Am I am Idiot???

[mikeybc]

Ok folks, don't know if I'm just an idiot, but my HR-20 appears to be randomly picking programs to record on it's own. For no apparent reason it keep taping the channel 9 (WGN in Chicago) noon news every day and today it taped some old movie off of WTBS (D* 247??).

From my days with Tivo I knew it had the option to allow Tivo to tape programs to my liking based off of my other tapings. Does the HR-20 have something hidden within it that I just haven't found or is there a ghost in my house when I am not home hitting the record button on the remote control....

Ughh, please tell me I am not going crazy!!!

[PoitNarf]

There is an autorecord option that you can use based on a keyword. Perhaps you inadvertently activated it?

And no, the HR20 does not automatically record shows based on your other recording habits.

[cygnusloop]

Do you have a cat?

[PoitNarf]

Do you have a cat?

Just to be clear, I do not think he is joking when asking this. A cat walking over a remote could have some very strange results.

[mikeybc]

I checked that the autorecord option is not the case...

[mikeybc]

You know I do have two cats and a toddler. I guess that is possible, I'll start putting the remote in an enclosed place...

Thanks for the thoughts folks!!!

[cygnusloop]

Just to be clear, I do not think he is joking when asking this. A cat walking over a remote could have some very strange results.

Not joking. Happens to me all the time if I leave the 880 where it can be trod upon. (Have a two year old, too. And he loves things with buttons.)

[PoitNarf]

I checked that is not the case...

Are you certain that no SLs exist for these shows? If you have some of these erroneous programs in your ToDo list, look at the recording options associated with them to make sure everything is kosher.

[mikeybc]

Are you certain that no SLs exist for these shows? If you have some of these erroneous programs in your ToDo list, look at the recording options associated with them to make sure everything is kosher.


Absolutely sure. My ToDo list is clean of any programs other than the one's I have setup. That was the first thing I checked...

[mikeybc]

Not joking. Happens to me all the time if I leave the 880 where it can be trod upon. (Have a two year old, too. And he loves things with buttons.)

I'm sure this is the case the more I think about it Cygnus. My boy is 2 1/2, I'm sure he has picked up the remote at least 20 times since I got the HR20 two weeks ago.

Looks like these young boys love their toys just like their dad's!!!

[cygnusloop]

Well, if it's the same show each time, probably not small human, or animal related...

How long has it been going on? Have you done a reboot since it started happening?

[cygnusloop]

I'm sure this is the case the more I think about it Cygnus. My boy is 2 1/2, I'm sure he has picked up the remote at least 20 times since I got the HR20 two weeks ago.

Looks like these young boys love their toys just like their dad's!!!

I have been fooled into thinking that strange things with my HR20 were happening that did in fact turn out to be toddler induced. The question is, does a pattern exist that makes you think it's a "phantom" SL or is it random enough to be caused by random button pushing.

[Radio Enginerd]

Not joking. Happens to me all the time if I leave the 880 where it can be trod upon. (Have a two year old, too. And he loves things with buttons.)

Is your two year old in your avatar? If so, very cute.

[cygnusloop]

Is your two year old in your avatar? If so, very cute.

Yes, he is my avatar, and thank you very much!

[Radio Enginerd]

I'm sure this is the case the more I think about it Cygnus. My boy is 2 1/2, I'm sure he has picked up the remote at least 20 times since I got the HR20 two weeks ago.

Looks like these young boys love their toys just like their dad's!!!

Since the record button on the remote only requires a single push to record it's possible the button itself is stuck or damaged. I don't mean to go out on a limb here, just thinking of different ways you could be recording random programs.

[cygnusloop]

Since the record button on the remote only requires a single push to record, it may also be possible that the button itself is stuck or damage. I don't mean to goo out on a ledge, just think of different ways you could be recording random programs.

On my Harmony, the record button is so easy to push, that I have started recording the current program just when picking the remote up off the side table. I usually notice the orange bar pop up, but not always.

[Nick]

Could random 'auto-record' be an undocumented "feature"?

Is your box named "HAL"?

