Dumb question about removing EHD from VIP211k

[Dee_Ann]

Hi guys!

This is probably a dumb question but is there any special precautions or procedures involved in removing my EHD from my tuner?
We have three days of heavy rain forecast later this week and I want to tweak my dish that's aimed at 129w.
To do that I need to shut down, disconnect and take my Dish tuner out to the dish so I can see the screen in real time. It's on target but it could definitely be adjusted much better.
Reason being, I put a 1.2m dish up myself, I didn't go the usual route of having an installer do it for me.

I'm concerned about taking the disk off the tuner, when I press the power button on the remote there is always a message on the screen that tells me the tuner is "off". Right..
There is NO WAY the tuner is off if it's displaying a message on my screen. Come on.........

I know on a PC that you can't just yank the cord while things are running. I don't want to risk losing anything, corrupting anything or messing up the $40 authorization!

As for putting it back after I'm done, I'm assuming/hoping that it's just as simple as plugging it all in and powering up.? I hope I won't have to call and have it reauthorized?

Thanks!

 

[jimdandyvi]

It won't be a problem. Just try and change the channel to make sure your receiver isn't trying to record, then power the receiver down, unplug the USB cord, then power down the drive. When you bring the receiver back inside just plug the drive into the USB port and power it up before plugging the receiver back into AC. If you get the message that the receiver wants to format the drive unplug the receiver from AC, wait a couple of minutes then plug it back in.

 

[Dee_Ann]

OMG......

It erased ALL of the timers I had set! ALL of them...

 

[Mr Tony]

when you remove the hard drive it will do that. It should save them so when you plug the hard drive back in it will show the timers

also there is an option on the 211k to remove hard drive...I think when you hit DVR button there is an option on the 1st screen

 

[dwarren2]

It never did that on me. I've had to change the power supply cord. I've unplugged the usb cable and I've never lost my timers. Never lost them with a power failure either.
I have had problems with my 211 seeing the ehd after it's bee reconnected. I think the last time I did it, powered up the 211 then connected the ehd

 

[Dee_Ann]

Oooooopsy...


For some reason it didn't see the disk when it powered up. I couldn't find that it was listed in the menus, there was no DVR option.

So I pulled the USB out and plugged it back in. It said a disk was detected then it went through some routine, I forget what it said.
Then it downloaded the guide data, AGAIN... After that I checked and it showed a DVR option in the menu.
I was able to find that all the timer events were back as they should be and when I looked at the guide it shows things I had flagged for recording and viewing as it should.

Whew!!!!!!

That was scary!

Thanks guys!

 

[Dee_Ann]

Oh, and btw, my tweaking project, went swimmingly well!

I gained an average of 30% increase on 129w transponders with my 1.2m dish..

I had setup the dish using a Birddog meter but the dish is so big that it was showing a 100% signal even when I would move the dish 6 inches in any direction!
So the Birddog was of little use for anything other than locating the satellite. I had to use the Dish tuner itself to tweak the dish.
Rain fade, not a concern..

 

[Mr Tony]

yup anytime you add or remove the hard drive it reboots....

no EHD...2 day guide
with EHD...8-9 day guide

 

[Dee_Ann]

yup anytime you add or remove the hard drive it reboots....no EHD...2 day guidewith EHD...8-9 day guide

I the 9 day guide!It's extremely nice to have that because it can search ahead for recording collisions and reschedule stuff when it replays later in the week.It's hard to miss an episode like that, the real problem though is finding the time to watch it all!

 

[dwarren2]

Have you discovered that by pressing the DVR button 3 times you bring up the DVR schedule for those 9 days? If you arrow over to a show and press Info you get a list of actions you can take from Ski/Restore change Timer options, etc

 

[Dee_Ann]

Have you discovered that by pressing the DVR button 3 times you bring up the DVR schedule for those 9 days? If you arrow over to a show and press Info you get a list of actions you can take from Ski/Restore change Timer options, etc

I have now!

Thanks!

 

[dwarren2]

I've had my 722a nd 211 for years and only discovered that feature in the last year. Like to pas my knowledge on to others so that they don't have to sicovery them.

 

[Jim5506]

There is a menu item for removal of the EHD on the 211 (MENU, 9, 2).

It removes the EHD and reboots the receiver painlessly.

When the EHD was first added to the 211 I made the mistake of just pulling the usb cable out and it corrupted the OS on the drive and I could not get the 211 to recognise the drive until I reformatted it to NTFS on a PC then put it on the 211 which then saw the EHD and reformatted it to Dish's flavor of linux to be usable.

 

[dare2be]

I spend every day on my DVR schedule checking for conflicts, skipping unwanted events, setting priorities, etc. I don't remember when or how I learned of that feature, but it was way back in my ViP625 days.