I upgraded my 2 hopper with sling and joey 2 receivers to the new interface.
First a list of positives
1) I set up folders for "Fireworks" , "Parades", "Olympics", etc. I then moved several years of recorded programs into the correct folder. This worked extremely well and cleaned up my cluttered DVR lists.
2) I love the fact that the search includes Netflix.
I did a search for BFG. It came up with 3 choices: Rent, See Trailer, and Watch on Netflix. I selected Watch on Netflix and the movie worked
3) My family room hopper lists 4 sources: Hopper with Sling Family Room, External Hard Drive 1, External Hard Drive 2, and Hopper with Sling Living Room. Selecting any of these sources brings up the correct recordings within 3-5 seconds.
My living room hopper lists 3 sources: Hopper with Sling Living Room, External Hard Drive 1, and Hopper with Sling family room. Again the response time is 3-5 seconds.
List of Negatives
1) When you select a recording from any of the external hard drives to play the first time you get a blank screen and the hopper appears to be locked up. You can recover by selecting guide and selecting a live channel. When you try it a second time the recorded program plays correctly. People have theorized that the drive needs to wake up from sleeping. I don't agree because you get thumbnails and a complete program description of the recorded programs on the drive and the message is resume program when you recover from the blank screen.
2). The new interface gets confused if you do actions too quickly. For example, if I use the OTA menu and scroll thru my 47 channels to view the signal strengths, the OTA will stop working. The only fix for this is to power off and on the receiver. However, if you are patient and wait 10 sec at each channel, it works fine. The Hopper 3 with its faster processor may not have this problem.
3) Dish Anywhere stopped working with my hoppers using the new interface. Dish Anywhere would not stay on the page long enough to allow me to enter the Pairing code. I fixed this by deleting Dish Anywhere on my IPhone and reinstalling it.
Future Requests
It would be greatly appreciated if we could access the programs on our external hard drives using Dish Anywhere.
Sent from my iPhone using SatelliteGuys mobile app
First a list of positives
1) I set up folders for "Fireworks" , "Parades", "Olympics", etc. I then moved several years of recorded programs into the correct folder. This worked extremely well and cleaned up my cluttered DVR lists.
2) I love the fact that the search includes Netflix.
I did a search for BFG. It came up with 3 choices: Rent, See Trailer, and Watch on Netflix. I selected Watch on Netflix and the movie worked
3) My family room hopper lists 4 sources: Hopper with Sling Family Room, External Hard Drive 1, External Hard Drive 2, and Hopper with Sling Living Room. Selecting any of these sources brings up the correct recordings within 3-5 seconds.
My living room hopper lists 3 sources: Hopper with Sling Living Room, External Hard Drive 1, and Hopper with Sling family room. Again the response time is 3-5 seconds.
List of Negatives
1) When you select a recording from any of the external hard drives to play the first time you get a blank screen and the hopper appears to be locked up. You can recover by selecting guide and selecting a live channel. When you try it a second time the recorded program plays correctly. People have theorized that the drive needs to wake up from sleeping. I don't agree because you get thumbnails and a complete program description of the recorded programs on the drive and the message is resume program when you recover from the blank screen.
2). The new interface gets confused if you do actions too quickly. For example, if I use the OTA menu and scroll thru my 47 channels to view the signal strengths, the OTA will stop working. The only fix for this is to power off and on the receiver. However, if you are patient and wait 10 sec at each channel, it works fine. The Hopper 3 with its faster processor may not have this problem.
3) Dish Anywhere stopped working with my hoppers using the new interface. Dish Anywhere would not stay on the page long enough to allow me to enter the Pairing code. I fixed this by deleting Dish Anywhere on my IPhone and reinstalling it.
Future Requests
It would be greatly appreciated if we could access the programs on our external hard drives using Dish Anywhere.
Sent from my iPhone using SatelliteGuys mobile app
Last edited: