does anybody have luck to do reserved record on 125W PBS? i set time, etc. but looks like it does not do sh1t! i did reserved on some of the GAL19 @97w. i think it is an EPG issue. when i tried to record with a rec button it spits out something about channel message.
using elite, f/w 4890, usb hdd 250 GB
thanks
Well it's certainly not an EPG issue, since the vast majority of FTA channels don't have any EPG, and that includes the PBS channels.
Q Did you have the time set on your receiver?
Q Have you tried other USB drives?
Q Have you tried rebooting prior to trying the recording?
Q Were you recording the HD channel or one of the SD channels?
I have sucessfully used this feature, but I also was unsucessful on several occasions. Seems like the Azbox sometimes just doesn't like some devices. Like my thumb drive will record for a while, then quits. Last time I tried, I noticed that the time was set wrong such that I think the actual time was after the reserved time, so nothing happened. . When I changed the time, I went out of the setup menu, then back in, and the time had reverted back to where it was before, so I changed it again, but this time I did a power cycle reboot, which did work to change the time. Went back and did the record, and it worked for a while then quit I changed to a regular HDD, and it worked fine.
But I have had several times when I couldn't record, or it only recorded for a couple minutes like above with the thumb drive, and I blame that on media errors. I almost never use the record feature, I only have done it a couple times just to prove that it can work, but I know that other members here do use it, so they know more about it than I do.
Most of the test recordings I've done have been SD. The PBS HD channel should be doable, ie under the 20 mbps limit, but maybe not, particularly if you have errors. I can't try that one now because my Elite is only connected to C-band at the current time.
I asked if you tried other drives even though you said you had recorded before, because I had previously recorded sucessfully on my thumbdrive, and then some error occurred, and since then it doesn't want to record on that drive, but will record on a regular USB hard drive.
But anyway, check the time on your computer. If somehow the time got changed, I think that would explain your issue.
EDIT: I just tried recording the PBS HD on AMC1 C-band, and it recorded OK. It's not quite as high a bitrate as that on AMC21, but it's pretty close. At least that should rule out some problem related to the PBS channels being in ATSC format somehow messing up the Azbox.
EDIT2: Ignore the stuff about ATSC. I see that the AMC1 PBS feed is regular DVB. The AMC21 stuff, I'm not sure of. I think sometimes it shows signs of being in ATSC mode, but at least now, the HD channels don't have any of the ATSC related PIDs, so I'm confused. I'm sure that I've seen some PBS feeds showing ATSC style PIDs, but I just checked NET HD on G28, and it's regular DVB too, so I don't know.
