Say I have a question maybe a DIRECTV tech here can answer ...
My HR54-500's HDMI output circuitry has apparently gone bad (picture and sound breaking up) and had a service call here yesterday.
And one of the things he tried around 11:00 AM PST local (it didn't help the problem) was force a firmware upgrade to the new NR currently rolling out during the night and early morning hours, 0x0D80, while the FW Watcher was reporting only 0x0D1E in the satellite stream of course. I also didn't notice him do the 0-2-4-6-8 on the remote control either.
Did he somehow force the HR54 to get the new NR over the internet? (Have Spectrum at about 120/20) As that's the only thing I can figure, but I didn't know that was possible on the HR54.
If he did I sure would like to know the secret
, as the box updated very fast this time, whereas and I've been struggling since last Friday trying to pull down the recent firmware updates by satellite of both the new NR and the CE release containing the new guide, all to no avail. It's ridiculously slow and eventually stalls and times out each time.