Homecast HT9200DTR not doing OTA update

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Oncop53

261 posts

Ultimate Geek

# 80190 28-Mar-2011 18:51

My Homecast HT9200DTR is not doing OTA update just released:
http://www.dtvs.co.nz/forum/index.php?topic=193.0

Keeps rebooting with the current firmware active. I currently have one of the betas installed, could this be the problem?

I'll give their customer service a call tomorrow anyway.

dtvs

72 posts

Master Geek

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# 452899 28-Mar-2011 19:45

Try changing to TV One. See what happens. Beta firmware should not be a problem.

AH

Oncop53

261 posts

Ultimate Geek

# 452910 28-Mar-2011 20:00

Thanks, thats doing the trick. Just FYI, the CVI (component) video out does not work during firmware updates, but this is easly fixed by running a composite cable during the process.

Oncop53

261 posts

Ultimate Geek

# 452920 28-Mar-2011 20:23

Not that you need to do this, unless you are a geek and want to watch the status bar progress.

toyonut

1508 posts

Uber Geek

# 453155 29-Mar-2011 14:31

Mine did it last night. Seems a little smoother and I think the remote is slightly more responsive, but it doesnt seem to have changed anything much. I did have to change the frequency that prime etc picked up from after the update though so I dont know what happened there.

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gstarkey

74 posts

Master Geek

# 453169 29-Mar-2011 15:21

Upgrade wiped my future recordings list. (has there always been a limit of 15 ?)
EPG seems a lot faster.

Jaxson

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# 453175 29-Mar-2011 15:31

dtvs: Try changing to TV One.

Is this a serious requirement?!

Doesn't it cost a heap to do and OTA update?
Who watches TV1? - So what's the chances of the public actually being on this channel.

Or is it just to have a tuner on the TVNZ Mux? - Which is better and more likely to happen.

Behodar

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# 453180 29-Mar-2011 15:57

I believe it just needs to be on the TVNZ mux.

toyonut

1508 posts

Uber Geek

# 453204 29-Mar-2011 17:22

gstarkey: Upgrade wiped my future recordings list. (has there always been a limit of 15 ?)
EPG seems a lot faster.

EPG does seem better. I still have 20 recordings on mine, It didn't delete any. I found 30 used to be the limit.

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Oncop53

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Ultimate Geek

# 453212 29-Mar-2011 17:55

That would expain it, I was on TV3 initially. There is so far little change over the beta updates that I was using. These were really important for my particular setup.

gstarkey: Upgrade wiped my future recordings list.

Forgot to mention that. the betas did it too.

dtvs

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# 453663 30-Mar-2011 23:35

Jaxson:
dtvs: Try changing to TV One.
Is this a serious requirement?!

Doesn't it cost a heap to do and OTA update??
Who watches TV1? - So what's the chances of the public actually being on this channel.

Or is it just to have a tuner?on the TVNZ Mux? - Which is better and more likely to happen.

Needs to be in TVNZ Mux as software is transmitted by TVNZ.

AH

toyonut

1508 posts

Uber Geek

# 458652 14-Apr-2011 12:10

Next Update just came through last night.
It said it was going to do it then hung for a long time. I turned it off at the switch and when I turned it on again and it booted into the update mode. Was fine after that and ran through update happily.
Odd though, all the shows I had booked were still in the recording section, but didnt show up on the EPG. If I tried to book them it just said it was already booked. Deleted them all and rebooked, fine now and all showing up on EPG and recording menu.
Still no major changes overall. Just seems a little faster and smoother and hopefully we wont have the endless reboot thing again now.

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