The family wanted to watch one of their TiVo’ed programs but it turns out the box has lost its mind. It wasn’t seeing any signal and consequently recorded nothing (nothing meaning several programs of zero length). Rebooting it resolved the issue: it sees its channels again.
So who’s got, I say, hoosgot a way to reboot the beast programmatically? I know there’s a linux heart beating in there but I don’t have the time or patience to hack it and start messing with its innards. Is there anyway to send a signal to it? Or better, a way to have to tell me when the signal goes away?
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My TivoHd occasionally does the same thing. I don’t believe it to be a problem with the Tivo in as much as it is the cable company and cable cards. I think the problem occurs when the cable company does something on their end; adds or drops channels, does some type of head -end refresh. The cable cards loose their authorization and it won’t correct until you reboot the Tivo and the card re-authorizes. And I believe this happens with Scientific Atlanta cable cards and NOT with Motorola cable cards. Unfortunately, the only way that I know of that this can be fixed is for Tivo to put in some code that checks the signal on specific channels periodically and if it fails, to restart the cable card sub-system. Alls I know is that it is very irritating when it happens and I can’t trust the Tivo to definatley guarantee that recordings are going to get done.
Hmm, so this hoosgot thing works.
Since I don’t have cable and am strictly old school OTA, it sounds like the TiVo is at fault.
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