Shaw Direct HDDSR 605 Owners Discussion thread for owners ONLY!

[SD 630 Support]

Originally Posted by QCK

There is no doubt this is a problem that still needs to be resolved.

Agreed. It's been replicated in the lab (as noted, it's not consistent) and is being investigated. If we hear of any details on workarounds or otherwise, I'll let you know!

For everyone who uses Favourites consistently:
As we look to future functionality related to Favourites lists, I'm curious as to how they're used in your household today. Do you have custom favourites lists for each family member? Are multiple lists used to narrow down to a genre of channels (e.g. Movies, Sports, HD, etc). Understanding how they're being used today helps guide our future development activities.

[QCK]

Originally Posted by SD 630 Support

Agreed. It's been replicated in the lab (as noted, it's not consistent) and is being investigated. If we hear of any details on workarounds or otherwise, I'll let you know!

For everyone who uses Favourites consistently:
As we look to future functionality related to Favourites lists, I'm curious as to how they're used in your household today. Do you have custom favourites lists for each family member? Are multiple lists used to narrow down to a genre of channels (e.g. Movies, Sports, HD, etc). Understanding how they're being used today helps guide our future development activities.

I only have one single favorite list for the wife. I use all channels, so when I revert back to the all channels list and then look at the guide the receiver will often reboot. It has been mentioned before that if you wait a while before going into the guide the receiver usually does not reboot.

[hiljoball]

We have three favourite lists.

The first is a big one. It has all our subscribed channels except a few bundled channels that we don't ever watch (eg Shopping network and legislature). The main difference between this and 'all subscribed' is that it also eliminates all the PPV and promo stuff.

The second is a small group of the wife's favs.

The third group is a selection of news and financial channels.

John

[Ouser]

I was told buy a salesperson at Cogeco that SD's Motorola 505's could be 're-flashed' to work on Cogeco cable- is this true?

I ask this here because my inlaws have Shaw Direct and are moving to a Cogeco house- they dont want to have to buy new boxes... I was shocked to hear that this was possible- anyone have any experience with this?

Cheers

[TJ77]

Absolutely not. The 605/630 physically look like the DCX3200 cable box, but they are totally different internally.

[QCK]

So the question for me is did you mean the 605 in your title or the 505 that is in your body of text

I seriously doubt either could be done, and who would do the flashing if it was?

[JohnR]

I have a CSHP80G Symphonic DVR. It has one input only which is an AVI. I cannot get a signal from my DSR605 Shaw Direct into the DVR. Is this because of HDCP or does anybody else have any insight as to what is happening. Sometimes when I switch to this AVI input, the picture will appear for about two seconds and then disappear and I receive the "No Signal" prompt on my TV screen. I can play DVD's and also playback already recorded video and all is OK which shows me that the cables between the DVR and the TV are OK. I have tried different cables between the DSR605 and the DVR but it does not help.

[Ouser]

QCK- actually I did mean 505- but that point is academic now. After my own disbelief, and questioning of three Cogeco CSR's I reluctantly accepted their statement that the SD Motorola boxes could be reflashed. Then I posted here and received several adamant replies that this was not possible. So I fired off an email to Cogeco tech support who replied, fairly quickly, that their CSR's obvioulsy were thinking of the Shaw cable boxes and not the ShawDirect boxes.

Oh well- I guess my inlaws will have to purchase the Cogeco receivers after all.

[JCM]

Any suggestion as to when the external hard drive feature will be activated?

[sgx2]

I just ordered a unit, but then I noticed the "UHF" feature for the remote. I'm now concerned that I will not be able to control the unit with a third-party IR system.

In fact, I want to use an IR blaster from an Hauppauge HD-PVR to control the unit. Will this work?

If not, are there any third-party UHF transmitters I can control from LIRC (and, presumably, teach -- I have not seen any LIRC configuration files for the 605 or 630).

[rlb]

It's IR and UHF.
No need to worry.

[sgx2]

Thanks! That's good news!

[ScaryBob]

My IR Harmony remote works perfectly.

Another bug that is is very irritating... The 630 just shows a black screen and may be completely unresponsive when turned on. A front panel reset is required. This may be caused by the receiver being left on the interactive weather channel.

[smp01]

I use Harmany on my 630 and I use IR Blasters on a pair of 605s

[sgx2]

Originally Posted by sgx2

I just ordered a unit, but then I noticed the "UHF" feature for the remote. I'm now concerned that I will not be able to control the unit with a third-party IR system.

In fact, I want to use an IR blaster from an Hauppauge HD-PVR to control the unit. Will this work?

If not, are there any third-party UHF transmitters I can control from LIRC (and, presumably, teach -- I have not seen any LIRC configuration files for the 605 or 630).

I can confirm that my HD-PVR can control my 605 using LIRC!

It was easier than I thought - it's code 1_159 in the blaster config file. I removed the other entries and renamed each item from, say, "1_159_KEY0" to "0". Done like dinner.