Settings safe during power outage?
 

I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still be
there when the power comes back on?

Are things like that written to the hard drive or is there a power reserve
that would eventually run out unless the power comes back on within a
certain time?

Thanks

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"Ray" wrote:

I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still be
there when the power comes back on?


YES

Are things like that written to the hard drive

YES

or is there a power reserve
that would eve

In rec.video.satellite.dbs Ray wrote:
I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still be
there when the power comes back on?

You should not lose anything during a power outage. It is all on disk, and
fairly robust.

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Yes and yes, however, I would unplug it prior to the power being shut off
so it does not have that hit when the power is restored. I have mine on a
UPS and sometimes that is not even enough for the HDTV to not power cycle
during surges.

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I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power
to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still
be
there when the power comes back on?

Are things like that written to the hard drive or is there a power reserve
that would eventually run out unless the power comes back on within a
certain time?

Thanks

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Ray

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Ray wrote:

I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still be
there when the power comes back on?

Everything is stored on disk.
Everything except the time-of-day clock, and that has its own battery.

According to Ray :
:I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power to
:be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
:DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still be
:there when the power comes back on?

Will you be around when the power is scheduled to go out? If so, or if you
don't mind possibly missing a few tapings, then just use the tivo standby
mode (under settings) - I believe I read this is the equivalent of havingg
Tivo shut down.

It does mean, however, that tivo won't record things from that point until
the power goes out (if you were to put tivo into standby in the morning
because you were going to be away while the power was out).

Also, if the tivo is put into standby, and then the power goes out, will
the return of power bring tivo back up? If not, what does?
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:I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my power
to
:be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
:DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings still
be
:there when the power comes back on?

Will you be around when the power is scheduled to go out? If so, or if
you
don't mind possibly missing a few tapings, then just use the tivo standby
mode (under settings) - I believe I read this is the equivalent of havingg
Tivo shut down.

Nope, the standby option simply turns off the outputs and allows the RF
signal to pass through, some people have used this feature to connect to
their TV and view there normal Calbe Analog feed. Tivo continues to record
the Live buffer and also records any recordings that you have scheduled. I
am not sure about suggestions, they might not continue to record in StandBy.

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Joe Smith wrote:

Ray wrote:

I'm having some electrical work done this weekend that may cause my
power to
be out for a few hours. Will all of the programs I have recorded on my
DirecTivo as well as my Season Passes and all of the other settings
still be
there when the power comes back on?


Everything is stored on disk.
Everything except the time-of-day clock, and that has its own battery.

In a DirecTivo? One would think they'd just get the time from the satellite.


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Nilly writes:

In a DirecTivo? One would think they'd just get the time from the satellite.

DTivos do get their time from the satellite, which can cause problems
because some of the transponders have had incorrect time in the
past. For example, some people reported their clock being off after
the TiVo was tuned to some west coast locals.

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"Stephane Beaudry" writes:

I am not sure about suggestions, they might not continue to record
in StandBy.

Suggestions continue to record in standby.

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"Alan Shutko" wrote in
Suggestions continue to record in standby.

Yes, and in fact, putting it in Standby also has the effect of
basically telling TiVo that it can start recording Suggestions
immediately versus trying to figure out if the user is watching
the currently-displayed channel.