Standby question
 

Hi all,

I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks. I have lots of regular
shows I record but don't need to see while I'm gone/after I return. If I
put the Tivo (It's a Hughes series I DirecTivo) into Standby does it
effectively shut down and not record anything? That's what I'm looking to
do. Does it also not call in and get programming updates? (Less desirable
but OK if necessary) I guess the alternative would be to simply power it
down and unplug it. Anyone know?

Peter

"Peter Newman" wrote:
I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks. I have lots of regular
shows I record but don't need to see while I'm gone/after I return. If I
put the Tivo (It's a Hughes series I DirecTivo) into Standby does it
effectively shut down and not record anything? That's what I'm looking to
do. Does it also not call in and get programming updates? (Less desirable
but OK if necessary) I guess the alternative would be to simply power it
down and unplug it. Anyone know?

Putting a DirecTiVo in standby just blanks the video outputs and stops
the recording of Live-TV. It doesn't stop any scheduled recordings,
or the calls home.

What you want to do can only really be accomplished by unplugging the
unit.

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"Scott Seligman" wrote in message ...
"Peter Newman" wrote:
I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks. I have lots of regular
shows I record but don't need to see while I'm gone/after I return. If I
put the Tivo (It's a Hughes series I DirecTivo) into Standby does it
effectively shut down and not record anything? That's what I'm looking to
do. Does it also not call in and get programming updates? (Less desirable
but OK if necessary) I guess the alternative would be to simply power it
down and unplug it. Anyone know?

Putting a DirecTiVo in standby just blanks the video outputs and stops
the recording of Live-TV. It doesn't stop any scheduled recordings,
or the calls home.

What you want to do can only really be accomplished by unplugging the
unit.


You can delete the Season Passes and Wishlists for the programs
you don't want recorded, but leave the DVR plugged in and in Standby.
The unit is designed to operate 24 hours/day. An extended power off
could result in a problem when power is restored to the unit.

The program guide data will continue to be updated daily and the unit
will have current guide data when you return. Program Guide data
comes from the satellite, not the phone calls. I'd leave the Season Passes
and Wishlists as they are so programs would be available upon return.

If your software is not version 3.1.0c2... it probably will be that version
when you return if the phone line is left connected with DVR power on.

Too bad there isn't a "vacation" feature that would allow you to suspend
Season Passes without deleting them.

Peter
"Jack Ak" wrote in message
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"Scott Seligman" wrote in message
...
"Peter Newman" wrote:
I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks. I have lots of
regular
shows I record but don't need to see while I'm gone/after I return. If
I
put the Tivo (It's a Hughes series I DirecTivo) into Standby does it
effectively shut down and not record anything? That's what I'm looking
to
do. Does it also not call in and get programming updates? (Less
desirable
but OK if necessary) I guess the alternative would be to simply power
it
down and unplug it. Anyone know?

Putting a DirecTiVo in standby just blanks the video outputs and stops
the recording of Live-TV. It doesn't stop any scheduled recordings,
or the calls home.

What you want to do can only really be accomplished by unplugging the
unit.


You can delete the Season Passes and Wishlists for the programs
you don't want recorded, but leave the DVR plugged in and in Standby.
The unit is designed to operate 24 hours/day. An extended power off
could result in a problem when power is restored to the unit.

The program guide data will continue to be updated daily and the unit
will have current guide data when you return. Program Guide data
comes from the satellite, not the phone calls. I'd leave the Season
Passes
and Wishlists as they are so programs would be available upon return.

If your software is not version 3.1.0c2... it probably will be that
version
when you return if the phone line is left connected with DVR power on.

"Peter Newman" wrote in
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Hi all,

I'm going to be away from home for a few weeks. I have lots of
regular shows I record but don't need to see while I'm gone/after I
return. If I put the Tivo (It's a Hughes series I DirecTivo) into
Standby does it effectively shut down and not record anything? That's
what I'm looking to do. Does it also not call in and get programming
updates? (Less desirable but OK if necessary) I guess the alternative
would be to simply power it down and unplug it. Anyone know?

Peter



As someone already mentioned the guide data comes from the satellite, not
the phone calls. If you unplug the unit then it might take a day or two
when you come back for the guide data to update.

Personally I would just let it go and do it's thing. If it recorded things
you don't want to watch when you get back just delete those recordings.

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wrote:

As someone already mentioned the guide data comes from the satellite, not
the phone calls. If you unplug the unit then it might take a day or two
when you come back for the guide data to update.

