I just received a notice from my cable provider Optimum that my CableCARD will stop working in October 2024. I've been using a HDHomeRun PRIME (HDHR3-CC) with Win7 WMC since 2013, but it now looks like Optimum is finally cutting the cord on the CableCARD.

I would like to switch to OTA and was...

I decided to rescan my WMC Ultimate 64bit system for channel changes and additions, Nearly all of the channels I receive through my HDHomerun Connect are clustered about 17 miles or less from my home in Tamarac. The towers are in the North Miami area. I have mounted my Mohu Sky 60 antenna on my...

I posted this thread under Windows Media Center, but perhaps someone here may have some idea about what could possibly be going on.

Read the first post in the thread for a summary of this really strange problem.
Bottom line: WMC is working fine; the HDHomeRun Primes are working fine; but MANY...

Hey guys, I have just returned to using a cable card with a tuning adapter after not using it for a year. It worked well for years. Now with a new card and tuning adapter and my W8.1 box, I managed to get some channels but am missing what I think are the SDV Channels like the new MGM PLUS (formerly...

Hi all
I had a second prime laying around so today i plugged it in for fun but didnt see the second prime. Got me thinking maybe media center wont support two primes for 6 tuners. It didnt occur to me that there may be a limit. Is there?
Thanks guys

Getting ready to cut the cord and plan to replace my HDHomerun Prime Cablecard units with a Connect Quattro so I can record 4 OTA channels at once.

I have a question that hopefully someone who already has this can answer: Does the Connect Quattro show the signal strength for the channels it finds?...

Hi Everyone. Thinking about cutting the cord. I've been running two Ceton cable cards on WMC since 2011 and I'm fed up with basic TV pricing with Comcast.

My plan is to ditch my two Ceton InfiniTV 4 cards out of my Windows 7 WMC HTPC and switch to HD Homerun 2 or 4 tuner network tuner. I will...

General questions:
Has anyone had an older HDHR get bricked by loading the SiliD HDHR software on a Windows 10 PC?
Is there any way to do a firmware factory reset on these units?

Details:
Am in the process of building new PC for HTPC - got a new TV and would like to do 4K but the old Windows 8.1...

I have a HDHomeRun Prime that I watch TV through several Xbox 360s via Windows 8.1 WMC. It has worked well for several years, with minor issues. About once every 3 or 4 months, WMC would just loose the tuners. It would usually be a 15-20 minute ordeal to reinstall the tuners, but the system would...

Hi all-

I was a member at the old Green Button, I just got back into WMC after a couple of years. Thank you to the new forum owners for creating this new version!

Here is my problem: I built a fresh install of Windows 11 with WMC version 8.8.5 using an Athlon 64 X2-4400 motherboard with 4 GB RAM...

I did.

Was just curious if others here have. What few of us left that is...

Silicon Dust is poised to release a new quad tuner to replace the HDHR5-4K. It's called the HDHomerun Flex 4K. Just got my hands on one today. Seems identical to the Connect 4K except it sports a USB for DVR storage to disk. Working great so far.

Have a Ceton InfiniTV6 in my Windows 7 PC running WMC. Cox Cable just transitioned to transcoding all cable TV to 720p, so I want to add an OTA tuner to my system to allow OTA channels to be recorded alongside my Ceton doing its Cox thing. My OTA antenna is positioned as of now receives all local...

using the HDHOMERUN prime.
just notices that when I use the app on my iPad, it get color bars and screeching noises.
It is an older iPad, 5 years or so. , but my iPhone 6 works, as well as every other device like Xbox and PS3. - it stopped working last week circa 8/20

any help or suggestions out...

Hi,
On my Windows 7 machine. It finds 2 sets of the cable card
Digital Cable (CableCardTM) (3 Tuners)
Digital Cable (ClearQAM) (3 tuners)
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On my Windows 10 Machine it only finds
Digital Cable (ClearQAM) (3 tuners)
WIN7 dig cable.JPG

I already tried going through the Digital...

Good Morning Guys;

I want to upgrade the computer the DVR is connected. It is currently running Windows 7 32 bit. The service is running great. I want to build a Windows 2016 Server 64 bit as its new home, but I don't want to lose all of my existing recordings. CAn I just move all my recording to...

I don't have any cable TV, all I have is OTA via my hdhomerun two-tuner.
One of the old beige colored units.
Reinstalled Windows and did a WMC tuner setup and it thinks both tuners are QAM.
Re-ran a few times. Every time it either thinks both tuners are Clear QAM or it thinks one is QAM and the...

I read about these indoor over the air HD antennas and how they work with one TV only. So made me think, then they probably can't work with HD HomeRun 4 tunnel OTA boxes and with solutions that can potentially record and live tv multiple channels at a time. Am I incorrect in my thinking or does the...

