War of the Remotes
Dec. 21st, 2007 09:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
indigo_rose99This morning I woke up to discover someone else controlling our TV, channels, and DVR. And by "someone else," I do not mean my spouse. I mean, one of my neighbors must have just gotten Dish Network because they were going TV-happy with the programming (yes, on my DVR). Whoever it was, they just adore football. They must have DVR-ed every regular football show they could find! In the half hour I spent this morning at the gym, they managed to successfully record no less than THREE football shows. By the time I returned from the gym to continue the war, they had not only filled up every one of my recording slots (evidently the machine only has 62 slots), but were hitting the "You cannot record this show unless you delete another Timer" message about every 10 seconds. I could not watch one of my shows. I could not check on what they had recorded. Even changing the channel was a fight. Grrrr....
I called for technical advice that does not involve changing the remote channel again (tried every channel at least twice). We just have too many neighbors with the same exact setup. To my surprise, there was a technical solution that prevents any one else from controlling my TV or DVR (yay!) and still may allow me to do the evil thing on theirs (double yay!). Evidently there was an antennae that I didn't need that was providing the communication. And I still may be controlling theirs (who knows how far my remote reaches), but my DVR's reception range is now very limited.
So next time I am feeling bad... I will take suggestions on shows I should set them up to record.
I called for technical advice that does not involve changing the remote channel again (tried every channel at least twice). We just have too many neighbors with the same exact setup. To my surprise, there was a technical solution that prevents any one else from controlling my TV or DVR (yay!) and still may allow me to do the evil thing on theirs (double yay!). Evidently there was an antennae that I didn't need that was providing the communication. And I still may be controlling theirs (who knows how far my remote reaches), but my DVR's reception range is now very limited.
So next time I am feeling bad... I will take suggestions on shows I should set them up to record.
