HR21-ALL CE Release- 3/28 & 3/29- HR21-100 Cancelled for Friday, All other HR21 is GO

[jcrandall]

Systems in this CE / Version
HR21-700 {CE:05:03}
HR21-200 {CE:05:03}
HR21-100 {CE:05:03} Saturday Only

Window of opportunity to download:
Friday, March 28, 2008 11PM - 2:30AM ET
Saturday, March 29, 2008 11PM - 2:30AM ET

CHANGES FROM THIS RELEASE:

• 
  [*] 03 - Stability
  [*]03 - Media Share Improvements

CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASE:

• 01 - 1xFF performance and appearance
• 01 - Guide scrolling performance
• 01 - GameSearch avoids partial recordings while searching for games
• 01 - Stability improvements
  [*]01 - Supports the AM21, DIRECTV's external ATSC tuner
• 01 - Autorecords with Boolean Search logical operators appear in TODO list
• 01 - Channel up and down updates the selected item in the Prioritizer
• 01 - Playlist new displays the recording date
• 02 - Detection of second tuner
• 02 - UI polishing/fixes
• 02 - DIRECTV Mediashare (many)
• 02 - Stability
• 02 - Elimination of rare cases of gray screen
• 02 - Smoother 1xFF
• 02 - Increase to the number of actors presented in the INFO
• 02 - Audio (robustness against dropouts on certain setups)

Please ignore the date at the top of the post header, I simply copied the previous week to save time, and update the info.

 

[jcrandall]

This is a summary of the keyword search power tricks from the programmers (for
reference):

Simple Grammar:
[{AANY/AALL} <tokens>] [{NNOT} <tokens>] [TTITLE/NNAME] [{CCHAN} <number> [<number>]]

BOOLEAN LOGIC:

“AALL” => (this is the AND boolean operation) all the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode, category) in any order “AANY” => (this is the OR boolean operation) at least one of the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode,
category)
“NNOT” => (this is the NOT boolean operation) exclude any programs that contain any of the following words in that search string

The AANY and AALL keywords should appear as the first word in the search string in order to set the search mode.
The NNOT keyword may appear anywhere and all words following the NNOT keyword are considered words to exclude.

SCOPE FILTERS:

TTITLE => Limits the search to only the Title field of the Programs NNAME => Limits the search to only the Name field (e.g. Actors, Director) of the Program CCHAN => Limits the search to only the specified channel range (example CCHAN 500 510, or CCHAN 500 for a single channel)

Some sample queries are:

AALL racing car NNOT nascar => finds all shows containing “car” and “racing”
(any order/position), but excludes the show if “nascar” appears
AALL hanks tom NNOT vinci => finds all tom hanks movies/shows but excludes
the movie if the word “vinci” appears (e.g. da vinci code)
AALL hanks tom NNAME => finds all tom hanks programs where he is an actor
AALL hdtv football => finds all high definition football
programs (note you can include category labels in the search and “HDTV” is same as “High-Def”)
AANY usc ucla NNOT football => finds all usc and ucla events/shows, but
excludes football events
oakland raiders NNOT miami => finds exact match for “oakland raiders” but
excludes show if “miami” appears (e.g. excludes games with Miami Dolphins) AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 700 730 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channels 700 through 730 AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 710 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channel 710

 

[jcrandall]

03 - Notes TBA (Expect Friday Afternoon/Evening)

 

[carlos31820]

Is this CE release different than the one pushed last weekend?

 

[Shipsnake]

I am getting installed Saturday morning, should i dl this Saturday night or wait to see if my reciever acts funny?

 

[rad]

Is this CE release different than the one pushed last weekend?

I've never seen them release the same exact CE two weekends in a row.

 

[rad]

I am getting installed Saturday morning, should i dl this Saturday night or wait to see if my reciever acts funny?

I'd recommend not doing a CE download until you've had a chance to check things out to make sure all's OK since if you do have problems you're not supposed to call D* for assistance on a CE release. They'll probably have another one next weekend so you'll have a chance then to join the fun.

 

[Shipsnake]

Ok thanks for the advise, I will wait and seee how it goes then.:up

 

[Mindcrime]

Another noob question

Can someone explain to me what the second post in this thread is? Is there some way that im unaware of to search for programming on my HR 21-700?

TIA

 

[jcrandall]

Another noob question

Can someone explain to me what the second post in this thread is? Is there some way that im unaware of to search for programming on my HR 21-700?

TIA

It is instructions on how to use special search strings to lookup certain channels, etc. or to setup auto-records.

Too hard for me to figure out, but it is new, it is in the software, and maybe someone will benefit from it

 

[michaelbudney]

I am getting installed Saturday morning, should i dl this Saturday night or wait to see if my reciever acts funny?

You can always roll back if you update outside of the CE windows. It's the same process.

 

[michaelbudney]

Still no mention of the "Responds to network PING" in the release notes but does work on the last CE.

 

[cebbigh]

Another noob question

Can someone explain to me what the second post in this thread is? Is there some way that im unaware of to search for programming on my HR 21-700?

TIA

It can be very useful if you don't care to see certain things during your search.

For example you can eliminate PPV:

HDTV NNOT PPV movies all

 

[goaliebob99]

According to DBStalk.com this has been cancelled.

 

[goaliebob99]

HR21
HR21-700 - Status: Expected
HR21-200/HR21-Pro - Status: Expected
HR21-100 - Status: Canceled for Friday

 

[aztracker]

Ok, I have an HR21-200 and I just tried downloading the CE. It identified that the new version was 0220 and began downloading. After about 10% of it being done, it stopped, the status bar cleared, and the numbers in the upper left began changing. This lasted about 10 minutes before the box rebooted. After it was done I checked the version. It was still my arch nemesis 0206! (evil laugh). When I tried again, it only shows 0206 (evil laugh) as a choice. What the heck happened?

Incidently, I was not home last weekend to download the last CE. Am I stuck with 0206 forever?

 

[goaliebob99]

Weird.. I would try an RBR (red button Reboot) and downloading again and see if that works. You shouldnt be, unless D* decided to pull the software for that model at the last moment while you were downloading.

 

[michaelbudney]

It's acting strange on the hr21-700 also. Like I mentioned in the other post the numbers in the upper left just increment up for about 5 min while the download progress stays at 0%.

 

[psycle_1]

My hr21-700's are doing the same thing. It's almost as if they cancelled the update for those as well. The poll for the HR21-700 issues on DBSTalk.com is not listed for this latest release either. Another reason to think it has been cancelled.

 

[mlbfans]

This software for the HR21-700 says 0193