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vipul128
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Hopper 3 Questions / Issues

Hello,

First time hopper user here so I had some questions / issues that I hope someone will be able to help me answer.

A couple notes before I ask my questions so you all know my setup. I have a Hopper along with 3 Joeys in my setup. My installation was on Saturday morning so it's been 5 days since installation.
  1. DVR Recordings: Are DVR recordings supposed to show the show image or the TV network image? I was under the impression that they are supposed to show the actual TV show or Movie logo, but mine is only showing the TV network logo for all recordings.
  2. DVR Timers: I have about 30 timers setup with some set to go to folders. A lot of times, recordings will not go into the correct folder or the timer will automatically remove the folder setting for some reason.
  3. Search: I am still not getting any search results at all no matter what I search for. Even things I know for sure that should be there in search.
  4. Guide: The program guide is only downloading 5-6 days worth of program data. If I'm not mistaken, I thought the hopper had a 9 day program guide. If not, then I'd expect at least a full 7 days worth like my old 722 had.
  5. Is there a difference in doing a reset of the hopper from the diagnostics menu vs a RBR vs a power unplug?
In other threads, I've read to let the hopper do it's thing for 48-72 hours and/or do a reset on the hopper. It's been 5 days and I'm still experiencing these issues. I've done a reset of the hopper from the hopper diagnostics menu and also pulled the power for 30 seconds in an attempt to reset the hopper and get everything on track with no success.

Hopefully someone can provide some solutions or advice here, especially on #2 as the rest of the house is getting annoyed with having to search for where their recordings are stored and getting annoyed with me for upgrading (they are not as techie and like things their old way).

Thanks in advance!
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Seems like most of your issues are new install glitches. Normally those would be gone by now but for some reason they haven't I'm not sure what the difference is with the on screen reset but I assume it's just like hitting the reset button on the front of the receiver.

I recommend unplugging and plugging it back it. I wouldn't be too concerned about these issues yet as I'm pretty confident they will be taken care of shortly.
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vipul128 said:
  1. DVR Recordings: Are DVR recordings supposed to show the show image or the TV network image? I was under the impression that they are supposed to show the actual TV show or Movie logo, but mine is only showing the TV network logo for all recordings.
  2. DVR Timers: I have about 30 timers setup with some set to go to folders. A lot of times, recordings will not go into the correct folder or the timer will automatically remove the folder setting for some reason.
  3. Search: I am still not getting any search results at all no matter what I search for. Even things I know for sure that should be there in search.
  4. Guide: The program guide is only downloading 5-6 days worth of program data. If I'm not mistaken, I thought the hopper had a 9 day program guide. If not, then I'd expect at least a full 7 days worth like my old 722 had.
  5. Is there a difference in doing a reset of the hopper from the diagnostics menu vs a RBR vs a power unplug?
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1.) Yes, they should be the ones for the show. I have had this happen and heard of others where the tiles may be the generic ones for days, then all of a sudden they change to the real ones in other Hoppers, too. Real being the show's own tile/icon.

2.) That's a bit odd. Seen it where a timer import from the remote may mess up the folder setting and you have to edit it after import or maybe after a major software update, but not where it does not follow the setting you have in the timer.

3. and 4.) May just need some more time to install everything. The 48-72 is not a rule, rather a general guideline of time. But after 5 days one would think all the info would be downloaded for the guide, search and show tiles.

5.) From what I understand, the diagnostics and red button are the same and similar to a PC restart where there still may be things in memory for from other settings that may not clear out. The unplug is the "drain the pool" type of reboot where everything resets and clears. I typically let the Hopper sit unplugged for minutes (or overnight) if the Hopper still works but being temperamental.

Your decision was a good one, reassure your family things will get better quickly. Keep in mind, while the development of the H3 has been in the works for a while, it's only been a few days since release and super brand new. Impossible to predict all real world scenarios and what bugs might pop up but you'll be fine!
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Well I'm happy to report that most of my issues have been resolved. We were all going to be out of the house this afternoon for a few hours so I decided to go to each room and make sure the hopper and each joey was powered off. When we got back this evening, the guide had populated past 7 days, the show images showed up and the search is populating correctly.

So it seems like all receivers have to be powered off in order for the update to download and not just the hopper? If true, that's kind of interesting since the default standby setting for the Joey 2.0 is set to "Never" on all 3 of our Joeys and not everyone in the house turns off their Joey, just the TV. I mean it can be easily solved by going into the settings and changing to standby time to something other than "Never" but it's just strange that they are all default to "Never" if infact they all need to be off in order to download all the data.

Anyway, that solved all my issues except for the timers. I'm still getting DVR recordings going to the wrong folder and timers magically losing their folder setting.
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So I have a question. Since none of my timers would restore from the old remote. How do I create a search timer. So I search for a program and nothing is found I do I create a timer that will record the program once it comes back on?
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Godzilla Minus Zero


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dfergie said:

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Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
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Wait, didn't this one come out a few years ago? It was all in Japanese. It was also VERY good!

OK, looked it up, that was Godzilla Minus One
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At theaters, only in Japanese, on Disc and Netflix, available in English.
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New trailer has dropped:
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Volcanic Eruptions

Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.

Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.

You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.

www.usgs.gov

Monitoring Data for Kīlauea

For more information on how electronic tiltmeters and GPS receivers help monitor the deformation of Kīlauea volcano, see the HVO Deformation page.
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View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4


Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.


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Looks like Episode 55 is over at 09:00 HST, just under six hours. The USGS said the fountains reached 720' or 220 meters.
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The USGS Kīlaeua Webcam #1 has been showing overflows and doming from the North vent overnight. Maybe the volcanic plumbing has settled back into its two-three week cycle of fountaining?

