{"id":295,"date":"2008-07-07T10:35:24","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/?p=295"},"modified":"2008-07-07T10:35:24","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T17:35:24","slug":"directv-tivo-os-version-64a-add-kits-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2008\/07\/directv-tivo-os-version-64a-add-kits-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"DirecTV TiVo OS Version 6.4a &#8211; Add Kits Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We sell <strong>add<\/strong> kits for almost all versions of TiVo DVRs (as opposed to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/add-replace.php\">replace<\/a><\/strong> kits, which we do have for every single model). These add kits won&#8217;t install with version 6.4a of the DirecTV TiVo software on these models:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hughes HDVR2<\/li>\n<li>Hughes SD-DVR40, SD-DVR80, SD-DVR120<\/li>\n<li>RCA DVR39, DVR40, DVR80, and DVR120<\/li>\n<li>DirecTV R10<\/li>\n<li>All Samsung DirecTV TiVos<\/li>\n<li>Philips DSR7000, DSR704, DSR708<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This same problem came up a few years ago with standalone TiVos running some subversions of TiVo OS version 7.2.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the symptoms: attaching one of our add kits will cause the TiVo to go to the &#8220;Welcome, Powering Up&#8221; screen, followed by the &#8220;Almost There, a few minutes more&#8221; screen, then reboot back to the first screen. This cycle repeats endlessly.<\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;re aware of the issue, we&#8217;re notifying all customers of the potential problems before we ship the kits. Here are the options in this situation:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Order a <strong>replace<\/strong> kit instead. Considering the age of most of these models, we generally recommend replace kits anyway. <strong>Add<\/strong> kits rely on your older drive, and if the older drive fails, your whole unit is down until you get a replace kit.<\/li>\n<li>Send us the entire unit for the add kit to be installed. We can do it here successfully.<\/li>\n<li>Wait and see if a later version of the TiVo OS resolves the issue.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>We really think #1 is the best option, as we think these units generally need replace-style kits, but we do still continue to offer add kits to those unwilling to lose their programming, or to send us the unit for us to install a replace kit and copy the contents.<\/p>\n<p>So if you&#8217;re looking for an add kit, check your OS version first. If you haven&#8217;t gotten 6.4a yet, unplug the unit from the phone line immediately! You can then install an add kit, and let the unit upgrade later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We sell add kits for almost all versions of TiVo DVRs (as opposed to replace kits, which we do have for every single model). These add kits won&#8217;t install with version 6.4a of the DirecTV TiVo software on these models: Hughes HDVR2 Hughes SD-DVR40, SD-DVR80, SD-DVR120 RCA DVR39, DVR40, DVR80, and DVR120 DirecTV R10 All [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,14,8,7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}