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If you don’t have valid MPEG2 or AC3 codecs installed, which are the video and audio formats the HDHomeRun uses, you’ll have to do that separately. If you have this issue don’t panic it’s very likely you just need to go into the NextPVR settings and choose the correct decoder. I could see that it was talking to the HDHomeRun since I saw the tuner light come on and it was going through the motions of changing channels, and even had the channel names correct, but there was no picture or sound.

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The first problem I ran into after the channel scan is that although NextPVR sees the HDHomeRun fine, when I tried to watch live TV I got no picture or sound. You can tell it to copy a configuration from one tuner to another, but I found that to be much slower than performing the scan on each one individually. Note that you have to do this for each tuner. I have digital cable so this pulled back a little over 500 channels. With the HDHomeRun I simply had to go into devices, choose each tuner, and click the “Scan” button. Next you’ll want to configure NextPVR to be able to watch live TV, and the first step in this process is to have NextPVR scan your tuner devices to get a channel listing. The HDHomeRun makes three tuners available over ethernet, and NextPVR sees them out of the box, though there is some configuration and installation of codecs necessary to get things working properly. In my case I’m using a SiliconDust HDHomeRun as my tuner, which means I do not have a tuner card in the media center PC. I also did enable the background recording service as recommended. Note that the default buffer directory of C:Temp may not exists so if you get an error related to that when you fire up NextPVR, just create that directory and restart NextPVR. The specifics of that last step will be dependent upon your hardware.

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Download the patches and copy them into the directory in which you installed NextPVR.

Installing NextPVR is very straight-forward - I mostly just did what’s outlined in the Lifehacker article. Honestly I like this idea anyway - sticking a quiet, low-power Raspberry Pi behind every TV other than the one with the NextPVR box seems like a slick solution.

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I’ll go the full free software route another weekend.Īs I looked around I came across this article on Lifehacker about turning a Raspberry Pi into a media center, and it too was focused on the Pi as a front-end to another machine that does the heavy lifting. I’m running WMC on a very nice Acer Revo, which has a DVD player form factor and is designed to function specifically as a media center, complete with a nice pop-out dual-function mouse/keyboard pad.

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Given my huge preference for free (as in freedom) software why continue to use Windows and not move to something like MythTV? Honestly I’ll probably go the MythTV route eventually, but in the near term I was just looking for something that would quickly allow me to schedule and record shows again.

That led me to searching around for a WMC replacement that will run on Windows 7.

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Installing Raspbmc was easy enough and the base install is working fine, but based on what I’ve read it may not (yet) be up to functioning as a full-blown PVR like I’m used to, and will likely serve better (as some folks on Google+ suggested) as a front-end to something else. The latest version of XBMC has PVR functionality so I was anxious to try that out as a potential replacement for WMC. My initial goal for the weekend project was to get Raspbmc running on one of my Raspberry Pis. I wound up going down this road in a rather circuitous way. It can even download guide data, which is apparently something WMC no longer feels like doing. NextPVR is an awesome free (as in beer, not as in freedom unfortunately …) PVR application for Windows that with a little bit of tweaking handily replaced Windows Media Center.

I’ll spare you more ranting and simply say that none of the suggestions I got (which I appreciate!) worked, and rather than spending more time figuring out why, I decided to try something different. If you follow me on Google+ you’ll know I had a recent rant about Windows Media Center, which after running fine for about a year suddenly decided as of January 29 it was done downloading the program guide and by extension was therefore done recording any TV shows.