How-To Guide on Setting up Live TV with HD HomeRun PRIME

[Eddie 10]

I just setup Live TV in under 30 minutes while piecing together information found scattered on the internet.

 

Using this guide hopefully anyone can do this in under 15 minutes.

 

TV Provider: Comcast

SiliconDust HDHomeRun PRIME Cable HDTV (3-Tuner) with an MCard

Model: HDHR3-CC 

Firmware 20161019beta1

 

 

 

MINIMUM SYSTEM SPECS IN ORDER TO RUN HD CONTENT

Phenom II X6 1045T

8 Gigs of RAM

 

SYSTEM SPECS THAT WORK WITH ONLY SD CONTENT

AMD Athlon™ II X2 240 Processor

8 Gigs of RAM

 

CONNECT YOUR DEVICE

 

Connect the HDHomeRun PRIME box to the following:

- your network with the included cat 5e cable

- the coaxial jack on the wall with the included coaxial cable

- an electrical outlet with the included AC to DC Adapter

 

Wait for the 1st LED to Light UP Solid green indicating you are connected to the network (Light Patterns are discussed at the bottom of this How-To)

 

Go to my.hdhomerun.com and there is a chance the website will automagically scan your network and find your HDHomeRun Device it will pop up at the top of the website 

 

Click where is it says "HDHomeRun PRIME XXXXXXXX"

The XXXXXXXX is your 8 digit ID for the device

 

This will launch you into the website hosted locally on your HDHomeRun PRIME device showing that your device is connected to the network and lots of pertinent information.

 

 

DOWNLOAD THE LATEST SOFTWARE FROM THE SPECIAL LINK BELOW

 

 

(Thank you Doofus for the suggestion)

 

Go here

 

https://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=20613

 

And download the latest version of the hdhomerun executable.

 

As of the time of this article the lastest it is currently 20161019beta1

 

INSTALL THE SOFTWARE

 

Find and Install the executable hdhomerun_windows.exe

 

UPDATE THE FIRMWARE

 

(Thank you Doofus for the pictures)

 

Run the software "HDHomeRun Setup" and it should again automagically discover your HDHomeRUN PRIME Device via DLNA and start updating its firmware...

wait for it to finish this

 

 

 

 

You can now access the local webpage of your HD HomeRun PRIME by running HDHomeRun Setup and click on the "Device Input"

 

 

 

 

INSTALL THE M CARD INTO THE HDHomeRun PRIME

 

Now power off your device and insert your M Card and power it back on

 

ACTIVATE THE M CARD

 

This is the phone number (FOR COMCAST ONLY) you want to use when setting up your M Card 1-877-405-2298.

 

Go to the webpage of your actual HDHomeRun PRIME Device.

 

 

Run the software "HDHomeRun Setup" and click on the "Device Input"

 

 

Go to

Cable Card Menu --> CableCARD Pairing

 

This is the information the person on the phone is going to ask for in order to activate your MCard.

 

CableCARD ID:

Host ID:

Data:

 

Go to the webpage of your actual HDHomeRun PRIME Device. (This is easy if you know the local IP)

 

Channel Line up --> Detect Channels

 

The moment i did that i was able to log into emby and it automagically discovered the Tuner and an icon for Live TV popped up

 

If you want to use the scheduling option you HAVE to setup your guide

 

EMBY Dashboard --> Live TV --> Schedules Direct ( Free for 7 days to try them out you have to make an account throught thier website http://www.schedulesdirect.org/.

 

 

 

 

 

Here are some installation instructions that are hidden for some reason.

http://my.hdhomerun.com/instructions/software-instructions/prime.php

 

 

If you have any issues during setting this all up here are what all the blinking lights mean on the HDHomeRun PRIME.

 

https://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10225

 

3CC 

Left LED: Power/link: Green = Ethernet link, flashing = searching for DHCP, red = no Ethernet link. 

 

2nd LED: Cablecard: Green = CableCARD present, flashing = card present but not ready (authentication in progress or no RF feed). 

 

Tuner LEDs (3): Green = streaming video, flashing = reserved for use but not streaming. 

 

6CC 

Left two LEDs: Power/link: Green = Ethernet link, flashing = searching for DHCP, red = no Ethernet link. 

 

2nd two LEDs: Cablecard: Green = CableCARD present, flashing = card present but not ready (authentication in progress or no RF feed). 

 

Tuner LEDs (6): Green = streaming video, flashing = reserved for use but not streaming.

 

 

 

Hope this helps.

Edited November 3, 2016 by Eddie

[Guest asrequested]

Useful guide, but you should update your firmware, also.

 

https://www.silicondust.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=119&t=20613

[Eddie 10]

Thank you for the suggestion i added it to the guide

[Guest asrequested]

As long as you know the firmware update is a manual download and install. They are beta files, and they are needed for Emby. Something else that's useful is that a lot of people have hundreds of channels, many of which they don't watch. You can limit the channels that Emby imports. If you run HDHomerun setup again, after everything installed. You can deselect the channels you don't want Emby to import. This can help with guide load time.

 

 

 

 

Edited July 12, 2016 by Doofus

[Eddie 10]

mind if i use your pictures in the guide and while giving you credit?

[Guest asrequested]

mind if i use your pictures in the guide and while giving you credit?

 

Oh sure, I don't need any credit. That's fine 

[cturnbull802 1]

awesome thanks for the replies guys!

 

this will be an easy way to eliminate all the standard def stuff as well.