HDHomeRun Software Changelog

Release 20100213:

  • Windows:
      □ Add a7qam256-6100 a7qam128-6100 a7qam64-6100 modulation options for
        DVB-C.
      □ Update to firmware 20100213 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Mac:
      □ Update to firmware 20100213 - Firmware Changelog.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Fix socket issue under cygwin.

Release 20100121:

  • Windows:
      □ Fix situation where Windows Media Center could deadlock resulting in
        one the following messages: "A serious error has occurred", "Please
        wait. Searching for tuners", "All tuners are in use".
      □ Fix generation of XBMC channel files when one or more channel names are
        invalid.
      □ Fix channel sorting in QuickTV.
      □ Add support for separate groups of tuners with the same source class.
      □ Add GUI option to disable Windows 7 Windows Media Center background
        channel scan.
      □ Automatically locate BdaSup.sys when reinstalling BDA components.
      □ HDHR-US: Add advanced option for configuring VCT filtering/injection
        with US-QAM.
      □ HDHR-EU: Add support for configuring DVB-C auto-modulation detection.
      □ HDHR-EU: Detect E-AC3 audio.
      □ Update to firmware 20100121 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Mac:
      □ Update to firmware 20100121 - Firmware Changelog.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Upgrade socket handling.
      □ Upgrade msleep handling.
      □ hdhomerun_config: prevent sleep on Windows machines during save
        operation.

Release 20091024:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Add support for J River Media Center.
      □ Support DVB-C in MediaPortal.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Enable TotalMedia download for HDHR-EU customers.
      □ Check for updates when run.
      □ Update to firmware 20091024 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun QuickTV:
      □ Add option to allow multiple QuickTV windows to be opened.
      □ Add option to run QuickTV as a stay-on-top window.
      □ Add support for channel-list files for listing channels.
      □ Add multicast video support (commercial use).
      □ Detect and report missing codecs.
      □ Fix window size problem on netbooks.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun BDA driver:
      □ Support Win7 WMC operation without registry information.
      □ Use channelmap based channel bandwidth for DVB-T/DVB-C if application
        fails to set the channel bandwidth.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun WMP plugin:
      □ Add multicast video support (commercial use).
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Installer:
      □ Associate ".qtv" channel-list files with HDHomeRun QuickTV.
  • Mac: Installer:
      □ Update to firmware 20091024 - Firmware Changelog.
  • HDHomeRun Config (GTK):
      □ Add Ctrl-D hotkey to enable sending diagnostic information to support.
      □ Stop stream on VLC exit.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Expand hdhomerun_discover API to allow socket reuse.
      □ Add multicast video support.
      □ Fix socket leak on non-Windows platforms.
      □ Fix possible timing inaccuracy if the system time changes.
      □ Remove use of select() causing problems with greater than 1024 sockets.
      □ Improvements to debug logging.

Release 20090830:

  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Update to firmware 20090830 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun QuickTV:
      □ Add XP64 compatibility.
  • Mac: Installer:
      □ Update to firmware 20090830 - Firmware Changelog.

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.

Release 20090415:

  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Fix case where conflicting channel names were not detected and
        prevented.
      □ Fix problem where the tuner configuration was not remembered if set to
        "Digital Cable" combined with "Other: ATSC/QAM" or "Other: DVBT/DVBC".
      □ Update to firmware 20090415 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Fix problem where tuners may be unavailable if a DVR application
        terminates unexpectedly and fails to release a tuner.

Release 20090411:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ SageTV: Improvements to generation of SageTV SCN files for Digital
        Cable.
      □ SageTV: Do not generate SCN files for Digital Antenna (ATSC/DVBT).
      □ SageTV: Fix problem where old SageTV SCN files were not deleted.
      □ LiquidTV: Restart LiquidTV service if BDA configuration changes.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Add support for single integer virtual channel numbers.
      □ Detect and prevent conflicting channel information.
      □ Update to firmware 20090411 - Firmware Changelog.
      □ GUI improvements.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Improvements to debug logging.
  • Mac: Installer:
      □ Detect location of VLC.
      □ Update to firmware 20090411 - Firmware Changelog.
      □ Fix problem where firmware updater may fail to upgrade if unit is
        running a firmware release from 2007.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Add support for single integer virtual channel numbers.
      □ Add lockkey support to hdhomerun_config.
      □ Cleaner exit handling for hdhomerun_config save command.

