD Homerun Prime 3 tuner cable card tuner with an EPG?
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid...pid1759318
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#27
Thank you cannot tell you how many google site: searches I did for hdhomerun prime DBMS setup and couldn't find that.
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#28
I'm using an HD HomeRun Prime (for comcast cable) with a MythTV backend, using schedulesdirect for EPG . That's working pretty well, I can record pretty much all the channels I'm subscribing to, except for one (unfortunately important) thing - live tv is constantly buffering, it's unwatchable right now. I have no problem streaming previously recorded shows though. Using the same setup with an actual mythtv frontend instead ov xbmc+pvr has no issues whatsoever with the live tv, so it's got to be something with the xbmc pvr configuration/code.
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#29
@Coqui test the hdhr with the following path format to test http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?pid...pid1770588
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#30
thanks for the tip bry-. I've figured out in the meantime where the problem was coming from. Following the info on file access tuning from http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Optimizing_Performance did the trick for me, in particular adding the "noatime" and "nodiratime" options to the /etc/fstab
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