HR20-ALL CE Release - 3/28 & 3/29

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Systems in this CE / Version
HR20-700 {CE:12:07}
HR20-100 {CE:12:07}

Window of opportunity to download:
Friday, March 28, 2008 11PM - 2:30AM ET
Saturday, March 29, 2008 11PM - 2:30AM ET


PLEASE READ THIS FIRST! CE DOWNLOAD WARNINGS / AGREEMENT

PLEASE READ THIS SECOND! CE DOWNLOAD INSTRUCTIONS

If you have any issues with this CE release, please post them in this thread. We'll try to help, and DirecTV will see / be aware of your issue :)


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CHANGES FROM THIS RELEASE:

  • [*] 07 - Stability
    [*]07 - Media Share Improvements


CHANGES FROM PREVIOUS RELEASES:

  • 01 - LiveTV audio issues after stopping mediashare and no audio during slideshow
  • 01 - Fast forward to true live TV viewing
  • 01 - History status for VOD downloads
  • 01 - Improved audio
  • 01 - Stability
  • 01 - GameSearch to automatically find same game on other channel if currently tuned game is blacked out and showing OSD x (This is a very cool feature...)
  • 01 - Keyword search on channel or channel range and title only or name only (Geek dream feature)
  • 02 - Will reply to a network PING request
  • 02 - Channel Banner updating immediately
  • 02 - Fixed ScreenSaver with MediaShare Video Playback
  • 02 - Improved Parental Controls
  • 03 - System boot up improvement
  • 03 - Video output improvement
  • 03 - Stability
  • 04 - Improved ability to watch recorded content/when signal not present during startup
  • 04 - Media Share: Start a new playlist while another playlist is in playback mode
  • 04 - Media Share: Start/Stop DLNA Videos enhanced
  • 04 - Media Share: Improved handling of multiple units on the same network
  • 04 - Misc. Issues
  • 04 - LEFT (or BACK) to Search Screen (from sort screen) doesn't clear out search string
  • 04 - Media Share - UI Polishing
  • 04 - Other UI Polishing
  • 04 - Additional program details (First Air Date, Actors, ect)
  • 05 - Autorecords with Boolean Search logical operators appear in TODO list
  • 05 - Channel up and down updates the selected item in the Prioritizer
  • 05 - Playlist new displays the recording date
  • 05 - 1xFF performance and appearance
  • 05 - Guide scrolling performance
  • 05 - GameSearch avoids partial recordings while searching for games
  • 05 - Stability improvements
  • 06 - Detection of second tuner
  • 06 - UI polishing/fixes
  • 06 - DIRECTV Mediashare (many)
  • 06 - Stability
  • 06 - Increase to the number of actors presented in the INFO
  • 06 - Audio (robustness against dropouts on certain setups)


Please ignore the post date above attached to the top of the post, to save time I just copied the previous week and updated it.
 
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This is a summary of the keyword search power tricks from the programmers (for
reference):

Simple Grammar:
[{AANY/AALL} <tokens>] [{NNOT} <tokens>] [TTITLE/NNAME] [{CCHAN} <number> [<number>]]

BOOLEAN LOGIC:

“AALL” => (this is the AND boolean operation) all the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode, category) in any order “AANY” => (this is the OR boolean operation) at least one of the following words must be contained within the program (title, about, name, episode,
category)
“NNOT” => (this is the NOT boolean operation) exclude any programs that contain any of the following words in that search string

The AANY and AALL keywords should appear as the first word in the search string in order to set the search mode.
The NNOT keyword may appear anywhere and all words following the NNOT keyword are considered words to exclude.

SCOPE FILTERS:

TTITLE => Limits the search to only the Title field of the Programs NNAME => Limits the search to only the Name field (e.g. Actors, Director) of the Program CCHAN => Limits the search to only the specified channel range (example CCHAN 500 510, or CCHAN 500 for a single channel)

Some sample queries are:

AALL racing car NNOT nascar => finds all shows containing “car” and “racing”
(any order/position), but excludes the show if “nascar” appears
AALL hanks tom NNOT vinci => finds all tom hanks movies/shows but excludes
the movie if the word “vinci” appears (e.g. da vinci code)
AALL hanks tom NNAME => finds all tom hanks programs where he is an actor
AALL hdtv football => finds all high definition football
programs (note you can include category labels in the search and “HDTV” is same as “High-Def”)
AANY usc ucla NNOT football => finds all usc and ucla events/shows, but
excludes football events
oakland raiders NNOT miami => finds exact match for “oakland raiders” but
excludes show if “miami” appears (e.g. excludes games with Miami Dolphins) AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 700 730 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channels 700 through 730 AANY lakers clippers CCHAN 710 => finds all games with the Lakers or Clippers on only channel 710
 
I'm in the same boat. Looks like there were some problems on the software for the HR21 last night. Did the HR20 CE do better?
 
I'm in the same boat. Looks like there were some problems on the software for the HR21 last night. Did the HR20 CE do better?

No problems at all with the HR20 version, at least I have not seen any yet...

Stable as a ROCK as it has been for quite awhile now.
The Caller Id has even been working the last few weeks (it had been a hit and miss)

Jimbo
 
One thing with ths CE, that I have not seen lately, is that when I press the "active" button to view my local weather, is that it no longer retains my
local data or favorite cities list. It defaults to the weather at DirecTV's home:(
Of course you can reset the data, but this can get to be a chore with weekly
C/E's:D...wonder why they went backwards with this by not retaining your
data.....maybe they are previewing a National version??
 
One thing with ths CE, that I have not seen lately, is that when I press the "active" button to view my local weather, is that it no longer retains my
local data or favorite cities list. It defaults to the weather at DirecTV's home:(
Of course you can reset the data, but this can get to be a chore with weekly
C/E's:D...wonder why they went backwards with this by not retaining your
data.....maybe they are previewing a National version??


It isn't this CE that caused it but something else since every receiver I have has stopped storing the zip code and my cities list (ZIP code for wether active app changed on it's own - DBSTalk.Com). I sent an e-mail to D* about this you might want to send one also.
 
Unfortunate timing. Got hit with an ice storm during the download. The download somehow made it but then I couldn't get a decent signal. Had me a little worried that there was something wrong with the CE until I realized my dish was covered in ice. But since the ice melted all looks good.
 
Weird bug I found

Okay downloaded CE release and all was fine. Then I started watching one of the Showtime channels. After that I lost all the sound on all non DD channels. Tried a reset and changing inputs and they didn't work. I have a HR20-100 using HDMI going to a Phillips PFL47 LCD TV. The next day I went back to 01FE and problem was gone.
Oh I forgot to mention when I woke up the next morning and cut on TV all sound was restored, but the minute I went back to Showtime, I lost sound on all non DD channels again. It was then I went back to the national firmware.
 
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