XBMC + HD Homerun integration

Hi,

I'm trying to set up my HD Homerun for the first time, but I'm having a little trouble getting it integrated into XBMC as described in this thread.
http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtop...sc&start=0

I've been using XBMC for quite a while, but when things didn't work straight off, I restored a clean system image so I could start from scratch. So from there I've...
Hooked up the HD Homerun to my router and plugged in one PC to test with.
I've downloaded and installed the latest versions of the HD Homerun software, XBMC, VLC and KMPlayer.
I have scanned all channels on both tuners using "HD Homerun setup" and can view them with VLC.
HD Homerun setup seems to have successfully generated the .strm files XBMC needs for each channel.
I've added the folder containing the .strm files to XBMC's video section.

My problem is this. When I try to launch any of the .strm files from XBMC, nothing happens. Well, not nothing, sometimes I get a "opening file tuner 0" message, then nothing. If I try enough times I'll eventually get a "Playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items" message.

I've also tried using an external player from within XBMC (VLC, KMPlayer) but didn't have any luck with them either.

Enabling the Event server in XBMC gets me (very) choppy audio, but no video. None of the other network settings appear to have any effect, except "Autostart uPnP client" which just crashes XBMC. What I did get in the end was really unstable and XBMC eventually stopped trying to play it, but it makes me think it's got to be a network setting I've overlooked some where, but where? I've never used the streaming features of XBMC before now.

If anyone can offer any advice on what the network settings in XBMC should look like for use with the HD Homerun, it would be much appreciated.

I've also saved the xbmc log file and one of the strm files if anyone cares enough to take a look, but I couldn't find where to attach them.

Any other info I've forgotten, please let me know.

cheers,

Location: Australia
OS: Windows XP SP2
Device ID: 12102DA8

Well non of the devs have a hdhomerun.. Back when i added it i had one, but no service so I just gave it a shot and it worked for some people.

We'd need to update our hdhomerun lib as well as getting some with dev ability to test and fix it again. Think it has been broken for quite some time, atleast on windows.

You could try and boot you system with a XBMC live cd and see if it still works in linux.

Thanks, Elupus.

Not exactly what I wanted to hear obviously, but thanks for your reply anyway, good to know it's not something I'm doing wrong.

It's a shame it's broken. Seemed a relatively easy way to get TV into XBMC. If I had any real dev skills I'd offer my services to try and get this back up and running, but sadly, not my field at all.

Will give the Live CD a go tomorrow.

cheers,

PS - It must have been an old build I was using when I was playing around with the Event server settings, they don't seem to exist in the current build...not that it really matters now.

Hi Elupus,

I posted about this problem over at the Silicondust forums before making this thread. After I told them that you thought the XBMC code was broken, one of the Silicondust guys, jasonl, offered to work something out with you (developer) guys to get this feature back into XBMC.

His message was...

Quote:If the XBMC guys are interested in updating HDHomeRun support we can work with them to get a test platform they can develop against. If whoever will be doing the work can open a trouble ticket we can work with them from there. http://www.silicondust.com/support/troubletickets/

I'm not sure if you're interested, or if he was aware of the PVR Frontend development going on anyway, but the ideas seem to tie in together so I thought I'd pass his message along and see what happens.

fifthQ Wrote:Hi,

I'm trying to set up my HD Homerun for the first time, but I'm having a little trouble getting it integrated into XBMC as described in this thread.
http://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtop...sc&start=0

I've been using XBMC for quite a while, but when things didn't work straight off, I restored a clean system image so I could start from scratch. So from there I've...
Hooked up the HD Homerun to my router and plugged in one PC to test with.
I've downloaded and installed the latest versions of the HD Homerun software, XBMC, VLC and KMPlayer.
I have scanned all channels on both tuners using "HD Homerun setup" and can view them with VLC.
HD Homerun setup seems to have successfully generated the .strm files XBMC needs for each channel.
I've added the folder containing the .strm files to XBMC's video section.

