510 Smart card error.

[tsheley]

The past two evenings at the exact same time, 6:15 PM, and on the same channel, a local ABC channel, I got the following message...

"Your smart card does not currently have authorization to view or purchase this program. Please wait or channel up or down."

If I channel up and go back everything is fine and I don't get the message again. Does anybody have any idea what this could be?

I ran a check switch and everything came back fine. I also rebooted the box which is a 510. All the signal strengths are good also.

Thanks,

 

[geobernd]

I had this problem a couple of times over the last week (approximately 1 week...) on a channel on 121 TP23 on my 508. It does not seem to impact the DVR recordings - only when watching live TV (at least that's the only time I saw it). After the message the screen is blank and stays blank until I either hit 'menu' and 'view tv' or change channels....
There is a thread in the other forum about this as well - it seems more widespread than I thought...

 

[tsheley]

Thanks. Just wanted to make sure it wasn't my setup.