Annoucement

UV Realtime development officially ceased on July 19, 2014. This website and the operation of existing installations of UV Realtime will continue, but no new versions or updates will be forthcoming. See additional details on the support page.

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UV Realtime is a standalone program for PC computers that can retrieve information from a typical residential installation of the AT&T U-Verse® IPTV/VOIP/Internet system. Some of the information displayed consists of VDSL line analysis, network interface data rates, DVR information, STB channel and stream information, and Internet usage information.

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Current Version

What's New in v1.9.1.0

• Fix 2 causes of crashes when closing program due to multithreading bugs.

• Fix crash when attempting to use a network adapter for Channels/Streams that doesn't support promiscuous mode.

• Fix crash if attempting to close the program immediately after it starts up.

• Fix crash if usage meter was enabled on last run, but on next startup UV Realtime cannot connect to the RG.

• Fix crash if connection to RG is made, but no bitloading can be retrieved from the RG (such as during line training).

• Fix crash if the in-app messaging window cannot completely load the HTML for the message.

• Fix crash if IP address typed into the Router IP field is not a valid IP address.

• Fix crash if user clicked an in-program link (PayPal Donate, embedded Web Server, Coax Extended Test) and UV Realtime was unable to launch the default web browser on the user's system.

• Fix crash if the data retrieved from the 2Wire router is corrupted such that the interface byte counts are out of range.

• Fix crash if the computer does not have any active networking stack (DNS failure).

• Fix crash when attempting to do stream analysis using the Stream Analyzer when the selected network interface card is either non-existent or otherwise not a valid selection.

• Fix crash if the program is unable to connect to the web service to get premium feature activation status.

• Fix crash if RRDTool was unable to generate the usage graph for the premium usage meter.

• Fix crash if Arial font is corrupted on the user's system.

• Fix crash if user tries to bring up the Activation window when UV Realtime has not yet connected to the 2Wire router.

• Fix crash if user disables channels/stream gathering at the exact time that a captured network packet is being processed.

• Fix crash if 2Wire router returns a non-parsable value for various line parameters.

• Fix crash if user moves the mouse pointer over the bitloading graph if the graph is still displayed when not connected to the 2Wire router and Show Crosshairs on bitloading graph is selected.

• Fix bug with font specification when generating usage graphs using RRDTool.

• Disable Internet Explorer navigation sound when in-app messaging pane changes messages.

• If user has purchased premium usage meter, Donation in-app message is no longer shown in rotation.

Overview

Features

UV Realtime is designed to help you quickly gather information regarding your U-Verse® installation. The following information is presented:

IP addressing information
Profile and line statistics
Bit allocation analysis for your VDSL line
Data rates and total data transferred on each interface of your 2Wire router
Error Table for historical error reporting for your VDSL line
Fully detailed bitloading graph
Full statistics from coaxial/HPNA connections
Full DVR information including the space used and remaining
Listing of all DVR/STB units in the home and what channels they are currently watching or recording
IPTV Stream Analyzer to find bad network connections and equipment
Built-in automatic updater
Automatic updates of channel database
Built-in web server to view what channels are being watched and DVR information from a remote location
Built-in Internet usage meter to accurately collect Internet usage data and report it to the user

System Requirements

Windows XP/Vista/7 (x86 or x64), Server 2003/2008/2008R2 (x86 or x64)
For Mac computers, UV Realtime will run in a virtual machine running Windows XP/Vista/7. The following virtual machine environments are supported: VMware Fusion, Parallels Desktop, VirtualBox.
Microsoft .Net Framework 4.0 Installed
A working installation of VDSL-based AT&T U-Verse® using a 2Wire 3800HGV-B, 3801HGV, 3600HGV, or i3812V router. (UV Realtime does not work with ADSL2-based U-Verse® using a Motorola 2210 or NVG510 modem or 2Wire 2701HG-B router.)

Additional Installed Software

UV Realtime installs the 3rd-party open-source WinPCap and RRDtool programs to facilitate packet capture from your home network and store Internet usage data. See the Licensing page for details.