Can Not Create A Timer For OTA

Are you able to tune to OTA channels?

It is possible that you might need to remove the OTA adapter... reboot the receiver... then re-install the OTA adapter, and reboot again.

 

Hmm... I assume you do have correct EPG data?

When you say "hung up"... do you mean the receiver freezes? When you try and set an OTA timer, it "hangs" after you try to set it? and then doesn't define the timer? or it defines the timer but never actually records it?

 

Hmm.. And you only have this issue when you try and create timers for the OTA tuner?

Is this a channel that you have available only via OTA? Or do you have it on SAT too? I was curious if it was also available via SAT if setting a timer to record that version produced the same problems.

 

He has an original Hopper... not a Hopper w/ Sling... I forget what the latest original-recipe Hopper firmware is.

 

Interesting... that at least might be a problem that could be diagnosed easier than if it were just one sub-channel... IF there is a bug with any/all sub-channels other than the ".1" one... that might relate to how they provide the EPG for those sub-channels, which is different than how they do it for the ".1" channels.

The ".1" channels use the same EPG data as they do for the LiL that they carry... whereas, the sub-channels ".2" and beyond are using supplementary EPG data... so if there is a bug in that data, your problem might be how it would manifest.

 

Maybe Dish can get some traction on this soon (not the fictional "soon", but actually soon) if more people let them know. It sounds like this is a fairly easily repeatable problem, but there may not be a lot of people using OTA and trying to record their sub-channels to even notice.