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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/26/15 12:14 PM, Jon Heizer wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Dan
Wilga <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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been tinkering with the upnp interface for my VIP 211k
receivers, and I'm pretty sure I've found a way to turn
off the annoying nightly firmware updates that can't be
disabled from the normal UI.<br>
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Make a copy of Jon's original vip211-channellist script
(from <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="https://github.com/jheizer/UPnPChannelChanger"
target="_blank">https://github.com/jheizer/UPnPChannelChanger</a>)
and replace the call to upnp_send near the end of the
script with this:<br>
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upnp_send $HOST 'Updates'
'<Enable_disable>Disable</Enable_disable>'<br>
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Then, call your edited script, passing it the IP address
of your receiver.
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<div>Do you know the effects of doing this though? I had
debated including it but I never have anything recording
at 3am so I left it. Will you lose new channel updates?
Miss getting access to preview channels? etc?</div>
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There's been a longstanding hack that people use to prevent their
boxes from ever going to sleep. In the UI of the box, you can
pretend that you have it connected to a VCR and schedule a recording
that goes 24 hours a day. The channel can still be changed, but the
box never shuts down for updates. The drawback is that the box
automatically re-tunes to the chosen channel at the beginning of
each new 24-hour period, thus interrupting anything Myth might be in
the process of recording. So you still have to block out a time when
you can never record anything.<br>
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The conclusion of these folks is that this does not interfere with
preview channels, channel updates, or anything else. All of that
occurs on-the-fly, with the box operating in normal mode. For
instance, if you've ever ordered a PPV movie, you know that it
happens almost instantly, and doesn't require a power off.<br>
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