First issue with S221. My wife and I were watching a movie and had to pause if for about 15 minutes. When we went to restart it, we got nothing but a black screen. None of the other functions (DVR, live TV, etc) would work on that Hopper - totally locked up. The Joey we were using could access the other 2 Hoppers and they worked fine. I finally did a power plug reboot and it came back, but took a long time after the reboot before I could restart the movie.
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Access to bridging worked after trying again 3 times. I found that this update did not turn it off.
Where did this NFL Redzone app come from. It's next to the Olympics app when you press the blue button.
I had several new issues with S221 around 1:30 this morning. I was watching tv and the normal need to shut down to check for update popped up so I said yes a let it shut down to check for updates. When I was able watch tv again about two minutes after shutting down to check for updates the notice appeared again wanting to check for updates, I hit the no button this time. I then noticed the MOCA bars appeared in the lower right corner of the tv except they are grey in color instead on the normal green color. I hit the yellow hot ket and go into network setup, try and scroll down to the MOCA and it was stuck on Ethernet bottom and would not let me go to the MOCA box to see if the bridging is on or off. I noticed that home network status was yellow instead of the normal green color and the only way to get the receiver to respond to the remote was to a RBR. The receiver came back up after the reset but then demonstrated the same problems again. I had to unplug the receiver for about thirty seconds, plug back in to fix the problems. It all happened again about eight hours later which resulted in a call to Dish and a service call scheduled for tomorrow morning. Will see how that turns out, will post back tomorrow. I forgot to mention that S221 was updated for the first time on 8/10 and the problems started on the next update to S221 24 hours later. To clarify it wasn't an update from S217 to S221.
I gotta say, mine's pretty damn stable.
I like the few new touches, recall stations centered. seems a bit more responsive as well. I did notice that the pandora app now seems to overlay the tv station??
You can see the background station around the edges of the pandora app screen? I wonder if it will get to the point where you can have the music on and flip through the stations
I like the few new touches, recall stations centered. seems a bit more responsive as well. I did notice that the pandora app now seems to overlay the tv station??
You can see the background station around the edges of the pandora app screen? I wonder if it will get to the point where you can have the music on and flip through the stations
OK, after my nightly pink static screen my Joey rebooted to the 1303 screen looking for my Hopper. I had just re-enabled bridging on the Hopper earlier today. When I checked the Hopper network screen the only thing that was selectable was my Top Ethernet. Everything else, including Moca was grayed out. I had to RBR the Hopper to get the Moca selection back and quickly disabled bridging. So much for S221 being more stable.
When the Hopper checks for updates, the ethernet becomes available about 8 minutes before MOCA comes back online. If you have your hopper & joey connected via ethernet, you get to watch programming faster during an update than someone that relies on the MOCA connection only. I wouldn't call it a bug. If I were to venture a guess, I would imagine the hopper is running diagnostics still and MOCA is probably next to last on the list. However, it does see the ethernet and allows the data connection to occur so that you can watch tv.
I have had this happen right at the end of PTAT hours (was heading up to bed and wanted to watch the 11pm news on the Joey) and the Joey was hung up 1303 looking for hopper. I had the same symptom of Ethernet only in the networking configuration on the Hopper with MoCA grayed out. I had to RBR the Hopper to get the MoCA accessible in the dropdown box so this is NOT just a nightly update consequence issue.
ETA: This was on S221 last night btw.
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I swear I had Pandora working on my Joeys with an earlier update. Now, we are back to the slide that says "coming later".....
Slightly off topic (don't have S221 yet.) Why only four recall channels? Why not 5, 6, 7,... Just a thought
I experienced my first bug on S221. I programmed some timers to record some repeats of Dark Matters on the Science Channel and then went into the timers list to set the overrun from three to five minutes. When I did this and scrolled up from say timer 61 to timer 60 it would remove timer 60 and just show timer 61. If I would keep scrolling up every timer would be removed except for timer 61. Now with that explained, the timers weren't actually deleted as I backed out of the timers screen and went back into the timers menu and everything was normal but I was able to keep repeating this glitch.
I have an issue. I was trying add back in ABC to my guide (how it got out of my list I have no idea) and going through the editing of the list the screen would go black except for the preview window, then after about 10 seconds it would bounce back out to live TV. So I went back into the settings to edit the guide list again. In the channel listing I would be hitting Page Up a few times to get to the top of the list and the screen would black out again. It did it about 5 times before I decided I will just try again later. I have had it do that before when using the Menu I think, maybe the Guide too. The screen would go black all except for the preview window showing video.
I'm still seeing the bug where if I go and view recordings from my second hopper from my first in folder view. Once opening a folder to view episodes if I try to back out of the folder it goes back to my fist dvrs recording instead of my seconds. Be nice if this would get fixed as it is annoying. Are others seeing this?
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I have this one too. I can't access Rentals either. I have tried clicking on the "Rentals" folder and also selecting "Rentals" from the drop-down menu. Using either option, nothing happens. A reboot fixed it last night, but it came back again today. I can't be rebooting the Hopper all of the time because it interrupts anybody viewing TV in any room and it interrupts any recordings (including PTAT). So, I can't watch any of my Rentals until all of my recordings stop so I can reboot the Hopper.
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