The Official AVS TiVo "Series4" Premiere topic - Page 79

I thought about the possibility of System Control buttons, but the CC location in the menus changes depending on if you are watching live or recorded TV. So, you'd have to have one programmed for Live TV and the other for Recorded TV.

If you want to try to see if it can be mapped directly to a button, great. But don't go out of your way or blow anything up trying to get it to work. It's not guaranteed they'll get the remote. We'll see.

I just picked up the TiVo and WiFi adapter today, so I've got a fun weekend project.

Thanks!

I believe you are correct; it would take two System Control buttons to do that. However, if you accidently hit the wrong button at the wrong time (like you’re watching a recording but hit the button for live), then you may end up doing something other than CC.

If older TiVo remotes had/have a dedicated CC button, then there is a good chance the internal coding to the Premier is the same and thus an older TiVo remote could be used to code the new remote to have CC under one button. That is a BIG if.

The only other choice I know of is just selecting “info” and then choose the CC adjustment from there.

Good Luck with the TiVo, in time they should like it.

It's interesting that when there's a conflict of recordings (all season pass) that even when you delete one of the programs that was conflicting, the show that was not going to record (marked with a red X) still has the X along side of it until you manually set it to record again. Am I missing something here or is this box not able to recognize that the conflict has been removed and automatically allow the blocked show to record? This is on the Premiere, dual tuner.

Thats what I've found also. Generally in that case I bring up the guide and push REC over the one I want to record, if it threatens to drop the other show I want I just say yes and then push REC over that other show. The only time I resort to cancelling the offending show(the one I don't want) is if that one was a manual event(not season pass, one I pushed REC on) in which case I've found the only way to remove it is to push REC over it again and then in the options chose cancel this recording. I use a 2 tuner Tivo HD and wish Tivo made a 4 tuner model for me(OTA). If they did I'd already have one and would probably never have to worry about overlapping events(something thats happening more and more to me ).

I guess that just means we're watching too much TV....

This is what I did on my TiVo Premier when needing 3 shows to record in conflict. Each of these shows are 1 hour shows:

Show 1 at 7PM
Show 2 at 7:30PM
Show 3 at 8PM
Show 4 at 8PM

Originally shows 1, 2 and 4 were recording and not 3 (the red X).

Shows 1, 3, and 4 were the real priority, so I just moved show 2 to the bottom of the season pass priority list. The premier moved the red X from show 3 to show 2 on the To Do List. Now in my situation if Show 2 was one I really wanted, I would have the Sony record since it still has date and time; but because show 2 is a series of repeats I am perfectly content to have the TiVo get it when it reruns again. The Shows 1, 3, and 4 are all "new" must haves.

Jeff is correct we need a 4 tuner for OTA peeps - but again too much TV

Mike, ok this might be a solution. There may be a hidden discrete code for CC toggle after all?

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=501553

https://github.com/wmcbrine/tivoremote/


I think you need a TiVo older version with that button on it; chances are it is still coded into the software on the Premier. If that is true, then it could programmed into the new remote from an older version TiVo remote: A CC toggle. Is there an older version remote TiVo you could use (beg, borrow, or steal) to see if the CC works on your Premier?

Most of that appears to be for remote apps via the network; still I would think there has to be a direct IR for a traditional remote control; once you can duplicate the "IR Beam" there is a could chance it be assigned to any key - again assuming the CC software is coded into the Premier?
Edited by HoustonPerson - 3/3/13 at 5:41am

I'm only OTA and have all I can do to keep my 1TB open enough for new programs, I can only imagine(and would dread) if I had all the choices available with pay TV
Luckily I live in a area with lots of OTA choices and all easily receivable with my Tivo If I were(sometimes happens during summer) able to totally clear off my HDD I'd have tons and tons of seasons of TV on DVD to watch(which are currently just on the back burner).

 

It's not any more TV rather simply TV you rather watch. Sunday and or Monday nights have been a hot spot for recordings... towards the end of the week not so much. As always you watch when you want and with 4-tuners you have a better selection. Being OTA only (limited selection to start with and less repeats than pay TV) I couldn't go back to 2-tuners. It's one of the things I really like with WMC. Another Dual tuner cost me a whopping $60.

That's funny, I saw that same tivocommunity post on Friday. I was excited until I found out it was a software app.

Unfortunately, I don't have access to, or know anyone, who has an older TiVo remote. But I agree that there probably is a discrete code for CC somewhere. It seems that would be something right up Harmony's or Universal Remote Control's alley.

Does anyone know what the YouTube app's native resolution is supposed to be? I ask because I have 1080p, 1080i, and 720p resolutions enabled, and every time I launch YouTube, it switches to 720p. I've watched several videos that I know have 1080p resolutions available on the computer, but should it output 1080p or 1080i, or is it only maxing out at 720p? Does the TiVo pick the highest resolution file and that's what it attempts to stream or are there other factors that affect this. The videos appear to be HD on the TiVo, but I wasn't sure what the YouTube app is really supposed to output.

