What is my Tivo doing at midnight?

[hockeyinsd]

Ok, so last weekend I bought a new entertainment center for my bedroom. It is entirely open, my previous one had everything behind a glass door. I've now noticed that every night starting at around midnight (+- half an hour) my tivo starts making a ton of seek noise. Backup 5 months ago to when I put in a 400GB seagate harddrive . . . it's seek noise is horrible (I have one in my PC), but it was never too much of a problem (or at least I never noticed it before). During the rest of the night or anytime other than midnight to 1-2am it is pretty damn quite. So whats the deal? Is is some kind of de-frag or optimization thing? Please help as I don't want to have to take apart my entertainment center and return it (if I even can).
Thanks!

[dirtypacman]

Could be making a phone call/network call home.... then indexing and such.

Could be downloading the Yellow Star Ads you see on the Tivo.

[hockeyinsd]

Its not connecting because I've checked that.

If it is the yellow star ads, any idea how to stop it? Its pretty damn consistant and very annoying!

[Leon WIlkinson]

TiVo Inc.

ALL YOUR DRIVES BELONG TO US.

Plus, on the S2 the camera/eye is much smaller!! ;)

[ashu]

At 2 am it records the paid programming that is made up of all the nugets the TiVo then separates into the Yellow Starts. I'm not sure you CAN turn this off, but you could check whetehr you can quieten your hard drive - some are notorious for running in a noisy, performance-maximizing mode, that is overkill for a TiVo (especially an S2)

[steve614]

At 2 am it records the paid programming that is made up of all the nugets the TiVo then separates into the Yellow Starts. I'm not sure you CAN turn this off, but you could check whetehr you can quieten your hard drive - some are notorious for running in a noisy, performance-maximizing mode, that is overkill for a TiVo (especially an S2)


Mine records these on wednesdays from 5am to 5:30am.

[Einselen]

At 2 am it records the paid programming that is made up of all the nugets the TiVo then separates into the Yellow Starts. I'm not sure you CAN turn this off, but you could check whetehr you can quieten your hard drive - some are notorious for running in a noisy, performance-maximizing mode, that is overkill for a TiVo (especially an S2)

At 2 AM updates are installed. The Yellowstars vary by date and time and even station depending on where Tivo (Teleworld) purchased the infomercial spot at.

[Johncv]

Ok, so last weekend I bought a new entertainment center for my bedroom. It is entirely open, my previous one had everything behind a glass door. I've now noticed that every night starting at around midnight (+- half an hour) my tivo starts making a ton of seek noise. Backup 5 months ago to when I put in a 400GB seagate harddrive . . . it's seek noise is horrible (I have one in my PC), but it was never too much of a problem (or at least I never noticed it before). During the rest of the night or anytime other than midnight to 1-2am it is pretty damn quite. So whats the deal? Is is some kind of de-frag or optimization thing? Please help as I don't want to have to take apart my entertainment center and return it (if I even can).
Thanks!

It's may be picking that time to download the index files or advertisement. To make your TiVo to do this at another time, create a weekley manual recording for that time period. Try between 12:00 to 1:00 AM and see what happens.

[rainwater]

It's may be picking that time to download the index files or advertisement. To make your TiVo to do this at another time, create a weekley manual recording for that time period. Try between 12:00 to 1:00 AM and see what happens.

That wouldn't cause a lot of disk activity since its always recording anyways.

[hockeyinsd]

It looks like I'm stuck with it. I did a little experiment and found that if I keep my deleted items folder empty it makes a lot less noise for a lot less time around midnight. Just to clear it up, the noise I was referring to was not the recording of the teleworld programing, nor the tivo connecting, nor product watch. For lack of a better term it sounded like a hard disk being defraged or something similar. Not sure why emptying my deleted items folder helps, but it does. As best as I can tell there isn't any type of acoustical management for this drive . . . its a seagate 400gb ST3400832A.

[mattack]

Well, according to other people's reports in the past, it does basically redo the to do list in the middle of the night (to figure out if new shows came in the last update, or if shows were removed from the guide data, etc.)

[ashu]

Right - updates et al. Not recording Yellow Star content - those times vary, of course. Whoops :)

Just nightly processing, update/reboot if required etc.