Updated How-to: Using Beyond TV and the HD Home Run
January 10th, 2008 at 1:09 pm by Rakesh
Grant (btvfreak in the forums) has updated his how-to on using Beyond TV with the SiliconDust HDHomeRun to reflect changes that SiliconDust has made to their setup process.
For those that are new to building their own PC DVR, the HDHomeRun is a great TV tuner if you want to use Beyond TV to record the unencrypted channels on your digital cable feed. Our original (and now slightly outdated) how-to on using Beyond TV and the HDHomeRun can be found here.
January 14th, 2008 at 1:26 pm
Thanks for the update. I tried getting BTV to work with my HDHR when it was in the very early stage. I gave up after becoming frustrated with the channel lineup being the confusing part. I plan to try this again using these updated instructions.
February 7th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Awesome! I’ve been fighting with HDHomeRun and BeyondTV for the bigger chunk of a year. I was able to make it work on MythTV, but never BeyondTV. The new update from SiliconDust and your instructions finally have me recording in glorious HD. Thank you again! -Skip
February 7th, 2008 at 6:48 pm
I also have one of these and tried to get it running with Beyond TV back in the spring of 2007. I was never able to get it running, but it seemed to be more on the HDHR end than BTV. I may have to revisit that as I still need a way to record HD from cable to a file that I can pass to a co-worker.
April 7th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
BeyondTV will not find the homerun device when “cable” is selected as the video source. If “Digital Antenna” is selected during BeyondTV setup, the Homerun device is correctly identified and connected.
How do I correct this problem ?