Recent content by TheKrell

And one of the features that I never appreciated was the INFO button that leaves a nice inset video running while you figure out title/date/cast info. Or cast dates. ;) On streaming channels, I have many times tried to figure out what actor was in a movie I was watching and before I got that...

I believe the Hopper will only recognize a certain small list of drives it will find acceptable on the inside. We had a genius who spent a lot of time here making a list of acceptable drives that he reverse-engineered from the firmware data stream coming down from the satelliites. I haven't...

I did this earlier this year when I was swapping Hoppers while diagnosing my aforementioned 6TB Seagate. My old Hopper could never see either my Seagate nor an earlier 2TB WD disk from a 612, so Dish replaced the old Hopper. The new one can "see" the 2TB disk just fine. So I ran an Ethernet...

I've had a 6TB Seagate with USB hub for many years working fine with about the same amount full. I had a whilte OTA adapter plugged into the Seagate hub also working fine even when the disk itself was not visible. Then all of a sudden the disk isn't recognized. I diagnosed on a PC running...

A few months ago, the 2nd (of 12) 512GB partition on my 6TB Seagate got corrupted and the whole darn disk disappeared. I have yet to fix that partition and have the Hopper "see" it again.

I gave it a rest, browsed the app store and found it again, and reinstalled it. It's still at 2.5.10 and still won't activate.

I just ordered a 4K Max for $30, so when that arrives it should solve the speed. In the meantime... Interesting ploy. Shall try that. Edited to add: that strategy does not appear viable since all of my Fire TV devices (of which I have none) already have a green check next to them. All my...

DishAnywhere doesn't show when I search. I worry my oldest FireTV Stick is no longer supported. This is the old HD version; all the rest are 4K and much faster. (Yes, my wife just complained about this 5 mins ago.)

Easier said than done. I see no option to check for an update. It's running 2.5.10. I'll try de-installing and re-installing and see if that fixes anything. Edited to add: It's gone and searching for the app again results in nothing to install. :crying

I'm on vacation and I resurrected an old FireTV Stick with which to watch DishAnywhere. It's been offline so long it demaned I go to dishanywhere.com/activate and enter the code on the screen. This is the result: I can check my device until hell freezes over, but it fails to activate. Got...

If you're a stowaway! My 5 night cruise to Bermuda is costing me a small fortune. Then there are add-ons like Internet that are outrageously overpriced.

The actual IP address that the Hopper gets from your router is not a routable address, so "no" that's not public. But the router itself has a WAN port that does have a routable address. It is likely that your WAN address is being probed from various dark corners of the world using the IP...

You could also just reboot the hopper from the Joey.

My experience: I bought a Bell 4100 thinking I could put it on Dish satellites and it would update and work like a 111 with extra outputs besides the RF. That never happened. :(

I can verify that I have recorded 2 at once w/o issue (except on SPARK with occasional macroblocking). Now you've got me curious and I'll have to test with 3 at once and see what happens when I try a 4th.