[krustyreturns]

Everything is installed in its default locations?

Yes. I haven't changed anything. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 WMC this morning, installed the drivers for my tv tuner, did a windows update, and configured WMC. Everything went perfect. Once I had Live TV working, I installed XBMC and then ServerWMC.

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I think that is the case. I did a search and it seems that other WMC plugins are experiencing similar problems.

Are you able to go back to just windows 8 or windows 7? (Not sure if you use this pc for anything else, if not go with that works) Its worth it.

I'll go back to Windows 8. Hopefully once the official release of Windows 8.1 comes out there will be better all around support for it. It looks like right now Windows 8.1 breaks as many things as it fixes.

Hold up on that. I just got home, saw your message, and tried to install on my windows 8 test machine, it doesn't work for me either. Sorry about that. Give me some more time on it, but windows 8.1 is not the problem. Have I mentioned that I hate wix installers?

[TheImmortal]

Everything is installed in its default locations?

Yes. I haven't changed anything. I installed a fresh copy of Windows 8.1 WMC this morning, installed the drivers for my tv tuner, did a windows update, and configured WMC. Everything went perfect. Once I had Live TV working, I installed XBMC and then ServerWMC.

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Are you able to go back to just windows 8 or windows 7? (Not sure if you use this pc for anything else, if not go with that works) Its worth it.

I'll go back to Windows 8. Hopefully once the official release of Windows 8.1 comes out there will be better all around support for it. It looks like right now Windows 8.1 breaks as many things as it fixes.

Hold up on that. I just got home, saw your message, and tried to install on my windows 8 test machine, it doesn't work for me either. Sorry about that. Give me some more time on it, but windows 8.1 is not the problem. Have I mentioned that I hate wix installers?

From the looks of things it is looking for versions 6.1.0.0 and Windows 8.1 has versions 6.3.0.0. Plus it doesn't appear the files are installing to the same locations.

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Anything I can do to help get this running on Windows 8/8.1 let me know.

[krustyreturns]

Hold up on that. I just got home, saw your message, and tried to install on my windows 8 test machine, it doesn't work for me either. Sorry about that. Give me some more time on it, but windows 8.1 is not the problem. Have I mentioned that I hate wix installers?

From the looks of things it is looking for versions 6.1.0.0 and Windows 8.1 has versions 6.3.0.0. Plus it doesn't appear the files are installing to the same locations.

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Anything I can do to help get this running on Windows 8/8.1 let me know.

I made a mistake on my windows 8 test machine (forgot to plug in the usb tuner), the installer does work on it. So the problem really is windows 8.1 and what you posted above is what I needed to know. Windows 7 is 6.1.0.0, windows 8 is 6.2.0.0, and its looks like windows 8.1 is 6.3.0.0. Windows 8.1 has new wmc dlls? Really? Thanks microsoft. I will need to redo a step in the installer to get it to work, but I need to dig a little into windows 8.1 first. I'll get back to you.

[TheImmortal]

Great, hopefully it's an easy enough fix!

[krustyreturns]

Great, hopefully it's an easy enough fix!

Actually you do a test for me right now, that would be a big help. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty editing xml files, try this:

1) find the install folder of serverwmc (in program files)
2) make a copy of the file 'serverwmc.exe.config' for backup
3) open 'serverwmc.exe.config' with notepad, notepad will need to be running as admin to make changes to the file.
4) in the assembly redirects area of the file, change all the '6.2.0.0' that you find to '6.3.0.0'.
5) save the file
6) run serverwmc,


if it starts cool - I know how to change the installer, if it doesn't send me the error message.

ALSO, I think if install files get messed with, the installer doesn't uninstall cleanly when that time comes. So before you uninstall, restore the backed up config file, and delete the edited one.

Let me know.

[TheImmortal]

Great, hopefully it's an easy enough fix!

Actually you do a test for me right now, that would be a big help. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty editing xml files, try this:

1) find the install folder of serverwmc (in program files)
2) make a copy of the file 'serverwmc.exe.config' for backup
3) open 'serverwmc.exe.config' with notepad, notepad will need to be running as admin to make changes to the file.
4) in the assembly redirects area of the file, change all the '6.2.0.0' that you find to '6.3.0.0'.
5) save the file
6) run serverwmc,


if it starts cool - I know how to change the installer, if it doesn't send me the error message.

ALSO, I think if install files get messed with, the installer doesn't uninstall cleanly when that time comes. So before you uninstall, restore the backed up config file, and delete the edited one.

Let me know.

Okay I opened ServerWMC.exe.config, but what you are saying to change isn't there.

Here is the contents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

[krustyreturns]

Great, hopefully it's an easy enough fix!

Actually you do a test for me right now, that would be a big help. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty editing xml files, try this:

1) find the install folder of serverwmc (in program files)
2) make a copy of the file 'serverwmc.exe.config' for backup
3) open 'serverwmc.exe.config' with notepad, notepad will need to be running as admin to make changes to the file.
4) in the assembly redirects area of the file, change all the '6.2.0.0' that you find to '6.3.0.0'.
5) save the file
6) run serverwmc,


if it starts cool - I know how to change the installer, if it doesn't send me the error message.

ALSO, I think if install files get messed with, the installer doesn't uninstall cleanly when that time comes. So before you uninstall, restore the backed up config file, and delete the edited one.

Let me know.

Okay I opened ServerWMC.exe.config, but what you are saying to change isn't there.

