H21-200 with AM21 Support {CE:12:04a} 0x430C - Issues Only (PRIVATE FIELD TEST)

NOTICE:

This will be a pushed release .. This will only be available to folks in the field trial.

 

Autodownload of 430C started about 5 minutes ago. AM21 is already connected.

I sure hope that this release also solves my H21 problem of having to run guided setup on any restart but I'm not holding out hope for that one.

 

download complete will post finding tomorrow

 

Didn't realize this would be pushed. Tried to force it and get 4080. Guess I'll just wait a while to see if it gets pushed.

 

Be patient .... this download and update seemed to take a long time. Completed at 8:30pm PDT. Will connect AM21 tomorrow.

 

Problem

I connected my H21 to my network and ran the network setup. When I did it my IP address and subnet mask info was not correct and the default gateway and DNS was blank.

I put in the correct info and was able to connect to my network but I keep getting "Error 22" for my internet connection.

 

Problem

OTA signals meter does not report signals on any channel. I have even let it sit on a channel for about a minute and nothing.

I am able to tune to OTA channels fine and they come in fine.

Also I am not sure if this is a problem or not but when I added the AM21 to the H21 and booted up it did not go right to the setup like it did when I added the AM21 to my HR21. I had to go into the setup menu to do it.

 

Holy cow!! I can't believe it! After months and months of CE's and NR's on this box that every restart forced guided setup to be run this time it didn't! I can't say how happy this makes me because having to re-setup my remote code, TV settings, etc. gets real tiresome. Maybe those days are over.

The GUI looks exactly like the HR series now including the startup screens. Overall though the interface including the guide is slower. This is a bit disappointing because I loved this receiver during Sunday Ticket last year mainly due to it's much greater speed over the HR receivers. But we'll see how it goes over time.

Now, on to the AM21, the reason we are here.
Antenna setup was in the menu and I ran it with no problems. It took a long time to do the guide data load but finally got there.
Initial signal meter test showed 0% on both tuners no matter the OTA channel.
But I could tune in to all my locals and they looked great.

OTA channels are in the guide and with guide data.

BUG1: My HD locals from satellite are no longer in the guide. Restart did not bring them back. I decided to show SD duplicates and my SD locals via sat are also gone.
BUG2: I restarted and OTA signal strength is still 0 for all locals (but the channels do come in.
BUG3: It did not retain my OTA list after the restart (i.e. I took out several OTA channels from the list and they were selected again).

Other then that OTA is working fine so far.

I see that it looks like networking is now enabled. I'll run an ethernet cable to it tomorrow and test the network connection.

 

Same here. However I had no idea it was supposed to go to setup automatically.

 

AM21 was discovered the moment I plugged it in! Woohoo!

Had to do the initial setup twice, looked good then.

Alas, no signal meters.


On the network side, my Advanced Settings is showing my MAC address as all FF's, an invalid address, so networking won't work.

And how do I switch between the two tuners on the AM21? (Just kidding)

Cheers,
Tom

 

As Tom reported my MAC Address is showing all F's and I am unable to get Media Share to show up.

 

2 Problems

1) While trying to fix the network problem above I rebooted the unit. After it started back up the OTA channels that I removed from the guide was added to the guide again.

2) When I went back in to uncheck those channels again as I was doing it the unit locked up and I had to RBR.

Once it booted back up again the OTA channels that I started to remove again was added to the guide again.

 

1)same as Tom no ota signal meters

2)with the receiver turned off the ota channel keeps on playing on the screen(fixed with reset)

3)my mac address is showing in the receiver and my router picked it up as soon as it was connected(showing up as an HD DVR on the network)

4)reset rcvr and off-air locals still in guide(all of them)

5)media share playback works but every song starts at lest 2-4 seconds in

6)reset my receiver and that erased my network setup

7)currently wacthing Jay Leno and if i navigate into a menu or active feature that turns away from live tv i lose the audio for about 2 mins on the ota channel

8)also all ota channels show up in the guide even after deselecting some of them in the "edit off air channels list", the only way to take them out ofthe guide is to create a custom list, they are even part of the channels i get list

more testing tomorrow

 

ouch sorry bout that mine was off too hopefully its just being a teenager

 

Another vote for zero signal strength on all channels. I talked my wife through setup over the phone and didn't even think to have her go see if the channels were actually working. She is now in bed so I will check tomorrow.

My receiver prompted for the download at 9:10pm PDT my wife clicked "OK" and it downloaded properly. It didn't automatically start the setup, and manually setting up didn't go through all the steps the first time. It asked for primary zip then went back to the menu page and we had to click "Initial Setup" again then it went through the steps and completed setup.