DCX3600 Diagnostic Tips and Tricks
Here's a compendium of diagnostic tips and tricks for the DCX3600-
Quick Tips On Reboot and Diagnostics -
1. Press and hold the power key on the remote for 10 seconds to force a reboot
2. During the countdown (L-10 ,L-9 ,L-8,etc), power on and hit select for a detailed display of the components as they are being loaded
3. During the countdown or later, power on, press and hold select for 10 seconds, then hit Up for the OCAP diagnostics
4. After the load completes, press and hold select for 10 seconds, and hit Down for the ODN diagnostics
5. With the STB on, hit power, then select, for quick access to the Motorola STB diagnostics
6. With the STB on, hit A, B, C, Settings, power off, power on, Settings, Left, to access the Field Tools menu.
7. To enable device ports/functionality (eSATA, MoCA, USB), requires a little more button pressing and will not be covered in this post, for obvious reasons.
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Multichannel Trick Play: (this section should be visible)
The DCX3600 can actively buffer 4 to 6 hours of TSB (up to 1 hour per tuner). The buffering kicks in after power on, and is reset at power off. Specifically, the last 60 minutes of the first 6 channels that you tune to will be buffered, and 4 of the 6 will continue to be buffered, even if you channel surfed to many other channels, after the initial 6.
Here's what you do:
1)Power Off -->Frees up the tuner assignments
2 )Power On --> Assigns tuner[0] to its default
3) Select any channel as a filler -->Assigns a channel to tuner[1]
4) Successively select the 4 channels that you want to buffer.-->Assigns tuners[2,3,4,5]
Note that tuners[0,1] will lose their buffering as you channel surf.
(You can watch the assignments in real-time from p.8 of the ODN diagnostics)
Comes in very handy for Sunday morning talk shows.
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Bonus:
To stream unprotected, recorded content to any device over Ethernet to an MPEG-2 capable player, see this thread-
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29952651-TV-DVR-questions~start=35
-nony
Here's a compendium of diagnostic tips and tricks for the DCX3600-
Quick Tips On Reboot and Diagnostics -
1. Press and hold the power key on the remote for 10 seconds to force a reboot
2. During the countdown (L-10 ,L-9 ,L-8,etc), power on and hit select for a detailed display of the components as they are being loaded
3. During the countdown or later, power on, press and hold select for 10 seconds, then hit Up for the OCAP diagnostics
4. After the load completes, press and hold select for 10 seconds, and hit Down for the ODN diagnostics
5. With the STB on, hit power, then select, for quick access to the Motorola STB diagnostics
6. With the STB on, hit A, B, C, Settings, power off, power on, Settings, Left, to access the Field Tools menu.
7. To enable device ports/functionality (eSATA, MoCA, USB), requires a little more button pressing and will not be covered in this post, for obvious reasons.
--
Multichannel Trick Play: (this section should be visible)
The DCX3600 can actively buffer 4 to 6 hours of TSB (up to 1 hour per tuner). The buffering kicks in after power on, and is reset at power off. Specifically, the last 60 minutes of the first 6 channels that you tune to will be buffered, and 4 of the 6 will continue to be buffered, even if you channel surfed to many other channels, after the initial 6.
Here's what you do:
1)Power Off -->Frees up the tuner assignments
2 )Power On --> Assigns tuner[0] to its default
3) Select any channel as a filler -->Assigns a channel to tuner[1]
4) Successively select the 4 channels that you want to buffer.-->Assigns tuners[2,3,4,5]
Note that tuners[0,1] will lose their buffering as you channel surf.
(You can watch the assignments in real-time from p.8 of the ODN diagnostics)
Comes in very handy for Sunday morning talk shows.
--
Bonus:
To stream unprotected, recorded content to any device over Ethernet to an MPEG-2 capable player, see this thread-
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r29952651-TV-DVR-questions~start=35
-nony
