Can you force the Hopper to release a tuner?

[Dudleydog73]

I have been playing around with my Sling Adapter on my Hopper and have been having a lot of problems lately. I am on S211 and what is happening lately is when I connect my Dish app on my iPhone to my receiver, I get the option to watch on my iPhone when I select a channel on Live TV which is normal. But what is happening more often then not is I get a popup window stating that there is no available tuner to Sling but I see my show in the background playing so I know that a tuner was available but there is no way to cancel the annoying screen popup.

After I get annoyed at it I disconnect from the Dish app and now I see that the Hopper is showing that it is still "watching" the channel that I was trying to view via Sling and I have been unable to get the Hopper to release it to show Available like the other tuner does when not in use.

I tried using the PiP menu which does bring up the other tuner in a window, but when I cancel PiP it still shows that my Hopper is "watching" that channel.

How do I make the Hopper release the tuner after the Sling adapter client disconnects?

 

[ashutto20]

Ive had all tuners available and until I got s211 I never received the message that you are getting...what has worked for me is (im on my phone using sling) is I hit live tv and the picture comes up

 

[garys]

The Hopper has two tuners in use due to having the pip, not using the pip does not mean the tuner is not in use as is still engaged as a buffer for another program. I believe the only way to release the tuner is to turn off the Hopper.

 

[patmurphey]

Have you tried the red button and select a tuner thats in use - should free one up. Of course that won't help if you using the sling from somewhere else.

 

[rglore]

As long as the PIP tuner is not delayed from live and not onscreen, it's available to Joeys or for recording even though the viewing status screen shows watching.