Channel changing

[wrbrd]

Win7 MCE

Core 2 quad 2.4 GHz

4GB ram

Hauppauge HD PVR

Comcast (Pace) RNG110 STB

I had a Motorola DTC 6200 STB and had firewire channel changing working great (thank you Tim Moore) but Comcast could not get my box to work right and replaced it with the RNG110. They said it was the only box they have with firewire now. I have tried to use the firewire on the new box but get an error in device manager. There doesn’t seem to be any driver. The hardware ID is:

AVC\Pace&RNG110&TYP_9&id_0

AVC\Pace&RNG110&TYP_9

I have also tried to use the ir blaster on the HDPVR, the MCE blaster and the learning function. No joy. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it.

[babgvant]

I use a pace box, it’s just a little more involved.

Grab these drivers and then “have disk” to force the Pace driver to install.

[wrbrd]

Thank you for sending the link. I still can’t seem to get it to work. Even though I can install the driver it seems it is the same driver I had installed. In device manager under Imaging Devices it reports:

AV/C Tuner Device

Unknown IEEE5068 Device

Unknown IEEE989 Device

Under Other Devices it reports:

Pace RNG110 AVC Panel

It shows a yellow warning symbol. I have tried removing the drivers and restating. On the restart windows installs the imaging device drivers and fails on the AVC Panel driver.

 

[babgvant]

I don’t have access to the PC right now to see which driver to assign, but I remember having to browse->have disk->browse for the files then force it for each device.

[wrbrd]

Thank you. Yes, that is what I was doing. It kept telling me that the best drivers were installed. Being this is my first time with Win7 I did not know how to stop it from installing some default drivers. I figured it out. I got it to install the drivers, I think. My device manager now reports under imaging devices:

AC Tuner Device

Unknown IEEE 13945068 Device

Unknown IEEE 13945068 Device

Unknown IEEE 1394989 Device

There are no warning flags. I have tried to change channels with the MCE remote, the keyboard and the guide. It shuts down my PVR box then MCE reports that there is no signal. The PVR comes back on the same channel it was and MCE shows the channel is changed.

[wrbrd]

Update – The drivers do not install on the unknown devices. When I try it says they are installing but when I go to the properties it says No driver installed even after a restart.

[jrandeck]

I think that’s normal.  With my Motorola box, I get a tuner device, a panel device and two unknown devices, which can be ignored.

[babgvant]

Forgot to post this up last night, the devices should look like this.

[wrbrd]

I may have flubbed a step or something but I did get the driver to load this time and my device manager does look like that now. Thank you. The computer still won’t change the channels on the STB. After I enter the new channel my PVR goes off and MCE says no signal, then weak signal, and stays on the original channel.

[wrbrd]

Update – I can get the channel to change using the cmd line with “channel -v -f 2 ###” I checked the reg entry and it is “-v -f  2 %c”. MCE still does not change the channel.

[wrbrd]

All good now. Bad reg entry. Thank you!

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