Updates

Most of the time, no. Sometimes TiVo will let you sign up for a pre-release and you'll get the software earlier.

You can forgo the new experience (TE3>TE4) upgrade as that's not being forced on anyone... unless something strange happens.

TiVo doesn't let you skip or opt out on updates.

 

Normally the updates are scheduled after 2am. Is that when yours is rebooting or is your TiVo crashing and rebooting? Updates are not that frequent on TE4 and there hasn't been one for TE3 in quite some time (and we may not get any more).

Scott

 

I guess you know I'm a little obsessive on how my TiVo's are behaving. I have always received updates during the time a service connection would happen. This also blocks the guide update. Service connections are always scheduled from 2am to 6pm only unless a restart is forced about 5pm. I believe that without human intervention the restart will occur after 2am. A service connection is scheduled for soon after any restart. I admit that when I see a "Pending", I put the unit into Standby and power cycle. Right now that's a TE4 only thing.

I'm not sure how to define crash. The time of a restart is shown in the cable card status menu and in Diagnostics since there is a timer for each tuner and one for the cable card. Also, a restart causes all tuners to be on the same channel when its finished.

TE3 hasn't had an update in about a year.