Is anybody aware of a way to modify the Guide name on the HD home run setup tab? I am getting a lot of unknown ch information. and am trying to clean up the information on my emby server and it reads the information from this section. hd home run setup tab.PNG

I didn't see any mention of this here:

Could this work on WMC 8.1 with the right codecs? Or, could be the straw that breaks even the die-hard WMC user?

I am using an HDHomeRun Prime on a WMC Win 7 set up with tuning adapter and cable card on Spectrum in Austin TX. Once or twice a month, I lose the channel and it goes to the image below. If I tune away from the channel and then back, it resolve the issue. The big problem is when I am away from home...

I'm not sure if this is a tuner issue or a WMC issue...

Connect Quatro has 4 tuners, and I have my options in WMC set to record all episodes of some series with a 3 minute Start when possible lead in and 3 minute Stop when possible lead out...

If episodes on the same channel are airing back to...

I just installed an antenna and I hooked it up to my HD Homerun. I scanned and found a bunch of channels.

Two channels I should be able to get and really want to get, NBC and CW, were detected in the scan. When I click on them they work and the picture looks great. But when I try to tune to them...

Last night many of our digital broadcast stations changed frequencies ( zip 01701). I rescanned for the new channels everywhere: in WMC7, in the HDHomeRun Setup program, and on the CONNECTs themselves. All the stations were found everywhere.

BUT... when I tune WMC7 to one of the stations, it comes...

Several times over the years I've had an HDHR still light up, connect to network, , try to tune in WMC, front channel led comes on but no picture.
power supply will show ok with a meter when disconnected from the tuner, and since the tuner lights up and tries, its easy to assume the power supply...

So something very weird happened over the weekend and maybe someone here can help shed light on what transpired and why.

my setup
windows 7 HTPC with HDHomerunPrime (CableCARD/Comcast is my provider)

PS3- USES the DNLA to access the channels
Xbox one- utilized the APP to tune into the channels...

Should be here Thursday. I certainly hope their Win7 drivers are up to snuff.

I currently have three older Connects; I'm not happy with the performance, and I'm not sure how much is weather and how much of it is splitting my antenna to three separate units, each with their own internal splitter...

A couple days ago I installed a HDHOMERUN CONNECT QUATRO. It is connected to my homemade 4-bay bow-tie antenna and receiving local channels through an outside wall. I am not yet a cord-cutter as such but I wanted to checkout the content on the 32 local channels I can detect. Then I will experiment...

Good Day Fine People,

This is hoping I finally get the help I have been seeking for years to resolve my issues.
I am running Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center and HDHomeRun Prime, and each time my machine starts, it sits of Waiting/Searching for Tuner and never finds it. In the past to resolve...

Has anyone recently installed WMC?

I have HDHomeRun Prime 6 tuners

I recently tried reinstalling on two different machines one with win7 and the other on wind8, they both installed but could not get them to play LiveTV
the Win8 machine wouldn't recognize the tuners
the Win7 machine recognized the...

Hurry up and get this while it's free! (EDIT: no need to hurry, it was made permanently free).

I just noticed this app ( Channels - Live TV ) is free today (normally $14.99) and it looks like it is the first time it has been free.

I didn't know anything about it, but I check for free iOS apps...

Looks like it's scheduled for 2019
LOL, I thought this product was due out last year?

At least the website shows an actual retail box.

I Live in Queen Creek AZ and have Mediacom cable as my internet provider. I tried hooking up the cable to my hd home run connect and after a ch scan it was able to get all my local ch via clear qam through the hd home run program. I know crazy they have not encrypted the locals yet. My question is...

I recently read that the Silicon Dust app supports DRM so I am planning for the future. My current setup is a Ceton 4 tuner running Windows 7 and 4 Echos. I though I would pick up a couple Primes to stash for the future but I find them unavailable. Does anyone know the future plans for...

Just tested it on my Win10 PC and Android phone. Came out a few days ago. Had to initiate a channel rescan for the setup app. DVR support is not present at the moment.

YES!

Hello,

I moved from Ceton (it died, and the company has basically gone under) to SiliconDust and I've been experiencing a consistent lack of tuner reliability.

Notes:
- Signal strength is great
- I have 2 HDHRs. I moved one to direct-connect to the HTPC to remove the potential of network...

Good info on the new products:

Really hoping they get the DRM dvr stuff worked out on their dvr service, but right now I'm just trying to visualize/plan how I will use it when available.

Current setup is a HDHomerun Prime 3 tuner using windows 7 and media center to distribute tv over wired network to 4 tv's throughout the house...

I have been having picture quality issues over last few weeks so in my trouble shooting I went ahead and put a spare HDHomerun onto my windows media center and removed the original box. In doing so I simply opened the HDhomrunsetup installed program and let it update the firmware to the latest. I...

My two Windows 7 Pro machines give a Weak Signal error in WMC when I try to watch TBS-HD or TNT-HD despite signal strength of 92 to 95% on HDHomerun Config. Problems occur in live viewing or on scheduled recordings. All other channels work, at least for now.Scheduled recording also fails with Weak...

