Firewire Channel Change Windows 7

[robinprice]

Quick question for anyone that can help.

What's the chances someone successfully has firewire channel changing using WIndows 7? I am currently dual booting Vista and Windows 7. When I test channel changing in the command prompt in Vista, I have no problems. However Windows 7 throws errors and eventually just throws the number 5 over and over again to the STB (DCT-6200) for a few minutes (5 because I was trying "channel -v 2 541"). It is the exact setup on both OS's so I'm not sure what's going on.

Any thoughts?

If this is in the wrong section please move it. I knew it would get more views in this section.

[robinprice]

I will answer my own question Hopefully this will help someone else.

My setup is Win 7, HD-PVR, DCT-6200 (channel changing works but recording from firewire does not)

Just follow what this post says:
http://thegreenbutton.com/forums/permal ... spx#355867

My channel changing now works like a charm.

[timf]

That's what I did to get my FW to change channel.

Running Win 7 also - out of interest how long does it take your box to change channel ?

Mine takes about 3-4 seconds and I suspect the IR blaster was actually faster !

Could be something wrong in my config file though.

Regards Tim

[robinprice]

I was never able to use the IR blaster. I could NEVER get the frigging thing to change the channel. I notice that mine is around the 3 to 4 seconds as well. It really doesn't concern me though. I'm just happy I can FINALLY watch HD through Win 7 Media Center. Plus now I have a good WAF since she wasn't too keen on SageTV (even though it worked(mostly))

[timf]

cool - I used to run MythTV but Win 7 has a much better WAF

I'm having trouble with sleep mode though - it keeps crashing the PC.

Any chance you could post or PM your config file ??

BTW IR Blaster worked fine for me, but had to install Hauppauge scheduler as well for it to work.

Tim

[sdigre]

The Green Button thread was difficult to follow (language)

What I took from it was simply, downgrade the firewire driver to "1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)" driver to enable firewire channel change in Win 7.

I'm prepping for a system rebuild tonight, so just clarifying.

[robinprice]

I'll write up something quick in a couple hours when I get home from work. But ya.. essentially you just change the driver that it uses. Choose the legacy driver and you're golden.

[robinprice]

Here is exactly what I did to get my firewire channel changing working in Windows 7. Hope this helps.

In Device Manager, expand the item "IEEE 1394 Bust host controllers".
Right-click -> Properties on "1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller".
In the Driver tab, Click "Update Driver" button.
Click on the "Browse my computer for diver software".
Click on "Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer".
Choose the "1394 OHCI Compliant Host Controller (Legacy)" option.
Click "Next". It should install the driver. Close any open windows.
And now your firewire channel changing should work!

[soul_stalker]

Also it's worth mentioning....as I had this problem.

Be sure to power cycle your cable box after the change. Not everyone will have to do this but many do. If I had known this it would have saved me about 20 hours and two OS re-installs.... ouch

-chris

[fredx21]

Thanks chris,

I'll add this bit of information to my post. Thanks to you and robin.

Fred

[rantanamo]

simple, but something that may be overlooked. In configuration where it asks for the path of the channel.dll BE SURE to include channel.dll at the end of that line rather than just the path. Simple, but I bet something many may overlook.