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jbdecker
03-28-2010, 04:39 PM
Anyone running a household of series 3's and series 4's? When trying to browse my series 3 from my new series 4 and vice versa, it displays displays a message saying there are no recordings on the dvr when there are actually multiple.

Anyone else seeing this?
SafariKC
03-28-2010, 04:40 PM
Anyone running a household of series 3's and series 4's? When trying to browse my series 3 from my new series 4 and vice versa, it displays displays a message saying there are no recordings on the dvr when there are actually multiple.

Anyone else seeing this?

I'm seeing this as well. If i recall correctly from the last time i added a TiVo to the family here it can take a day for all of the TiVo's to get into sync and see the shows.

KC
innocentfreak
03-28-2010, 04:42 PM
Yeah it usually takes around 24 hours for TiVo to pickup that all boxes are on the same network.
jbdecker
03-28-2010, 04:56 PM
Gotcha. I also noticed that the premier hasn't picked up it's name from tivo.com. In the system information it says "<Name this DVR on www.tivo.com>", even though it's already named and I've forced a couple updates since. Probably take some time too.
SafariKC
03-28-2010, 05:04 PM
Gotcha. I also noticed that the premier hasn't picked up it's name from tivo.com. In the system information it says "<Name this DVR on www.tivo.com>", even though it's already named and I've forced a couple updates since. Probably take some time too.

Yeah.. give it a day for the TiVo Systems to grind. They have some back end process that make multi-tivo household features take a little while to setup.

Once they are there, you'll be golden.

KC
orangeboy
03-28-2010, 05:05 PM
Isn't this related to the VCM connection (beyond the control of forced connections to the TiVo Service)? Does the last VCM connection show 12/31?
jbdecker
03-28-2010, 05:16 PM
Yes, it does say 12/31 on the last VCM Attempt. The next scheduled is in about 6 minutes. We'll see what happens.
jbdecker
03-28-2010, 05:24 PM
VCM updated successfully but the Premiere is still unnamed and MRV is still a no go.
jfh3
03-28-2010, 05:47 PM
I don't think MRV is available until the Tivo is activated with service - if you are in the 7 day trial period, I thought MRV was inactive. Am I mis-remembering something?
jbdecker
03-28-2010, 05:52 PM
I did activate it. The status of the account says in good standing.
orangeboy
03-28-2010, 06:28 PM
VCM updated successfully but the Premiere is still unnamed and MRV is still a no go.

Hmm... Were you hopping on one foot as it was making it's VCM connection? I heard that's helped in the past... :)


Really though, I thought once VCM updated you'd be golden.
innocentfreak
03-28-2010, 06:40 PM
It probably still requires someone to flip the switch at TiVo and with them probably not working today I would expect it to happen on Monday. Then again when I added my third HD it took a couple days before it picked up it had been activated.
jbdecker
03-29-2010, 07:37 PM
Just got home from work and it's working. Still the same transfer speed going from series 3 to series 4 but I haven't tried going from 4 to 3. My 2nd series 4 is coming from Amazon tomorrow, from what I've read it should be a big improvement on speed.
innocentfreak
03-29-2010, 08:09 PM
Honestly between a series 3 and 4 I don't know if you will see a difference since the series 3 will still be limited by the chip. To see a difference download KMTTG (http://code.google.com/p/kmttg/), and transfer a show from both TiVos to your PC.