Strange Happenings Channel changing on its own

[BrianP58]

First time thought this was a fluke of some sorts. Now it's happened 2 more times. Just out the blue the channel changes. All three times to the same local channel at random times. There are no timers of any kind setup for this channel. Any thoughts?

[RickObe]

1) You got a new remote. Is the old remote still around and a button getting pressed inadvertently?

2) You got a voice remote. Is it picking up a voice command somehow?

[BrianP58]

No the first two times this happened were prior to us getting the new remote. When this happened a third time, last evening, I was in a different room and both remotes were sitting on a table untouched.

[RickObe]

BrianP58 wrote:
No the first two times this happened were prior to us getting the new remote. When this happened a third time, last evening, I was in a different room and both remotes were sitting on a table untouched.

Only other thing I can think of is to do a hard reboot (unplug the Hopper for 30 seconds) and see if that stops it happening again.

[BrianP58]

Did that after the second time. Weird thing it's happened around the same time of day and goes to the same channel. Must be haunted.

[Chadt41411]

What receiver do you have? I know you posted in the Bopper Joey forum.... but just want to verify.

[stile99]

Well, I'm unclear if it is random times or around the same time of day now, but assuming the latter it might be part of the 'smart channel' setting, though I thought that was only at power on. Dish thinks they can predict what channel you want based on the time of day. Example, if every Monday at 3pm you tuned to channel 135, then after a couple weeks it's going to think (rightly or wrongly) that based on this pattern, today is Monday, it is now 3pm, you probably want channel 135.

[BrianP58]

Chadt4141 wrote:
What receiver do you have? I know you posted in the Bopper Joey forum.... but just want to verify.

Hopper with sling

[BrianP58]

stile99 wrote:

Well, I'm unclear if it is random times or around the same time of day now, but assuming the latter it might be part of the 'smart channel' setting, though I thought that was only at power on. Dish thinks they can predict what channel you want based on the time of day. Example, if every Monday at 3pm you tuned to channel 135, then after a couple weeks it's going to think (rightly or wrongly) that based on this pattern, today is Monday, it is now 3pm, you probably want channel 135.

That is only supposed to work when you first turn the receiver on. Yesterday in the middle of watching a hockey game and it just switches to another channel.

[Chadt41411]

BrianP58 wrote:

stile99 wrote: Well, I'm unclear if it is random times or around the same time of day now, but assuming the latter it might be part of the 'smart channel' setting, though I thought that was only at power on. Dish thinks they can predict what channel you want based on the time of day. Example, if every Monday at 3pm you tuned to channel 135, then after a couple weeks it's going to think (rightly or wrongly) that based on this pattern, today is Monday, it is now 3pm, you probably want channel 135. That is only supposed to work when you first turn the receiver on. Yesterday in the middle of watching a hockey game and it just switches to another channel.

Are there any other remotes paired, in the system info?