Adding channels in Vista Media Center EPG

Bard

Here's the situation...

2 sky boxes downstairs, signal from both converted to analog on different frequencies spread around the house - so plug a coax cable from TV sockets around the house into any telly and you can tune both in just as if they're normal analog off-the-air channels.

One of those coax cables is plugged into a WinTV-HVR 900H which is plugged into a laptop with Windows Vista. When I scan for channels in Media Center it finds them grand and I can play, pause, record, etc. ... but then the only channels shown in the built-in Guide in Media Center are those currently showing on each of the Sky boxes (i.e.: 2 channels only).

Anyway... getting to the question...

Is there any way of showing all the channels in the Guide, even though (as far as Windows Media Center is concerned) I've technically only got two channels?

Bard

That'll be a "No" / "I don't know" then.

Grand.

Lazarus2.0

I think you need to set up the guide updates manually to begin with and once you haven chosen the correct settings it will autoupdate from then . That's certainly the case on my Media Centre (Vista and PVR250 tv card) . In Settings/TV you should go to Set Up Your TV Program Guide and follow the wizard from there . I had to do a bit of trial and error to get the right guide for my NTL analogue but I'm 'signally challenged'

Hope this helps ...

iMax

Bard wrote: »

Here's the situation...

2 sky boxes downstairs, signal from both converted to analog on different frequencies spread around the house - so plug a coax cable from TV sockets around the house into any telly and you can tune both in just as if they're normal analog off-the-air channels.

I can't help your problem, but this interests me...

You can use the analogue tuners on your VCR/TV to give all stations (tuned in individually on the device) ? Is this correct ? How (I thought using a sky bok would mean you could only have one channel displayed because it bypassed the device tuner) ?

(that's the number one reason I haven't got sky)

Bard

iMax wrote: »

You can use the analogue tuners on your VCR/TV to give all stations (tuned in individually on the device) ? Is this correct ?

No.

We've two Sky boxes downstairs. On the TVs around the house there are two (analog) channels only (that come in via a coax cable) that we can tune in. One channel shows what's on Sky Box 1, the other shows what's on Sky Box 2.

How (I thought using a sky bok would mean you could only have one channel displayed because it bypassed the device tuner) ?

Correct.

Overheal

If Windows Media Center didnt crash on me so damn much I might actually use it

subway

go back to setup tv and tell it you have a set top box, not a coax connection.
it will then ask you to choose an input - svideo / composite / coax

you will need to have an ir blaster connected to the usb receiver for the remote