Hauppage Nova-t 500 Driver Bug

[max_fenig]

I'm using the 3.1E drivers, made no difference.

[CordlezToaster]

any update on this fix? i have 2 x dual nova t 500 tuner cards, and i put the stuttering down to irq conflicts.

Maybe this fix might fix it

[max_fenig]

No updates on this from anyone yet? This thread has almost dropped off the front page of this forum! Well not anymore

[drturner]

I had the card working well in MCE on all SD channels (Only have a SD TV, so haven't tried HD Channels). When I add a DNTLIVE Tiny USB twin tuner, the Nova-T stops picking up ABC, SBS and Nine despite 100% signal and 100% quality on my STB. Anyone experience anything similar? Will the new drivers fix this problem?

[davmatt]

Originally Posted by drturner

When I add a DNTLIVE Tiny USB twin tuner, the Nova-T stops picking up ABC, SBS and Nine despite 100% signal and 100% quality on my STB. Anyone experience anything similar? Will the new drivers fix this problem?

I have an issue very similar to this. I have an Avermedia 777 configured perfectly. When I add the Nova-T, and perform all of the required "> 2 tuner" modifications... the Nova-T is useless. I get "No TV Signal" on all channels except CH9. If I rebuild me PC and only configure the Nova-T, then it works (most of the time).

I'm almost ready to give up. I've been working on this for over a week now and the WAF is almost 6ft under.

I'll be rebuilding again this weekend. So if anyone has any ideas on what process to follow to try and get these 2 turners working together, then let me know. By the way, I have eliminated as many hardware conflicts as I can be disabling all non-essential devices...

Help will greatly be appreciated.

Cheers.

[vbap]

Originally Posted by davmatt

I have an issue very similar to this. I have an Avermedia 777 configured perfectly. When I add the Nova-T, and perform all of the required "> 2 tuner" modifications... the Nova-T is useless. I get "No TV Signal" on all channels except CH9. If I rebuild me PC and only configure the Nova-T, then it works (most of the time).

I'm almost ready to give up. I've been working on this for over a week now and the WAF is almost 6ft under.

I'll be rebuilding again this weekend. So if anyone has any ideas on what process to follow to try and get these 2 turners working together, then let me know. By the way, I have eliminated as many hardware conflicts as I can be disabling all non-essential devices...

Help will greatly be appreciated.

Cheers.

Mixing tuners is not as straight forward as just doing the >2 tuners "hacks".
You should do a "scan for TV services" on each of the different tuners, since there may be differences in the way each tuner submits a tune request (shouldn't be if they are all BDA compliant and are tuning DVB-T, but, for example, different tuners handle the "offset" frequencies for SBS and 9 differently).

The way I do it with mixed tuners is to go through the "Configure your TV" wizard, first enabling only 1 brand of tuner (in your case, do the Avermedia first), and go through the scan for services. Test you can watch TV on all the channels. Then go top the registry and export the entries for your Avermedia tuner.
Then, go thorugh the wizard again doing the NovaT 500 tuners, all the way through to scannnig for services. Again, test you can watch TV on all channels. Export your NovaT 500 registry entries.
Now you can import your Avermedia entries (no need to import NovaT, since they should still be there) and you can use the hacks to set the tuner priorities for watching and recording.

[davmatt]

vbap, thanks... I've actually followed that proceedure as well as just adding the Nova-T without re-scanning. It made no difference.

The other issue is that when I run ScanChannelsBDA (UK v2.0.0.6) across the 2 Nova-T tuners I get very mixed results. Sometimes I achieve 60-75% strength with 100% quality (no both tuners) other times 40-65% strength with 40-60% quality. No change in setup, just scanning at a different time??? I dont know if the Nova-T is a dud or not as sometime I get good signal and quality which would seem to indicate that it's O.K.???

I'll try a couple of things this weekend... if I don;t get anywhere the nova-t will go back to the shop!!!

Cheers.

[vbap]

Originally Posted by davmatt

I'll try a couple of things this weekend... if I don;t get anywhere the nova-t will go back to the shop!!!

