batsona
Maryland
join:2004-04-17
Ellicott City, MD | reply to GeekGirl1
Re: The "other" hidden menu in your STB - Diagnostic
My max. temp indicated 117F and current temp of 102F. How do other people's temperature look like? I have a problem with my DVRs rebooting. This is an excellent way to see if mine are hotter than other peoples'. |
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knarf829
join:2007-06-02 | Temp 100 Max 108 |
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justin9876
join:2006-04-21
Keller, TX | reply to batsona
Temp 90 Max 117 |
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GeekGirl1
The Medium IS the Message
Premium
join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
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January 31st, @10:39PM
| Post #1 updated again. Found a lot more stuff to document.
You can see that the STB is using the SD digital channels for 2-49, not analog. Guess that's in preparation for the analog cutoff. Already done.
The "GPS" time in the General Status menu (D01) is really wrong. Should be UTC or GMT, but I've seen that when I had Comcast, so probably not worth reporting. I'm sure it's synced to a time standard, but GPS is just plain wrong usage here.
Interesting that the firmware release is listed as November 15, 2007. Verizon started promoting the new IMG back in August, 2007...
Might want to add the over-temperature flag / counter, just in case:
Temp: 100 deg F, Max 113 deg F
Over Temp: No, Count: 0
FYI - The STB manual says to allow 2" of air space above and to each side for ventilation. If temperature's a problem, be sure you get enough air flow. |
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knarf829
join:2007-06-02 | I'm 99% sure that FiOS STBs have always used the digital versions of 2-49 pre-dating the plan to cut of analogs in 2009. |
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GeekGirl1
The Medium IS the Message
Premium
join:2007-01-28
Morrisville, PA | I was 99% sure also, but now it's 100%. I did that on purpose to show an example of how to use the STB's menu for RF channel debugging. |
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afiggatt
join:2007-07-12
Sterling, VA
| reply to GeekGirl1
said by GeekGirl1  :You can see that the STB is using the SD digital channels for 2-49, not analog. Guess that's in preparation for the analog cutoff. Already done. The Verizon STBs and DVRs do not have analog tuners. I don't think Verizon ever released STBs with an analog tuner. The SD locals and PEGs that fill most of the mapped channels 2 to 49 are generally located at QAM 63 to 68 with QAM 64 unused at my CO.
Last fall, I asked people to go into the diagnostics menu to look up the QAM frequencies of their HD channels and especially the HD RSNs. All reports had the national HD channels and the national SD channels we checked at the same QAM channels in all markets. Maybe it is time to recheck the QAM scan to see if anything has changed lately and (re)post the QAM channel breakdown for the HD channels and the locals for the northern VA/Washington DC market. The locals all appear to be at QAM 63 to 68 range with the digital broadcast HD/SD locals at QAM 71 to 75 or higher. |
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