HR34 issues... again

[ejb1980]

I now have zero DVR capability on any Directv channel and can't fast forward/rewind/pause recordings. The no-audio issue noted in a recent thread - just happened, too. It came back on its own after I stopped turning it off/on several times. Doing that usually corrects the "robot" echo sounds that happen for no reason. There is also no buffer and double play doesn't work.

Note: AM21 channels not effected in anyway. I can fast forward/rewind/etc them just fine, just actual satellite/Directv-provided channels are effected as noted above.

 

[Mr Tony]

no issues here on my HR34.....worked fine during the debacle known as the Vikes game

you running CE software or the National Release?

 

[jcrandall]

Assuming you tried a hard reset (unplug it a few min and plug back in)? Also reset the SWM network (unplug SWM power supply as well when receivers are unplugged?

 

[ejb1980]

I mostly started this thread to see of others were seeing this to avoid the reset stuff, as I wish to avoid the RBR/reset process and the hour it takes to trick all the missing subchannels into the AM21. I had thought I had paused the game to take my dog out but when I came back, it was still going and I couldn't do anything. I shut it off and then, when it came back on, I didn't have audio. I missed about 45 minutes and I wrote the first post without a proper explanation in frustration. I don't see the point in going through all of the resetting if it's just one never-ending list of things that are wrong with some of the HR34 units. I also don't want to miss MORE football!

I am still on the national release software. It was just updated recently, I even started a thread on here about how great it was. I guess I will never compliment them again!

Since starting the thread, I learned that I am able to pause and fast forward on the client (no rewind). After football, I will consider a full reset.

 

[Jimbo]

I mostly started this thread to see of others were seeing this to avoid the reset stuff, as I wish to avoid the RBR/reset process and the hour it takes to trick all the missing subchannels into the AM21. I had thought I had paused the game to take my dog out but when I came back, it was still going and I couldn't do anything. I shut it off and then, when it came back on, I didn't have audio. I missed about 45 minutes and I wrote the first post without a proper explanation in frustration. I don't see the point in going through all of the resetting if it's just one never-ending list of things that are wrong with some of the HR34 units. I also don't want to miss MORE football!

I am still on the national release software. It was just updated recently, I even started a thread on here about how great it was. I guess I will never compliment them again!

Since starting the thread, I learned that I am able to pause and fast forward on the client (no rewind). After football, I will consider a full reset.

A reboot won't require you to do anything to get your locals.

 

[ejb1980]

The reboot erases the memory of the AM21 if you have additional zips (more than 2) forced in. It's the trick that coconut13 posts about.

 

[raoul5788]

How do you "force" more than two zips into the AM21?

 

[ejb1980]

The Trick in a Nutshell:

Step 1: Run initial set up. Enter home zip code, Enter Secondary zip of neighboring DMA.
Step 2: Run initial set up again. Enter home zip code, Enter third (4th, 5th..) zip code.

The third, forth, etc zip codes can be for a 3rd DMA OR a DMA that has a PSIP channel that is that of your missing zip.

Example: Locally, WUVC is 40-1 Univision, 40-2 Unimas, 40-3 Bounce, 40-4 Gettv. Only 40-1 and 40-2 are in the database, but I added a Los Angeles DMA zip and it added 40-3 and 40-4. The guide data is for TBN's subchannels in LA, but you can at least tune to the missing channel. Each time you add more zips, it adds to the list, not deleting anything from it.

Research can possibly match forced zips with subchannel networks that match (example, if your city has Antenna TV on 8-2 but your local channel is not in the database, you could luck out and find another Antenna TV on 8-2 to match guide data most of the time. It's time consuming. Cococut13 has great helpful posts about this throughout this and the "other" forum. The "other" forum also has the database in an excel sheet.

It sounds crazy. It works. I added 16-5 from Montana, 20-4 from Salt Lake City, 22-2 / 40-3 / 40-4 from Los Angeles, and 43-3 from Fresno to complete my guide, using west coast zip codes so the "K" stations are the ones with incorrect data which, for some reason, makes me feel better. It is less confusing to say to someone "The channels that start with K are wrong guide data." I was not able to add 16-6 because there is no 16-6 in the database.

 

[ejb1980]

Even though 40-1 should be HD and 43-1 should not, it is functional. Manual recordings can be made from subchannels not in the database.

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[Mr Tony]

the cluster**ck like that is the reason I love my Tivo. Here in Minneapolis we have the following not in the database
ThisTV
MeTV
Bounce
Movies!
Country Network (Zuus Country)
+ some low powered religious stations.

I mainly use my Tivo just for those channels (and for some network programming so I can free up tuners on the HR34. I hated setting manual timers when the HR34 COULD scan for additional channels because half the time it didnt work. No issues now and got a good deal for it when folks were dumping them for the new Roamio version

 

[Jimbo]

Thats interesting, I would have expected it to over write the zip currently in there.

I would like to get Columbus station, but it would have to be thru D*, not OTA, seeing it's too far away for OTA.

 

[coconut10]

I'm in the MPLS/STP area and can get all the channels not in the database using secondary zips. It really is a cluster**ck but it works, and I guess you have to do what you have to do. THISTV in unattainable because its .6 subchannel (5.6) which can't be matched. But I get 5.3,23.3, 25.1,25.2,29.3,29.4,33.1,33.2,33.3 by using secondary zips. I also get the Mankato stations with that zip 12.1 and12.2. It works really well, but does take some time after a re-boot sometimes to get some of the channels back.

 

[ejb1980]

Sorry. I incorrectly credited the wrong numbered coconut with the trick!

 

[ejb1980]

I never did re-set the DVR. I haven't really been home much. Today, I am noticing that I have DVR functions again, although nothing appears on the screen like it usually does.

 

[ejb1980]

the cluster**ck like that is the reason I love my Tivo. Here in Minneapolis we have the following not in the database
ThisTV
MeTV
Bounce
Movies!
Country Network (Zuus Country)
+ some low powered religious stations.

I mainly use my Tivo just for those channels (and for some network programming so I can free up tuners on the HR34. I hated setting manual timers when the HR34 COULD scan for additional channels because half the time it didnt work. No issues now and got a good deal for it when folks were dumping them for the new Roamio version

Is your Tivo a stand-alone Tivo or the Directv Tivo receiver you see on the "we're better than dish network" ads?