Daily Call Time

Hi guys,
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM. Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals, but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

Thanks for any help,
Mike

"Mike" wrote
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM.

Nope. Hope some salesperson didn't tell you that.


Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals, but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

No, the auto daily call will call in when it decides to. This is
typically a little less often than every 24 hours. As a result, the
time of day will change around the clock. If TiVo gave people
a choice, nearly everyone would choose the time of day that
you yourself mentioned, overloading TiVo. Staggering the time
is by design to prevent this.

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.
Skipping Daily Calls makes the call longer when you do
finally connect. In my experience, if you let it call when it
wants, each call is very short. (Typically, ~ 5 minutes.)

Thanks for the quick response. A salesperson did not tell me this, I
really thought that I had seen it on Tivo's site. But I can live with it
calling out at that time, just thought it would be nice if it called out in
the morning hours.

--
Mike

"Bao H. Lammy" wrote:

"Mike" wrote
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM.

Nope. Hope some salesperson didn't tell you that.

Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals, but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

No, the auto daily call will call in when it decides to. This is
typically a little less often than every 24 hours. As a result, the
time of day will change around the clock. If TiVo gave people
a choice, nearly everyone would choose the time of day that
you yourself mentioned, overloading TiVo. Staggering the time
is by design to prevent this.

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.
Skipping Daily Calls makes the call longer when you do
finally connect. In my experience, if you let it call when it
wants, each call is very short. (Typically, ~ 5 minutes.)

Just as an FYI, I have had my TIVO for 3 years and never once had an issue
of when it made it's call, never had tried to use the phone durring a call.
And I know it does the call at all hours. Not sure if it's just lucky but
it's not that big of a deal, which is what I am trying to say.

"Mike" wrote in message
...
Thanks for the quick response. A salesperson did not tell me
this, I
really thought that I had seen it on Tivo's site. But I can live with it
calling out at that time, just thought it would be nice if it called out
in
the morning hours.

--
Mike

"Bao H. Lammy" wrote:

"Mike" wrote
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM.

Nope. Hope some salesperson didn't tell you that.

Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals,
but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

No, the auto daily call will call in when it decides to. This is
typically a little less often than every 24 hours. As a result, the
time of day will change around the clock. If TiVo gave people
a choice, nearly everyone would choose the time of day that
you yourself mentioned, overloading TiVo. Staggering the time
is by design to prevent this.

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.
Skipping Daily Calls makes the call longer when you do
finally connect. In my experience, if you let it call when it
wants, each call is very short. (Typically, ~ 5 minutes.)

In article ,
Mike wrote:

Hi guys,
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM. Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals, but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

Thanks for any help,
Mike

On the DirecTv Tivo
Its just a 30 second call to report Pay Per Views basically. Seems like
its every 50 hours. You can manually do it same day at a differnet time
if you like.

"Robert M." wrote in message ...
In article ,
Mike wrote:

Hi guys,
I set my Tivo up today and noticed that it's daily call for
tomorrow is scheduled for 6:15 PM. I thought that the daily call was
supposed to happen up in the morning like 2 or 3 AM. Is there anyway
that I can change this time so that it will call out in the early
morning hours? Sorry, if this question is answered in the manuals, but
I've looked through them and found nothing yet.

Thanks for any help,
Mike

On the DirecTv Tivo
Its just a 30 second call to report Pay Per Views basically. Seems like
its every 50 hours. You can manually do it same day at a differnet time
if you like.

FWIW, the DirecTV Tivo doesn't report PPV events on the configured
local number telephone call. The built-in DirecTV receiver calls a 1-8xx
number within a month after a PPV has been ordered with the remote.

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:24:29 -0600, "Bao H. Lammy"
wrote:

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.

One could probably build a device to do this automatically, should
there be an inclination. I'm imagining a low-voltage power supply and
a small DPDT relay thru which the phone line is connected. Attach
power supply to timer of choice and set the window(s) of active
connection. Eventually the Tivo callout will periodically line up
with it.
Could work... ?
-KD


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On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:24:29 -0600, "Bao H. Lammy"
wrote:

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.

One could probably build a device to do this automatically, should
there be an inclination. I'm imagining a low-voltage power supply and
a small DPDT relay thru which the phone line is connected. Attach
power supply to timer of choice and set the window(s) of active
connection. Eventually the Tivo callout will periodically line up
with it.
Could work... ?

Probably. I've heard of people using an off the shelf timer and
wireless modem adapter to acheive the same thing. I don't know how
well it worked for them, though.

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Here is how this works.

TiVo makes a daily call
TiVo notes the time the call completed
TiVo adds 24 hours to that time and that is when the next call will
occur.

Yes. COMPLETED is the key. That's how TiVo ensures that a unit doesn't
make it's daily call at the same time every day. It continually shifts
foward some minutes day by day.

And actually, I think it looks at the time it finished PROCESSING the call
data versus when the call actually completed. I only say this because my
TiVo connects via the internet so the connection (call) only lasts about 5
to 10 seconds. But TiVo usually makes each successive call about 20 minutes
(take or give) later than the previous.

I vaguely recall my older Series 1 TiVo used to add something like 2 hours,
too. So if yesterday's call finished up a 4:12am, then today's call would
start up at 6:12am. I'm not sure about that, but I think that's the way it
was. I'm not sure what my current Series 2 does as I haven't paid much
attention to it since making it net-enabled.

On 1/29/04 2:37 AM, in article ,
"Cyclograph" wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jan 2004 20:24:29 -0600, "Bao H. Lammy"
wrote:

TiVo will avoid calling if the phone is in use anyway, so I'd
just let things be. If you really can't stand this for whatever
reason, then you'll have to unplug the phone line and force
manual Daily Calls yourself when you want to make them.

One could probably build a device to do this automatically, should
there be an inclination. I'm imagining a low-voltage power supply and
a small DPDT relay thru which the phone line is connected. Attach
power supply to timer of choice and set the window(s) of active
connection. Eventually the Tivo callout will periodically line up
with it.
Could work... ?
-KD


I built just such a device for my TiVo a couple of years ago. Because my
local calls are charged by the minute, I wanted the TiVo only to call late
at night when the rates were lower.

My device was even simpler than the one you envisioned; I simply took an
off-the-shelf Radio Shack lamp timer, and replaced the power leads into/out
of the timer with telephone leads. Voila! Now that I have broadband,
however, I don't use the little box any more.

As for the OP's original question: TiVo will NEVER call out during "prime
time," between 5 and 10 PM, even though it may show the daily call as being
scheduled for that period. If the daily call is scheduled for 6:30, it will
not call out at that time; rather, it will reschedule for something like 7
hours later.