I just reformatted windows media center server after years of it just running in the closet. During set up it only finds my two internal tuners and not the silicon dust tuner. It's been so long since I've had to set it up I do not remember if I have to do anything special. I've tried restarting the...

I have had sporadic cases of the following sort of error on both my Prime units. Either Live TV freezes or a recording shorts, usually with a subscription required . It tends to happen on one more than the other, but that one is the one that WMC usually picks on first.

I once was told by SD this...

Hello,

Will I have any problems with both WMC and Plex using my SDHR Prime tuners (2 3-tuner units) at the same time? I ask because as soon as I setup Plex and connected it to my SDHR tuners, I suddenly was getting No Signal on once channel (805 FOX). Then I went into the the Tuner Diagnostic tool...

So I am sorry if some of these questions have been posted before. I have read many many posts and lots of my questions have been answered, but I have one more. I have an HDHomeRun Prime, and I have it working with Plex, the HDHomeRun app on my cell phone, my PC, a few Smart TVs, and an Xbox One. My...

Hello,

I have two HomeRun PRIME tuners. Suddenly, 1 of the 6 tuners will no longer tune to channel 818. It's in my WMC Guide, so that's not the issue. I can test this by going into Digital Tuner Diagnostics / Signal and the one tuner simply won't go to 818. When I type in 818, the tuner ignores...

I went to turn on redzone and now I'm not getting it. The SD channel comes in fine so I called crapCast. They said I don't get high def because I'm not paying the HD technology fee. I told them that is the ONLY channel I'm not getting. And they're reply is we can add it for an additional $9.95!!!!!...

I have noticed today that using WMC with windows 8 OS that I keep getting video stuttering and pixel loss of at least half the screen. This does not seem to happen on the same channels with Kodi. In Kodi though I am getting lots of overall crashes though and wonder if there is a connection. Today I...

I'm in no rush to install this new firmware/driver set, but interested if anyone sees any good/bad if they do.

I just went through a re-install of a new cable card with Verizon. What a nightmare! Their tech spent the whole day trying to get any of the cards he had to work and it came down to the data number being correct when viewed in HD Prime but with Verizon it kept coming up a completely different...

I currently have a Ceton Infinitv4 in my media PC in my living room and an HDHR Prime in my office. I think the IFTV is dying and I am tired of messing with it. I am going to buy another HDHR Prime today. My plan is to put the 2nd Prime in the office with the first one, where my router is. My whole...

Yesterday, we noticed that one of the tuners wasn't being used. I ignored it until this morning because 2 of other tuners were working and we were recording things(via WMC7). Today I was watching TV and remembered the issue so I went and pulled the plug on it, wanted 30 seconds, put the plug back...

I have been relatively happy running WMC with an Infinitv PCIe6 for some time. REcently I added an HDHR Prime and installed to try out PlexDVR. All software is installed on the same computer.

I just tried out some recordings on PlexDVR starting yesterday. Mini-review, the interface is promising,...

Hi everyone,
I dont use HD Homerun tuners, but thought this might be of interest to some of you.

Howdy-

I'm not sure what's causing the issue, router, or the hdhomerun- but I can be watching live or recorded tv, and occasionally the signal appears to drop, leaving recordings that are only half as long, or a frozen picture on the tv for live tv. I've recently upgraded to an HDHR3-US from the...

Received this email from Silicon Dust yesterday.

Important - disable firmware auto-update on your Samsung TV today. Do not install the 1121 firmware.
Back in June we released HDHomeRun live TV and DVR support for RUI supported by Samsung 2016 series 6, series 7, and series 8 smart TVs. DVR direct...

Hello everyone,

I love my prime, but I have recently run into an issue that I am not sure I can figure out by myself.

I am NYC cablevision/optimum customer.

On shows that run for an hour, specifically Reliable Sources on CNNHD (725) that airs Sundays from 11am to 12pm, the recordings will end...

I've an InfiniTV4 user and about to ditch it because my signal strength is good for my TivoHD but not good enough for the InifniTV to keep a lock. Is the HD Home Run as picky as InifniTV4?

This is my first post, although I have been benefiting from the forum for some time now. I may be in totally the wrong area posting here, but not sure where it should fit. Some background, I use WMC on a Dell PC running Windows 7 Professional. I have been having great success using it as a basic...

I'll try to be complete...

I'm In Richmond, VA (Chesterfield).
New, but fully functional FiOS install
Removed FiOS STB, looking at Clear Qam
Vizio TV finds all 'locals' just fine.
Samsung TV finds all 'locals' just fine.
HDHR Extend / HDTC-2US finds all 'locals' just fine.
I can watch all channels...

I've got an HDHomeRun Prime with CableCard that generally works pretty well with WMC on 4 different Windows 7 PC's on my local network. On occasion, after shutting a PC down completely or closing WMC, some of the tuners still show in use (lights still lit on front of HDHomeRun).

