The box should pair to a Logitech Harmony Hub if the remote is Bluetooth based.

Anyone have that working?

Just got one of these beasts too. Starting to get some ok results (ie it works). All going well over the coming months some of the remaining kinks can be ironed out.

I have contacted Dish TV and asked that their warranty rego form be updated to allow the selection of the "Dish TV Super Box" from the model drop down.

Also after all the other firmware and OS updates I still found that a manual check of the inbuilt chrome cast app via the play store and found yet another update. Didn't help with streaming from some of the bigger casting apps (like netflix etc) wever it did help two smaller ones I use to monitor security cameras.

Any other hints and tips GZers are happy to share ??

I bought one of these units about a month ago. It automatically installed software version 1.26 during the initial setup. 

Here in Blenheim, the only off air source is satellite. Picture quality seems as good as any other satellite source so happy with that. Streaming quality is also very good.

I took up the offer from 2degrees and installed Amazon Prime and that works OK but haven't managed to have the app listed in the apps page. Had to side load it. Netflix is still a problem unfortunately.

While away, my wife set up some programs to be recorded and on return found that less than 50% were successful. Many had the message saying the receiver was turned off, which it wasn't. No power cuts in the house over that week.

The EPG has also failed on Prime so not possible to record anything on there. 

Having no manual recording is a problem too.

I just checked and see the box updated its software to version 1.29 on the 14th of April with the build date of 15.18.10.

The problems here are erratic recording success .

Unable to record  Prime at all as no EPG (used to work)

Occasional glitches on random satellite channels while watching live TV. 

An annoyance is not being able to enter a required channel number from a remote. Having to scroll with the remote keys is annoying.

Hopefully the manufacturers will get these problems sorted soon (ever the optimist).

Has anyone noticed a problem with recorded programs playback in that if after a while of fast forwarding you start seeing previous scenes. If you then stop it repeats the already played scenes - but if your rewind you then see that its actually in another part of the recorded program. Noticed that on a 90 minutes recording - after the 60 minutes mark any fast forward or rewind would just get the wrong bits to play.

Almost like the playback buffer gets overwritten by old content - or even if the playback buffer contains old content and is not updated with the new one after the fast forward or rewind, playing old stuff.

freitasm:

Has anyone noticed a problem with recorded programs playback in that if after a while of fast forwarding you start seeing previous scenes. If you then stop it repeats the already played scenes - but if your rewind you then see that its actually in another part of the recorded program. Noticed that on a 90 minutes recording - after the 60 minutes mark any fast forward or rewind would just get the wrong bits to play.

 

Almost like the playback buffer gets overwritten by old content - or even if the playback buffer contains old content and is not updated with the new one after the fast forward or rewind, playing old stuff.

grantsimpson:

 

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The EPG has also failed on Prime so not possible to record anything on there. 

 

Having no manual recording is a problem too.

 

I still haven't put mine "into service" yet due to having NO manual timer.

NO EPG = NO Recording, unlike every previous box from DishTV having a Manual Timer!

I did a re-scan of the satellite feed and now the Prime EPG works on both Prime and Prime + 1. Will set up some recording and test that later. I haven't used the PVR at all but my wife has so I will check from her after a day or two.

Will try the on demand later this evening. 

Just tried On Demand and all available channels are working correctly. Had to create an account with Freeview to get it going. Had a problem with that too as the password I used had what they considered an illegal character. When I have used that character on other sites it has never been rejected. Different character fixed it.

freitasm:

 

Has anyone noticed a problem with recorded programs playback in that if after a while of fast forwarding you start seeing previous scenes. If you then stop it repeats the already played scenes - but if your rewind you then see that its actually in another part of the recorded program. Noticed that on a 90 minutes recording - after the 60 minutes mark any fast forward or rewind would just get the wrong bits to play.

 

Almost like the playback buffer gets overwritten by old content - or even if the playback buffer contains old content and is not updated with the new one after the fast forward or rewind, playing old stuff.

 

Yes noticed this problem after the last (1.29) Firmware update.  Also occasionally in play back it repeats itself by 4 or 5 seconds.

Lewk:

I have also noted some glitches in recorded content. Some pixelisation for a few seconds and a slight rewind before it continues.

evilengineer:

The box should pair to a Logitech Harmony Hub if the remote is Bluetooth based.

Anyone have that working?

evilengineer:

The box should pair to a Logitech Harmony Hub if the remote is Bluetooth based.

Anyone have that working?