Just Curious,
Any one else get suckered into buying one of the ****** things. Dish's 522 PVR receiver, I did one through what was supposed to be a almost free upgrade. HA, someone needs to update thier definition of almost free.
The guy comes and installs it, confused as blazes because all the wiring is already run and everything is just sitting there waiting for him to plug it in. Installation 5 minutes, watching him program the remotes 40 minutes.
2 Hours after the "installation" the UHF remotes no longer work. Spent days troubleshooting with the supposedly "tech support staff".
But the remotes stop working after a few hours after unpluggin the unit and plugging back in the power to the unit. ( i got lazy after the first few times and started using an x10 module, It's difficult to get behind to the wall. )
The unit runs extremely *warm*, so after I give up on the technical support I decide to put a fan blowing on the side of the unit. Just a little 3 inch computer fan very quiet.
The Unit has run for more than a week now with no problems with the remotes, just now i figured out for some reason the record by name does not actually get all the time slots recorded that match the name. Evidently " It's a know bug, we are sorry about the problem and a new version firmware will correct it soon"
I am so mad I could spit, except I am afraid I will hit the unit and it will burn my house down.
I didn't to make it sound like a rant, I was just wondering if anyone had another classy idea for cooling. That little fan does not do the WAF good.
StevenE
Any one else get suckered into buying one of the ****** things. Dish's 522 PVR receiver, I did one through what was supposed to be a almost free upgrade. HA, someone needs to update thier definition of almost free.
The guy comes and installs it, confused as blazes because all the wiring is already run and everything is just sitting there waiting for him to plug it in. Installation 5 minutes, watching him program the remotes 40 minutes.
2 Hours after the "installation" the UHF remotes no longer work. Spent days troubleshooting with the supposedly "tech support staff".
But the remotes stop working after a few hours after unpluggin the unit and plugging back in the power to the unit. ( i got lazy after the first few times and started using an x10 module, It's difficult to get behind to the wall. )
The unit runs extremely *warm*, so after I give up on the technical support I decide to put a fan blowing on the side of the unit. Just a little 3 inch computer fan very quiet.
The Unit has run for more than a week now with no problems with the remotes, just now i figured out for some reason the record by name does not actually get all the time slots recorded that match the name. Evidently " It's a know bug, we are sorry about the problem and a new version firmware will correct it soon"
I am so mad I could spit, except I am afraid I will hit the unit and it will burn my house down.
I didn't to make it sound like a rant, I was just wondering if anyone had another classy idea for cooling. That little fan does not do the WAF good.
StevenE