Sorry - I may not have explained it correctly. (It's also one of my pet peeves with Channel Master's DVR+: a two-tuner DVR that nevertheless won't allow overlapped recordings of back-to-back shows on the same channel!) It's also one of the reasons people are willing to pay so much for multi-tuner DVRs: you can start recording a second show before your first recording ends. TV stations like to make things as hard as possible for DVR users, and this is one of their tricks. Incidentally, is your HW-150 on V5.3 firmware?)īe careful with that 1-minute gap - make sure the show really does end by 8:58! Back-to-back recordings are often tough because these days there may not be any commercial break between the very end of one show and the very start of the next, so no matter what times you set, you either cut off the end of one or the start of the next. (But I'd still report it to customer service. If so, once you set the recordings as daily you should be OK, since the box won't try to erase a repeating recording. It sounds like there's a bug (or perhaps several) in erasing one-time recordings as they complete, and sometimes the wrong recordings get erased. It will be interesting to see if somewhat reasonable dependability can be achieved through some testing over the next month. The whole point is whether this box will be able to fill a role in a future system for supplemental recording depending on whether we decide to move to Plex DVR, or Tablo, or Mavrik, or. Nor do I think she should have to make that adjustment. And yes - I know that I could simply set one timer for 3 hours as both programs are on the same channel, but that won't get wife-approval. We'll see if that alleviates any potential hiccups as I suspect this box doesn't elegantly handle the closing of a file for one recording while opening a file for another. So GMA now has an entry of 06:59-08:58 followed by Ripa with an entry of 08:59 - 10:00. I re-entered the 4 timers to make sure I caught the 2 programs in the afternoon - and as long as I was entering, decided to change the 2 morning programs so that there would be a minute break between them. However, when I checked the timer list - all 4 entered timers were gone. I turned on the TV and checked the recordings and both had recorded successfully. Since the box started in standby mode - it should have gone back to standby mode after the 2nd recording finished. When I looked at the box after 10:00, I noticed that the box was still on - which I knew was an indicator that something wasn't quite right. Checked it again during Ripa and saw it was still recording. I took a look at the box at some point during GMA and saw it was recording. The 3rd and 4th events were for later in the day. 2nd event was Kelly Ripa (on the same channel) with an entry of 08:59-10:00. 1st event for the box was GMA with an entry of 06:59-08:59. I suspect that one of my initial problems today is because of end-time/begin-time issues that the box may have difficulties with. So for today's shows, I created 4 daily timer entries last night. Those schedules were just entered as one-time events. I knew there was a bit of a delay from when the box 'wakes up' for a timer recording and when actual recording begins after testing with Monday's shows. My initial impression - what an odd little box. I set up the 4 daily programs she records using daily timers and am starting to assess whether this box can fill a role depending on what our future setup will consist of this fall. I don't mind losing the potential value of a lifetime'd TiVo as it helps a friend out and I still have the Roamio which will likely be sold in the summer as we move away from the TiVo ecosystem. The TiVo will be pretty trouble-free even though they are only using it for recording 2 programs. Looking back on it - I should have just gone down this path to begin with. I took the HW-150, hard drive, and powered hub and put it in our bedroom as it's replacement. So I did end up giving my friend my TiVo Premiere which wasn't doing much in the bedroom except being used as a backup recorder for my wife's daily chat shows.
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