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It is 8:26 and Alexa is now working again. It can control my Hopper 3, report conditions from my weather station, control my Ion thermostat, report my Fitbit results, and control my SwitchBot devices. So everything is good again. I panicked earlier. I changed the thread title to reflect that...

I believe that Alexa is discontinuing the skills that worked with the Alexa app so that developers will create the skills for Alexa Plus. I had tried the Alexa Plus but I went back to normal Alexa when I discovered that Alexa Plus did not work with the Dish skill, the My Acurite skill, and the...

Alexa used to control my Dish Hopper 3 receivers. When I tried this afternoon Alexa told me my skill needed to be reactivated. I searched for Dish under Alexa skills and received the following message “This skill no longer exists” What happened? I used that skill all the time to control my...

Excellent suggestion. I changed the timer to do New and Reruns which fixed the problem. Thanks for the suggestion. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Failed to record NBC Nightly News tonight. The recording was skipped since it has the date 6/2/25 and of course thinks it is not a new episode. Furthermore Wed, Thurs, and Friday will all be skipped since they all show the date as 6/2/25. I called Dish technical support so that they could...

I was granted early access to Alexa +. I quickly found that the skills that worked with Alexa will not work with Alexa +. For example Alexa + will not control my Dish Hoppers. Alexa + will not work with My Acurite skill to report my weather station results. Alexa + will not control my Ion...

An interesting article describing ATSC 3.0 changing their focus from improved TV to more data where they can make more money. https://www.tvrev.com/news/from-public-trustee-to-private-courier-the-troubling-pivot-of-atsc-30 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Unfortunately I failed to record NBC Nightly News tonight. With Lester Holt retiring from the broadcast NBC changed the program name to NBC Nightly News with Tom Llamas. I have now changed the timer. I will miss Lester Holt. I thought he did a great job covering the news in an unbiased manner...

I found the following when searching the title: Texting "TV" to 39179 is a call to action related to the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) campaign advocating for the modernization of broadcast regulations to support local television and radio stations. Here's what you're likely doing...

I saw a commercial today on my local ABC channel 6 in Columbus, Ohio. The commercial was urging people to Text TV to 39179 to tell Washington to modernize decade old regulations that cause big Tech to make the local stations disappear. Have others seen this commercial and what specifically are...

Manually updated both of my Hopper 3 receivers to H393: Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I have voice over IP for my home but I definitely like that both of my Hopper 3 receivers and my Joey 3 client display caller ID. This lets me know whether I need to answer or just ignore a call while watching dish programming. I also have a cell phone but I don’t keep it tethered to me while...

Since his software is H387 he has a Hopper3. What he means by dual DVR is that pause one program, watch a different one, and go back and forth between the two programs. I also will not give up my Dish account even though streaming would be cheaper. The ease and convenience of Dish Hopper 3 is...

I missed the last part since PTAT ended at 11:01 PM and the show was delayed 20 minutes due to the NFL football game. The show doesn’t seem that interesting. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

The Dish broadcast on channel 140 is 20 seconds delayed from the 540-03 broadcast. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk