I have just started to experience a problem with my OTA timers just today, and it seems to coincide with my installation of smart cards that just arrived a few days ago. Prior to installing these cards, there were no smart cards in either of my DVR's (ViP 722 and DVR-625). And prior to installing these smart cards, ALL of my timers worked just fine. I don't have too many OTA timers, but I expect them to work as they should. I installed my newly arrived smart cards last evening at about 7PM. I only had 1 OTA timer set for the evening (American Idol), and it recorded fine. However, tonight, just about 15 minutes before my American Idol OTA timer SHOULD HAVE been ready to record, i happened to check my timers for the evening and noticed that my OTA timer for AI was not set to record! I had no idea why, so I set another timer for the shortly-to-air show and set it to ALL, and I checked next week's shows....and they are NOT set to record!!
So, is this caused by the installation of the smart cards? And if so...WTF!!! That's ridiculous!! It was working just fine, and now it's broken, for no reason!!! Any insight?