[mythtv-users] HDHR Prime / Comcast Activation / access = not-subscribed

Greg Thompson gthompson20 at gmail.com
Sat Apr 19 17:10:08 UTC 2014



> On Apr 19, 2014, at 12:57 PM, Philip Isaacs <showcasefloyd at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 19, 2014 at 12:36 PM, Bill Meek <keemllib at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 04/19/2014 10:02 AM, Philip Isaacs wrote:
>> ...
>> 
>> >>
>>> Day 3 - And still no HDHR CC
>> 
>> Sorry to hear that.
>> 
>> Mine took 50 minutes, so I added some comments from my notes...
>> 
>> 
>>> I'm not complaining, but I feel like the reason I decide to go this route
>>> was because of all the people saying how great this was and how easy the
>>> set was for them. Not so much for me.
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> 
>>> Supposedly they tech I spoke to unpaired and repaired it to my device, but
>>> that didn't seem to help.
>> 
>> If re-paired, then the card's Data ID *changes*. That's why my setup took so long.
>> He (and I) were reusing the original Data ID when attempting to get the card
>> working. Supplying the new Data ID get me up and running.
>> 
>> 
>>> Also he seemed very hung up on the fact that my Cable Card (Cisco) doesn't
>>> actually have a DataID number, which I guess they need, but of course I
>>> couldn't help that. H
>> 
>> Maybe the Cisco card is different, but:
>> 
>> There were 3 numbers that I had to give. CableCARD ID, Host ID and Data ID.
>> The formats are xxx-xxx-xxx-xxx-x for the 1st two and xxx-xxx-xxx-xx for
>> the 3rd.
>> 
>> 
>>> So I'm curious what I should do next.
>> 
>> Use a browser to verify the three IDs on your HDHR-CC (sorry, I can't tell
>> you the page now.)
>> 
>> Also, from my notes, Authentication=Pairing (according to my provider.)
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> -- 
>> Bill
> 
> Thanks Bill. I appreciate the feedback. I'm waiting on a call from another tech this afternoon. So I guess we will see where this one goes now. 
> 
> Floyd 
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I actually had to call the regular number and have them tie the cable card to my account after the CC had been paired correctly. In my case the pairing was not the issue, it was that the card was not tied to my account correctly. 

Greg 
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