Disappearing MRV

[SLSinger1]

I haven't seen this addressed in a thread yet. I got MRV a few days ago without any notice. I tried it and it worked perfectly between my S2 & S3. Today I received the message blast about the MRV & T2GO features, but when I went to now showing the "DVR" tab (below Recently Deleted) was missing on both machines. Rebooting didn't bring them back. Anybody else experienced this??? :(

[bicker]

Reboot both machines again.

[jrm01]

The message was just a standard blast that everyone got and would not have affected your MRV. Check your network also.

[ah30k]

They have come and gone for me too. I have not yet had the chance to debug it but wanted to let you know it happened to me too.

[Chimpware]

Same here, I am assuming it is a network issue on my side, but no loss of any other network assets on either Tivo, just each other.

[jrm01]

They have come and gone for me too. I have not yet had the chance to debug it but wanted to let you know it happened to me too.
Check the signal strength on the Tivo furthest from the router, it could just be dropping too low.

[samaritan66]

Does Tivo Desktop software see the two Tivos?

If you're savvy enough, you can also get the IP addresses of the Tivos and ping them from your PC to make sure they are alive on the network.

That would at least rule out the network.

[ah30k]

Check the signal strength on the Tivo furthest from the router, it could just be dropping too low.Wireless signal strength? It is only 20 feet away from the WAP. Is there a way to check wireless signal strength on the TiVo?

[MikeyB]

The Phone & Network screen in the Settings menu displays a signal strength for a wireless connection.

[theguru1974]

The icon for my PC also sporadically is there and not there when I go to the Now Playing list. Haven't thought to check signal strength at that moment but typically I'm hovering around 65% (good) - is that sufficient?

Eric

[Resist]

This issue is really pissing me off. I have a Series 2 and a Series 3 Tivo. My S3 stopped seeing the S2 so I rebooted the S3. Then the S2 showed up fine on the S3. Now today the S3 doesn't the S2 again. WTF!!!!?

Since this thread was started in 2007 and here it is 2009 and nothing is fixed, I say Tivo get your head out of your *ss and do something about this issue!

[bicker]

My understanding is that the problem is typically the fault of our own LANs being less-than-100%-reliable. Since I've hard-wired one of my TiVos, and a PC, both to the router, neither have ever lost "sight" of each other, though the other TiVo has lost "sight" and been lost from "sight".

[Resist]

The fault of my LAN? I have never lost any other WiFi device in my house other than the Tivo stuff.

[moyekj]

It's actually pretty easy to test if your tivos are sending out the broadcasts needed to be visible on your LAN. You can use a network packet sniffer or a simple script such as this perl script below. If after running for a minute or so and your networked tivos don't show up then there's likely an issue with your network.

# Perl script to detect and print out tivo broadcasts (beacons) on your LAN
# Requires Perl installation: http://www.activestate.com/Products/activeperl/
# Paste this code to "tivo_beacon.pl" file
# Execute "perl tivo_beacon.pl " in a command window to run
use IO::Socket::INET;

my $sock = IO::Socket::INET->new(
LocalPort => 2190,
Proto => 'udp',
Blocking => 0,
);
if (! $sock ) {
die "Can't bind to port 2190: $@\n";
}

my $bufsize = 1024;
my $data = "";
while (1) {
$sock->recv($data, $bufsize);
if ($data && $data =~ /tivoconnect/) {
print "$data\n";
}
}