Setting up Optimum / Cablevision on Bolt+

When Rovi bought TiVo my cable provider's name also changed. It changed to a headend that has been dead for three years. Using tvguide.com I was able to find my real headend by using the zipcode for my cable company's local office. You can submit a support ticket with TiVo, but I doubt it will help.

Note, the magic number in TiVo Diagnostics is VCT ID. That number is unique to your headend and determines your lineup.

 

I set mine up after I got home from work just now. I believe I saw Optimum SD & CableCARD Raritan, but I scrolled though the options and found Optimum HD & CableCARD Raritan a little further down the list. It found the the regular channels and the HD versions in the 700s no problem.

In my case, I transferred the lifetime from an S3, and I'm moving my Premiere XL4 up to replace it. I now have to deal with all the programs I've recorded from Cartoon Network, AMC, and others that are on my Premiere, and they all have that flag set so I can't transfer them!

 

Thanks for the tip. I too just retired a Series 2 with the recent Bolt promotion. My lineup is messed up, only getting the SD stations. There is no data for any of the 700+ numbered channels.

 

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Did you ever figure out how to get the guide working with the HD channels on Optimum?

 

I too initially had a problem with Cablevision and getting the guide to work on a unit I had setup at my mother's place. As I recall there were at least 2 options for Cablevision in her area, one it turned out was for a "private" system and the other was their normal system, I had chosen the private system since it wasn't obviously marked. The solution was to simply reset the guide data to the correct system.

Note: a private system in this case meant all the channels were broadcast so that a cablebox wasn't needed, eg apartment complex that provides TV.

-TL

 

I was having tuner adapter issues which went from bad to worse. I am in Meriden CT . Checked my VCT ID when things werent working. it was 3406. Now that things are fixed it reads 16. I think one of my first calls the tech assigned me the wrong head end? Or the system had some update which had to be corrected?

 

16 sounds better. On my system, a regular tech can't even change that number. A supervisor is needed. I'm lucky to know another TiVo user on my headend who also knows people at my cable feed.

 

The HD stations work fine for my BOLT and Cablevision, Try using 10536 and then choose Yorktown HD. Works like a charm. Before getting Tivo last week, I had HDhomerunprime with Windows Media center and grappled with this issue over the past 7 years. Rovi and cablevision seem to have issues all the time, sometimes for weeks. However, it should be good now.