DVR Timer is Autotuning

[llokey]

A couple of days ago (about the time I "upgraded" to a 4K Joey), my dvr events on my Hopper 3 started autotuning. To the best of my knowledge nothing was changed on the Hopper. I have checked the timers and they are set to dvr. I have looked through all options and I guess I am missing something. Anyone have any ideas on what is causing this to happen? Thanks

 

[Jim5506]

Sounds like the Hopper is tuning to the channel to record but not recording.
1. Do a power cord reboot of the Hopper (pull the plug wait 30 seconds reconnect the power).
2. Delete and reinstall a timer and see if that fixes it.

 

[llokey]

Sounds like the Hopper is tuning to the channel to record but not recording.
1. Do a power cord reboot of the Hopper (pull the plug wait 30 seconds reconnect the power).
2. Delete and reinstall a timer and see if that fixes it.

Thanks - will try the power cord reboot. The program is recording, just autotuning also. It has occurred on multiple timers.

 

[Jim5506]

The receiver has to autotune a channel in order to record it.

 

[llokey]

The receiver has to autotune a channel in order to record it.

Maybe I should have made my statement clearer. It is changing what I am seeing on the tv. If I am in the middle of a program it is "autotuning" and presenting the tv with the program that it is recording. Autotune is Dish's term which means exactly what I am seeing.

 

[TheKrell]

It is changing what I am seeing on the tv. If I am in the middle of a program it is "autotuning" and presenting the tv with the program that it is recording.

That is bizarre. This never happens on my H3. Is it possible you are trying to record 16 things at once?

 

[Jim5506]

Do all of your timers do this? If so, I would thumb through all the timers and write them down then delete one or two and re-add them and see if that does not fix it for them. If that fails, I'd call Dish for a replacement receiver.

 

[llokey]

That is bizarre. This never happens on my H3. Is it possible you are trying to record 16 things at once?

No - just one

 

[llokey]

Do all of your timers do this? If so, I would thumb through all the timers and write them down then delete one or two and re-add them and see if that does not fix it for them. If that fails, I'd call Dish for a replacement receiver.

I haven't gone through all timers. In fact, my wife does the live tv viewing - I'm not a fan of commercials. However it happened this weekend while I was watching football on three different timers.

 

[KaptainRandom]

Is it possible the timer doing this is an OTA station, and both OTA tuners are in use when the timer hits, so it forces one of the viewed OTAs over to the timer?

 

[Bobby]

Is it possible the timer doing this is an OTA station, and both OTA tuners are in use when the timer hits, so it forces one of the viewed OTAs over to the timer?

Great point!

 

[llokey]

Is it possible the timer doing this is an OTA station, and both OTA tuners are in use when the timer hits, so it forces one of the viewed OTAs over to the timer?

That was not happening in my case.

 

[tallfence]

Is it possible you have two timers set? One to record and one to auto tune. Maybe on two different channels showing the same show.

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[tallfence]

Have you checked your Timers list for any with type AutoTune?

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[llokey]

Is it possible you have two timers set? One to record and one to auto tune. Maybe on two different channels showing the same show.

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I have checked and I do not.

 

[llokey]

Have you checked your Timers list for any with type AutoTune?

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Yes I have checked for Autotune. I did a pull the plug power reset and will see if the problem goes away.