The ever popular SiliconDust HDHomeRun dual network tuner received a software & firmware update to Gold this week with Release 20090806. The update includes some nice improvements all around including those for SageTV, GBPVR, MediaPortal and even XBMC!
This tuner is one of my all-time favorites – especially useful if you have any QAM channels in the clear. Read my original and somewhat dated review on the HDHomeRun for more.
Firmware Update
Release 20090806:
- Report TSID in streaminfo for use with channel matching.
- Speed up detection of audio channels with single-frame picture - fixes problem where audio channels may be missed by the channel scan.
- Improvements to the handling of strong adjacent channels.
- Improvements to signal reporting.
- Fix lockup/reboot when under TCP DoS attack.
- Fix situation where firmware may not upgrade on the first attempt. Fix applies to future upgrades.
- Add PnPX support.
- ATSC: Handle ClearQAM streams that contain invalid tables from rebroadcasting OTA channels.
- TECH: execute /sys/boot on link up rather than power up.
- TECH: prevent timing-out of tune requests.
Software Update
Release 20090806:
- Windows: Application support:
- GBPVR: Automatically add HDHomeRun tuners to the GBPVR bda.ini file.
- GBPVR: Automatically add digital cable channels that contain unencrypted programs to GBPVR qam.ini file.
- MediaPortal: Filter digital cable channels to only report channels that contain unencrypted programs.
- SageTV: Improvements to the handling of SageTV when user has disabled UAC.
- XBMC: Update generated files to support second tuner.
- Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
- Faster channel scan for US-cable.
- Improvements to lineup server interaction to improve channel results.
- Improvements to guide name/number conflict handling.
- Workaround a Windows bug causing some DVB-T channels not to work in MCE 2005 and WMC TV-Pack.
- Fix problem where multiple VLC notification icons were left by the clock.
- Reuse same instance of the preview application when possible.
- Fix in-use errors reported on some systems.
- Add option for Canada WMC TV Pack if WMC TV Pack is detected.
- Update to firmware 20090806 - Firmware Changelog.
- GUI improvements.
- Windows: HDHomeRun QuickTV:
- New HDHomeRun QuickTV application for viewing live TV.
- Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI)
- Avoid changing the selected tuner on rescan.
- Reuse same instance of the preview application when possible.
- Fix problem where multiple VLC notification icons were left by the clock.
- Fix in-use errors reported on some systems.
- GUI improvements.
- Windows BDA Driver:
- Fix graph reference count leak.
- Fix bug where the signal strength may be misreported in remap mode for a non/existant channel.
- Windows Media Player Plugin:
- Support additional third party h.264 codecs.
- Display error message if a codec is missing that is needed to play the channel.
- Add dynamic tuner allocation support.
- Mac: Installer:
- Update to firmware 20090806 - Firmware Changelog.
- libhdhomerun:
- Faster channel scan for US-cable.
- Track TSID during channelscan for use with channel matching.
- Resource-lock tuner during hdhomerun_config channel scan.
- Skip discover of device ID when device ID is known.
- Fix min/max conflict compiling with MythTV.
- Fix possible early return from msleep.
- Start streaming API updated to fall back to UDP if firmware does not support RTP.
- Separate out debug disable from debug close APIs.
- Speed up discovery process.
- Add dynamic tuner allocation support to libhdhomerun.