My problem is this. When I try to launch any of the .strm files from XBMC, nothing happens. Well, not nothing, sometimes I get a "opening file tuner 0" message, then nothing. If I try enough times I'll eventually get a "Playlist playback aborted. Too many consecutive failed items" message.

I've also tried using an external player from within XBMC (VLC, KMPlayer) but didn't have any luck with them either.

Enabling the Event server in XBMC gets me (very) choppy audio, but no video. None of the other network settings appear to have any effect, except "Autostart uPnP client" which just crashes XBMC. What I did get in the end was really unstable and XBMC eventually stopped trying to play it, but it makes me think it's got to be a network setting I've overlooked some where, but where? I've never used the streaming features of XBMC before now.

If anyone can offer any advice on what the network settings in XBMC should look like for use with the HD Homerun, it would be much appreciated.

I've also saved the xbmc log file and one of the strm files if anyone cares enough to take a look, but I couldn't find where to attach them.

Any other info I've forgotten, please let me know.

cheers,

Location: Australia
OS: Windows XP SP2
Device ID: 12102DA8

I had the same problem using nightlies until I realized that going to [Settings-->Network] and enabling the "Share video and music libraries through uPnP" fixed my problems. With it unchecked, I got nothing when clicking the individual .strm entries. At least I can confirm that through Windows SVN:32246, HDHomerun is piping through flawlessly with uPnP enabled. I also had to click "unblock" when the popup through Windows7x64 came up.

Well, a big thank you to you, Nitro51! That seems to have done the trick.

Admittedly, after 9.11 didn't seem to work any better, I went straight back to an SVN I trusted that dates from somewhere between 9.04 and 9.11. The "Share video and music libraries through uPnP" option didn't exist in that build. I re-installed 9.11, checked the box as you said, and all worked perfectly.

In case anyone's interested, in the meantime I've been using the HDHomerun with DVBViewer as described in this thread...
http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid...=dvbviewer
It isn't as seamless as using XBMC's inbuilt player, but it does have the advantages of quick channel change, an excellent EPG and timeshift/recording functions. Plus, if you're using one of the XBMC Mediastream skin variations, someone's already adapted it for DVBViewer's OSD. Just another option.

Thanks again, Nitro51.

Glad it worked! Also glad the devs don't have to chase their tails because seems to be working great here as well.

BTW, you're reply helped me as well. Thanks to your link (thread I didnt know existed), I was finally able to use XBMC as a gateway to Maximus Arcade and MyTheatre in a much cleaner manner then I was using.

Cheers.

That's just weird.. Enabling sharing over upnp should not matter at all.. (well unless this setting is for the HDHomerun, maybe it disabled something else on that hw then)

But our setting for upnp should really not matter at all.

elupus Wrote:That's just weird.. Enabling sharing over upnp should not matter at all.. (well unless this setting is for the HDHomerun, maybe it disabled something else on that hw then)

But our setting for upnp should really not matter at all.

I'm thinking it's more of a Windows firewall issue. However, as soon as I enabled sharing on XBMC with this machine, I got the firewall popup where I chose to unblock. I could swear that I had to unblock manually on my main HTPC machine, but that was some time ago and my memory stinks.

I haven't run Linux base in some time to comment on those builds. I don't think they would suffer from the same issue, but I never used HDHomerun with XMBC on anything but Windows7x64 base, so perhaps someone on another base can comment...

You could be right, Nitro51. I was aware that firewalls could be an issue when I started though, so I've had XBMC + HDHomerun on the exceptions list the whole time, and I certainly didn't get a pop up after checking the share option in XBMC.

Also, I still can't get it to work using the "trusted" SVN I mentioned in my last post. Weird as it may be, the only real difference in the set ups is that share over UPnP option. So I'm not 100% convinced it is a firewall issue.

It's working fine with 9.11 now though, so I'm thinking if it ain't broken...