Shouldn't have to turn it off should we? I never had to turn it off with the HWS. it would just pop up on the screen saying it was going to do nightly updates, and you had to hit a button to stop it from doing it.
Got update U303 on hopper 3
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Shouldn't have to turn it off should we? I never had to turn it off with the HWS. it would just pop up on the screen saying it was going to do nightly updates, and you had to hit a button to stop it from doing it.
No longer does that from what everyone has seen. We are having to turn them off to get updates now.
Go into the Joey standby setting and set it to timeout after appropriate time (like 4 hours or 6). If you're up for those 4 hours you can just press the select button. It will then go into standby allowing the Hopper to download the upgrade.
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I do have them both programmed to go into standby mode after 8 hours. My point was that my update came through while I was at work which is ideal for me! I love that it didn't automatically shut down at night to do the download, but rather did it by itself while the units were powered off.
Sorry if I was unclear.
Rebooting the Hopper did not work. I had to turn Joey in the kids room to standby. Then putting the hopper standby retrieved the update within a few min.
Seems kind of stupid that all units would have to be off to get an update. Especially when you used to get prompted for a update check on HWS. Hopefully this is a bug.
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I'm hoping this is the way it stays. When units are active no bothers, when all units are in standby then updates appear. What could be better?
Well, for one thing, nothing would ever get updated at my house. Someone is always on one of the 5 tv's.
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Btw, I still have u301 and have tried all of the suggestions to get it to load. My Hopper 3 now says check back after Feb. 18th for Netflix.
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For those saying you have 5.1, what exactly are you looking at? The Netflix app definitely marks shows with the "5.1" icon next to "HD" and in the audio menu it shows 5.1 as the soundtrack I'm playing, but my receiver only says it's receiving PCM. No trouble getting 5.1 from actual satellite channels, or from Netflix with the app on my TV (via ARC) or my PS3.
I'm wondering if people saying it now works with 5.1 are just basing it on what it says it's doing, not what it's actually doing.
Aaron
I'm wondering if people saying it now works with 5.1 are just basing it on what it says it's doing, not what it's actually doing.
Aaron
So, you don't care about the huge majority of subs that don't have 4K TVs. They should do without because you can't see Netflix 4K?
That would NOT be cool for the rest of us - the "non-4K'ers"
Am I correct that the H3 no longer does the nightly reboot? I couldn't tell as I have a auto-tune event at 2:00AM PST daily which was what I used on the H2K to keep it out of standby in case it reboots so I would have buffering when I turn the tv later on during the day.
It is hard to tell - now that my recordings (or myself) are no longer interrupted. Something must be happening though, since I got the newest firmware update.
Was the box actually in standby when you got the update or did it update in the background? I know with D*TV HD DVR's, it doesn't reboot nightly or one would even know it did updates unless you checked the version number, maybe they finally did it. Also, are updates actually downloaded via satellite or the internet?
It was definitely in standby (or I would have known otherwise) and as far as I know, that is the only way we can receive updates. With the HWS there were nightly updates (I know, because I was interrupted) but there wasn't a nightly version change.
