[mythtv-users] Comcast Homerun Prime Cablecard activation issues

[Thomas Mashos]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Stephen P. Villano
<stephen.p.villano at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 10/11/14 2:23 PM, Peter Bennett (cats22) wrote:
>> I have been using a Homerun Prime for almost a year with no issue. It
>> broke and I got a new one under warranty. I plugged my cablecard into
>> the new homerun prime and  the device web admin page told me to call and
>> get it activated. The people at Comcast were unable to activate due to
>> it "already being paired with my old Homerun Prime", even after I went
>> and exchanged the cable card for another one. They insisted a technician
>> visit was needed.
>>
>> Later I tried a test of watching a program through the Homerun prime
>> config GUI. I was surprised to find it receives the encrypted channels
>> perfectly. I switched mythtv to the new device id and found my channels,
>> both basic channels and cable channels receive and record perfectly, in
>> spite of the web interface saying I needed to call to activate. I
>> canceled the technician visit appointment.
>>
>> As soon as I use it for watching, the web interface message telling me
>> to activate disappears. It says "Card Authentication success, Card OOB
>> Lock success, Card Validation none. The message saying I have to call
>> and activate comes back a little later if I do not watch anything for a
>> while.
>>
>> Some things are different - the web interface does not show the channel
>> lineup (channel lineup shows no channels), and using the command
>> "hdhomerun_config FFFFFFFF get /tuner2/vstatus" shows "auth=subscribed
>> cci=none cgms=none" where before it showed "auth=subscribed
>> cci=unrestricted cgms=n/a"
>>
>> Does anybody know what is going on? Is the whole activation process
>> unnecessary? Should I leave well alone since it is working or try
>> spending more time on the phone or with a technician visit?
>>
>> Peter
>> _______________________________________________
> To be honest, I have the same general impression from my FIOS. The page
> keeps telling me to activate it, Verizon was utterly unable to get it to
> "activate", yet I was able to watch my regular and premium channels. I
> don't have encrypted channels, so that experience is lacking.
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Is it possible that the HDHR is awaiting some activation signal from
the card (that is just a flag to show that warning), but the card
never sends it since it's already activated? That sounds more
plausible to me than both companies not being able to fix that.

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Thanks,

Thomas Mashos