Hopper S221 Feedback

[Scott Greczkowski]

The software wizards at DISH and Echostar have been busy and we have jumped from S217 to S221!

Please use this thread to report any issue or problems you notice with the new software.

The DISH Software team thanks you for your feedback and help!

 

[CCTX]

I went from 217 to 221 but I cannot tell yet what features/fixes this new update offers. Any idea?

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

As far as I know its just Stability fixes.

 

[viggen61]

Does it retain your selected Favorites list, or drop back to "My Channels" each day?

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[GaryPen]

As far as I know its just Stability fixes.

That's the greatest feature of all for my wife.

 

[GaryPen]

Does it retain your selected Favorites list, or drop back to "My Channels" each day?

Believe it or not, as supremely annoying as that is, it is a deliberate design feature, not a bug.

I did speak to a Dish engineer once, and mentioned the rampant displeasure at this behavior. He did say that it would be easy to add a setting for default guide, with choices such as My Channels, Last Used Guide, Favorites 1, Favorites 2, etc.

Hopefully, someday they will implement this setting.

 

[viggen61]

Hopefully, someday they will implement this setting.

I sure hope so! Nearly 6 years on my 622, and I rarely used any list besides my personal favorites.

There is a lot of programming I'm uninterested in, and don't want to scroll past (e.g. Shopping), so I create a favorites list without them.

I suppose it could be worse. My mom's cable box tacks your "favorites" onto the regular list, so instead of reducing what you scroll thru, it increases it...

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[Scott Greczkowski]

Please guys only S221 issues. This is not a general Hopper discussion thread.

Thanks!

 

[mfoster711]

Shouldn't this be a sticky?

 

[LER]

Shouldn't this be a sticky?

Is now

 

[md_paul]

I have 221 on my hopper. I'm not sure if this is a new feature, or I just never noticed it doing this before on nights when PTAT runs later than 11PM due to a prime time show running long: I have a daily timer scheduled to record the 11PM news on my local CBS station. Since PTAT normally ends around 11PM, the Hopper has always allocated a new tuner to record this 11PM event on CBS. The news timer starts just before 11PM, and for a brief time, I only have 1 free tuner since one tuner is recording CBS, and another tuner is recording the 4 PTAT stations. Tonight, I noticed that the PTAT Olympics on NBC were still recording to midnight (like they have been all week), and instead of using a separate tuner, the Hopper was using the existing PTAT tuner to record the 11PM news on ABC. This is very efficient, and I'm impressed.

 

[3HaloODST]

Got S221 on one of the Hoppers. Still S217 on the other two. So far the only thing I have noticed is that it may have fixed my MRV issues! *crosses fingers*

Joeys are still S268.

 

[oldengineer]

Got 221/271 on all 4 boxes this am. Had an HR21 flashback when one Hopper didn't respond to a key push right away but it was a one time thing. Whew!

 

[oldengineer]

I happened to be awake at 3AM when my updates got done. It was weird. I had fallen asleep earlier with the TV on. I woke up to find the recording light on and the box was apparently recording Rookie Blue, an ABC prime time show and it was playing. I turned the Hopper off and the recording light went off. I turned it back on and got the "Downloading in progress" message and it went ahead and did the update. I looked at the status and it said 221 but the available Joey SW was 268 and the Joey were still at 268. I checked the Rookie Blue recording and sure enough, it said that took place at 1:35 AM but it appears to be complete.

About 10 minutes later I saw a green light on a Joey. After the Joey turned itself off I checked the SW version again and it was up to 271.

Looks like some strange things are going on during updates. I'm going to try to sleep thru them from now on.

 

[pweezil]

Still having a problem with Pandora. There's no audio the first time you access it each day. A reboot seems to fix it until the nightly update.

 

[cditty]

I got mine at 2:10AM. Thank God. 217 was a killer for me.

 

[rdinkel]

Still awaiting S221 on second Hopper. First Hopper and all four Joeys have updates (S221/271). So far so good. Was able up reconnect Internet access via HIC without issues seen previously.

 

[patmurphey]

Went to broadband setup, it first showed red and then after a few seconds everything was green. Moca and blue button presses no longer show a bridging option - maybe it's automatic now?

 

[mdonnelly]

Apparently got S221 on my Hopper overnight. No issues (yet).

 

[GaryPen]

My Hopper was frozen in standby again this morning, and still on 217 after reset.

Tonight, I will make sure not to power it off to standby before bed to hopefully avoid standby freeze. Hopefully, it will take 221 then, and these standby lockups will be a thing of the past.