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MikePlunkett
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5 hours ago

V6 Upgrade Questions

I have just started the process to upgrade our two V6 boxes to 360 and I have a few questions:

  1. Will we get sent two new remotes or will I have to request a second one separately?
  2. The V6 box in the living room is wired up normally, but the one in our bedroom is "dumb" in as much as it doesn't have a coax cable plugged in and just connects wirelessly to the living room box. Will this box still get the upgrade app, or do I need to connect it more directly to the network (e.g. via ethernet)?
  3. Will the bedroom box still only be able to get recordings off the one in the living room or will it gain the ability to record things separately?

Thanks in advance for any answers provided.

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3 Replies

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta
    5 hours ago

    First of all, understand that it is not an upgrade. It is an irreversible change to an entirely different operating system centered around streaming but with some recording ability added on. Many users have regretted changing, and somewhere there is a list of features that have been dropped from the V6. 

    Do your research before accepting the voluntary change. 

  • japitts's avatar
    japitts
    Very Insightful Person
    2 hours ago

    You cannot mix TiVo/V6 (running TiVo-firmware) & TV360 (running Horizon-firmware) in the same home, so a request to convert one of your boxes will result in all of them being converted. If that means multiple remotes being sent, they should be.

    The "upgrade now" app is pushed over the internet, so if the slave box has a working 'net connection, that should suffice. That said, the first time it boots up with TV360 firmware running, it may well need to be setup from scratch - which includes the "NIT" tables carrying channel & frequency details. Hence co-ax is a wise idea at this point.

    Your third point - you need to understand that TV360 comes at recording from a totally different angle than TiVo/V6. TiVo-firmware allows each box to be fully independent & self-contained, but with remote access & multi-room streaming.

    TV360 is designed around the online-first world with one central recording pool. If, by virtue of converting ex-V6, you have multiple TV360-masters, you can manually configure individual recordings to go on one particular box - but the system is designed around one central hard drive, meaning one shared recording pool with the indexing held remotely rather than on the box itself.

  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    2 hours ago

    My belief is that if your secondary V6 with no coax is upgraded to a 360, it is liable to immediately throw an error (CS2002/CS2004 or whatever) because the activation expects an RF signal over coax. The best solution is probably to replace that V6 with a Stream box which has no coax port as it works with a network connection only. (As always an Ethernet cable  connection is best.) The Stream box has the same live TV channels and apps as the 360 and will play back the 360's recordings. It has the same remote as the 360.