Well, I don't know if it's totally solved, but I haven't had a failure since the changes I made last week. It's working flawlessly now. Thanks for all your help David. <div>Here is a breakdown of changes I made as far as I can remember:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Changed the box_type from H20 to H21 in the <a href="http://directv.pl">directv.pl</a> script.</div><div>Changed from having an nfs mounted share to recording locally on each server (I did this without being advised).</div>
<div>Changed the delay from .2 to 2 on the secondary server.</div><div><br></div><div>If there were other changes I can't remember them. This has been strange problem I've dealt with for almost a year. But things are working much more reliably now. Hope this </div>
<div>long thread helps someone out. I'll post more if I continue having problems.</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:48 PM, David Gesswein <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:djg@pdp8online.com">djg@pdp8online.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div class="im">> I have been having a lot of success with the main server using the H21<br>
> box type.<br>
><br>
</div>Glad to know things are working better.<br>
<div class="im"><br>
> On the secondary server I am still using H20. This doesn't seem to want<br>
> to take H21.<br>
><br>
</div>They probably have different revisions of the firmware. One of the directv<br>
menu screens should show you the firmware version. You may<br>
be able to force an upgrade (I have never tried, my D10's upgrade<br>
when they feel like it). If it stays working you may not want to<br>
though whichever has the older firmware will probably upgrade itself<br>
at some time unless they are really different hardware versions of the box.<br>
<a href="http://www.hatetatellya.com/2006/03/31/directv-force-software-upgrade/" target="_blank">http://www.hatetatellya.com/2006/03/31/directv-force-software-upgrade/</a><br>
<div class="im"><br>
<br>
> So is it possible giving more of a delay can have such an affect? While I<br>
> could start livetv on the secondary server, I couldn't change channels<br>
> either live or scheduled. What do you think?<br>
><br>
</div>Its possible that changing the OSD off delay helped if the tuning was failing<br>
with the Excessive channel change retries errors. If it hadn't finished<br>
the channel change when it got the next command it could confuse it.<br>
To be sure you could temporarily change the script back and see if it<br>
stops changing with live tv.<br>
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