<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'><hr id="zwchr"><blockquote id="DWT663" style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"><b>From: </b>"Michael T. Dean" <mtdean@thirdcontact.com><br><b>To: </b>"Discussion about MythTV" <mythtv-users@mythtv.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, October 29, 2013 12:43:41 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [mythtv-users] HDHR Prime<br><br>On 10/29/2013 03:40 PM, Eric Sharkey wrote:<br>> On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Doug Lytle<support@drdos.info> wrote:<br>>>>> Have you signed up at<http://www.schedulesdirect.org>? It costs $20<br>>> Actually it's $25 a year and completely worth it, in my opinion.<br>> But unlikely to be related to Stefan Jones' problem of not being able<br>> to get encrypted content.<br>><br>> This is something I would start by debugging without involving mythtv.<br>> Just use hdhomerun_config to scan, set a virtual channel, check the<br>> channel status, and save the video to a file. If you can't do that,<br>> then it's not a MythTV problem.<br><br>I think Stefan's problem is that he was trying to do a scan with an <br>unscannable CableCARD tuner, which doesn't work. He either needs to <br>"Fetch channels from listings provider" with a good listings provider <br>(i.e. Schedules Direct) or manually add all his channels.<br></blockquote><br>Actually, as of last night everything is fine. I guess I didn't cheer about it here.<br><br>The CableCard was authorized, paired and activated, but it had been provisioned as a STB and not a cable card. It was a matter of talking to the correct analyst at Comcast. The most recent one spotted the problem that the last two had not.<br><br>Within a few minutes I was able to do a scan (via the HDHomeRun's web page configuration tools) and confirm that the encrypted channels were being picked up.<br><br>The channel map for the CableCard comes via an Out Of Band channel; digital tuner cards could actually pick this up (scte-65 scan) to determine what local channels were available. The CableCard was able to "see" the list even though it couldn't decrypt the channels.<br><br>It is also possible to download a channel list via the Schedules Direct, and in any case you need to choose a lineup in order to populate the tables with names, channel programming ID, icon and so on. This is done on the "video source" screen.<br><br><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255);margin-left:5px;padding-left:5px;"></blockquote></div></body></html>