Emergency alert has changed

This is most likely due to a change in the EAS process by your provider. There are different ways of sending an EAS, some of which don't disrupt recordings or viewings.

Back when this first started happening, and people were complaining about this, I never had a problem. Turned out Comcast Houston used a different system that didn't cause any disruptions. Sounds like your provider has made a change. For the better!

 

Yep, there has never been just one way that EAS are handled, uniform across the nation.

 

But remember -- put your tivo(s) into standby, and at least the ones that force your tuners to change channels won't wreck your unattended recordings.. (The ones that the *broadcasters* do that are actually aired over the programming obviously still will.)

The thing that bugs me about the ones I see, besides wrecking recordings, is that they mess up FFing also.. I record all of the late night talk shows and FF through them, watching a bit here and there. But when my main Tivo (which I don't put in standby most of the time though it does have the sleep setting to do it automatically after enough non-active use) does record one of these, then you can't FF through the recording before the EAS properly. The play point will "jump" to around the EAS point, usually from 15 minutes or more earlier in the recording.. I *can* 30 second skip through that portion, which is what I do instead. This FF problem is completely reproducible on each recording.

 

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which channel was it on? in our area the local channels use their alert systems while the cable company just does the alerts for cable channels

 

that's a sub channel of a local channel not a cable network

 

On my system emergency alerts cause my TIVO to reboot.

 

I believe that's a bug introduced with the last TE4 update? No issues on TE3.

Scott

 

I get both.

First the "take over the Tivo" version, then back to regular programming with a crawler.

 

Same here. Charter/Spectrum is the provider. Roamio is on TE4. Very annoying.

 

Yes, mine reboots as well. On Charter Spectrum. Very irritating.

 

I'm not positive I have this right. I think I now get a blank (black) screen, but I do get audio. I'm not positive because I usually don't pay much attention since I almost always see the Amber alert on Twitter before I see it on the TV.

 

Me too. Comcast.