Re: IR Hardware not found for Dish311 satellite box

If you set up using "antenna" but really have a set top box, the guide won't
work. The guide information is based upon your choice in the setup. Even
choosing which satelitte provider will affect the guide or for example, here
in Orlando there are several different cable lineups that are available.

Not using the guide kind of defeats the purpose of using MCE.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"toastyblue" <toastyblue@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Instead of setting the tv up with either satellite or cable, choose
"antenna"
as the feed for the signal. This will be your NTSC signal with everything
coming in via channel 3 (or 4, if that's what it is set to on your box or
vcr
or whatever), that way it's not your settop box that's acting as the
tuner,
your tuner card will take over that action. Then, the rest of the menu
won't
deal with IR or anything else like the remote that's preventing you from
finishing the wizard.

"Rick H" wrote:

It's not. It is a VISTA issue. So many people using different setups are
encountering the same problem. I have DirecTv, using a Hauppagge card
with a
tested, working IR blaster and I am still getting the same message. MS
needs
to get off their *** and send us a fix.

"John P" wrote:

Thanks Jamie,
The IR receive is plugged in....In fact I just paged through the
process
using the MCE remote to go throught the steps, so that's working just
ifne...I'm beginning to think that it's a STB incompatibility problem.
The
STB is the bottom of the line Dish box (hey, we're cheap!). I have a
Dish guy
that I'm going to get to come out and we'll see if he can help. May
have to
upgrade the box, but ain't gonna do that w/o assurances that it will
work
from Dish, and Dish phone support is beyond useless (surprise!).

Thanks for your comments.
JPS

"Jaime" wrote:

That's different issue then, usually that message come up if you
don't have
the IR Reciever (for the MCE remote) plugged in to a usb port. Some
have
reported that changing the USB port in to which the receiver is
plugged
helps.

I don't think it matters, but do you also have the IR blaser (the
little
"bug" that plugs into the back of the receiver) plugged in?
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"John P" <JohnP@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Okay, I understand that part....The coax has to go through the set
top box
to
have reception, since it's satellite. The tuner is finding the
signal and
during setup showing it in a small box, but then will go no
further.....
Perhaps the question I should be asking is exactly what is the
system
looking for? What is IR hardware? I have the IR receiver that came
with
the
PC attached and working....i.e. the MCE remote works with it just
fine.
The
remote for the satellite box works with it.
What am i missing?
Thanks,
John P.

"Jaime" wrote:

No real workaround, if you tell it you have a Set Top Box (STB),
then you
have to have the IR Receiver / Blasters. It's not really a problem
with
inflexibility, it just that if you don't use the IR setup, the
whole
reason
to even use MCE as a PVR is kind of pointless; how is MCE going to
change
the channel when you're not home and want to record things on
different
channels?

You might be able to say that you have direct coax and MCE will
probably
just find the one channel that the STB signal is coming in on,
however
then
your Guide wouldn't be correct.

Of course if you can already receive all the channels by just
plugging
the
coax directly into a TV (no STB), then you could do the same with
the
tuner
card and bypass the STB completely.
--
James
Orlando (Goofy says "Hey!"), Florida

"John P" <John P@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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When I try to set up tv tuner in Media Center in WinVista with a
Dish311
satellite box, everything goes fine until i get an "IR Hardware
not
detected"
message.
The box is attached to the tuner via coax cable and it finds the
signal. I
do not care if the IR function for changing channels, etc.
works,
because
the
set top box is within easy range to change the channels with the
regular
set
top remote.
Does anyone know a workaround to set up the tuner without the IR
function?
The system offers only two possibilities, retry and cancel and
obviously
neither gets me where I want to go.
The MCE software is too inflexible....It should offer the
possibility
of
ignoring the IR signal and setting up the tuner anyway I choose.
Thanks in advance
John P








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