For example, if I...

I have a bit of a head scratcher... at least for me. I have two HDHomerun Primes, both bought at the same time and had been working flawlessly, however, one has recently lost the ability to see half of the available channels. I have done scans in the SD software and from the tuner interface itself...

WMC won't start a timed recording on a HDHomeRun Connect. I can record the currently playing show OK, but a future program just keeps showing This program will be recorded even after it should have started.
This is on Win10 running 8.1 WMC.

I have hdhomerun Prime with cablecard. After the latest Microsoft update I cannot view or record. I have no issue with my windows 7 machine. The issues is only with copy protected channels. Local channels are not an issue.

When I issue the following command
c:\windows\ehome\ehprivjob.exe...

Every once in a while when I change channels I will get the No TV Signal Detected message and I will have to keep changing until the picture comes back. It appears to be random with no defined pattern. Has anyone else noticed this? Is it a problem with the HomeRun or a setting in WMC?

Hello, first post on the forum. Looking for some help.

Been using HDPRIME for about 2 years no problem. About a month ago every recording starting being glitchy and freezing in WMC. Basically unwatchable. Sometimes signal loss during recording. Also, watching live tv in WMC is the same problem....

I have two HDHomeRunPrime devices, six tuners available. I installed TunerSalad and my WMC recognizes all six tuners, so does ServerWMC and pretty much every other application.

For some reason, when I have five shows scheduled at the same time slot, only four record. I thought tuner salad would...

Has anyone ever seen this before?

I made a setup for my father a couple years ago and besides the couple hiccups here and there its worked flawless for him. Its just a couple homeruns using his antenna. It seems ever since microsoft changed their guide source its been all messed up haha. However I...

So... Everything that glitters really isn't gold. With the exception of not having to reboot my system, my Prime's are experiencing the same issues with signal that my Ceton's did.

I've tried reaching out to SD for help but their support is cumbersome and pulling logs is a pain in the butt! All...

In order to list only the subscribed channels (I.e 'lineup'):

In an ideal world, WMC setup would pull the lineup from a source such as the HDHomeRun: I'm assuming (but need to verify)that this list is a list of subscribed channels. If not, the ability to import a lineup from a text file would...

Has anyone used both a HDHomerun connect and prime on the same WMC? I just switched to the HDHomerun we were originally running just a single Ceton 6ETH and just got fed up with all the subscription required and pairing issues. The plan was to just run the Connect and get rid of Comcast/Ceton...

Most of the time WMC records things just fine but there will be some weeks where 2 or three days out of the week it records like 5 minutes of an episode and then just stops. Can anyone shed any light on this?

I'm not very familiar with the ATSC setup in comparison to CableCARD setup in WMC. I have a friend of mine that I gave my backup HTPC so he could have an OTA setup in Phoenix.

Well long story short the motherboard died in the PC so a new one was installed and Windows 7 had to be reinstalled. Going...

This is likely addressed somewhere in the owner's thread, but I couldn't find it after scanning virtually every page ....

I have 2 HDHomeRun Primes that I set up to use with WMC on my main Windows 7 HTPC. They work perfectly.

In the pairing process I had to provide the Host ID from WMC while...

Have Ceton ETH6 for 2 years. Adding more tuners. Price of HDHR Prime is really good right now. Can get second cable card from Comcast for only $1.50/mo. So in stead of spending 3x as much on another Ceton ETH, I want to keep my current ETH and add HDHR Prime. I only use one WMC PC, 1 xbox360, and...

I know a few people have this device now. The latest patch was released for the MPEG2. First question; did that help with the interlacing etc.. Second question can I play 'Steam' off this device? I know they have a GRID environment but can I access STEAM off my LAN PC's and will I need the GTX...

So if my cable card is paired and working fine with a Ceton device and I take it out of the Ceton device and put it into a Silicon Prime, does it have to be re-paired? I don't know if it's the card that is being paired, the box that is being paired or the card TO the box that is being paired.
I'd...

I have questions related to tuner priorities because of a tuner conflict message I was receiving last night. I have 3 computers set up in my home networked to my HDHomeRun Prime. Probably 95% of the television consumption in my house is done from my living room computer which also has 2 ATSC tuners...

I'm using a HDHR3 - prime tuner on a Comcast cable connection with a W7 Media Center. Occasionally (like once a day or so) a recording starts as scheduled and then terminates before the end of the scheduled time. In the event logs of the PC I found the following, “Event 3 – Recording of CBS News...

I had an old HDHR Dual tuner installed, and working with Windows Media Center.

With the introduction of Silicon Dust's TV app for XBMC, I decided to try one of their newer tuners that were capable of doing this (HDHR4, I think).

We use WMC as the backend to do all of the work.

I ran the Silicon...

