Is there a way to allow for more than 4 tuners without using Tuner Salad?

[PAPutzback]

My last upgrade cost me my 4 OTA tuners since I did not know Tuner Salad was charging these days. I am not sure I need any more functionality from the app other than allowing for more tuners. 

Is there a registry key I can change?

[Chasseur]

I don’t know, but it’s only 5$…

[TheEmirOfGroofunkistan]

yes, buy a ceton infinitv

[osburnfamily]

I don’t have a direct answer to your question but wanted to help clear the air from previous replies that aren’t entirely correct.

Out of the box, MediaCenter allows for up-to 4 tuners of EACH TYPE.  So, 4 OTA ATSC, 4 NTSC, 4 CableCARD, etc..etc..  You can have as many tuners as there are types, so long as you only have 4 of each type (in my example you can have 12 total tuners w/o any special changes).

If you have 2 Cetons (8 tuners) installed on a single MediaCenter, you would need TunerSalad.

What TunerSalad does (not sure how) is simply removes that restriction.

I don’t know how Hauppauge & HDHomeRun do it for their 6-tuner option– I’m assuming they have whatever TunerSalad does, built into their software installer.

 

[Aaron Ledger]

[quote=osburnfamily]

If you have 2 Cetons (8 tuners) installed on a single MediaCenter, you would need TunerSalad. 

[/quote]

Actually, when using Ceton products, the tuner allowance is set to 30 in WMC and up to 12 are officially supported by Ceton. There is not a requirement for any additional software when adding a 2nd (or 3rd) InfiniTV 4.

[osburnfamily]

This is awesome news Aaron– do you know if this is something that started getting including in the Ceton driver install package that perhaps wasn’t there initially?  When I first got my second Ceton, I had to use TS to get the other 4 to be recognized.

 

[Aaron Ledger]

You are correct. The feature was added to the driver package only about a year ago. If you re-install your tuners on a fresh system, you should have no problem adding your tuners when just using the current driver package.

[PAPutzback]

But that is only if you add a CETON Tuner. I have 1 4 channel Ceton Tuner and it did not grab the 4HDHRs I have installed. So I’ll have to buy the tuner salad.

[babgvant]

Did you try uninstalling the Ceton driver, then installing it again?

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