Hacked or Haunted??

[MaddHattress]

SO......This started about 3-4 months ago(maybe I just didnt notice?). I would sit there and watch a movie and all the sudden Im hearing the BONK sound like someone is hitting a button that doesn't comply. Im thinking the batteries are getting low and the remote hasnt sensed it yet or something so I changed them out and continue on with my movie setting the remote on the coffee table. I hear the BONK again and the guide turns on and starts going through channels BY ITSELF! I click exit and set it back down. It goes on it again and changes it to another movie......Devils Advocate! I was freaking out! I said NO I WANNA WATCH THIS MOVIE and turn it back but it puts on guide and keeps going to the same movie. Another night, I was watching a recorded show and it was trying to delete it? Ive put it on animal planet ( Im the dorky petowner who thinks my pets watch TV) before I leave and I come back and its on a classic show channel 14 channels below it and a marathon for Tales of the darkside from like the 60s? Ive never heard of it but ITS CREEPING ME OUT! Today,there are shows that have been recorded that no one in the house watches. No one has watched TV all day since no one was home today?

 

[JUCJ85]

I've never heard of this, I have had the directv genie receiver and remote do the same thing, but it to me is due to a glitch or because i clicked the button too many times. Never had it change channels on me that I can remember.

Oh and I also am one of the those dorky pet owners who leaves the TV on for my Dogs to watch.

 

[JUCJ85]

I've never heard of this, I have had the directv genie receiver and remote do the same thing, but it to me is due to a glitch or because i clicked the button too many times. Never had it change channels on me that I can remember.

Oh and I also am one of the those dorky pet owners who leaves the TV on for my Dogs to watch.

 

[lnbchris]

Have a look at these two threads. So far no answers. I have named my HR 44-500 "Harvey".

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/dvr-records-deletes-on-its-own-please-help.341370/

http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/odd-entries-showing-up-in-history-list-as-deleted.340467/

 

[jdspencer]

Do a restart on whatever model DVR you have!

 

[TheTechGuru]

SO......This started about 3-4 months ago(maybe I just didnt notice?). I would sit there and watch a movie and all the sudden Im hearing the BONK sound like someone is hitting a button that doesn't comply. Im thinking the batteries are getting low and the remote hasnt sensed it yet or something so I changed them out and continue on with my movie setting the remote on the coffee table. I hear the BONK again and the guide turns on and starts going through channels BY ITSELF! I click exit and set it back down. It goes on it again and changes it to another movie......Devils Advocate! I was freaking out! I said NO I WANNA WATCH THIS MOVIE and turn it back but it puts on guide and keeps going to the same movie. Another night, I was watching a recorded show and it was trying to delete it? Ive put it on animal planet ( Im the dorky petowner who thinks my pets watch TV) before I leave and I come back and its on a classic show channel 14 channels below it and a marathon for Tales of the darkside from like the 60s? Ive never heard of it but ITS CREEPING ME OUT! Today,there are shows that have been recorded that no one in the house watches. No one has watched TV all day since no one was home today?

I've had this problem with a H20. I went so far as to remove the RF remote receiver/modem module from the unit and it did not help. My only guess was a internal short.

Get a new receiver.

 

[Kevin Auker]

Are you in a condo complex or apartment building? Someone else's remote commands may be leaking into your remote if you do not have or have a faulty band stop filter

 

[Kevin Auker]

Sorry....leaking into your receiver through the coax...

 

[TheTechGuru]

Sorry....leaking into your receiver through the coax...

I don't think that would be possible. Afaik RF mode has to be enabled for the receiver to use RF instead of IR and only one or the other can be enabled at a time.

Also remotes in RF mode are programmed with the serial of the unit they are supposed to control thus any other unit in RF mode would ignore it.

 

[texasbrit]

So are you in a condo or somewhere else with a shared dish?

 

[Drucifer]

You're definitely getting 3rd party interference. First thing I would do is change its remote code.

 

[Bodo Fenrirsson]

I suggest an exorcist,but first,probably have the DVR/receiver replaced.

 

[texasbrit]

If it's set for RF, then another RF source can't interfere. Possibly someone is using IP control; if someone is sharing the same network this might be possible. If you set up the wrong IP address then someone might think they are controlling their own DVR but they are actually controlling the OPs.. The OP has not answered the question about being in a condo or sharing dishes..

 

[dishcomm]

THIS is The Twilight Zone

 

[steecoe]

Did the extra remote get stuck in the couch cushions?

 

[goaliebob99]

Did the extra remote get stuck in the couch cushions?

I have had this happen and thats exactly what it was. We had an extra remote get stuck in the cushions so when anyone sat it did this.