Here is the contents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

That's interesting, that mean the installer defaulted to the windows 7 config. Replace it with this config file:
https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuse...zFhZmNPWUE

I already edited it. So just put it into the install directory and run.

[TheImmortal]

Actually you do a test for me right now, that would be a big help. If you don't mind getting your hands dirty editing xml files, try this:

1) find the install folder of serverwmc (in program files)
2) make a copy of the file 'serverwmc.exe.config' for backup
3) open 'serverwmc.exe.config' with notepad, notepad will need to be running as admin to make changes to the file.
4) in the assembly redirects area of the file, change all the '6.2.0.0' that you find to '6.3.0.0'.
5) save the file
6) run serverwmc,


if it starts cool - I know how to change the installer, if it doesn't send me the error message.

ALSO, I think if install files get messed with, the installer doesn't uninstall cleanly when that time comes. So before you uninstall, restore the backed up config file, and delete the edited one.

Let me know.

Okay I opened ServerWMC.exe.config, but what you are saying to change isn't there.

Here is the contents:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<configuration>
<startup useLegacyV2RuntimeActivationPolicy="true">
<supportedRuntime version="v4.0" sku=".NETFramework,Version=v4.0"/>
</startup>
</configuration>

That's interesting, that mean the installer defaulted to the windows 7 config. Replace it with this config file:
https://drive.google.com/?tab=wo&authuse...zFhZmNPWUE

I already edited it. So just put it into the install directory and run.

That seemed to do the trick! It opened up, Status window says WMC database: 'Opened' Channels found: 684 Tuners found: 3. I will now test in XBMC and report back!

[krustyreturns]

That seemed to do the trick! It opened up, Status window says WMC database: 'Opened' Channels found: 684 Tuners found: 3. I will now test in XBMC and report back!

Good, but before you do that...

Believe it or not, I can't find the os version on windows 8.1 on the internet. I know sounds crazy, but there you are. So in the server go to the debug tab, open the log file and tell me what it says on the os version, for instance in windows 7 it says:

2013/09/13 12:28:20.865 OS Version: 6.1.7601.65536

it is at the top of the file. Thanks.

[hoopsdavis]

That seemed to do the trick! It opened up, Status window says WMC database: 'Opened' Channels found: 684 Tuners found: 3. I will now test in XBMC and report back!

Good, but before you do that...

Believe it or not, I can't find the os version on windows 8.1 on the internet. I know sounds crazy, but there you are. So in the server go to the debug tab, open the log file and tell me what it says on the os version, for instance in windows 7 it says:

2013/09/13 12:28:20.865 OS Version: 6.1.7601.65536

it is at the top of the file. Thanks.

Here's what I found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_8 version 6.3 Build# 9600

[TheImmortal]

I can watch Live TV in XBMC on the local Windows machine. Now to test on my Linux remote HTPCs!

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That seemed to do the trick! It opened up, Status window says WMC database: 'Opened' Channels found: 684 Tuners found: 3. I will now test in XBMC and report back!

Good, but before you do that...

Believe it or not, I can't find the os version on windows 8.1 on the internet. I know sounds crazy, but there you are. So in the server go to the debug tab, open the log file and tell me what it says on the os version, for instance in windows 7 it says:

2013/09/13 12:28:20.865 OS Version: 6.1.7601.65536

it is at the top of the file. Thanks.

This is what the log says:

2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS: Windows 8 64-bit
2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS Version: 6.2.9200.0

[hoopsdavis]

I can watch Live TV in XBMC on the local Windows machine. Now to test on my Linux remote HTPCs!

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That seemed to do the trick! It opened up, Status window says WMC database: 'Opened' Channels found: 684 Tuners found: 3. I will now test in XBMC and report back!

Good, but before you do that...

Believe it or not, I can't find the os version on windows 8.1 on the internet. I know sounds crazy, but there you are. So in the server go to the debug tab, open the log file and tell me what it says on the os version, for instance in windows 7 it says:

2013/09/13 12:28:20.865 OS Version: 6.1.7601.65536

it is at the top of the file. Thanks.

This is what the log says:

2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS: Windows 8 64-bit
2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS Version: 6.2.9200.0

Good stuff, I'm glad you were able to get it going.

Hell of a job Krusty

[krustyreturns]

I can watch Live TV in XBMC on the local Windows machine. Now to test on my Linux remote HTPCs!

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Good, but before you do that...

Believe it or not, I can't find the os version on windows 8.1 on the internet. I know sounds crazy, but there you are. So in the server go to the debug tab, open the log file and tell me what it says on the os version, for instance in windows 7 it says:

2013/09/13 12:28:20.865 OS Version: 6.1.7601.65536

it is at the top of the file. Thanks.

This is what the log says:

2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS: Windows 8 64-bit
2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS Version: 6.2.9200.0

Good stuff, I'm glad you were able to get it going.

Hell of a job Krusty

Thanks. And you found another bug with the live-tv stream running when a recording starts thing, the video just hangs. I will need to fix that (again).

[krustyreturns]

This is what the log says:

2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS: Windows 8 64-bit
2013/09/13 12:36:37.648 OS Version: 6.2.9200.0

Hey Immortal,

When you have a chance, can you see if this installer works on windows 8.1?

https://drive.google.com/?usp=chrome_app...zFhZmNPWUE

thanks,
--kr

[w84no1]

My wife likes and knows how to use WMC, I prefer XBMC. Now we need a skin that is as close to WMC as possible. I currently use ReFocus BIG because the epg and osd is very close to WMC, but it is not perfect.