Hauppauge Colossus with Shaw Direct Satellite STB

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danny6869

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Hauppauge Colossus with Shaw Direct Satellite STB

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Post by danny6869 » Sat Feb 16, 2013 10:41 pm

Anyone out ther have this configuration woing with windows media center? MCE detects the tuner, but will only let me choose between rogers, and FibeTV? I can't for the life of me figure out how how to have MCE give me another option for this tuner.

(all of my other tuners are fine)

Help!?

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Post by danny6869 » Mon Feb 18, 2013 7:34 pm

Just incase anyone is looking for the answer. I had to select shaw direct from within the hauppauge software that came with the mce drivers.

(The colossus seems very flaky so far)

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Post by superbob » Thu Mar 14, 2013 1:05 am

Are you still having issues, I have had this setup for over a year and works well

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Post by danny6869 » Tue Apr 16, 2013 6:46 pm

It's working great with a single Colossus. Now I have ventured out to buy a second Colossus, and a new set of nightmares has begun!

The hauppauge drivers do not appear to allow a DUAL-COLOSSUS setup to work in MCE. I have found some information to get this working, except apparently the IR blasting. (trying to find out how to make that happen with the second card)

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Post by vomlet » Sun Mar 23, 2014 7:33 pm

3-23-1014 . Works now for me. I too had to run the "hauppauge software".
After you install the drive it appears in the programs.
win 7 - 64bit.

www.hauppauge.com > download and install, reboot after install : drivers + MCE + IR blater .
- start > hauppauge > setupTuner(something). - then choose the input
- in tuner config app -choose the input you need, composite or hdmi, I use composite.
- reboot. If I didn't reboot, the MCE didn't see the config change on the tuner

my HP IR blaster stopped working, so I then plugged in the IR blaster that comes with the HD Collussus tuner, BUT
- install IR blaster dirvers
- run the IR blaster config,
- choose your cable box or satalite box, test
- reboot,



It wasn't working in MCE for me at 1st either.

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