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#447 HD PVR recording
Since the Hauppauge HD PVR simply sends a stream from a cable or satellite box, allow for local_conf.py to allow simple stream dump recording, without having to create a false channel to trick it into recording a stream. As it is now with Freevo 1.90, you have to open 2 terminals one to start the recordserver and the other to start Freevo. This is because the recordserver terminal is constantly searching for a channel that doesn't exist. It will record after using a second terminal to start Freevo GUI and programming it as a manual recording. It doesn't acknowledge the recordserver is up, even though it is. This should be corrected before Freevo 2.0 is released.
HI Phil,
Sorry I cannot follow your discussion. You don't say anything about what your configuration.
I think you should take your problem to the user discussion list as I'm sure that someone will have a solution for you.
I apologize if I placed this into the wrong category, I simply assumed it was a configuration issue. This isn't a problem, I can get Freevo to do a scheduled recording with this device, using this method. I already spent countless times submitting this to the Freevo Mailing List and I got some helpful advice. I used the advice to create a a local conf.py that would work with this device, so for the most part, I'm happy with what Freevo is doing. My point to adding this to the wish list, was in the hope that Freevo's Dev. team could possiibly find an easier way to start up the recordserver for this particular device. As best I can tell (and I admit I could be wrong), this minor problem stems from Freevo expecting a channel to be set for any recording. Since the channel selection for this device is controlled by the cable or satellite box, not a tuner attached to the computer/server, I was hoping an option could be added to Freevo's local conf. to record without assigning a channel to that recording. When I record with this device now, if I look at the terminal I used to start the recordserver after a recording has begun, it indicates it couldn't find a channel for this recording, even though it records it anyway. So my goal is to make Freevo more user friendly for other people who use the Hauppauge HD PVR device, that was all I was wishing for. Hopefully this clarifies why I submitted this.
This is my configuration to use the Hauppauge HD PVR