Inactivity / screen saver timer

[horseshoe]

My wife wants movies copied to DVD so she can watch them on her portable DVD player. I did this regularly on my 622 but this is the first I've tried on the hopper. I tried copying the Sound of Music which is 3 hours. (about 2 hr 55 min more than I could take)

I set the inactivity time out to 5 hours and started recording. When I checked later I found I got just over 1/2 hour before the system message came one and started downloading updates. I tried again, after making sure the time out was still 5 hours, and got a little over 2 hours and it did it again. I've wasted 2 disks so far.

Any suggestions.

 

[Scherrman]

Just set the standby to Disabled and see if that works. I have a Hopper in my showroom that's on for 9 hours everyday and it never goes into standby.

 

[sethwell]

And if you do the recording at night then remember that around 1:30am there is a nightly reboot too.

 

[lazydogmot]

The Hopper won't download the guide information or reboot if it is recording something. And, if you are watching, it will ask permission to download.

 

[horseshoe]

I started the recording at around 11pm so I think the 1:30am reboot was the culprit. Next time I'll start in the morning.