How-To WHS2011 & Ceton?
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2011 3:35 am
Can anyone share their how-to experience in regards to putting a ceton card in a whs2011 server and sharing/splitting the tuners out?
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I don't think this is possible as WHS2011 doesn't have Windows Media Center which is required to run the "Ceton Sharing Wizard". I could be mistaken about WHS 2011 not having Media Center however.TheOsburnFamil wrote:Can anyone share their how-to experience in regards to putting a ceton card in a whs2011 server and sharing/splitting the tuners out?
Thanks!
Thanks for the info. I did not realize you could 'manually' configure the tuners. Now you have me thinking about combining my WHS and HTPC into one machine. Have to weigh the pros/cons.TheOsburnFamil wrote:Jay, it is indeed possible.
You need to install the current 64bit Ceton driver software package, make sure your hw & fw for the ceton card are up-to-date, then you need to hit the card's internal website (192.168.200.1 by default) and configure the network settings to use your network address scheme (you can either set a static IP address for the card, or tell it to use DHCP. If you use DHCP, you should set up a DHCP Reservation by MAC so it will always have the same IP moving forward.). After that's done, you'll then need to bridge the WHS LAN connection with the Ceton NIC connection. Set a static (again either manually or via DHCP) IP address for the newly created bridge connection. From there, make sure to setup the firewall ports to allow the traffic through to the whs box and you're all set on the WHS server side.
Now, go to the clients and install the sharing utility from ceton's website & configure the clients as normal.
MissingRemote has a good article on it; but, that's what I did and it's working fine.
TheOsburnFamil wrote:Jay, it is indeed possible.
You need to install the current 64bit Ceton driver software package, make sure your hw & fw for the ceton card are up-to-date, then you need to hit the card's internal website (192.168.200.1 by default) and configure the network settings to use your network address scheme (you can either set a static IP address for the card, or tell it to use DHCP. If you use DHCP, you should set up a DHCP Reservation by MAC so it will always have the same IP moving forward.). After that's done, you'll then need to bridge the WHS LAN connection with the Ceton NIC connection. Set a static (again either manually or via DHCP) IP address for the newly created bridge connection. From there, make sure to setup the firewall ports to allow the traffic through to the whs box and you're all set on the WHS server side.
Now, go to the clients and install the sharing utility from ceton's website & configure the clients as normal.
MissingRemote has a good article on it; but, that's what I did and it's working fine.
Assuming you have a DHCP server on your network, there is no need to set a static IP (and I'd generally discourage you from doing so, as many people get it wrong setting it up).eddiechi wrote: I have been trying to share my tuners to 3 client PC's on my network ... could anyone elaborate on how to switch to a static Ip or set a static IP up? It seems everytime I try to allocate the tuners and WMC sets up the bridge between the Ceton card and Local Network it loses the ability to detect the tuners.
I am curious on the 2nd part here. I tried to do something similar, but with my regular PC. I was able to specify a DHCP reservation on my router to give the ceton card a static ip based on its mac address. I am trying to do the same for the network bridge, but it looks like the mac address for the bridge changes everytime I restart my pc. Is there some other way to assign a static ip using a DHCP reservation for a network bridgeTheOsburnFamil wrote:Jay, it is indeed possible.
You need to install the current 64bit Ceton driver software package, make sure your hw & fw for the ceton card are up-to-date, then you need to hit the card's internal website (192.168.200.1 by default) and configure the network settings to use your network address scheme (you can either set a static IP address for the card, or tell it to use DHCP. If you use DHCP, you should set up a DHCP Reservation by MAC so it will always have the same IP moving forward.). After that's done, you'll then need to bridge the WHS LAN connection with the Ceton NIC connection. Set a static (again either manually or via DHCP) IP address for the newly created bridge connection. From there, make sure to setup the firewall ports to allow the traffic through to the whs box and you're all set on the WHS server side.
Now, go to the clients and install the sharing utility from ceton's website & configure the clients as normal.
MissingRemote has a good article on it; but, that's what I did and it's working fine.
To clarify, are you trying to make the InfiniTV web page externally accessible? If so, why? Can you get to the page on the WHS box?rekd0514 wrote:....so this works for me, but I can't get Remote Web Access to work no matter what I try. I verified ports 80 , 443, and 3389 are open in pfsense and I have DHCP lease/reservations for both the Ceton and WHS from what I can see. Even with UPNP turned on it won't work....? Any ideas? Should NAT reflection be on or off? The errors that come up are no internet available and UPNP is off? They both are on and working...
Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!
erkotz wrote:To clarify, are you trying to make the InfiniTV web page externally accessible? If so, why? Can you get to the page on the WHS box?
If 6 is red, you need to contact your MSO to pair your CableCARDrekd0514 wrote:Hey I'm curious about what you get red check marks on in the Ceton Diagnostics Tool on the WMC PC and the WHS 2011 PC.
I am getting red on the WMC on:
Devices: 1, 3, and 4, all understandable considering the ceton is is the WHS
CableCard: 6 is this one supposed to be green?
WHS:
Devices: 2 also understandable since WHS doesn't have WMC
CableCard: 6 again
I should also clarify that I just got a new Ceton from RMA. Do I need to contact my cable company?
Good solution, thanks.GregV wrote:I'll add my recent experience here.
I've been running my infinitv4 in my whs2011 box for over a year without problems with three tuners to my HTPC and one tuner to one of my laptops. Well the laptop died unexpectantly a few months ago and I just now got around to reassigning the tuner to my HTPC.
The problem: I couldn't just unassign the tuner as the laptop was completely dead and I couldn't run the tuner reset as I have the card in the server. When I tried running the tuner reset from within the diagnostics tool it would crash with a file not found error.
The solution: I read somewhere online where someone had a similar problem after rebuilding there PC with a different name. They were able to rename the PC back to the old name, uncheck the tuner to release it, and then name the computer back to the new name and setup the tuners again. This worked for me as well. I had win7 in a VM that I renamed to the same name as my old laptop and I was able to release the tuner to reassign. I now have all four tuners setup for the HTPC. It was a little bit of a hassle but at least it's working.
Hopefully this will help someone else in the future.