For reasons too complicated to go into here, last week I had to
reinstall the original 40 GB drive in one of my SAT-T60s. There were
no guide data, of course. Not thirty seconds after I booted 'er up,
the guide data was coming in fast and furiously. I didn't check 14
days ahead, but the present day's data were in within a couple of
minutes, if that long.

"Scott Seligman" wrote in message
...
"Peter Newman" wrote:

Putting a DirecTiVo in standby just blanks the video outputs and stops
the recording of Live-TV. It doesn't stop any scheduled recordings,
or the calls home.


I thought DirecTivo still records live tv even when in standby mode.
Correct?

"Von Fourche" wrote:

"Scott Seligman" wrote in message
Putting a DirecTiVo in standby just blanks the video outputs and stops
the recording of Live-TV. It doesn't stop any scheduled recordings,
or the calls home.

I thought DirecTivo still records live tv even when in standby mode.
Correct?

No. You can verify this yourself. Tune to a station with a clock in
the video feed (Headline News, for example). Note the time. Put the
DTiVo in standby for more than a minute and turn it back on. As you
rewind through the video, you should notice a gap in the video for the
length of time it was in standby.

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"Jack Ak" shaped the electrons to say:
The unit is designed to operate 24 hours/day. An extended power off
could result in a problem when power is restored to the unit.

Powering the unit off for an extended time shouldn't cause any
problems.

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"Peter Newman" shaped the electrons to say:
Too bad there isn't a "vacation" feature that would allow you to suspend
Season Passes without deleting them.

You can go into the ToDo list and just delete all the upcoming
recordings for the next two weeks.

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"MegaZone" wrote in message ...
"Jack Ak" shaped the electrons to say:
The unit is designed to operate 24 hours/day. An extended power off
could result in a problem when power is restored to the unit.

Powering the unit off for an extended time shouldn't cause any
problems.


Maybe not, but there are historically more disk drive failures
at startup than while operating. Ask any IBM Customer Engineer.

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MegaZone wrote:
"Peter Newman" shaped the electrons to say:
Too bad there isn't a "vacation" feature that would allow you to suspend
Season Passes without deleting them.

You can go into the ToDo list and just delete all the upcoming
recordings for the next two weeks.

One problem with this technique is if he does it, then it will fill up with
new shows that match lower priority season passes or wishlists.

As much as I realize this is against the mindset of Tivo, this actually has
bitten me sometimes.. and yes, it's when my hard drive is nearly full.
I sometimes will delete things on the To Do list since I know I won't have
enough space.. If I do that too soon to when I leave, then something else
will show up in the To Do list and record anyway. I really wish I could
"lock" the To Do list, at least for the next 24 hours or so lets say.
I sometimes do a minimal amount of locking by turning SP recordings
(double checkmark) into single checkmark recordings, so they don't get
overridden by something else.


I did find something else out recently. I had thought recordings were
deleted from bottom up when sorted by date. Just the other day I had
something like this:

Suggestion 3
Suggestion 2
Suggestion 1

and Suggestion 1 was the oldest recorded.. When I came back, only Suggestion 1
was left.

I had that happen a few weeks ago to a recording of mine too.. I was
previously making sure if nothing had been erased by looking at my oldest (!)
recording.. But now I know I can't trust that (thought it's still at least
a decent thing to check, since I obviously don't have my whole list of
recordings memorized).

"Matt Ackeret" wrote in message
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In article ,

I did find something else out recently. I had thought recordings were
deleted from bottom up when sorted by date. Just the other day I had
something like this:

Suggestion 3
Suggestion 2
Suggestion 1

and Suggestion 1 was the oldest recorded.. When I came back, only
Suggestion 1
was left.

I had that happen a few weeks ago to a recording of mine too.. I was
previously making sure if nothing had been erased by looking at my oldest
(!)
recording.. But now I know I can't trust that (thought it's still at
least
a decent thing to check, since I obviously don't have my whole list of
recordings memorized).

Were the programs different lengths and/or quality (because it affects size
on drive)? Maybe it just deleted only what was needed to make room for the
new recording. Anything with a yellow exclamation mark is available for
deletion. It looks like it chose to record a short recording that was
enough to make room for the new recording rather than deleting more than was
necessary.

Just guessing here as I have never seen this happen (I don't pay attention
to what suggestion is oldest).

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 02:46:48 +0000, Matt Ackeret wrote:

I sometimes will delete things on the To Do list since I know I won't have
enough space.. If I do that too soon to when I leave, then something else
will show up in the To Do list and record anyway. I really wish I could
"lock" the To Do list, at least for the next 24 hours or so lets say.

Sounds like turning the TiVo off (unplugging it) would achieve the results
you want? ;)

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