992 firmware:
I've never been much of a fan of IPTV because links tend to disappear and not work and then have to be cleaned out/up, fiddled with, etc. But, the IPTV on the HDVR3500 does seem to work well. I did notice that deleting channels out of it isn't quite right yet though. Some channels in the channel lists don't show for me in the delete listings and it looks like there's no way to delete/make categories?
Some radio stations show in the delete menu for IPTV too, but don't show anywhere in the main IPTV channel selection area that I can find.
On a different subject, I was renaming channels on a sat the other day and every time when I entered the Edit Service menu, the receiver jumps to a different channel. Just tried it again now on 101W, receiver is set on MeTV and once I entered the Edit service menu, it jumped to Movies. And no, it's not a simple matter of moving to the desired channel and all is good. Sometimes that does work, sometimes it will edit the channel it had jumped to [the wrong one] even though it is displaying specs for the one moved to. Very annoying.
One time it locked the channel and I can't get it unlocked, went through the steps on locking/unlocking, rebooted the receiver, channel still locked. Maybe a bug, or I could be missing a step or something, as I never lock channels. Very annoying, as I rename all channels I watch, unless they already have the correct name. This edit function did work fine in the previous firmware, pretty much unreliable now.
Changed batteries again today, for about the millionth time. This thing chews through remote batteries like crazy. I guess no one else but me has this problem, but hey, If I'm to be a unpaid Beta tester, I'm going to list whatever b*tches I have.
Record doesn't seem any better that I can tell, seems pretty much the same as before.
I see the same 'tuner weirdness' that Skysurfer reported. In the past with my other receivers, I relied heavily on the Signal and Quality readings, but this receiver just doesn't display them correctly. I realize that a tuner will not display these with 100% accuracy, but the HDVR3500 isn't even close, most of the time.
Another problem I have which is annoying me to no end is when I am on one of my Ku fixed dishes and then move to a channel on the motorized C dish the receiver will not display any video or sound. I have to move to another sat or two on the motorized dish and then go back to what I wanted to watch to get it to display anything. I'd had this problem before and Brian had suggested making sure that the first transponder listed for each satellite was a active one and doing that had fixed the issue then but doesn't work now, now it does it no matter what's first in the list.
The receiver will show Q and all, [it will do it on a channel with 80 Q or better even, it's not a low signal problem] it's going to the correct sat, locking on the channel and all, just won't display video/sound for whatever reason. On this particular setup, I have the HDVR3500 to a V Box, then a 8X1 Amiko DISEqC switch, connected to a C band dish and four fixed dishes. All work perfectly with my MicroHD in there in place of the HDVR3500. I haven't tried it on my other setup.
Is XBMC going to be eventually replaced with Kodi and less restricted? As it is now, it leaves a lot to be desired.
