Thank you T-S!!! After the double uninstall and reinstall (v8.6) WMC started normally. At first it could not find my Ceton Infinitv tuner but runner the Ceton diagnostic and restarting WMC fixed that. I have TV again. I had hesitated to upgrade to Win 10 because of the lack of WMC but you guys have done a great job. I suppose I may lose my tuners again on Aug 2 (?) but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. All you experts are awesome!
I have the Silicondust Prime tuner and Windows 10 "Home" on one computer. To temporarily avoid the expected issues with the anniversary update, I figured I would upgrade that computer to "Pro" so I can easily defer the update to see if this stuff gets sorted out. From what I understand, even the Hdhomerun View app will not see the tuners, and even if it did, I have drm channels to deal with that the View app doesn't work with at this time (I still prefer WMC). Now for my question/issue: I tried upgrading to Pro as instructed, using a temporary key to do the upgrade, which is supposed to leave it unactivated until you activate it with the Windows 7 Ultimate key. Problem is that it went through the motions, didn't see any errors or popups, but when it finished it stayed activated as Home? Do I need to uninstall WMC before the upgrade, then reinstall? I already backed up the EHome folder and reg settings just in case something changed. Any other suggestions?
I've updated W10 from home to Pro without issue. All I did was enter the new Pro key in W10, it does a bunch of stuff behind the scenes and viola W10 Pro. As for sleep / hibernation, I have my system hibernate after around 5 minutes and I haven't had any issues with it not hibernating. I've turned off fast boot which is about the only thing I've done. I setup the hibernation in the power options tool, advanced power settings.
I just installed a fresh w10 machine with wmc v12 and the latest hdhomerun beta (20160728atest1 version). I had the same issue, where the hdhomerun service did not install. So I installed the hdhomerun beta on a w7 machine, and found that the service is now called hdhomerun_wmc_service.exe. I copied this file over to w10 (since it wasn't installed by silicondust's installer under w10), then from an admin shell I ran Code: c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319>installutil.exe "c:\program files\silicondust\hdhomerun\hdhomerun_wmc_service.exe to install the service, then I activated the service under administrative tools. viola, working hdhomerun tuners. I did not see this covered anywhere in the v12 readme/workarounds or this thread.
Hi I am hoping for some assistance. I am trying to get WMC to work on windows 10 and just keep running into problems. I have received advice on The Green Button pointing me to this thread where I have downloaded V12 and printed the instructions. I have done the installation exactly as per the instructions and wmc installs with no issues but will not open. I have tried a number of times even going back to windows 7 and upgrading to 10 again 3 times. I have run the uninstall from within the higher command prompt window as suggested to me on The Green Button. I have run the scannow and scanhealth and restorehealth in the higher command window. I've re-booted during this process what seems like a thousand times. I've read through about 50 pages of this forum and understood very little of what I read. Is there something simple I am missing? The instructions seem simple enough but I'm very frustrated that it won't seem to open and the workarounds don't appear to cover this particular issue. I have opened task manager to see what happens when I click on WMC and I can see it there as a process while the circle goes around a couple of times and then it disappears. Any simple plain English instructions would be appreciated. I am located in Australia if that makes any difference. And am running a Compro Video Mate E750 dual capture card Thank You Sharon
You are the third user who ask the same question, taking in account the last page alone. Why is so hard to spend 5 minutes reading few messages back? Launch the mediacenter recovery task or delete manually the settings data dragged from win7.
I have read back a number of pages and can see the question has been asked but I don't understand the answer. I have googled Media Center Recovery Task and found out where it is through Manage and have clicked run on the task but nothing seems to be happening. I don't know which settings were "dragged from win7" to delete or where they are located. If you don't understand the inner working of WMC and use it for its simplicity and ability to function without knowing what is going on in the background it is hard to comprehend the instructions given by those who do. I am an end user, not a programmer and am reading pages and pages of information that might as well be written in code. Can someone please explain which files to delete and where to find them?
It's the scheduling task applet under the control panel. run the task and it should do the job for you. Obviously the settings of WMC. They are in \programdata\microsoft\ehome stp the wmc services and delete them Sure. That's why this thread exist. But repeating the same info 3 times a week because no one wants to spend 10 minutes reading backwards few pages isn't tat pleasant.
If you upgraded from 7 (not clean install), there's probably some remnants of WMC present in W10. The uninstaller in the package may delete these files, but you can also do this manually. There's some hidden files at C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\eHome - you need to go into File Explorer Options, View, Show hidden files and folders. The main WMC files may still be in C:\Windows\eHome. All this stuff needs fixing before installing the MDL WMC package.
Is it possible to add the file to your sig like crash2009 does with the WMC versions? This would help all HDHomerun users with the newer releases. Perhaps crash2009 would consider adding it to his signature as he has all the WMC versions plus the necessary addons (playready, dca, etc.) in his sig. Either way thank you for the info.
No Joy in 393.5 installed ok plus c:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319>installutil.exe "c:\program files\silicondust\hdhomerun\hdhomerun_wmc_service.exe but cant get service to start hdhomerun view is only thing showing ? how to start manually
Same result for me with 14393.5. Did download the new hdhomerun_windows_20160729atest1, uninstalled previous version and installed the downloaded one. Also downloaded the new HDHomeRun View app but not much difference. Installed 8.6 (thanks T-S) rebooted and tried the setup, but no tuners found..
Sorry if i forgot to mention its v12 that I am using. If been through the events and for some reason it appears that everything that is in scheduler is failing with an error that there are extra parameters provided. I've disabled everything as a result to see if that makes a difference. I'm doing a quick healthcheck and sfc to see if this fixes it. if it does i'll look at why everything in the schedule fails. Otherwise I'm back at the drawing board. The tuner is a winfast dtv2000ds card. Worked fine in win7 for years and still works here but some thing after the install is upsetting everything. Any feedback appreciated.
So let me elaborate on activating the service after installing it. Code: Right click start Select computer management select services and applications select services scroll down, double click HDHomeRun Service select start I suspect I did this the hard way and the hdhomerun installer could have been installed in windows8 compatibility mode instead to get hdhomerun_wmc_service.exe installed.