Hi - i am experiencing loss of image on sd and hd

i am running 50megabits download internet speed
with Windows 8.1 WMC PRO
HD HomeRun Prime
streaming either directly on a laptop or Xbox 360 on both is distorted.

i have tried to utilize settings in WMC however I just want to figure out how to...

You can now watch live tv on Plex using salphonso's plugin channel: wmc2Plex and ServerWMC. It works with DLNA tuners like the HomeRun.

Its still in the alpha state and it doesnt look all that pretty right now, but the basic functionality is there and works better & easier to install than the...

Using hdhomerun dual with WMC 7. Internet coming through router to managed switch where all devices connect to one another. How can I best configure switch to reduce video freezes and optimize switch traffic? Using xbox360 as extender.

I did a cursory search here, but I'm not finding anything directly related to my issue:

I have 2 Primes that have been working great for some time. They are connected to my network via an 8 port switch. On rare occasion, I have been getting error messages when trying to watch live TV stating that...

I’m trying to help a friend who wants to use a SiliconDust HDHR4-US OTA tuner with a laptop. The laptop has a wireless connection to the router. Can he connect the HDHR4-US directly to the laptop using an Ethernet connection? IOW the tuner would gets it data from the laptop’s Ethernet vs. from the...

I mean, seriously. I love the idea; 8 OTA tuners. But I see what they did there; four seemingly independent 2-tuner setups in a rack mount.

What else is in that package to make it cost WAY more than 4x a Dual?

Hi all. I got my parents a second hdhr-3us for their system. Like the first one, I got a dedicated network card for it.

The hdhr software finds the tuner.
Media center only finds the old tuner(shows up as 2, naturally).

What is up?

1. Is

I have three TVs in my house and each one is connected to an HTPC. I already have one CableCard from FIOS and I want to get a HDHomeRun Prime so I can watch TV from all the TVs connected to the HTPCs around the house. I want each HTPC to have access to two tuners at any given time, which...

HDHomerun Dual is now CONNECT. Plus is now EXTEND.

Why rename these products? Are they any different than before?

What do you see happening with the Prime with the official signing of STELAR?
Do you see the cable companies pulling some stunt such as removing all non-cable owned equipment from the networks(similar to rules with non company owned cable modems)?

Hi,

I'm having some issues setting up WMC (Win7). My current setup is 2 HDHomerun tuners (HDHR4-2US, HDHR3-US). HDHR4 is using an ATSC antenna and HDHR3 is using ClearQAM via TWC. It took me a bit to get the Guide set up correctly for this, but I did, and it's working fine. However, I'm trying to...

I have 4 HDHomerun OTA tuners (two of the original 2 input Duals and two of the newer 1 input HDHRs) I'm looking for an amplifier/splitter to connect them to my indoor antenna. An outdoor antenna is not an option. I had been using a cableTV amplifier but I saw in a post by Erkotz that OTA and...

I just noticed this over on the SD Forums.

Hopefully the 4 Tuner transcoding Cablecard models will bee soon to follow.

We cut the cord at home and are just going with antenna and using media center as a dvr, but we have Charter at our condo. I bought a Prime tuner so we can record shows at our condo and then transfer them back to our house 3 hours away. My question is is that I like watching sports but can I stream...

So I'm wanting to get rid of my cable (charter) set top boxes. If I have and xbox 360 and buy a HDHR prime, do I need anything more to get this working? Not counting the cable card and TA. Do I need add a computer?

I had the prime over a year ago and switched to ceton because I have really bad signal quality for cable at my house. When I had the prime, I can never seem to watch the popular channels during peak hours. For example, every Sunday the signal for the channel for NFL on the basic channels will...

I have been using Media Center since the XP days and am now on Windows 8. I have 2 Avermedia USB tuners connected to Comcast cable with no Cable Card. I'm considering switching my internet to Verizon Fios. I have 5 TVs so if I switch to FIOS I would like to avoid paying for 5 set top boxes. I am...

I'm new to this scene and am trying to decide if I should buy the HDHomeRun Prime vs. a CETON Infnitv 6 ETH. I understand the Prime only has 3 tuners vs. 6 tuners in the Infinitv 6 but figure if I really need 6 tuners then I can buy two HDHomeRun Primes (still costs less than one Infinitv 6)....

Homerundual LEDs what do they indicate?

I think I’ve figured out that when the left LED is flashing green the PC is asleep
when the left LED is red the PC is powered off.

When both left and green LEDs are flashing or just on both tuners are being used.

When the left LED is flashing green it...

Cant get silicon dust HR dual to setup? tried a dozen times.

I’ve downloaded and installed the software for the HDHR. However when I do the W7MC TV signal setup for antenna TV W7MC recognizes other tuners but just refuses to setup (message reads other tuners were detected but will not be...

Hi there,

I'm after some information, my Hauppauge twin tuner just died after 7 or 8 year, so I’m looking at replacement. In looking around I have come across the HD Homerun Plus (HDTC-2EU).
I run WMC 8.1 so it would need to work for it which looking through the documentation it will. My questions...

