Adrian_R
05-04-03, 01:11 PM
Hello all. First off, in case this has been reported/discussed before, my apologies.
I had a old timer that would record weekly on Friday @ 11:30pm. This was the only timer for this day/time. Lets call this timer #1.
Recently, I set another weekly timer for Friday @ 11:30pm on a different channel than timer #1, Tech TV. If you looked at the guide, you would see the same show name at 11-11:30p, then another for 11:30p-12a, then a third for 12a-12:30a; in half-hour blocks instead of one long contiguous block. So now I had two timers for the Friday @ 11:30p-12a slot. This is timer #2.
Very recently, I set a Monday-Friday timer on Tech TV @ 11:30p-12:00a. The timer set fine. Timer #3.
After setting timer #3, I remembered that I had already set a weekly Friday @11:30p timer, so I checked the guide to see if I would have two red dots for the Friday @ 11:30p slot (curious). What I saw was different than when I set the second timer. The show that I set the timer for (Anime Unleashed) was shown in one large contiguous block in the guide now, from 11:30p-12:30a, instead of the separate half-hour blocks that was there before. Also, there were no red dots in the guide next to the names, so it looked like I had no timers set for Friday @ 11:30p. I went into the timers menu and confirmed that timers #2 and #3 were there.
At this point, I did not realize that I had three timers set ok (no complaining by my 721) for the same date/time!
Come Friday @ 11:30p, and the 721 hangs, then crashes, where the 721's OS goes away, and all I see is the Linux "X" mouse cursor. Then the 721 reboots, and when it comes back up, it starts recording timers #2 and #3, but not #1.
At the time I didn't realize why it crashed (3 timers). I thought it was just the 721 being the 721 (hadn't reboot it in a couple of days). I realize that timer #1 didn't record when I went looking for the show yesterday (Saturday), to watch. When I figured out what was going on, I went into the timer window and deleted timer #2 (since timer #3 would cover the same date/time as #2).
So there you go. I'm guessing that the guide change fooled the 721 in allowing me to set three timers for the same date/time. Hopefully the Dish coders have ran into this bug already and have it fixed for the next version coming out.
I had a old timer that would record weekly on Friday @ 11:30pm. This was the only timer for this day/time. Lets call this timer #1.
Recently, I set another weekly timer for Friday @ 11:30pm on a different channel than timer #1, Tech TV. If you looked at the guide, you would see the same show name at 11-11:30p, then another for 11:30p-12a, then a third for 12a-12:30a; in half-hour blocks instead of one long contiguous block. So now I had two timers for the Friday @ 11:30p-12a slot. This is timer #2.
Very recently, I set a Monday-Friday timer on Tech TV @ 11:30p-12:00a. The timer set fine. Timer #3.
After setting timer #3, I remembered that I had already set a weekly Friday @11:30p timer, so I checked the guide to see if I would have two red dots for the Friday @ 11:30p slot (curious). What I saw was different than when I set the second timer. The show that I set the timer for (Anime Unleashed) was shown in one large contiguous block in the guide now, from 11:30p-12:30a, instead of the separate half-hour blocks that was there before. Also, there were no red dots in the guide next to the names, so it looked like I had no timers set for Friday @ 11:30p. I went into the timers menu and confirmed that timers #2 and #3 were there.
At this point, I did not realize that I had three timers set ok (no complaining by my 721) for the same date/time!
Come Friday @ 11:30p, and the 721 hangs, then crashes, where the 721's OS goes away, and all I see is the Linux "X" mouse cursor. Then the 721 reboots, and when it comes back up, it starts recording timers #2 and #3, but not #1.
At the time I didn't realize why it crashed (3 timers). I thought it was just the 721 being the 721 (hadn't reboot it in a couple of days). I realize that timer #1 didn't record when I went looking for the show yesterday (Saturday), to watch. When I figured out what was going on, I went into the timer window and deleted timer #2 (since timer #3 would cover the same date/time as #2).
So there you go. I'm guessing that the guide change fooled the 721 in allowing me to set three timers for the same date/time. Hopefully the Dish coders have ran into this bug already and have it fixed for the next version coming out.