Release 20090305a:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Add application setting to support future LiquidTV releases with
        HDHomeRun support.
      □ Add firewall exception for BeyondTV Recorder service if detected.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Fix possible situation where driver registry settings were not upgraded
        when installing newer HDHomeRun software.
      □ Update to firmware 20090305 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Auto-detect network provider compatibility mode if needed (replaces
        registry configuration).
      □ Optimize auto-modulation detection based on modulation type requested.
      □ Improvements to debug logging.
  • Windows: WMP plugin:
      □ Support DVBT AAC/LATM audio for use in New Zealand.
  • Mac: Installer:
      □ Add backwards compatibility support for OS 10.4.
      □ Update to firmware 20090305 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Linux/Mac: HDHomeRun Config (GUI)
      □ Support DVBT channel maps.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Report overflow errors when using the hdhomerun_config save command.
      □ Fix loop delay handling in the hdhomerun_config save command that was
        causing overflow errors on some systems.

Release 20090215:

  • Windows: Installer:
      □ Deprecate HDHomeRun Manager application.
      □ Store HDHomeRun software version string in registry.
  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Windows Media Player plugin for streaming direclty to WMP.
      □ Add workaround to support ATSC OTA in Canada with WMC TV Pack.
      □ Disable WMCTVP HRC workaround if Win7 WMC is detected.
      □ Fix detection of XBMC version on 64-bit Windows.
      □ Fix detection of MSNP.ax when Vista SP2 is installed.
      □ Depreciate support for SageTV 6.3.x and older.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Support channel preview using Windows Media Player.
      □ Add ability to override resource lock when previewing channels.
      □ Update to firmware 20090215 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Support channel preview using Windows Media Player.
      □ Add ability to override resource lock when previewing channels.
      □ Add support for TECH hardware.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Improve buffer handling and reduce memory footprint.
      □ Improvements to debug logging.
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Add support for executing startup script on TECH hardware.

Release 20081231:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Generate channel files for XBMC.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Do not force the specific deinterlace mode when launching VLC.
      □ Update to firmware 20081231 - Firmware Changelog.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Do not force the specific deinterlace mode when launching VLC.
  • Windows BDA driver:
      □ Filter out blank padding when application does not control filtering.
      □ Fix rare error reading lineup configuration file.
  • Linux: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Do not force the specific deinterlace mode when launching VLC.

Release 20081222:

  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Improvements to location/postcode validation.
      □ Fix bug causing blank SageTV SCN files when used with a HRC-based cable
        system.
      □ Fix bug causing SageTV FRQ files to be incorrectly deleted in some
        situations.
      □ Allow window to be resized.
      □ Update to firmware 20081222 - Firmware Changelog.
  • All platforms: libhdhomerun:
      □ Adjust SNQ color thresholds to better match hardware scale.
      □ Replace use of strcpy with strncpy.

Release 20081213:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Hide encrypted-only channels from TotalMedia - reduces numbering
        conflicts and scan time.
  • Windows: hdhomerun_config:
      □ Fix problem where hdhomerun_config would cause batch file processing to
        fail.
  • OSX: HDHomeRun Utilities:
      □ Automatically download and install required framework if not installed.
      □ Fix possible lockup in HDHomeRun Config (GUI) when VLC quits.
  • Linux: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Fix 'make install'.

Release 20081209:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Detect Windows 7 Media Center.
      □ Enable PID filter by default for GB-PVR (requires GB-PVR 3.1.7).
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ GUI layout changes to improve flow.
      □ Expand list of user-selectable countries for location setting.
      □ Country + signal source configuration used to set channelmap in
        devices.
      □ Default to TotalMedia if no other apps are detected so download button
        is displayed.
      □ Add support for channel names using Unicode character sets.
      □ Fix bug causing channel names containing a space to be truncated.
      □ Detect if tuner is in use before running a channel scan or launching
        VLC.
      □ Scan full HRC/Cable channel map for use on cable systems with mixed HRC
        /Cable frequencies.
      □ Enable deinterlace support in VLC when launched via HDHomeRun Setup.
      □ Fix possible exception in a situation where installing the Windows BDA
        components failed.
      □ Update to firmware 20081209.
      □ Add DVB-T support.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Add support for channel names using Unicode character sets.
      □ Detect if tuner is in use before running launching VLC.
      □ Enable deinterlace support in VLC when launched via HDHomeRun Config
        (GUI).
      □ Add DVB-T support.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Add dynamic tuner allocation support to allow tuners to be
        automatically allocated between computers as needed.
      □ Update USCableAuto mode to support cable systems that use a mixture of
        cable and HRC frequencies.
      □ Optimize handling of PID filter updates within a transaction.
      □ Support changing channel outside of a transaction.
      □ Clear program filter on channel change to prevent stale configuration
        from being applied if the application does not update program filter.
      □ Fix error detection and handling for out of range frequency request (>
        2GHz).
      □ Add DVB-T support.
  • OSX: HDHomeRun Config (GUI)
      □ New cross-platform HDHomeRun Config GUI utility.
  • Linux: HDHomeRun Config (GUI)
      □ New cross-platform HDHomeRun Config GUI utility.
  • All platforms: hdhomerun_config:
      □ Configure shell in windows to display UTF-8 strings.
      □ Channel scan reads channelmap from device and scans channels from this
        channelmap (and any other associated channelmaps).
  • All platforms: libhdhomerun:
      □ Add tuner resource lock support.
      □ Channel scan order reversed to scan highest frequency first.
      □ Add frequency tables for additional countries.
      □ Change channel_list API to use a channel_list object rather than the
        channelmap bitmask used previously. Channel list objects can be created
        for any channelmap or list of channelmaps by name.
      □ Deprecate API to get channelmaps by model. Application should read the
        current channelmap from the device or ask the user which channelmap to
        use.
      □ Increase max length of a channel name (needed for DVB-T).
      □ Change green (good) signal color to a lighter shade of green.
      □ Add extern-C statements to channel and channelscan headers.
      □ Fix bug causing channel names containing a space to be truncated.
      □ Fix communication problem triggered by selecting a HDHR unit by IP
        address when the host has multiple network interfaces.
      □ Fix memory warning where buffer was not zeroed before use.
      □ Add DVB-T support.