Can I run two Primes with cable cards on one MediaCenter PC?

I have a perplexing problem. I have been in the process of moving to a new place over the last week. At the old place, I had two HDHR Prime's, and two HDHR-3US (dual ATSC/QAM tuners that were connected to an outdoor antenna).

At the new place, I won't have an antenna (at least not for now... I may...

Newegg just released the new HDHR4-2US (DUAL).

Just ordered!

I have cable service from Charter which recently went to 100% digital in my area (Atlanta). At that time I just had the InfiniTV 4 PCIe and I notice that there were a couple channels on my cable box that did not show up in Media Center. Since they were channels I usually didn't watch, I did not...

Greetings All
Newbie here, I currently have an HDHR Prime with a CableCard, I just bought a 2nd one I'd like to setup for QAM channels. My cable provider is FIOS which seems to have quite a few QAM channels (which I can tune from a Hauppaug tuner). How do I setup the 2nd HDHR Prime without...

Setting up a home run dual

I’ve currently got my HR dual setup and working fine I had to have a internet connection to establish the HR as a tuner I also have a Hauppauge 1800 setup w/ same internet connection.

If I move the HTPC to another location and setup a couple of Hauppauge tuners then...

I'm thinking of cutting the cord as the title implies and I'd like to get feedback on my potential setup.

Current
Downstairs - Router/HDHR Prime/X360 -- Wired
Upstairs - WMC7 PC/MB3/Primary TV -- Wired, Bedroom TV using Comcast cable box - Not connected to network

Future
Downstairs - Replace...

Hi guys -

For the last week or so we've been seeing increased choppiness while watching TV. I started monitoring the Prime's internal page and looking at tuner status, and I noticed the signal quality bouncing around, despite very good signal strength (~9 dB). It just kind of came and went a few...

I have a single OTA antenna with a single coax cable going into a splitter. Off that splitter I have an Elgato SiliconDust HD HOMERUN Network Dual Tuner for HDTV. I can watch the output from my Mac or WMC. In Mac I can see our NBC affiliate on 5.1 and 5.2. At best on the WMC, it goes in and out and...

I have 3x SDHR Duals in the system (along with InifniTV6 ETH). Lately, some of the recordings show tearing and missing sound for a second here and there, but consistently. Initially, I thought it was just the OTA signal or the antenna, but upon further introversion, it appears all of the faulty...

I think I know the answer but I have to be sure. After setting up my cablecard in the hd prime, activated it through time warner cable, now on WMC I can only watch a few cable channels, mostly the lower ones.It says channel is temporarily unavailable but it is all the time unavailable. Is this...

I just replaced my motherboard and cpu. and reinstalled windows 7 while I was at it.

My issue is when I do a ch scan on my qam tuner It is not finding any local ch and the mapping that silicon dust has is incorrect or it is for off air only not what comes from Cox cable. I remember they used to...

With a steady stream of beta releases after DLNA support was added in early 2013, it was about time to see an update to the stable release.

I've been following the beta releases and updating multiple machines along the way. I'm planning to take more of a set it and forget it approach with this...

I have had an InfiniTV4 running on my media center for about a month and have had quite a few issues with the Subscription Required message popping up. So, I thought I'd give the HDHRP a shot. It is working... almost flawlessly. for some reason, I can't tune in channel 71, which in my area is The...

Ok, so since I have two primes I have no need for my HDHR Dual. So I decided to try and use it to view my security cameras in 7MC.

I have tried a channel modulator which outputs on the old channel 3, I have a digital tv which picks up this on a channel scan just fine. The dual won't see the it...

I currently have a rather old media center running Win 7 that I built that has an NVidia TV Tuner and an older HDHomeRun that just gets what were unscrambled HDTV channels. Last fall the HD channels were scrambled but it is interesting I cannot watch them live but can record them. My analog...

SD home run dual rattles inside it's case is this normal?

the internal parts are not secure to case there is definitly something loose in there.
Thanks STB

HDHOMERUN has a new firmware out. Just spreading the news.... I will wait for some feed back before I apply it.

Planning on adding a SiliconDust HDHomeRun DUAL w/ a Huagpage 1800 (PCI) & 950Q (USB)

Plan is to connect antenna to HR then HR to PC w/ supplied cat/5 cable (no router yet). Hopefully I'll have four OTA available HTPC tuners.

When I installed the 1800 & the 950Q I just plugged them in and W7MC...

I am a long long time hdhomerun user and can inherit a HDHR Prime from a friend who no longer needs his. I have no plan to get a cable card, but wondering are what its capabilities as a clear qam tuner without the card?

Does it work as a clear qam tuner?
If it does, how many tuners does it provide...

