TiVo being installed today, what to look out for?
 

Today is the day, after years of thinking about leaving Sky I will finally have my three TiVo boxes installed this afternoon. :D

I'm obviously really looking forward to it but just thought I'd create a thread to see if there's any things I should be looking out for during and after install?

One thing that I have noticed now that the TV Anywhere app is available for Android Lollipop, I can't sign in using my Virgin Media username and password. Will this magically work once the TiVo's are installed?

Another thing I'm really worried about is my internet speed dropping due to the TiVo's drawing an additional 30Mb.

I've also got a Power line adaptor set up in each of the rooms which TiVo will be going, will the VM installer plug these in to the boxes and set up Multi Room Streaming or is it something I'll need to do once he's finished?

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The tivo has its own Internet connection so yours will be unaffected :)

Enjoy

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TIVO uses its own internet connection on different frequencies to your main BB connection

The TIVO boxes will have their own co-ax connection to the omnibox. Any internal network you have will be your responsibility to get going.

Any questions and I'm sure peeps here will help.

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It'll take 24 hours after TiVo installed for the app to work
TiVo actually uses it's own 10Mbit connection - but this is generally enough for the apps available on it.

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BIB

That may be a big disappointment for you. I'm not sure what channels allow it as i only ever had one box.

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You can see the channels here http://store.virginmedia.com/discove...ing/intro.html

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Thanks for all the posts chaps. I'm happy to report that the TiVo's were installed as planned and I'm now a happy Virgin Media customer.... Time to change that profile picture!

I'm sure I'll have a lot more questions over the next few days & weeks but for now I notice that series links default to New & Reruns. Is the EPG data reliable enough for me to change that to New Only?

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Not as reliable as sky one mate but it good enough to record most things

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Some shows can slip through the cracks, but that is not often enough for me to complain about it.

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Thanks again guys.

A couole more questions if I may. Is there a way to change the series link default recording options?

Also, the mobile app isn't reflecting the TiVo box names, instead showing only the default box name which makes selecting the box I want to manage much harder. Do I just need to wait a couple of days for the new TiVo box names to appear within the app?

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You can change recording defaults at:

Home > Help & Settings > Settings > Recordings > Default Recording Options

When you rename a TiVo, its new name is not immediately available. I think it takes around half an hour.

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I believe that TiVo is the default name given to each box. There is an option to change the name for each box, let me check them for you and come back to you.

Ditto for series link, you can change them, press HOME, then Help & Settings, recordings, recording options, and then any series link set after that will carry those options. Series links set before this will need to be changed individually.

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To name your box to what you want, press HOME>Help & Settings>Settings>Devices, and there will be an option to name your box to what you want. It comes with a list of rooms already listed to choose, or you can choose your own name for the box.

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Thank you. I've changed the default recording options :)

I've also renamed the TiVo's and around 4 hours later the app is still showing the default names?

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If you don't have the tivo connected to a sound system change the sound output to PCM in the tivo menu or you HD channel sound will be extremely low

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Hope you are enjoying the new Tivos. Having just had Sky installed, I am really missing the functionality of the Tivo box. The Sky box is faster, but boy do I miss Tivo.

Hope you enjoy the new functionality, it's awesome!

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Harry,

Just out of interest, what sort of stuff are you missing on Sky that you had on TiVo? Only asking as I'm shortly going to be switching to the TV to Sky myself and would be interested on your initial views as other than the third tuner, I can't think of anything I'd miss myself.

Cheers

Superblade

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Quite a few things really. Wish lists, the 3 line mini epg guide, the ability to look through the schedules a few days ahead on the mini epg guide on sky you can only go ahead a few hours. The jump back 8second and forward 30 seconds feature, the TV anywhere app - which was more user friendly than sky's in my eyes, the ability to delete groups with the push of one button - as opposed to having delete shows one by one on Sky's box, the third tuner, the ability to flick through all the tuners, the last channel button only needing one push to change the channel - as opposed to Sky, not having to wait for on demand programs to download on TiVo, the dedicated internet stream. There are more things I miss, it's late though and I need me beauty sleep. I can't seem to find a way to go straight to my recordings though, it seems I need to push three buttons to get to them. Annoying me the most though on Sky is, if you push the stop button ona recording it takes you back to live TV. I have to learn to push "back up "for the show stop and go back to the recordings. That will become habit soon enough though. These are just my bug bears at the moment, hopefully you won't miss them, but sadly I am.

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Pressing play will take you straight into your planner

Whilst on a channel press select to bring up mini guide and then blue I think.

You can delete an entire stack on the latest software , simply highlight the stack in your planner and you should see an option (Yellow) delete all upon pressing you are presented with Delete all viewed or Delete all.

How long is it taking for On Demand to become available ? On my fibre connection its generally available in under 10 seconds.

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Thanks Harry.

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Thanks MM, pressing play for my recordings is very useful.

The blue button brings up the option for favourites which I have not set up yet. I will see what that does though.

Oddly, I still don't have the option to delete stacks of episodes, but if the software is out there, that is fine to know it is out there. I will try and figure out how to get it.

On demand can only be a few seconds, but the last 3 episodes I downloaded took considerably longer, but I was using my phone app to do it.

Can I ask if you know of a way in which I can simply skip to the next episode in a group/stack without having to go through the whole process of going back to my recordings and then finding the next episode, pressing play and play again. I have no real problems doing it this way, it just seems long winded - esp since Tivo, Netflix and Amazon Prime all have the option of skipping on to the next episode relatively easily. (Another thing I currently miss from the Tivo)

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I set favourites up once then after a certain amount of time, or after the box goes into standby, it loses your settings.

I didn't bother again.

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Your favourites shouldn't ever be lost unless you reset the box. But the guide will reset to showing all channels after a period of time.

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I'm afraid not Harry and I agree it's a nice feature however I have seen this feature requested many times on various feedback forums , off the top of my head when watching a recording doesn't the back up button land you back in the stack , I'm afraid I'm not near the box to try.

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Thanks for replying MM. You were right about pushing back up the stacks, it does land you back in the stacks. My bad.

I won't ask anymore questions as this was originally about a Tivo box, and I have rather taken it off topic. Thanks for your help though.:)