Guide Data Loss

[GRExpert]

Had a weird thing happen yesterday ... Got home from work and the DVR was recording when I knew I had nothing scheduled. Turn it on and look at things and all of my guide data was lost and the DVR was recording 2 random channels. I ran a check switch to force the guide data download and the data came back and the DVR schedule worked itself out. Has anyone else seen anything like this happen and have a cause? I would have been pissed if I had missed my scheduled recordings that night. Thanks.

 

[Jhon69]

Had a weird thing happen yesterday ... Got home from work and the DVR was recording when I knew I had nothing scheduled. Turn it on and look at things and all of my guide data was lost and the DVR was recording 2 random channels. I ran a check switch to force the guide data download and the data came back and the DVR schedule worked itself out. Has anyone else seen anything like this happen and have a cause? I would have been pissed if I had missed my scheduled recordings that night. Thanks.

It could be that Dish was pushing some Dish on Demand programs?,That would be my guess.

 

[Jim S.]

I've had it happen twice. The first time, nobody else here reported it. The second time, only a few people did. Since then, I've only seen one or two people report it. So basically, I have no idea what the problem is.

 

[Haysoos]

If you don't have auto updates scheduled, you will lose guide data and that will then mess up your scheduled recordings. If you have a non ViP receiver (625, 522) then goto menu, 8, 4 and enable updates. Default is 3:00 am. If you do have a ViP then it sounds like a problem with receiver as there is no way to disable the updates. Or, if you're a night owl and do most of your TV watchin around the 3 am mark and you get a message that says your receiver is going to power down, but you cancel that and continue to watch TV then you have a recipe for this problem.

 

[GRExpert]

I have a 622 and am not up past 11:00 PM. If it happens again I will have to get with Dish. The check switch seemed to fix everything, hopefully it was just a weird fluke

 

[Jim5506]

You cannot turn off auto-updating, it is mandatory, you just select the time it occurs.