Fair enough...could be a dud card. Do you get the same mixed results for both tuners of the NovaT 500?

For the record, the Strength value from ScanBDA (UK) for the NovaT 500 is not "out of 100" - it's pretty much the Signal Strength measured in dBUV, and anywhere between 45 - 70 is fine from what I can gather - more than 70 is getting into "too much strength" territory.

[drturner]

Originally Posted by vbap

Mixing tuners is not as straight forward as just doing the >2 tuners "hacks".
You should do a "scan for TV services" on each of the different tuners, since there may be differences in the way each tuner submits a tune request (shouldn't be if they are all BDA compliant and are tuning DVB-T, but, for example, different tuners handle the "offset" frequencies for SBS and 9 differently).

The way I do it with mixed tuners is to go through the "Configure your TV" wizard, first enabling only 1 brand of tuner (in your case, do the Avermedia first), and go through the scan for services. Test you can watch TV on all the channels. Then go top the registry and export the entries for your Avermedia tuner.
Then, go thorugh the wizard again doing the NovaT 500 tuners, all the way through to scannnig for services. Again, test you can watch TV on all channels. Export your NovaT 500 registry entries.
Now you can import your Avermedia entries (no need to import NovaT, since they should still be there) and you can use the hacks to set the tuner priorities for watching and recording.

I tried this also. Still have the same problem of losing channels when adding another tuner. Maybe I've got a dud card as well.

[max_fenig]

It's been over a week now. Has anybody received any updates from New Magic about the driver or card batch?

[DTB]

Originally Posted by max_fenig

It's been over a week now. Has anybody received any updates from New Magic about the driver or card batch?

Hi Max

Nothing heard here. Very keen to get the issue sorted out soon though.

Cheers

Darren

[Bernbo]

I took my brand new nova t500 back to umart after a hellish weekend of trying to get the thing to work. I tried the latest driver and still couldn't get it to work. MCE would see both tuners in TV setup but when I set the two up at the same time i would get the no signal screen. When I set up the first tuner on the list by itself everything would be rosy(record and watch TV on that tuner), when I tried the second one on the list by itself I would get no signal screen again. I tried scanchannels, once again both tuners were picked up, but the second tuner was not getting any signal. Anyway long story short I took the tuner back to Umart and they sent it back to the supplier. That was more than 2 weeks ago!!!! My questions are:
is the 'supplier' New Magic?
is this new batch of cards suppose to fix these things?
anyone else had this problem?

[DTB]

Originally Posted by Bernbo

I took my brand new nova t500 back to umart after a hellish weekend of trying to get the thing to work. I tried the latest driver and still couldn't get it to work. MCE would see both tuners in TV setup but when I set the two up at the same time i would get the no signal screen. When I set up the first tuner on the list by itself everything would be rosy(record and watch TV on that tuner), when I tried the second one on the list by itself I would get no signal screen again. I tried scanchannels, once again both tuners were picked up, but the second tuner was not getting any signal. Anyway long story short I took the tuner back to Umart and they sent it back to the supplier. That was more than 2 weeks ago!!!! My questions are:
is the 'supplier' New Magic?
is this new batch of cards suppose to fix these things?
anyone else had this problem?

Hi Bernbo

My understanding is that there has been a few cards that could be considered from a "bad batch" and that New Magic is currently checking out a new batch of cards. Your problem certainly sounded like a "dud" card. However I believe the new batch you refer to is to correct a problem several members are having with picking up the ABC and SBS in Victoria.

I understand people outside of Victoria seem to be having little issue (other than some outright faulty cards) with the Nova T.

Good luck and I hope you get your card back soon.

Cheers

Darren

[DTB]

Originally Posted by max_fenig

It's been over a week now. Has anybody received any updates from New Magic about the driver or card batch?

I'm not sure whether New Magic reads this forum but it would be great if we could get an update from New Magic on the forum as to how the solution to the problem is progressing. It might be better than each individual emailing New Magic separately.

Hope to hear from you soon.

Cheers

Darren