HDHomeRun Software Changelog

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:
  • 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:
  • 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:
  • Windows: HDHomeRun QuickTV:
    • Add XP64 compatibility.
  • Mac: Installer:

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:
  • 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.