Thread: How to Manually Record OTA on a vip 622/942

Many people still do not know that they can manually record events from an OTA channel that does not have EPG data. Most are used to recording events that do have EPG Data. The ability to record OTA channels with out EPG Data takes a few more steps but it can be had. Now we step into the wild jungle of the 622 and begin to set up the manual timer..... But, first. there are pictures below for you all to view to see how this is done.. Now,.... I see an Aussie of a VIP 622 over there, lets go see if we can taime this wild beast and record some ota on it.


1. Press DVR on your remote

2. Press DVR again on your remote.

3. Highlight Schedule on your screen and press the SELECT button on your remote.

4. Highlight Timers on your screen and press the SELECT button on your remote.

5. Highlight Manual Timer on your screen and press the SELECT button on your remote.

6. IN the LEFT box under FREQUENCY use your remote to cursor under how often you want the timer to fire.

7. IN the Center BOX use your remote to cursor to the TYPE box and select DVR or EXT (if external Hard Drive is used. NOTE: THE EXT FEATURE IS NOT ACTIVE AT THE TIME OF POSTING! )

8. IN the Right box Use your remote to cursor to the Channels box and select the proper channel. (NOTE: I used WGN 9-01 which dish does not carry over the EPG GUIDE DATA from its SD version to the OTA HD version IN CHICAGO)

9. Use your remote to scroll over and select edit time and press the SELECT button on your remote control.

10. Use your remote to cursor to the times you want the timer to fire and use the key pad on the remote control to set the time. For 930 you would select 9 3 0 on your remote. for 1130 you would select 1 1 3 0 on your remote. Then use your remote to cursor to am or pm and select when you want your timer fire in the am slot or pm slot. Do the same for the end time.

11. Use your remote to cursor to done and press SELECT On your remote control.

12. Highlight the create timer button with your remote control and press SELECT on your remote control.

13. An attention box will appear for 2-3 seconds

14. Verify the timer is in the timers list and select done.

15. You should now see the timer in the daily schedule box and select done.

16. Press VIEW LIVE TV button to quickly exit out of all the menus.

17. In your guide when you scroll over that channel you set the timer on and will not see a timer in the guide.

18. Scroll to the time you set the timer up for the channel and the timer icon appears.

19. When the time comes for the timer to fire the timer fires.

20. The recording shows up as DIGITAL SERVICE in the my recordings option (dvr button twice) for later viewing.

Can you give me some more details on how to create a manual timer?


Seriously though, that is the only way I can record an ota event with my 921 when I had it . My 942 when I had it and now my 622 . Dish will never get my locals up on the satellite .

Beaumont/Pt. Arthur, Texas Dma #138

Your local stations must want to much dough to allow uplink.

Nope I talked to the Cbs station engineer where all the stations will share a common link to the pop, and he said Dish came by like a year ago and said everything was a go and to wait till they get to them. HOPEFULLY with the launch of Echostar 10 and the move of the locals to it, we will see our locals and the rest of the dmas left uplinked by years end.

Dish should be the first sat company to uplink all the sd locals out there. Imagine how well they could compete when they say : "We care locals in ALL MARKETS IN THE U.S.A. "

Originally Posted by MikeD-C05

Can you give me some more details on how to create a manual timer?


Seriously though, that is the only way I can record an ota event with my 921 when I had it . My 942 when I had it and now my 622 . Dish will never get my locals up on the satellite .

Beaumont/Pt. Arthur, Texas Dma #138

Like seriously there was one person that said you couldn't do this in another thread.. So if this thread helps out one person then its job is done.. I'm sure there is more who are not registered that are afraid to speak up and ask things like this. If it helps them out too then my job is done

You can also go through Menu- 7 (daily schedule) - timers- manual timer pick channel and time yada yada

I will hijack this thread to once again crab about Dish's decision to mark OTA with no guide data as "NR/AO". Those of us that have locked out the more risque programming because we have kids are forced to enter the lock code to access any OTA program. If they used "NR" instead, it wouldn't trigger the ratings lock.

Yes, let's fire off something to ceo@echostar.com

It is annoying as hell to have to come in and enter the lock code all the time
because of the way they have done the ratings filter. I have 3 kids, so it gets old real fast.

goaliebob99, I asked the following ? a few weeks ago in the 622 review thread but didn't get an answer. You seem to be someone on top of things and i'm sure you can answer it for me .

I have a 622 but have no OTA available where I live. But I do have a basic cable feed in the house (ch 2-13). I found that with my SXRD TV that I can scan the cable feed and pickup all our local networks in HD off the cable feed. Two of these are in the ch 79 range and the other two are around ch 85. They are sub channels that are digital and riding on the cable feed. While I am happy about this until Dish decides to give us "rural" folks DNS in HD it still does not allow me to harddrive shows.
This brings me to my actual question (about time). What is the scan range of the 622 for digital channels? Will it find the above range with a scan? I can't find the answer in the manual so I am hoping that you or someone knows the answer. Thanks, Gerry