Most days without a Tivo call in??

After 90 days without a call in the DTiVo will erase all your stored programs and permanently shut down.

Stanley Rohner said:

After 90 days without a call in the DTiVo will erase all your stored programs and permanently shut down.

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LOL

Stanley Rohner said:

After 90 days without a call in the DTiVo will erase all your stored programs and permanently shut down.

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Subject: Please Make a Daily Call Soon
From: DIRECTV
Date: Thu 3/10

The Recorder has not made a successful daily call for the past
161 days.

I clicked "Select" once this morning and all is well until tomorrow. Maybe I'll dig behind though the wires and find out what came unplugged this weekend. Or maybe not.

No ill effects so far.

A few people on this board are over a year...

I think I'm around 300 and something.

One of mine's up to a little over 300 days now.

i started losing my guide after about 30 days and several warnings that i did not have my phone line connected.

I am at 158 days.

One of ours is a little over 400 days.

330 days and no info lost!

I'm a few days over 700 since my last call.

-Robert

I have a tivo that has not made a daily call for three years.. Than again it is sitting on a shelf in my closet!

krs7272 said:

I think I'm around 300 and something.

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I assume you get "nag messages" telling you to connect to a phone line. Where do these show up, and how often?

Cartrivision said:

I assume you get "nag messages" telling you to connect to a phone line. Where do these show up, and how often?

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Oh yeah. They show up every day the first time you say try to access the Now Playing List. You can ignore it, or go into messages and delete it. My Mom's TiVo has probably all 304 messages stored for all I know.

Also if your a little computer savy you can get rid of the nag screen. And for all those that want to know how? Google!

this does not make sense. i was forced to update within 30 or so days because the guide stopped working. Do you all actually have the phone line disconnected? or is it connected without call in......

acampo said:

Do you all actually have the phone line disconnected? or is it connected without call in......

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As of tonight, I have NOT had a phone line plugged into my DirecTivo in 704 days.

-Robert

I thought a phone line wasn't necessary for Dtivo. How about cellphone! hahaha.

One of mine is connected to a phone line (because I happen to have a phone jack right there) so it makes its regular calls. The other two are at about 140 days. I have no reason not to have them call other than there is no phone jack nearby. I used to string a line across the room and force the call every couple months, but I stopped doing that because I got used to the nag screens and almost like them now.

My guide must have been disappearing for a different reason.....