Edision Edision Mio+ TNAP 5.1 w/Hauppauge 950Q

[cyberham]

I've used my Edision Mio+ with my Hauppague 950Q USB adapter, but not lately and not with my current TNAP 5.1.

When I plug the adapter into the USB connector and reboot, the Edision doesn't show it recognizes the adapter as Tuner C. I searched in all downloadable plugins and I don't see any for Hauppauge. Am I doing something wrong or does TNAP 5.1 just not support these adapters?

 

[norman881]

I've used my Edision Mio+ with my Hauppague 950Q USB adapter, but not lately and not with my current TNAP 5.1.

When I plug the adapter into the USB connector and reboot, the Edision doesn't show it recognizes the adapter as Tuner C. I searched in all downloadable plugins and I don't see any for Hauppauge. Am I doing something wrong or does TNAP 5.1 just not support these adapters?

I had the same issue with 5.1. 5.0 works fine.

 

[cyberham]

I just booted into an old version of TNAP 6 and it recognizes the Hauppauge. So this might be the reason to update my TNAP 6 and stay on it at least for now.

 

[SDA_FL_USA]

I've used my Edision Mio+ with my Hauppague 950Q USB adapter, but not lately and not with my current TNAP 5.1.

When I plug the adapter into the USB connector and reboot, the Edision doesn't show it recognizes the adapter as Tuner C. I searched in all downloadable plugins and I don't see any for Hauppauge. Am I doing something wrong or does TNAP 5.1 just not support these adapters?

Known issue with the TNAP5.1 20240709 image. Never got fixed and we moved on to the TNAP6 test image. I have a copy of TNAP5.1 dated 20240529 for the MIO4k+ that was ok with the Hauppauge.

 

[cyberham]

Known issue with the TNAP5.1 20240709 image. Never got fixed and we moved on to the TNAP6 test image. I have a copy of TNAP5.1 dated 20240529 for the MIO4k+ that was ok with the Hauppauge.

I just confirmed to myself that TNAP 5.1 20240427 works with the Hauppauge. This agrees with what you say. It's good to keep the image slots filled with different versions of TNAP for reasons like this.

 

[cyberham]

I'm back to playing with the Hauppauge 950Q OTA dongle that connects to the Edision Mio+ USB port.

With a 125-foot RG6 run including a 30-dB ChannelMaster preamp and Clearstream 2V antenna mounted 3 feet high, I've just scanned in 15 UHF TV channels including the 9-channel METV mux found on C-band 101W. The transmitters are over 77 miles away as the bird flies according to rabbitears.info and these signals are classed as POOR or Bad.

Yet I'm receiving 23 dB, 15 dB and 18 dB from the three transmitters. The Hauppauge works!

Clearstream 2V:



Rabbitears Chart:
Received are first 3 channels plus all sub-channels.

 

[FTA4PA]

I'm back to playing with the Hauppauge 950Q OTA dongle that connects to the Edision Mio+ USB port.

With a 125-foot RG6 run including a 30-dB ChannelMaster preamp and Clearstream 2V antenna mounted 3 feet high, I've just scanned in 15 UHF TV channels including the 9-channel METV mux found on C-band 101W. The transmitters are over 77 miles away as the bird flies according to rabbitears.info and these signals are classed as POOR or Bad.

Yet I'm receiving 23 dB, 15 dB and 18 dB from the three transmitters. The Hauppauge works!

Clearstream 2V:

View attachment 184224

Rabbitears Chart:
Received are first 3 channels plus all sub-channels.
View attachment 184223

Good to hear! Our Rabbitears report says the same thing at our location - poor and bad.

Yet we get the ones marked red - 31 channels total - here in rural central PA. All are two-edge reception. I set up two separate directional antennas, a Stellar Labs 30-2370 UHF and a Stellar Labs 30-2476 VHF Hi, with a preamp. The received signal is strong enough to use a Channel Master 4 output distribution amp to four TVs.

I consider Rabbitears as just a starting point and with a little effort and the right equipment you can often overcome what it says you shouldn't get.

 

[cyberham]

Maybe you could even get ABC and PBS on clear days without even turning your antenna. They are at 35 dBu/m. I am clearly receiving a station at that level with my antenna on a 3-foot tall tripod for convenience. It makes me wonder if I point the antenna in other directions and perhaps suspend the antenna from an overhead tree, maybe I can find more.

 

[cyberham]

...23 dB, 15 dB and 18 dB from the three transmitters....

As Paul Harvey would say, following is the rest of the story.

Over the past week, I lost 5 of the channels completely and 9 of the remaining would only come in a limited number of hours/day. I thought maybe I had just experienced super conditions before. But not so.

While playing this morning, I happened to toss the cable at the antenna going to the receiver over the back of the antenna to get it out of the way. Everything else was unchanged. 7 dB up in SNR immediately! Back to 23 dB for the METV channels.

I went inside to rescan and sure enough the missing channels were back at their 16 dB level which moments before had BER 255 and, though locked, could not be scanned in. The remaining single Canadian channel was 19 dB. All 15 channels are strong and solidly being received with BER 0.

The cable laying in front of the antenna was interfering significantly with reception. The Clearwater is a good antenna. Now I must turn it in other directions to see if I can find something new. The channels being received are from the top 4 lines of the chart in Post #6. with lowest calculated field strength of 28.73 dBu/m. Maybe I can receive lower.