My HTPC is a WMC server only. I only use the word server loosely for you purest out there ;). The OS is Windows 7 Pro 64bit. It is a headless box who only has network access uses a couple Primes and serves two Ceton Echos and saves video . I access it through remote desktop unless I have to fix...

I have an HDHR3-US with Surewest cable in Kansas City area. I am not doing any OTA, the HDHR is fed from my coax and connected to my home network. I have one TV with a Surewest supplied DVR and a couple of TV's without cable boxes that I did channel scans on to pick up clear QAM cable channels....

Silicondust has a picture of a device titled 'Generation Four' no real info attached. Is this the device we have been waiting for? Doing the mpeg4 etc..?

I was looking at this:

I added another TV/xbox into the gameroom and now the wireless n setup seems to be shuddering. It wasn't that bad before, but now it seems to be failing. The new setup is in a place where I don't think I will be able to run ethernet to, but I thought that a powerline...

Just activated my FIOS CC3 card with my HDHR Prime tuner. All channels seem to work fine through WMC (win 8) and Quick view. BUT the picture is 4:3 aspect and resolution is SD. I'm viewing on a LG 55 so this is no good. Any ideas? Is this a config issue? I've seen some other posts where people...

My system has been working flawlessly for months - since I started using it in January of this year. Any anomalies that have come up could be explained - or WMC recovered on it's own (e.g., cancels but then finds another tuner).

Today, however, I had a two hour program scheduled to record at 4 PM....

Finally bit the bullet. Bought a homerun prime. Got a cable card from Comcast.

1). You need your account number at comcast other wise they can not find your account. They have a poor index system to look up users.
2). You need the code number off the card. Write that down before you plug in. You...

I'm trying to get live TV on my tablet through my HDHomerun but streaming directly even with wireless n has proven not to work well. So I installed HdhomerunStreamServer on my PC to fix the problem but can't seem to get my tablet to connect to it. Does anyone know what the IP address should be? I...

I have a problem that I can not figure out. I have both an HDHR-Prime and a standard HDHR that I am using for Clear QAM channels. I am using Verizon Fios and my HDHR-Prime works perfect but when I setup the HDHR it only shows as one tuner available instead of 2. I also have a small problem were not...

Just got my HDHR Prime up and running tonight and it's tuning some channels great and some channels not at all. I've got 95% signal strength and 100% quality. Time Warner cable with CableCARD and tuning adapter.

I'm only getting some channels and it's weird becasue it's not just the digital tier...

I have purchased and installed silicon dust HD home run prime in my HTPC. Installed the sdv, and Ran through the driver disc and the setup in WMC. I am with cox digital cable . activated the cable card and tried some channels. I seem to be missing about half of the digital channels. I get a blue...

If a wired/ethernet connection is necessary for the initial set up, that will be possible.
However, for day to day use I will be connecting the prime in my main entertainment center (downstairs) - but which hard wired to my router is not possible.
Do I have any options - for a wireless set up?...

Hi Everyone,

I picked up a HR Dual & its telling me that it found 0 HdHomeRun Tuners & listing Discovery Error 4001 - Please email Support@silicondust.com

Before I do that, I was wondering if anybody else has recieved this message & if there was a fix that I could try?

Thanks

Guys I'm running WMC 7 with an HDHR Prime tuner I also use a Cisco STA1520 for SDV. I am having some strange problems out of media center for example on one TV I had ESPN playing after about 15 to 30 minutes the connection was dropped and I received error no tuner available to satisfy the current...

I've googled this issue but I'm not sure of what to do to rectify this, I only see mention of stuttering with the Homerun Prime.

Anyways, when viewing livetv (and when recording) the playback will be silky-smooth then I'll get about 1-2 seconds of stutter/macroblocking then back to silky smooth...

I have my tuner card, and adapter set up and running. (awesome by the way)
Heres a problem that I came across.... WMC program guide did not list certain programs that were 'on air on the same channel, but different time frame.
Can someone clue me in on what I need to do to fix this issue? I tried...

So over the weekend I replaced my cable boxes with a HD Homerun Prime. After a few hours of troubleshooting, I was able to get this working.

Unfortunately, it looks like adding live TV to WMC has locked me out of my network shares. My HTPC plays the role of my server as well and I have a bunch of...

Sorry dont have time to go into details but there is an official press release here

more here

I'm looking for something fairly minimal that can handle watching live tv while recording 2 other programs. Will the AMD E-450 CPU/GPU cut it? Thanks

OK so I recently replaced my older ATI HD650 TVwonders with 2 HDHR3 tuners in hopes of decluttering and keeping my clearqam channel recordings going. Unfortunately I am now seeing pixelation quite heavily on all recordings from the HDHR3 tuners. Pixelation that I do not see on my Ceton InfinTV nor...

I just purchased a HDHomeRun Dual and I am using it with Windows Media Center (Windows 7 x64).

When I try to watch recorded TV (or even live TV of a show that is recording) I don't hear any audio. If I look at the recording's info and switch the audio to what WMC calls Spanish (but I think is...

