Could someone please tell me how to reset HR20 to use one tuner only?

[lokar]

I know it is possible because I had it working like this for several months but a power outage screwed up all the settings. I have tried the red button reset, repeat satellite setup and even unplugged it for about a day all to no avail. I am very leery of menu resets since the last time I did that I lost all my recorded shows and I cannot have that happen again or the wife will kill me. Does anyone have any advice?

[veryoldschool]

The menu reset is to be nicer to the hard drive and as such is the preferred reset.
With only one cable connected to wither SAT 1 or 2, the HR-20 should auto detect one SAT feed as it reboots.
What do you have connected?

[Stuart Sweet]

If I understand your question, unhook one cable and reboot. That's the only way.

[Tom Robertson]

I've never had to do anything "special" to tell the HR20 "use single tuner mode". I just put one satellite cable into Sat. 1 and away it goes.

Cheers,
Tom

[MikeR]

I've never had to do anything "special" to tell the HR20 "use single tuner mode". I just put one satellite cable into Sat. 1 and away it goes.

Cheers,
Tom
+1. I've forgotten more times than I can remember.;) that the HR20 autodetects 1 tuner.

I asked VOS last Friday during the CE...."menu reset" did exactly what I needed.

Never lost recordings using this method

"Help/Setup" - "Settings" - "Reset" - "Receiver" - "dash" to confirm.

[lokar]

+1. I've forgotten more times than I can remember.;) that the HR20 autodetects 1 tuner.

I asked VOS last Friday during the CE...."menu reset" did exactly what I needed.

Never lost recordings using this method

"Help/Setup" - "Settings" - "Reset" - "Receiver" - "dash" to confirm.

Thanks, I will try that when I get home. I have always had just one sat line in the house going into sat 1 but have problems with this issue every time there is a power outage. And I am a Mike R too what are the odds :D

[lokar]

I have an HR20-100 and when I go to reset in the settings menu I have
Restart Recorder
Reset Defaults
Reset Everything

Does anyone know if Reset Defaults would be similar to reset receiver?

[veryoldschool]

I have an HR20-100 and when I go to reset in the settings menu I have
Restart Recorder
Reset Defaults
Reset Everything

Does anyone know if Reset Defaults would be similar to reset receiver?
Reset Defaults will lose your series links too

[TriggerDeems]

Thanks, I will try that when I get home. I have always had just one sat line in the house going into sat 1 but have problems with this issue every time there is a power outage. And I am a Mike R too what are the odds :D

If you have power outages often, I'd get a UPS to get you through the outages, and avoid the pain every time.

[chd176]

I'm having the same problem. I was having problems with tuner 2 getting a 771 so I was going to try just using tuner 1. However I still got a 771 on tuner 2 after I reset so I went to check the signal levels and on sat 101 on transponder 32 I get a 89% signal reading from tuner 2 with no coaxial attached. It goes away when I remove the coax from tuner 1, when I connect the same coax to tuner 2 it reads the same as tuner 1 which is 100%. Does it sound like I have a bad 2nd tuner on my HR20?