reni10
17-04-2007, 01:58 PM
Hi guys hopefully someone can help me with the problem I am having all of a sudden with my TiVo!
I have had my TiVo for well over a year now, love it and everything has always worked very well until a few days ago!
The Channel Changes that the TiVo IR Blaster sends out do not seem to always change the channel properly on my Foxtel Digital PACE cable receiver.
I have tried a few of the things people have suggested here including in the setup trying the Fast, Medium and Slow settings for the IR and also I have even taped off the internal IR Blaster so as to be sure the IR signal is only coming from the external IR Blaster and still the results are the same!
I then adjusted the DigitDelay setting lowering and upping it manually between 100 and 800 using the dbset command but still could not get a proper channel change everytime.
The only other thing of note is the channel change works about 90% of the time when I press channel up or down but when I bring up the TV guide on screen and scroll to a channel and select then the channel change IR signal is passed but only works 50% of the time...
It seems to work about 50% of the time now where as before it worked 99.9% of the time but nothing I have done seems to fix it which makes me sad as the TiVo is virtually useless if it cannot change the channel properly :(
This also happens when the TiVo is trying to change the channel Unattended!
I also have looked through my Digital Camera LCD Screen and can see that the external IR blaster is lighting up so is sending a signal.
Without the external IR Blaster plugged in the internal IR Blaster does not seem to have a strong enough signal to change the channel properly either.
The TiVo is about a metre away from the Foxtel Box so not that far away!
The only other thing I can think of is that I bought a new Plasma Panasonic Viera 42" TV a few weeks ago and the problem has manifested itself last week.
Not sure if large Plasma TV's somehow might interfere with the IR signal?
No other remote control button is stuck down on any other controls in the room either; I checked that after someone else on the Wiki suggested that this might be the problem.
I am running the very latest version of OzTiVo having performed a software update 2 days ago to see if that would rectify the IR issue but again it did not.
So now I am out of options and things to try so I am hoping that someone here might be able to suggest something else I could try as I really want to continue using my beloved TiVo but as I said the TiVo is no good if it cannot change the channel correctly.
Please help GUYS!
I have had my TiVo for well over a year now, love it and everything has always worked very well until a few days ago!
The Channel Changes that the TiVo IR Blaster sends out do not seem to always change the channel properly on my Foxtel Digital PACE cable receiver.
I have tried a few of the things people have suggested here including in the setup trying the Fast, Medium and Slow settings for the IR and also I have even taped off the internal IR Blaster so as to be sure the IR signal is only coming from the external IR Blaster and still the results are the same!
I then adjusted the DigitDelay setting lowering and upping it manually between 100 and 800 using the dbset command but still could not get a proper channel change everytime.
The only other thing of note is the channel change works about 90% of the time when I press channel up or down but when I bring up the TV guide on screen and scroll to a channel and select then the channel change IR signal is passed but only works 50% of the time...
It seems to work about 50% of the time now where as before it worked 99.9% of the time but nothing I have done seems to fix it which makes me sad as the TiVo is virtually useless if it cannot change the channel properly :(
This also happens when the TiVo is trying to change the channel Unattended!
I also have looked through my Digital Camera LCD Screen and can see that the external IR blaster is lighting up so is sending a signal.
Without the external IR Blaster plugged in the internal IR Blaster does not seem to have a strong enough signal to change the channel properly either.
The TiVo is about a metre away from the Foxtel Box so not that far away!
The only other thing I can think of is that I bought a new Plasma Panasonic Viera 42" TV a few weeks ago and the problem has manifested itself last week.
Not sure if large Plasma TV's somehow might interfere with the IR signal?
No other remote control button is stuck down on any other controls in the room either; I checked that after someone else on the Wiki suggested that this might be the problem.
I am running the very latest version of OzTiVo having performed a software update 2 days ago to see if that would rectify the IR issue but again it did not.
So now I am out of options and things to try so I am hoping that someone here might be able to suggest something else I could try as I really want to continue using my beloved TiVo but as I said the TiVo is no good if it cannot change the channel correctly.
Please help GUYS!