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Last reply Sep 22, 2026 · posted in DIRECTV General Forum

Disappearing Recordings - Sat and Cloud DVR

Left my satellite receiver unplugged by accident and luckily cloud DVR recorded my NFL game. When trying to finish watching later in the day, the recording was gone.

Is this due to plugging the satellite receiver back in? Online tech support wasn't helpful.

Is there any way to get the cloud recording back?

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b4pjoe

Sep 21, 2026

so2344 said:
Left my satellite receiver unplugged by accident and luckily cloud DVR recorded my NFL game. When trying to finish watching later in the day, the recording was gone.

Is this due to plugging the satellite receiver back in? Online tech support wasn't helpful.

Is there any way to get the cloud recording back?

There is no cloud DVR for satellite. Are you subscribed to both DIRECTV Satellite and DIRECTV Stream?

Nominal said:
Unfortunately I think that's the way their system works in terms of synching the cloud dvr used in the app and your Genie DVR so I don't think there's any way to get those recordings back.

Unless this has changed recently there is no cloud DVR for the DIRECTV app for satellite customers. When you record something from the app it is the genie that actually does the recording which it cannot do while offline. Whatever you were watching while your GENIE was offline had to be coming from OnDemand content. Unless DIRECTV recently created a cloud DVR for satellite customers which I have not heard anything like that.

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Nominal

Sep 21, 2026

b4pjoe said:
There is no cloud DVR for satellite. Are you subscribed to both DIRECTV Satellite and DIRECTV Stream?

Unless this has changed recently there is no cloud DVR for the DIRECTV app for satellite customers. When you record something from the app it is the genie that actually does the recording which it cannot do while offline. Whatever you were watching while your GENIE was offline had to be coming from OnDemand content. Unless DIRECTV recently created a cloud DVR for satellite customers which I have not heard anything like that.

When they (re?) added the ability to watch DVR recordings in the DirecTV app a couple of years ago instead of streaming from the Genie they had you link your DVR to the app (now it might happen automatically) so when you set a recording it goes to both your Genie and cloud DVR. The cloud DVR recordings for satellite customers expire in 90 days as opposed to 9 months for streaming customers (while remaining on your physical DVR). The programs I was recording and watching when my Genie was down weren't on demand. They were mostly local news shows not available on demand, plus I could skip over the commercials.

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b4pjoe

Sep 21, 2026

Nominal said:
The cloud DVR recordings for satellite customers expire in 90 days

OK in my testing if I record from the app it records to the hard drive in my HR54 and the recordings show up on my satellite receivers and in the app. When I am done with them I delete them and they are gone. In my testing earlier today I unplugged my HR54 and recorded my local NBC channel via the app and it recorded it and it is in the DVR list in the app. I plugged in the HR54 and after it started up I checked the DVR list on it and that recording is not there. It is still in the app recordings. But now how do I delete the cloud recording as you can't delete recordings from the app? Does it just have to sit there for the 90 days you said satellite customer recordings were good for? And of course I can't delete it from the HR54 because it isn't listed there.

Nominal

Sep 21, 2026

b4pjoe said:
OK in my testing if I record from the app it records to the hard drive in my HR54 and the recordings show up on my satellite receivers and in the app. When I am done with them I delete them and they are gone. In my testing earlier today I unplugged my HR54 and recorded my local NBC channel via the app and it recorded it and it is in the DVR list in the app. I plugged in the HR54 and after it started up I checked the DVR list on it and that recording is not there. It is still in the app recordings. But now how do I delete the cloud recording as you can't delete recordings from the app? Does it just have to sit there for the 90 days you said satellite customer recordings were good for? And of course I can't delete it from the HR54 because it isn't listed there.

In my experience there may be a delay of a few hours or even a day or so but eventually that recording you made without your Genie will disappear since it eventually synchs to your physical DVR list where it was never present.

