Comments on: hoosgot a way to reboot their TiVo on a schedule? http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2008/01/21/hoosgot-a-way-to-reboot-their-tivo-on-a-schedule/ "The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe."-- Gustave Flaubert Fri, 30 Jul 2010 03:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: paul http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2008/01/21/hoosgot-a-way-to-reboot-their-tivo-on-a-schedule/comment-page-1/#comment-367585 paul Tue, 22 Jan 2008 15:34:35 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/21/hoosgot-a-way-to-reboot-their-tivo-on-a-schedule/#comment-367585 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. 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.

]]> By: Jeff Cahill http://www.paulbeard.org/wordpress/2008/01/21/hoosgot-a-way-to-reboot-their-tivo-on-a-schedule/comment-page-1/#comment-367563 Jeff Cahill Tue, 22 Jan 2008 13:36:38 +0000 http://paulbeard.org/wordpress/index.php/archives/2008/01/21/hoosgot-a-way-to-reboot-their-tivo-on-a-schedule/#comment-367563 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. 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.

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