IR Blaster not working in Orb on Vista Home Basic and Business editions - If you are using Vista Home Basic or Business edition, you will not be able to change TV channels on your set-top box via Orb, as we do not yet support IR blasters on these editions.

Workaround: None for Satellite TV. However, if you are using a Cable TV set-top box, you can install a Y-splitter from your coaxial cable source and connect one branch directly to your TV tuner. While doing this will prevent you from accessing the "extra channels" provided by your set-top box, you will be able to remotely change al the other standard cable channels via Orb.

Cannot dedicate a TV tuner for Orb use - If you have installed Orb on a PC with 2 or more TV tuners, you will not be able to configure Orb to only use a dedicated tuner or to not use a designated tuner. Orb will always look for and attempt to use an MPEG-2 tuner, if one is present. So, if you have 2 MPEG-2 tuners installed on your PC, you cannot configure Orb to ignore the tuner you wish to reserve exclusively for, say, Media Center.

Note: the only way to play TV locally in another PVR application (Media Center, BeyondTV, WinTV, etc.) while simultaneously streaming live TV via Orb, is by launching the Orb stream first then starting the local PVR application on your Orb PC.

MCE-recorded TV shows have wrong duration in Orb - Orb displays a wrong duration (i.e., 14 sec, etc.) for MCE-recorded TV shows but will still stream the entire file in WMP, Winamp, Real, Flash and 3GP. This bug will be fixed with the re-design of OrbPVR.

Workaround: record in Orb itself (not Media Center) the TV shows you wish to access via Orb, to get the correct duration of these recordings.

Workaround: On your Orb PC, click Start > Run^* type regedit (Disclaimer: Use the Registry Editor at your own risk) > In HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Orb Networks\Orb\Config doubleclick on "app.iTunes.enabled" > In the pop up change the Value data to "true" > Close the Registry Editor > Restart Orb > Now login again to view the itunes playlists on the UI.

* If you do not see "Run" in your Start Menu then press Windows Start Key+R. .

Outlook 2007 security warning when installing Orb - The first time you install Orb, you may get a security warning from Outlook 2007 prompting you to "Allow or Deny" the Orb Setup wizard from accessing your Outlook contacts. You may experience the same each time you restart Orb. This is a security system from Microsoft which triggers this pop-up only on a computer which does not have an antivirus installed or which has outdated antivirus definitions.

Workaround: install an antivirus software or update your exisiting antivirus software with current virus definitions. Note that in Outlook 2007 (Tools > Trust Center > Programmatic access), there is an option to receive alert messages whenever a third party program tries to access your contact info, even when your Antivirus software is active and updated. So, make sure that this option is not enabled.

Incompatibility with RDP Audio drivers used by Remote Desktop programs - If you have Remote Desktop or other remote access program (e.g., GoToMyPC, etc.) running on your Orb PC when you are streaming, the audio may be played locally on your Orb PC instead of being sent to your Orb client device, or you may not get any audio at all. This is because these programs use RDP audio drivers and set them as default.

Workaround: in your remote desktop application, change the default setting which leaves the computer sound at your remote computer to bring it to your Orb client PC.

Workaround:

1. go to a command prompt (Windows desktop | Start | Run | type cmd, click OK)

2. navigate to the Orb\bin folder (default location is C:\Program Files\Orb Networks\Orb\bin)

3. unregister the OrbSourceFilter.ax by typing regsvr32 /u OrbSourceFilter.ax then exit the command prompt

4. Install FFDshow instead.

Workaround: if, for whatever reason, you cannot use ports 80 and 554 on your home PC, from your client PC, add the files you want to stream to a playlist which you then add to your public profile. You will then be able to stream these files through public.orb.com/yourOrbLogin.

Malfunctions when recording Orb TV programs - the OrbPVR module is scheduled to be entirely rewritten in the upcoming months. So several malfunctions and minor bugs noted here and there will most likely only be addressed when this code is re-written.

Streaming to the Wii ends after 71mns - there seems to be a buffer limitation in the Flash player on the Wii which would cause streams to end at about 71mns, after producing an "Out of Memory" error.

Workaround: try splitting your long movies/videos into parts of, say, 30mns, and put them together in a playlist before streaming them.

"Run Orb when I am not logged in" feature not working in Vista - On Windows Vista systems with multiple users, the feature "Run Orb when I am not logged in" in Orb tray icon > Configuration > Advanced (or More info, on older Orb versions) does not work.

"Awake PC Now" does not work in most cases if there is a NAT - in fact, if there is a NAT, Wake-On-LAN (WOL) will work if:

1. the router supports broadcast address forwarding, i.e., port forwarding UDP port 7 to global broadcast (255.255.255.255) or subnet broadcast (192.168.1.255). However, this is mostly not accepted by routers. For instance, the Netgear WGR614 accepts port forwarding creation but rejects the packets, so WOL never works on PCs behind it.

2. the router/switch does not have an ARP timeout at all (which is uncommon). If you set up a manual port forwarding to your IP on UDP port 7, once your PC is asleep, your IP is not advertized on any port: thus, after the ARP times out, the switch does not know which port to send the magic packet to and drops it.