But I do miss the little cinder cone that broke up in the last episode.
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Sorry, I should have posted these earlier:

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We're still waiting on the start of Episode 56.
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At 08:01 HST 11/05/2026, the North Vent produced what I would call a "wet burp" after the precursory "pistoning" events, small amounts of lava pouring out of the vent for a few seconds to minutes and then everything recedes. There must have been a gas bubble holding thing back because two minutes later the lava started flowing out of the vent in all directions. Then, at 08:25, it stopped. What a tease! I thought this was how Episode 56 started.

About 12 minutes later at 08:38, the North vent once again started overflowing and picked up steam at 08:42. By 09:00, slight doming could be seen in the pool of lava in the vent. Surely this is it!

But, 09:50 and things wind down again. By 09:57 HST there's just fumes coming out of the vent. Phooey.

But then 10:00 comes and the heavy lava flows kick in again. This time seems like the real deal. At 10:30 HST there's little spurts of lava flying up in the air over the vent, but more from gas than a steady fountain of lava. This looks promising!

11:30 HST and the color of the lava is definitely hotter, and the intensity has picked up to a definite dome and precursor to fountaining. The USGS calls Episode 56 as officially starting at 12:10 HST:
Alert Level: WATCH, Color Code: ORANGE 2026-11-05 22:29:12 UTC
HVO/USGS Volcanic Activity Notice

Volcano: Kilauea (VNUM #332010)

Current Volcano Alert Level: WATCH
Current Aviation Color Code: ORANGE

Issued: Thursday, November 5, 2026, 12:29 PM HST
Source: Hawaiian Volcano Observatory
Notice Number: 2026/H514
Location: N 19 deg 25 min W 155 deg 17 min
Elevation: 4091 ft (1247 m)
Area: Hawaii

Summary: Episode 56 of the ongoing Halemaʻumaʻu eruption began at 12:10 PM HST on November 5, 2026.

Volcanic Activity:
Episode 56 of lava fountaining in Halemaʻumaʻu began at the summit of Kīlauea began at 12:10 PM HST on November 5, 2026.

Lava fountain heights are relatively low at about 100 ft (30 meters), but will likely increase. Ground-level sensors near the eruptive vents indicate that winds are blowing from the northeast direction, which suggests that volcanic gas emissions and volcanic material may be distributed to the southwest direction from Halemaʻumaʻu.
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Last & Next Movie Watched

Since the Reds have there thread we should too!

Last watched Nine inch Nails
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Barbara Hershey :heartbeat
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Last of the Dogmen is my favorite of hers.
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Just watched Napoleon. Good night.....all of those young men dying for the egos of their leaders. Now we can kill at a distance, back then you saw the man you were killing eye to eye.
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Philo now offers discounted annual plan

Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.

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comfortably_numb said:
Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.

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$24 for the Year, would be more useful.
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Jimbo said:
$24 for the Year, would be more useful.
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But when you cancel you still have to watch until the plan runs out. With monthly you're done at the end of the month.
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But when you cancel you still have to watch until the plan runs out. With monthly you're done at the end of the month.
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Sorry, my point was the expense.
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Jimbo said:
$24 for the Year, would be more useful.
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Philo's monthly price is reasonable, IMO, because it's still the cheapest way I'm aware of to get all the linear Discovery networks AND access to the Discovery Go apps.
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Philo's monthly price is reasonable, IMO, because it's still the cheapest way I'm aware of to get all the linear Discovery networks AND access to the Discovery Go apps.
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In other Philo news..

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In other Philo news..

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'Rockford Files' Reboot Gets NBC Pilot Order

I grow tired of all the reboots. Most I don't bother with but will depend on the actor chosen.
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Yeah, I'll check it out as well, but shan't be holding my breath...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
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...It'll be tough to equal James Garner in that role...
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I can think of a few actors (including some females) who might fit the bill.

This will all depend on the storyline. I'm not sure how well it will translate. Modern TV hasn't been all that kind to PIs and even less kind to CIs (confidential informants).
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Premier is Saturday, Jan 2nd. Moving to Thursday on the 7th.
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I wonder how they're/if they're going to do something like the answering machine message opening? It was always funny...
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Bad Day - Netflix


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Saved OTA list on Dish can't be appended

I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.

Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd​ scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.

It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list. :mad:

Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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dishstaller said:
I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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I am not sure about that but I do know that you could manually add additional channels just by entering the actual RF channel number and the older receivers would add the virtual channels to your list
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n0qcu said:
I am not sure about that but I do know that you could manually add additional channels just by entering the actual RF channel number and the older receivers would add the virtual channels to your list
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Like I said.....that has been many years ago. Swapped my 722K for a Hopper in 2012.

It does seem like I remember having to delete the existing channels when we did a rescan. Back then our local stations KEPT monkeying around with things and it was non-stop complaints from customers about their channels not coming in. Got so bad that I stopped selling OR installing OTAs....something I had been doing since 1984 so you know it HAD to be pretty bad.
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You made one of my points for me with this comment, Dishstaller:

"... local stations KEPT monkeying around with things and it was non-stop complaints from customers about their channels not coming in ..."
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dishstaller said:
I could very well be wrong....it has been a LOT of years but back when I had a 722K it seemed like when you went back to the scan screen that you could just scan again and it would ADD those channels to the previous list or you could delete the previous results and only add the channels from the new scan.
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I remember that also on my 722.
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I remember that also on my 722.
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Keep in mind that the 722 had a built in OTA tuner and the 722K had a plug in module for OTA. The Hoppers and Wallys use an add on USB OTA dongle. I believe they are entirely different.
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My F-You To Sam Altman

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