Release 20081002:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Publish 8VSB+QAM support for WMCTVP regardless of input type.
      □ Convert us-cable channel request into us-hrc channel request for WMCTVP
        and TotalMedia when used on a HRC based cable system - fixes problem
        where WMCTVP may not detect ClearQAM channels on an HRC based cable
        system.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Add support for VLC 0.9.2.
      □ Update to firmware 20081002
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Fix bug causing HDHomeRun Config (GUI) to not terminate correctly in
        some situations with VLC running.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Return IHDHomeRun_ProgramFilter as supported when enumerating supported
        interfaces.
      □ Fix possible start up deadlock in BDA driver.
  • Windows: Installer:
      □ Upgrade VLC to 0.9.2.

  • Fix bug in updater causing version file to be pulled multiple times.
  • Check SW20-S050-15 power adapter replacement database and display webpage
    if appropriate.

  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Improve discover support for UNIX platforms.
      □ Add support to hdhomerun_config for reading set value from stdin.
      □ Fix potential get/set buffer overflow.
      □ Fix null-termination error when PID filter is set to block-all.

Release 20080727:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ VMC: Fix miss-detection of a Microsoft limited distribution release
        version of MSNP.ax that resulted in a no-signal error in VMC on some
        systems.
      □ SageTV: include channels that do not have guide numbers in the SCN
        channel import file.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Fix bug in channel editor where it may fail to allocate a remap number
        when a channel is enabled that was previously disabled.
      □ If a remap number is edited and changed to a number already in use then
        generate a new remap number for the other channel (rather than
        generating a new remap number for the channel that was just edited).
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ Fix segfault in hdhomerun_config when a logged channel scan is run
        under 64-bit Linux.

Release 20080723:

  • Windows: Application support:
      □ Add support for Windows Media Center TV Pack (WMCTVP).
      □ Auto-detect Media Center version (MCE 2005, VMC, WMCTVP).
      □ Generate channel import information for MCE 2005 in ATSC mode (forces
        MCE 2005 to detect ATSC sub-channels).
      □ Add support for SageTV 6.4 native QAM (SageTV version auto-detected).
      □ Add support for BeyondTV 4.9 native QAM (BeyondTV version
        auto-detected).
      □ Add application option for GB-PVR.
      □ Add application option for MediaPortal.
      □ Add application option for generic ATSC/QAM applications.
      □ Add application option for generic DVBT applications.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Setup:
      □ Add support for DVB-T hardware.
      □ Add ability to log debug information when streaming to VLC.
      □ Add native QAM support to channel editor.
      □ Halve the cable channel scan time by detecting HRC vs Cable/IRC.
      □ Track virtual channel numbers in the channel editor in Antenna and
        native QAM modes.
      □ Clean up editing of remap numbers in the channel editor (double-click
        on remap entry to edit).
      □ Fix column sorting in the channel editor.
      □ Fix problem where atscprefs.xml file may not be generated when a
        channel name is blank.
      □ Generate atscprefs.xml file for MCE 2005 in ATSC mode so MCE detects
        all ATSC sub-channels.
      □ Generate SageTV scn files so SageTV can import channel information.
      □ Update to firmware 20080723.
      □ General UI improvements.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Manager:
      □ Fix glitch where HDHomeRun Manager flashes up a window when Windows
        starts.
      □ New HDHomeRun Manager notification icon and menu.
  • Windows: HDHomeRun Config (GUI):
      □ Add support for DVB-T hardware.
      □ Show modulation type in HDHomeRun Config (GUI).
      □ Add ability to log debug information when streaming to VLC.
  • Windows: BDA driver:
      □ Add support for DVB-T hardware.
      □ Add support for BDA AutoDemodulate API.
      □ Add API to allow filtering by program number.
  • Windows: Installer:
      □ Fix problem where software updater may not be installed correctly when
        upgrading.
      □ Upgrade to VLC 0.8.6h
  • libhdhomerun:
      □ New API for channel scan.
      □ Add model detection and model helper functions.
      □ Use RTP by default so network loss can be detected.
      □ Add define to enable exporting functions when building a Windows DLL.
      □ Report reception/network errors when using the hdhomerun_config save
        command.
      □ Increase the minimum signal threshold to approx -83dBuV.

