Did Dish fix their OTA Dual Tuner overheating problems?

[upsss]

You are right, my OTA CBS is @ 5.01, if I tell Alexa go to channel 5 it goes to CBS 5.01.

 

[Bobby]

I have both Dish and OTA channels. When I say “Alexa, tune to channel 5” it goes to the Dish channel 5, not 5-01. I tried to get it to tune to 5-01 and Alexa tells me my provider can’t do that.

 

[upsss]

Well, I don't have Ch 5, only 5.01 so my Alexa goes to 5.01 when I say go to 5. I don't know how do you let Alexa to go to a Sub Ch.

 

[Bobby]

Well, I don't have Ch 5, only 5.01 so my Alexa goes to 5.01 when I say go to 5. I don't know how do you let Alexa to go to a Sub Ch.

What I found out is that Alexa will not let you go to a sub channel because, if it can’t understand 5-01, it can’t understand 5-02...

 

[upsss]

It sounds like however create this "Dish Skill" needs to update it to include Sub Channels, it should be very simple thing to do.

I just Googled "Alexa Dish Skill" and it looks like Dish is working to improve this skill, quote "More features will be released soon – to give you even more hands-free control over your Hopper".

 

[KAB]

Well, I don't have Ch 5, only 5.01 so my Alexa goes to 5.01 when I say go to 5. I don't know how do you let Alexa to go to a Sub Ch.

Well you have now twice answered what I wanted to know. Thanks.!

 

[upsss]

I have some preliminary feedback. I turned on PTAT for Fox only, even though I don't have satellite locals. Well, it's recording everything on prime time Fox via OTA which was a big surprise.

Can you really record PTAT with your OTA if you don't subscribe to your locals? Can anyone else confirm this, because I cannot do that and based on my understanding how PTAT works, I don't think it is possible. I don't subscribe to my locals and of coarse I can record any individual local channels from my OTA but that is not what Dish PTAT is.

 

[KAB]

Can you really record PTAT with your OTA if you don't subscribe to your locals?

You can't, BUT, pretending you can enables Autohop.

 

[dare2be]

Can you really record PTAT with your OTA if you don't subscribe to your locals? Can anyone else confirm this, because I cannot do that and based on my understanding how PTAT works, I don't think it is possible. I don't subscribe to my locals and of coarse I can record any individual local channels from my OTA but that is not what Dish PTAT is.

Based on what Krell said, it looks like a limited PTAT (one channel enabled) will work on OTA, provided there are available OTA tuners. He hasn't tested whether 2 channel PTAT would work with a dual-tuner OTA adapter.
He needs to test 2 channels.

 

[upsss]

Based on what Krell said, it looks like a limited PTAT (one channel enabled) will work on OTA, provided there are available OTA tuners. He hasn't tested whether 2 channel PTAT would work with a dual-tuner OTA adapter.
He needs to test 2 channels.

That is what I understood too from his post, but I could NOT duplicate it (no matter what I tried) and I don't believe it is possible without subscribing to locals. That is why I asked if someone else can duplicate it.

 

[Bobby]

Once again, autohop works for the 4 networks when you enable PTAT for one day, not recording of all 4 channels on a single tuner. It's that simple!

 

[upsss]

I didn't ask abut Autohop. I know that Autohop works with OTA without subscribing to locals, I and several other users acknowledged that already.

 

[Bobby]

Can you really record PTAT with your OTA if you don't subscribe to your locals? Can anyone else confirm this, because I cannot do that and based on my understanding how PTAT works, I don't think it is possible. I don't subscribe to my locals and of coarse I can record any individual local channels from my OTA but that is not what Dish PTAT is.

Based on what Krell said, it looks like a limited PTAT (one channel enabled) will work on OTA, provided there are available OTA tuners. He hasn't tested whether 2 channel PTAT would work with a dual-tuner OTA adapter.
He needs to test 2 channels.

That is what I understood too from his post, but I could NOT duplicate it (no matter what I tried) and I don't believe it is possible without subscribing to locals. That is why I asked if someone else can duplicate it.

I didn't ask abut Autohop. I know that Autohop works with OTA without subscribing to locals, I and several other users acknowledged that already.

And what I am saying is that PTAT is not recordable unless you subscribe to locals. You know it, I know it!

 

[dare2be]

And what I am saying is that PTAT is not recordable unless you subscribe to locals. You know it, I know it!

I believe Krell. In the case he described, it would act like a 3 hour manual timer on one OTA channel and then split the titles out just like PTAT on a sat local channel would.

 

[TheKrell]

That is what I understood too from his post, but I could NOT duplicate it (no matter what I tried) and I don't believe it is possible without subscribing to locals. That is why I asked if someone else can duplicate it.

I believe Krell. In the case he described, it would act like a 3 hour manual timer on one OTA channel and then split the titles out just like PTAT on a sat local channel would.

I have a confession to make, and I'm very embarrassed to do so. At some point c. January of this year my subscription to satellite locals mysteriously reappeared on my account and I didn't realize it. I have removed it again so we'll see what happens. But I think upsss and others are probably right and there will be no recording of the OTA channel simply by PTAT being enabled.

 

[dare2be]

Thanks, man. I went out on a limb for you...

 

[TheKrell]

Thanks, man. I went out on a limb for you...

I profusely apologize for that blunder. Which incidentally cost me $36 or thereabouts.

 

[reubenray]

Will the current Dish and AirTV OTA adapters work when ATSC 3.0 takes effect?

 

[comfortably_numb]

Will the current Dish and AirTV OTA adapters work when ATSC 3.0 takes effect?

No

 

[MikeD-C05]

I wonder if DISH will create new ota tuners that work with ATSC 3.0 like Tivo is doing now? They could easily update their usb ota tuners to use the new standard and then we would have to all buy new tuners.