Also, is there anyway to subscribe to a particular feed? The YouTube Leanback help page says you can login to subscribe to feeds and change default resolution settings, but I didn't see a way to do that on the TiVo.

I should say that I have an older Pioneer Elite plasma that is natively 720p, but accepts and displays 1080i and 1080p/24 signals. I know that 1080p works as that is what I output from my Blu-ray player, plus it displays "1080p" on the screen as well. I have to force the Blu-ray player to output 1080p; Auto defaults to 1080i. So, I don't know if my plasma is inadvertently defaulting to 720p with the YouTube app.

Cosmic rays. Pull the plug.

I have seen that occasionally, recently, change channels briefly, and or reboot. If you go to the DVR Diagnostics, you will probably see high RS Corrected and RS Uncorrected values for that channel.

Well, this was staring me right in the face. I didn't look around the interface enough, as I finally noticed the My YouTube entry has a Sign In page. I haven't tried it yet, though, as I haven't created a Google account for YouTube access.

I had tried that a week or two ago, without much success. I was trying to create a wishlist search to subscribe to a YouTube "news feed". Let us know if you can make it work.

There are certain youtube feeds that you can subscribe to and they work well. I love this Canadian show called Just for Laughs and whenever they post a new clip, it downloads automatically into my recorded shows list.

If anybody needs it, there is now a TiVo supplied fix/patch for the Desktop program:
http://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/forums/displaythread?rootPostID=11083921&channelID=10&portalPageId=10432560

Screen shots of it working are not required this time.

Thanks. I guess I'll need to upgrade to 2.8.3 now since the patch only works with that version.

I modified the curl.conf file and that's good enough for me.

Hi, I've had a tivo premier since last summer, and the last couple of days I've noticed an oddity: although the grid guide display has the times right for programs tomorrow (Sunday) and later, all the programs I've scheduled to record Sunday and later have their times an hour off, presumably because of the time change.

I'm hoping this problem clears up tomorrow, when the time has actually changed, because I'd hate to have to start setting manual recordings...

It's very strange that the grid display is right, and the list of recording I have set is wrong...

Tony

Well, check back tomorrow and let us know how things look. You may also notice that the guide doesn't display anything for 2am Sunday.

I discovered a TiVo quirk yesterday evening. There's probably a way to avoid (or work around) it, but it hit me by surprise and I didn't have much time to think of a solution.

We were watching "Undercover Boss" live but about 6 or 7 minutes behind, using Chase Play. The TiVo was not set to record that show, we were just watching the "buffer". At 8pm (Central time) we got the quick blanking of the screen as "Golden Boy" (which was scheduled on Season Pass) started to record and then went "live" on the TV screen. Still having 6 or 7 minutes left to watch of Undercover Boss, I thought I could back-up the buffer and catch its final minutes. Apparently not, the buffer seemed to be gone. Solutions anyone?

I see what you mean. On the To Do List everything is off by one hour although the guide looks fine.

Unfortunately thats how it works when you have things scheduled on both tuners. If you had had an open tuner Tivo should have used that tuner and left your buffer alone. In the future if you know both tuners will be being used you could have pushed REC on the program you were watching which would have put it in your now playing list

.....speaking of quirks......I was logged out when I read WS65711's post so I clicked quote to his post which prompted me to sign in, after I did I got the reply box to which I typed my above quote.....unfortunately while my text went through the quote did not personally not a big fan of our new platform but I guess we get what we get

Actually the only scheduled recording was "Golden Boy" at 8pm Central. And both the show I was "Chase Playing" and the Golden Boy scheduled recording are on CBS (same channel). Maybe the show I was chasing was still in the buffer if I had pressed "Live TV" or "Enter" to jump channels? I'm not sure, because I wasn't thinking that quickly....

That brings up another question. I used to think I had "Live TV" and "Enter" figured out. But I dunno if maybe they've changed something with the last update? I never seem to know what those buttons are going to do anymore . . .

I think you witnessed the first issue in the "buffer bugs list" from this post.

Mark

TiVo date and time is correct after DST change. ToDo List is also correct this morning. Have 10 shows schedule to record on Sunday, all have correct time, and time allotment.

This normal. I don't recall ever having problems with the time change.

The live buffer issue is a known problem that they introduced in recent releases, only way to guarantee not losing the buffer is to hit record on a show that you're really into while watching it.

Live TV cycles between tuners and is a faster way to flip back and forth (once you get the tuners on the channels you want), Enter/Last changes the channel on the tuner you're watching now so it's a bit slower.