Beginning last night, I noticed that the shows that were supposed to record from my local channels via PTAT being enabled were not recording. I double-checked my PTAT settings and it was ON and the selected channels still chosen. My default setting of EVERYDAY was unchanged as well. This is the first time this has happened and when viewing the Schedule list (last night), PTAT shows up twice, once as a regular red "recording" symbol, the other as the yellow PT box which is what it has always been. Today, it shows up only as the regular red circle "to be recorded." In going through my settings, several things seem to have been reset at some point (not by me), including recordings beginning/ending early/late (I always keep these at zero/none, as I manually adjust my timers if needed). I have tried going through settings again and adjusting to what they have been pretty much forever. I've reset the receiver ([b:343u8y39]I have the original Hopper and one Joey operating on 2 tvs[/b:343u8y39]) and the Joey to no avail.
If I turn PTAT OFF, the Schedule list shows PTAT as the yellow PT box again, but still says the time is 7:57-1100p (for tonight). I have no idea if I leave my actual PTAT OFF if this PTAT showing in Schedule list will record anything, since I can't see what it's going to record, if it does at all. Last night's duplicate showing of PTAT with PTAT ON recorded nothing at all. The only messages I have received in conjunction with trying to fix this on my own is that PTAT (when I turn it ON) won't record due to recording (timer) conflict. It was my understanding that PTAT took highest priority when it was active, not that it wouldn't work if there were conflicts with manually set timers..? And I have been getting a pop up box notice telling me that I have a USB connected device every time I turn on the receiver each morning (I do have an external drive, but it never used to tell me every morning at start up and have me choose OK to get the box to disappear. Since Dish has been rolling out all the new stuff, my Hopper has been glitchy and terribly slow/lagging, but has worked well enough until last night. We plan to update our receiver to the most current Hopper asap, but are doing home projects that just aren't conducive to having a Dish tech come out and update stuff for us at this time. Once we have the latest receiver, timers won't be a problem, thankfully, but currently, if PTAT is no longer working for some reason, there will be issues since we record several things in addition to the PTAT choices.
I am going to do an unplug reset and see if that makes a difference. If anyone knows a fix or, at least, that this is a known problem, please let me know.
Much appreciated,
1HappyHermit
*Dish customer since 2005ish