I'm going to be reformatting my PC and reinstalling Windows 7 this afternoon to give me a clean slate on a new SSD. I currently use 2 HDHomerun Duals for ClearQAM and an InfiniTV for cablecard - all through Comcast.

To make my life the easiest, is it recommended that I setup the Ceton first (with...

I am looking to invest in an HDHomerun Prime and add it to my network. My question is could you use a server to basically stream all the tuners on the Prime. I want the server to be a centralized place to record and store TV recordings. I was thinking that the other computers can extend off the...

I have been running a Velocity Micro with 2 ATI TV Wonder tuners. System works great but could really use 2 more tuners for those times when im recording 2 shows simo. I am reluctant to pull the ATI's and switch to a Ceton since everthing works so good now...I think you all know what I mean ! Can I...

Hi All,
I ran into an issue with my HRHRPrime tonight that I had not run into before. I'm just checking to see if there is anything I should look out for or check on to make sure it doesn't happen again.
I had 2 simultaneous recordings tonight. I have Time Warner which requires use of a TA. One...

Is there a alternative setup for QAM Channels in Media center? QAM HD is like channel 2.1(cbs), Is there a way to edit it so it looks something like 502(hd cbs on fios)?

When I tune a channel on my HDHR-Prime after not using it for awhile (not sure actual length) I get a pop-up for 3-5 seconds saying HDCP support is required. After a few seconds it goes away and the station plays fine. Also, I can swap between channels fine after that initial pop-up. The TV is a...

I recently installed HD Prime to be able to record programs in WMC. All channels are playing smoothly in Quick TV but there is a range of channels that are glitchy--speeding up stopping and stuttering in WMC. I've been working with Silicondust's Support Center and after a week of back and forth...

Any help appreciated- just in the process of moving from a Sony XL100 which had space for two PCI tv tuner cards, to a ASRock Vision 2nd gen version which has no room for any tuners (or 6TB of HDs, but got a WHS for that!).

So are there any HD options out there, Freeview HD or Freesat HD,...

Hi all,
I was looking at the logs in my HDHR Prime today. It looks like it was reset/rebooted around 4am on Tuesday morning. I don't recall any power outages, and I definitely wasn't awake unplugging stuff at that hour. The following appears in the first line of the Log History in my HDHR Prime....

Quick background:
Before purchasing the HDHRPrime, I borrowed a Hauppauge 1250 from a buddy for about a month to test if I would like WMC7. I installed a fresh copy of Win7 x64 specfically for the purpose of WMC. With the PCIe card, the PC would sleep and wake when called by my XBox. It would wake...

Why is the HDHR-US Dual more than the newer HDHR3 Dual online? Inquiring minds want to know!

Thanks

Jeff

Anyone tried both? I have had my HD Homerun for about 2 or 3 years, and it has been pretty stable. I have the occasional dropouts, but am not sure if it is the tuner or the antennas.

I was wondering what changed with the newer tuner, other than the single coax connector and the plastic. I am...

I am having issues with the local guide for 55444 zip code. I am feeding a good signal through Comcast but cannot get WMC7 to see the .1, .2 ect. channels. I can see them with QuickTV which came with the tuner. How do I get around the Comcast provided channel lineup?

Hi, I'm thinking about switching my Infinitv for the HDHomeRun Prime. One of the main reasons would be to have my HTPC off and record with my Xbox 360 (besides that I can't wake my computer up and have the Infinitv come back on). Is this possible? Would it record to the Xbox drive itself? I have a...

I have installed the SD Home Run Prime on my network and it won't work with media center on my desktop. Works well with MC on my laptop but I get a blue screen when tuning channels on my desktop. It says call your cable company to activate the cable card or run set up to activate windows . I know...

I'm running the 20111025 version of the HR-Prime BIOS and software and I have to restart WMC several times a day because it loses connect with the Prime. It's connected to a wired network and the throughput is fine, rarely any pixilation. The event viewer in Windows shows the following error...

They stipulate that it's only compatible with standard def but it's a step in the right direction.

I just recently purchased a HD homerun for viewing over the air channels... i am having a few issues though. On my main media center the the video is a little bit choppy.
Specs:
I3 540
4GB Memory
ATI 4850
500gb HDD

I have no issues at all playing blurays or HD content... all the video drivers are...

I have one Silicon Dust HD HomeRun Dual already. I am adding two more this weekend.
Do I have to run the software for each unit?
With 6 Tuners I realize I will need TunerSalad. Do I install it before or after putting the two new units in?
I have looked around but can't find much on installing...

I noticed that HDHomeRun posted on their twitter feed that the 3CC versions of the new Prime tuner were shipping out of Newegg starting yesterday, 8/22. I pre-ordered mine on 5/14 but my order is still in the On Hold state.

Has anyone gotten shipment confirmation?

-Tim