Release 20080430:

  • Windows: Fix access violation error seen on some systems.
  • Windows/Mac/Linux: Fix upgrade communication error seen on some systems.
  • libhdhomerun: Fix uninitialized pointer causing access violation error in
    some situations.
  • libhdhomerun: Extend maximum allowed wait time for upgrade upload complete
    message to allow for actual time required to upload.

Release 20080427:

  • Windows: Add support for downloading TotalMedia (including license key).
  • Windows: Fix multi-threaded reconnect error (most commonly seen when PC
    resumes from sleep).
  • Windows: Fix upgrade error handling.
  • Windows: Fix error saving graph in GraphEdit.
  • Windows: Update to firmware 20080427.
  • libhdhomerun: Check upgrade upload result reported by HDHomeRun (fixes
    communication state problem if upload failed).
  • libhdhomerun: Improvements to control retry/reconnect code.
  • libhdhomerun: Add pkt object to simplify packet handling.
  • libhdhomerun: Add UK/NZ frequencies to channel map API.
  • libhdhomerun: Add API for detecting channel maps based on HDHomeRun model
    (ATSC vs DVBT).
  • libhdhomerun: Detect MSVS Windows compile without additional user define.
  • libhdhomerun: Add support for compiling under Solaris.

Release 20080307:

  • Windows: Fix possible no-signal issue in BDA driver.

Release 20080305:

  • Windows: Fix possible no-signal issues when using OTA and a channel scan
    has not been run.
  • Windows: Fix DLL and install errors on Windows 2000.
  • Windows: Fix problem causing MCE to report "tuner error" on some systems
    after resuming from sleep.
  • Windows: Detect changes to IP configuration and enable/disable
    direct-connect as appropriate.
  • Windows: Support frequency adjustment to HRC channel numbering for
    applications with native QAM support.
  • Windows: Update VLC to version 0.8.6e.
  • Windows: Update to firmware 20080305.

Release 20080212:

  • Windows: Combined 32-bit/64-bit installer that auto-detects OS type.
  • Windows: Suppress known non-digital or disabled channels to speed up
    channel scan in third-party DVR applications.
  • Windows: Auto-detect DVR application on first install.
  • Windows: Automatically close HDHomeRun utilities when installing new
    release.
  • Windows: Automatically stop MCE and SageTV services as required when
    updating BDA drivers.
  • Windows: Restart MCE scheduling service if lineup ID is changed.
  • Windows: Eliminate multiple requests for Admin approval during Vista
    install.
  • Windows: Eliminate need to reboot PC after upgrading in most situations.
  • Windows: Fix possible firewall installation errors when installing on a PC
    running SageTV.
  • Windows: Fix uninstall problem possible on some systems.
  • Windows: Detect and re-register Windows components needed by MCE if they
    are de-registered by uninstalling SageTV.
  • Windows: Fix cascade of errors reported when a HDHomeRun unit is unplugged
    while using HDHomeRun Config (GUI).
  • Windows: Update to firmware 20080212.
  • libhdhomerun: Change status color enumeration to ARGB format.

Release 20080104:

  • Windows: Support different sources for each tuner (when supported by DVR
    application). Not supported by MCE.
  • Windows: Configure driver for feature-set supported by DVR application
    specified.
  • Windows: Support PID filtering in MCE 2005 for reduced network bandwidth in
    ATSC mode.
  • Windows: Improved UI handling for installing drivers.
  • Windows: Support configuration without lineup server if desired.
  • Windows: Faster channel scan by using Digital Antenna/Digital Cable
    selection to select channels to scan.
  • Windows: Indicate invalid/conflicting custom guide numbers.
  • Windows: Fix debug handling when using 32-bit application on 64-bit
    install.
  • Windows: Fix vcredist issue on Vista.
  • Windows: Fix rare miss-trigger of 4002 error on some systems.
  • Windows: Update to firmware 20080104.
  • libhdhomerun: Add APIs for obtaining number of channels that match a set of
    channel maps.
  • libhdhomerun: Enhance channel scan APIs to use a given set of channel maps.

Release 20071209:

  • CD production release.