Okay, so my new media center box is built and running well.
Specs: (Mauricio will recognise some of the gear)
Silverstone LC16M Black HTPC Case
Abit NF7-S Mobo
AMD Athlon 2100+ CPU (Not overclocked yet)
2GB DDR400 RAM
Nvidia Ge6200 (I think) AGP 128MB
Vista Ultimate
PVR150MCE+FM (about to add 2xNovaS or HVR3000 cards as well)
MCE Remote + IR Reciever and blaster
Vista MCE works great, and looks really nice, but the EPG is a massive mission to get going (im about halfway and stuck), but its lack of support to run the Sky box AND the freeview cards at the same time mean that Vista MCE is not going to be my software of choice unless they fix this.
GBPVR runs good. Nowhere near as polished UI as Vista MCE (or even XP MCE), but has way more configurability. I have the guide going - that was quick and easy (but XMLTVNZ guide is not working for SkyTV today?).
But...
I cannot get GBPVR to change the channel on the SKY stb. No signal seems to be hitting the stb at all - no red lights.
Channel changing is working perfectly under MCE. I also tried installing XP MCE + GBPVR and had same issue.
I have set it to use the IR Blaster plugin, and tried every combination of blaster 1 and 2 and both (and changing the physical blaster plug too).
Any help out there?
Do I need to explore the use of "HIP" - I had a quick squiz but wasnt sure...