[Jhon69]

Just to be clear, I do not think he is joking when asking this. A cat walking over a remote could have some very strange results.

If you have a cat.Always smell the remote first.You never know when that cat is going to get the urge to watch cat porn on Animal Planet.:lol:

[jpl]

For what it's worth, I had the same issue with one of my R15s. It only happened a couple times - it recorded something that I never set. And twice it went off and created an SL for me! Now if I could just figure out how to get it to make coffee I'd consider going back to it :)

As for the errant button pushes, I guess that's a possibility. My 2-year-old (girl, so it's not just a boy thing) loves to do things that she's not supposed to. If she sees the remote sitting there on the end-table, she makes a bee-line for it, and just starts pushing buttons - she knows she's not supposed to... she pushes them manically, looking over her shoulder waiting for the shoe to drop, as it were (one time I was sitting in the living room and I heard someone's car alarm go off. It kept going for a couple minutes. I got up from my seat "what idiot is letting his car alarm go off like that... doesn't he hear it?" Just as I finished that statement, I saw MY car's lights flashing. Then I looked down, near the front door in the living room. My two year old managed to get my wife's keys, and was pressing the "panic" button on the keyless remote).

I could see you having an errant recording from something like that - but I think (if you're looking at your todo list) you would have noticed it set up to record. And the fact that it's the same channel that gets the recording... well, that makes it very unlikely that it's your son, and even less so a cat. I think the more likely culprit is the machine.

[MartyS]

As for the errant button pushes, I guess that's a possibility. My 2-year-old (girl, so it's not just a boy thing) loves to do things that she's not supposed to. If she sees the remote sitting there on the end-table, she makes a bee-line for it, and just starts pushing buttons - she knows she's not supposed to... she pushes them manically, looking over her shoulder waiting for the shoe to drop,

I have a 14 month old granddaughter who does the same thing with a TiVo remote at my kids house. She knows that something is supposed to happen when the red light comes on the remote, so she pushes the buttons and looks at the TV to see what she did.

It's really fun to watch, unless of course, we're trying to watch something seriously and then we don't let her near the remote.

Funny thing is, we gave her her own remote, with no batteries in it, but no matter what we do, she knows to go to the remote that's used for the TV. :D

[n3ntj]

Ok folks, don't know if I'm just an idiot, but my HR-20 appears to be randomly picking programs to record on it's own. For no apparent reason it keep taping the channel 9 (WGN in Chicago) noon news every day and today it taped some old movie off of WTBS (D* 247??).

From my days with Tivo I knew it had the option to allow Tivo to tape programs to my liking based off of my other tapings. Does the HR-20 have something hidden within it that I just haven't found or is there a ghost in my house when I am not home hitting the record button on the remote control....

Ughh, please tell me I am not going crazy!!!

How did you get 'tape' in the machine so it could record to it? Mine records to a hard drive.
:lol:

[HDTVsportsfan]

There's one in every crowd. :p

[veryoldschool]

There's one in every cowd. :p
Crowd too...:)

[4DThinker]

The HR20 can be controlled with RF commands. When I lived next door to another DirecTV customer and had a SAT4 Sony receiver we used to have the same problem. His remote would control my receiver and mine would control his.

My point? Check to see if any near neighbor has a dish on their roof. If they have the same box and DVR service, they may be pushing RECORD to watch something they have on the screen and your box gets a RECORD command too.

[veryoldschool]

The HR20 can be controlled with RF commands. When I lived next door to another DirecTV customer and had a SAT4 Sony receiver we used to have the same problem. His remote would control my receiver and mine would control his.

My point? Check to see if any near neighbor has a dish on their roof. If they have the same box and DVR service, they may be pushing RECORD to watch something they have on the screen and your box gets a RECORD command too.
This is a good point, but the remote gets coded to each receiver [I use one remote to control two HR-20s].

[armophob]

I guess thats why they used to recess the record buttons in the old days.

[mikeybc]

How did you get 'tape' in the machine so it could record to it? Mine records to a hard drive.
:lol:

Give me a break huh?!?!? I think you got the drift!!!