I’ve disabled this “feature” a few times but it turns itself back on after some time. Has anyone else experienced that? I can’t see how it is useful to anyone. Does anyone really want to record everything in prime time every day?
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I’ve never turned it off. The recordings go away on their own after 8 days anyway unless you intentionally save them. They take up very little room on the internal hard drive and only take one tuner to record.
I can’t see how they don’t eat bandwidth. Why do they take less space than other shows? Are they mega compressed or something?
I couldn’t do more than two things at a time on my old box with two tuner, so how do they record multiple shows with one tuner?
I’d rather keep utilization on the box as low as possible since it seems to struggle with basics like rewinding on the DVR.
PTAT is an awesome feature. It saves me from having to set additional timers. Just don't open the folder if you don't care for it.
Well that’s cool that you like it, but I don’t watch anything in prime time and have no need of recording anything in that time period, especially on local channels. Like I said, I’d rather tax the box as little as possible so that it can do what I want it do.
PTAT is an awesome feature. It saves me from having to set additional timers. Just don't open the folder if you don't care for it.
Well take a downgrade to the lesser Hopper so you won't have to worry yourself about taxing tt.
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I’m not going to bother with that, I’ll just deal with it. Just thought I’d ask.
First, where are you disabling it, I'm sure you are, but just for the hell of it and second, I wonder if updates are re-enabling it
Just go into the app and uncheck every day of the week and uncheck every network that is green and checked and it shouldn't have any reason to turn on at all.
I've always had PTAT disabled since I am already out of space as is and it did enable itself only once on it's own a few years ago probably because of software updates.
THAT! Updates have often changed settings, though I Can't recat about PTAT. To the OP, don't worry about it. It's not at all "taxing" the Hopper.
PTAT would get in the way if you wanted to record three things simultaneously and none of them were covered by it.
Related question: does auto-hop require PTAT? For some reason I thought it did, but I have PTAT off (unless it's turned itself on) and just the other day I got a popup asking me if I wanted to use auto-hop.
Related question: does auto-hop require PTAT? For some reason I thought it did, but I have PTAT off (unless it's turned itself on) and just the other day I got a popup asking me if I wanted to use auto-hop.
Yes, if you don’t have a Hopper 3, like maybe a Hopper with Sling, you could have an issue as you have pointed out. PTAT is going to take up a tuner and the Sling version of Hopper only has 3 tuners.
Because each market's "Big-4" locals are all on a single transponder, the tuner sees the entire transponder and can split out pieces of it into different record streams.
And if your receiver is a Hopper 3, it is capable of 16 simultaneous satellite recordings plus another two from the optional OTA module, so your chances of overtaxing it are quite low.
Sounds like he has an OLD Hopper with Sling or worse yet the Hopper 2000.
Hopper3 has plenty of power and disk drive space to handle PTAT and other excellent features.
If I had a Hopper with Sling, I might disable PTAT, too, not that it bogs down, but that it limits me to 2 simultaneous satellite recordings and sometimes I record 3 or 4.
That's why I got the Hopper3, LOVE IT!
Hopper3 has plenty of power and disk drive space to handle PTAT and other excellent features.
If I had a Hopper with Sling, I might disable PTAT, too, not that it bogs down, but that it limits me to 2 simultaneous satellite recordings and sometimes I record 3 or 4.
That's why I got the Hopper3, LOVE IT!
I do have a Hopper 3. In my simple mind it makes sense to disable things I don’t need to maximize available resources, eg cpu and disk utilization, bandwidth etc. Maybe I’m just wasting my time, not sure.
In part, I’ve been trying to figure out why the DVR function is so flaky. A lot of times I’ll hit rewind to repeat a section of a show and it just spazzes out and I just give up. The Joey 4K is worse though. Rewinding on that is an exercise in futility. So I figured maybe the box is too busy or something.
Unrelated, but I’ve noticed the hopper periodically makes these relay popping noises when it’s supposedly off. Anyone know what it’s doing?
Well that’s cool, but it still has to write the stuff to disk, right? I would guess that could cause problems at times. I don’t know if it’s an SSD or regular drive in there. But there are many types of SSDs optimized for various purposes. Presumably that put something appropriate in the box. Hopefully.
I just hit Home-Home-PTA-Disable.
I’m guessing you’re right, maybe an update re-enabled it.
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