My Hopper was installed this morning, and I couldn't for the life of me figure out how to view programs off my EHD. I even called Dish and asked Tech Support, but they told me I couldn't view directly from EHD. He nicely walked me through how to copy programs from EHD to Hopper, and I pretended to play along - but knew not to actually try it because of problems others had reported.
Later while playing around with Search, I found if I set the source to My Recordings (yellow button), made sure there was no Theme Filter selected (blue button) and cleared any text from the Search box, my EHD contents showed up in the results area. Clicking on a show lets me watch it directly from the EHD without having to transfer.
Is this how it works for everyone?
I'm not at home right now, but from what I remember from this morning is that my EHD was listed in the banner bar next to the red DVR banner, in the DVR screen. It showed Livingroom 1, but when I click on it, it drops down to external device 1. Click on that an all my EHD recordings are there. BUT it didn't show up until I reset the EHD.