As you may have seen me post my 922 will lose recordings. I have watched it and seen it on the DVR list the show recording (with red dot), only to come back after the show is done and not find it in the DVR list. If you look back on the schedule you will see the shows supposedly recorded, it appears to just dump them.
I of course have only seen it do it a couple times, so I am not sure if it always records them and then loses them or something else happens. It has been very frustrating since I would seemingly randomly not have things recorded and the 922 says it recorded them in the schedule but nothing appears in the DVR list.
Well after some experimentation I seem to have ended the problem. It is not a pretty solution. Essentially if you want your SAT programs not to "disappear" do not use OTA recording. If the 922 loses the signal on an OTA tuner (enough for the annoying cover the whole screen message to pop up) while recording a SAT program, it will lose the SAT program. There must be some big bug in the OTA signal recovery that causes the 922 to malfunction and the result is that it for some reason dumps the SAT programs.
My OTA will drop every now and then for a second or so. Perhaps an airplane flying over or something (air force base nearby). Interesting that it rarely ever affects my TiVo. Many recordings it does not drop out, which is why I think it was hard to find this bug. I just happened to notice during AGT a few weeks ago that I had 2 drop outs and the full screen banner popped up to tell me, it was less than 1 second each drop out. But, the recordings going on the SAT tuners were in the DVR guide at the time, so I actually saw them being recorded. When AGT was over I went to watch the other 2 programs, and they were not there. They had disappeared.
So, I continued to monitor for other programs that it would miss. They always appeared on the schedule as recorded, they were always SAT tuners and there was an OTA program going on at the same time. I checked the OTA programs and they would have a drop out in them. OTA programs that did not have a drop out seemed to have the SAT timers work OK.
So, my fix was to move all OTA recordings to the TiVo. My 922 has not lost a timer since I did this. Of course it is not conclusive until I go a month, but I was losing 1-2 shows a week before.
Hopefully someone at Dish will find this bug. I would also like to see that annoying cover the whole screen until you hit OK or a 5 or so second timeout information dialog about lost OTA signal go away. A half second glitch is made far worse by Dish's solution. I also think that the 922 OTA tuner loses the signal far more than my 622 ever did. My TiVo very rarely has a glitch. I have really worked to find out the cause of the glitch, the signal bar will be 80-90% for an hour then all the sudden it loses the signal then back up to 80-90%.
I of course have only seen it do it a couple times, so I am not sure if it always records them and then loses them or something else happens. It has been very frustrating since I would seemingly randomly not have things recorded and the 922 says it recorded them in the schedule but nothing appears in the DVR list.
Well after some experimentation I seem to have ended the problem. It is not a pretty solution. Essentially if you want your SAT programs not to "disappear" do not use OTA recording. If the 922 loses the signal on an OTA tuner (enough for the annoying cover the whole screen message to pop up) while recording a SAT program, it will lose the SAT program. There must be some big bug in the OTA signal recovery that causes the 922 to malfunction and the result is that it for some reason dumps the SAT programs.
My OTA will drop every now and then for a second or so. Perhaps an airplane flying over or something (air force base nearby). Interesting that it rarely ever affects my TiVo. Many recordings it does not drop out, which is why I think it was hard to find this bug. I just happened to notice during AGT a few weeks ago that I had 2 drop outs and the full screen banner popped up to tell me, it was less than 1 second each drop out. But, the recordings going on the SAT tuners were in the DVR guide at the time, so I actually saw them being recorded. When AGT was over I went to watch the other 2 programs, and they were not there. They had disappeared.
So, I continued to monitor for other programs that it would miss. They always appeared on the schedule as recorded, they were always SAT tuners and there was an OTA program going on at the same time. I checked the OTA programs and they would have a drop out in them. OTA programs that did not have a drop out seemed to have the SAT timers work OK.
So, my fix was to move all OTA recordings to the TiVo. My 922 has not lost a timer since I did this. Of course it is not conclusive until I go a month, but I was losing 1-2 shows a week before.
Hopefully someone at Dish will find this bug. I would also like to see that annoying cover the whole screen until you hit OK or a 5 or so second timeout information dialog about lost OTA signal go away. A half second glitch is made far worse by Dish's solution. I also think that the 922 OTA tuner loses the signal far more than my 622 ever did. My TiVo very rarely has a glitch. I have really worked to find out the cause of the glitch, the signal bar will be 80-90% for an hour then all the sudden it loses the signal then back up to 80-90%.
2 of them were off sat channels and 1 off OTA. None had been set online. I set a couple on line earlier and they both recorded and showed completed by user 1. The ones that have missed have been on both TV1 and TV2 as well as OTA. The only thing common is that user2 business.
