live TV viewers but occasionally need to record the game because real life got in the way of watching sports.


Thanks, This is a nice feature to preview your DVR recording capability.

I have a couple questions.

I start watching a channel Live some minutes before a game starts airing and am now ...

The user guide https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/app says to delete the task. Doesn't that work?
https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/app:tasks

This is what I meant by using the "command line utility"
C:\>"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 1323AADB set /tuner2/vchannel 706

C:\>"C:\Program Files\Silicondust\HDHomeRun\hdhomerun_config" 1323AADB get /tuner2/status
ch=qam:129000000 lock=qam256 ss=96 snq=100 seq=100 bps ...

I'm not sure I understand your suggestion.
The hdhomerun_config application accesses pretty much the same information, so I don't see how that would be a better solution. Unless I'm missing something...

If you use the hdhomerun_config application to tune a frequency or channel and to get the ...

If you just want signal stats, why stream?
Why not use hdhomerun_config
https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/hdhomer ... al_channel
https://info.hdhomerun.com/info/hdhomer ... l_strength

What signcarver said is covered here https://geekeefy.wordpress.com/2017/10/ ... owershell/
I don't mess with PowerShell

On Windows, try this from a Windows command prompt (Windows command line) Works on Windows 10 Pro, not sure about Windows 11

It should contain as many as necessary.
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVFormat