U343 -- multiple issues: can't create timers; autotune timer failed to start

[Jim Koenig]

Our Hopper 3 (U343) had problems yesterday. The autotune timer on our bedroom's Joey 2 (that is our alarm clock) failed to start, something that never happens. Also, I was unable to create a timer on the Hopper 3. I rebooted but there was no way I could create a timer. I tried deleting several timers (I had 67) just to see if that would help. It did. Things seem back to normal. Did I reach a limit on the number of timers you can have? 67 seems low for a system with 16 tuners.

 

[JSheridan]

The Hopper timer limit AFAIK is 200.

There have been widespread problems just like you described and it's linked to the DISH guide data stream. They are working on it.

 

[xfoneguy]

Our Hopper 3 (U343) had problems yesterday. The autotune timer on our bedroom's Joey 2 (that is our alarm clock) failed to start, something that never happens. Also, I was unable to create a timer on the Hopper 3. I rebooted but there was no way I could create a timer. I tried deleting several timers (I had 67) just to see if that would help. It did. Things seem back to normal. Did I reach a limit on the number of timers you can have? 67 seems low for a system with 16 tuners.

up to 199 timers has always worked fine - as soon as I try creating number 200, i get the "unable to create timer - please try again later" (or something to that effect) I believe the error number associated is #1283. I could be remembering my numbers incorrectly in that 200 is OK, 201 is not, but it's one or the other. Definitely NOT 67. That likely was a "Co-Inky-Dink"

 

[odbrv]

None of my timers nor PTAT recorded on Wednesday. When I go to schedule and look backwards, there is today, no Wednesday and then Tuesday. I had 3 non selected reboots today when trying to select a program from the guide or from the PIP.