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so2344

Sep 21, 2026

Nominal said:
In my experience there may be a delay of a few hours or even a day or so but eventually that recording you made without your Genie will disappear since it eventually synchs to your physical DVR list where it was never present.

That makes sense. Tech support had no idea and recommended calling back for "SAT specific tech team." Very difficult to understand and wish DirecTV would use North American call centers.

b4pjoe

Sep 21, 2026

Nominal said:
In my experience there may be a delay of a few hours or even a day or so but eventually that recording you made without your Genie will disappear since it eventually synchs to your physical DVR list where it was never present.

The recording I made from the app was 6 hours ago and it is still not showing on the HR54 recording list but it is still in the app DVR list. I will just leave it and see what happens.

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so2344

Sep 22, 2026

b4pjoe said:
The recording I made from the app was 6 hours ago and it is still not showing on the HR54 recording list but it is still in the app DVR list. I will just leave it and see what happens

so2344

Sep 22, 2026

Once the sat receiver was plugged back in, the Cloud one disappeared. The old NFL recordings are still in the cloud, but those are the same as in the box.

b4pjoe

Sep 22, 2026

so2344 said:
Once the sat receiver was plugged back in, the Cloud one disappeared. The old NFL recordings are still in the cloud, but those are the same as in the box.

With the test I did yesterday the cloud recording was still in the app DVR list but not in the HR54 DVR list when I went to bed. When I got up today the cloud recording was gone from the app DVR list. As far as I know the cloud recording never went into the HR54 DVR list. I guess I need to set a recording on my HR54 and then in the middle of it pull the plug on the HR54 and see if the recording continues via the cloud and then see what is in each DVR list.

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klang

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
I'm sure I will watch at least the first episode but I am not optimistic.

Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

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MikeD-C05

Oct 11, 2026

klang said:
Here i am over a year later and just finished season 1. Not great but not as bad as I was expecting. Did not care for the barefoot captain stuff but overall ok. Actually looking forward to see what they did for season 2.

Yeah, the foot stuff was just nasty. I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less. Funny, I love being shoe less at home and never wear shoes indoors in my home for long, but seeing her laying on all her furniture with her bare feet hanging out just kind of grossed me out.

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harshness

Oct 13, 2026

MikeD-C05 said:
I kept thinking of how dirty her feet would get traipsing around shoe-less.

Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

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MikeD-C05

Oct 18, 2026

harshness said:
Where would this "dirt" come from? Dead skin and dandruff?

There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure. So walking around the station like she did she would get stuff on her feet. I am sure the robot vacuum is still going to miss stuff, with all those different alien species running around there.

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harshness

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MikeD-C05 said:
There would still be dirt ,dust in the future I am sure.

Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

MikeD-C05

Monday at 1:35 PM

harshness said:
Where is it going to come from -- specifically?

Why do you think cleaning technology won't improve in the next few hundred years? HEPA filtration was invented as part of the Manhattan Project.

I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

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osu1991

Monday at 1:59 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
I don't know, but I still don't like her walking through the station or the academy with out her shoes. It looks unprofessional and very "hippy like" for someone of her status and I personally don't get off to feet, so there is that.

Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though :clapping

MikeD-C05

Yesterday at 12:25 PM

osu1991 said:
Stay out of my office. I rarely have shoes or socks on in the office. My office and business is at home though

Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

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Jimbo

Yesterday at 4:30 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ... :biggrin

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long_time_Dish

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Well, look at the way she sat in the Captain's Chair. I didn't say the show should have been called "Captain Chair-Whore" for nothing...

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primestar31

Yesterday at 11:00 PM

MikeD-C05 said:
Say, I don't wear socks or shoes in my house either. But for a captain in Star Fleet it looks bad to be walking around the academy with no shoes. Gives off 1960 Hippie vibes.

Just sayin...

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MikeD-C05

Today at 11:17 AM

Jimbo said:
You say that like it's a Bad thing or something ...

For a whole generation of adults it was in the 1960s and 1970s.

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