HWS w/ U241 - OTA

[Cypresstree]

Received software version U506 on my 2 Hopper3 receivers

I'm running the latest software on HWS with single OTA tuner.

I did the following and have experienced no OTA blocking thus far.
- pulled the usb OTA tuner
- unplug receiver for at least 30 seconds.
- Plugged receiver back in - leave receiver in standby mode once it reboots.
- leave receiver in stand by and Plug single tuner USB back in (top port on both my HWS)
- the receiver will reboot on its own after you plug the USB tuner back in.
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[Cypresstree]

This just in:

I just swapped to a dual tuner USB tuner that was just delivered.

I used the exact same procedure listed above to swap the tuners.

Exciting news - and to my surprise - I did not have to rescan for locals. Previous channels were already there... not sorry if already posted elsewhere[emoji849]

 

[pattykay]

This just in:

I just swapped to a dual tuner USB tuner that was just delivered.

I used the exact same procedure listed above to swap the tuners.

Exciting news - and to my surprise - I did not have to rescan for locals. Previous channels were already there... not sorry if already posted elsewhere[emoji849]

Yes, that is normal. The list of OTA channels is stored in the receiver, not in the dongle. I still have OTA channels on my list on my Wally that were scanned in with the old single-tuner dongle, and I have never even received some of them using the new dual-tuner dongle.

 

[ekilgus]

Yes, that is normal. The list of OTA channels is stored in the receiver, not in the dongle. I still have OTA channels on my list on my Wally that were scanned in with the old single-tuner dongle, and I have never even received some of them using the new dual-tuner dongle.

Exactly my experience. When I installed the dual tuner dongle, I scanned for OTA channels and saw that some were missing. I then put back the single tuner dongle, scanned and the missing channels were restored. I then switched back to the dual tuner dongle and all was well. Obviously the dual tuner dongle has issues with sensitivity, stability, and heat, but I think pretty much everyone is aware of that by now. I wonder if there's a new and improved dual tuner dongle in our future?