Does hopper check for software updates EVERY night?

[smokey982]

I'm just curious if it's every night or just every so often. The reason I ask is because I've had 2 occasions in the past couple weeks where I was scheduled to record something at 1am and both of these particular shows started to play back and the picture freezes about 1-2 minutes in and will not play any further. I assume it's because the system shut down for a software update or maybe was just checking for an update (I'm always asleep at this time). But I've also had other shows that I've recorded at 1am and never had any problems. So I'm sort of worried about recording anything at 1am anymore.

 

[garys]

The Hopper has nightly updates every night at 1 am. If you have a recording scheduled, it should wait till the recording is done. Contact Dish or PM a DIRT member here to check if there is a known software bug causing your problem.

 

[MaryB@SlingTV]

The Hopper is the same as the ViP922. At 1:00am it will display a pop-up that states the system will shut down, you can manually override it at this point but if you are not watching TV, it will automatically update.

 

[KE4EST]

Yes every night.

 

[smokey982]

The Hopper is the same as the ViP922. At 1:00am it will display a pop-up that states the system will shut down, you can manually override it at this point but if you are not watching TV, it will automatically update.

So I'm guessing that just checking for an update doesn't interrupt recordings, because most of my 1am shows are fine. But if there's an actual update then it probably stops the recording for the update. Would that be correct? Why else would some shows play fine and others do not?

 

[MaryB@SlingTV]

So I'm guessing that just checking for an update doesn't interrupt recordings, because most of my 1am shows are fine. But if there's an actual update then it probably stops the recording for the update. Would that be correct? Why else would some shows play fine and others do not?

I will look into this a little further. I am not sure why only some recordings are being effected. I will let you know when I hear back!

 

[356B]

I record in the wee hours all the time, I've never had a problem.