Premiere XL, can't get OTA channels??

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getgray

Discussion Starter · Nov 12, 2011

I have 2 Tivo's a Series 3 and a new PXL. I moved the new Tivo into my theater rack and moved the older S3 to a main TV upstairs. Last night I went to set up my season passses on the new unit and found that I couldn't get any local (OTA/Antenna delivered) channels. It only had the cable channels. Trying a channel scan it told me it woudln't allow a channel scan becase I had a cablecard (or similar message).

I don't like this a bit! My OTA channels are consistently better quality than the cable delivered channels and if it weren't for having some small kids who "need" Disney, I would get all my TV programmming OTA. CAble is regularly down around my home, and it's chocking this week. Having both OTHa nd cable was one of the main reasons I have the Tivo.

Is there a workaround for this? I want to get OTA AND cable on the new XL, same as my Series 3 does.

Thanks,
Scott

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rainwater

· #2 · Nov 12, 2011

Stupid question. I assume you have the coax from the antenna plugged into the antenna input? There is no issue using cable and OTA on the same Premiere.

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rocko

· #3 · Nov 13, 2011

Ummm -

I have never been OTA but doesn't Guided Setup ask that - Cable only, OTA or both? Enter a zipcode, etc. ?

From http://support.tivo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2126

2. Choose your TV programming source:

Choose cable only if you are using basic cable or CableCARDs.
Choose cable & antenna if you are using basic cable or CableCARDs and a digital antenna.
Choose antenna only if you are only using a digital antenna as your programming source.

I would recommend re-running Guided Setup.

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getgray

Discussion Starter · #4 · Nov 13, 2011

Rainwater, you made me doubt myself, I pulled the rack and looked

. Fortunately, I did attach the antenna cable.

Rocko: When I set it up it wasn't attached to an antenna. I set it up on the non-theater TV where there was no antenna cable. I could have answered no antenna at that time. It's been a few weeks, dont' remember. I'll rerun guided setup. Thanks for suggestion.

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rainwater

· #5 · Nov 13, 2011

getgray said:
Rainwater, you made me doubt myself, I pulled the rack and looked . Fortunately, I did attach the antenna cable.

Rocko: When I set it up it wasn't attached to an antenna. I set it up on the non-theater TV where there was no antenna cable. I could have answered no antenna at that time. It's been a few weeks, dont' remember. I'll rerun guided setup. Thanks for suggestion.

Without running guided setup after adding the OTA source, it wouldn't give you OTA channels in your lineup or let you tune them. Guided Setup will fix that. However, the best way would be to hit enter on the channel list in Settings. That way you will not have to redo the setup portion of the cable channels. It will not make a difference but will save you a lot of time.

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getgray

Discussion Starter · #6 · Nov 13, 2011

Too late. Guided setup rerun did it though. Thanks for the help guys.

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