Aldi - Technosonic PVR £99.99 - Freeview

marsha11_2

Upgrade delayed again! It's now provisionally scheduled for 8th March

Zaphod_Beblebrocks

Absolutely typical, I can almost guarantee it will go ahead on these dates as I away and therefore will have to rely on the auto update,did anyone manage to get this to work on the last one?

Lorian

Someone asked me this recently - "how can I ensure it will upgrade becuase I'm away and it might hang". The only answer I could think of was to put the PVR on a timeswitch and set the switch to be off for half an hour at 9am and 9pm each day. That way the PVR will get rebooted twice a day and give it the best chance possible to upgrade.

Make sure automatic updates is "on" of course!

Lorian

DTG are trying to pack in more update slots into a week now - 4 slots next week on Mux B instead of the normal two.

The PVR101 update on the 8th :rolleyes: is only (provisionally) scheduled on Mux B.

GrahamS_4

"NO SIGNAL" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

EricF

Lorian wrote:

Someone asked me this recently - "how can I ensure it will upgrade becuase I'm away and it might hang". The only answer I could think of was to put the PVR on a timeswitch and set the switch to be off for half an hour at 9am and 9pm each day. That way the PVR will get rebooted twice a day and give it the best chance possible to upgrade.
Make sure automatic updates is "on" of course!

Thanks Lorian - I'll be going into hospital for a week from the 6th so your suggestion will help me out - Cheers.

Lorian

GrahamS wrote:

"NO SIGNAL" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

Oh dear. I'm starting to feel less optomistic by the day. Maybe the further delay means they've done more work on the release. The fix for "winter hill" actually involved removing a software incompatibility, so there is a chance.

LesD

GrahamS wrote:

"NO SIGNAL" !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolleyes:

Did it correct itself, Graham, or did you have to reboot?

GrahamS_4

LesD wrote:

Did it correct itself, Graham, or did you have to reboot?

I had to reboot it as it was supposed to be recording Prison Break.

dranz100

Lost all recordings.
No space on hard drive.
The machine appears to be switching itself off and then on every 10 secs.
(Flicks up BBC2 for some reason)
So now can't even watch Freeview.
Reformatting hard drive and/or rebooting make no difference.

PVR101 unplugged and back in its box.
This box has been a complete waste of time.

Dz