This really falls under the “just so I know where to look next time I forget” category. With MySky, the “setup” menu is hidden from casual use (IIRC in both UTF Sky and Sky Digital it is not). To get to it, you go to the system settings menu and type 0759 (0SKY) and then [...]
Archive for the ‘MySky’ Category
3 May
MySky Glitch
After about a month of working as well can be expected, a weird MySky glitch occured the day before yesterday. All of the scheduled programs (all done via series link) more than a day in the future vanished from the planner.
Unfortunately, I was later home yesterday than anticipated, so wasn't able to manually add [...]
31 Mar
MySky is falling
As half a million or so New Zealanders know, Sky's Digital service died a bit before 6pm yesterday until reviving about 8am this morning (in the middle of my recording the final Gilmore Girls episode, argh).
I understand that (rarely) satellites fail, and that errors like this are a huge problem, but will sometimes happen, and [...]
4 Mar
Is MySky “mature”?
Clearly, TiVo is mature (whether it manages to survive amongst all the competition, particularly from PVRs like MySky that are from content providers, is a separate question). So an easy way to consider whether the MySky design is mature is to compare the features of the two systems.
3 Mar
The Listener’s Take on MySky
My parents have subscribed to The Listener for as long as I remember. When I left home, I subscribed too, and continued for nine years, until Pamela Stirling took over as editor and turned the magazine into a trashy, pale, copy of what it once was. I do occasionally glance over their website, [...]
3 Mar
Latest MySky Correspondence
For a while, I had an email conversation going with SkyTV about the problems, and it did appear that things were progressing. Not any more. They seem to have given up, and have decided to treat me as someone completely unknown. My latest email:
2 Mar
MySky Live Pause/Rewind Failure
A new (just what I need!) MySky problem appeared yesterday: live pause & rewind no longer worked: they displayed a “this program cannot be recorded” error message, even when nothing else was recording (and on any channel).
I managed to fix this with a reboot (hold down ‘go back’ and ’select’ on the front panel), but [...]
2 Mar
More about MySky Series Link
In the comments to an older post, John Porter passed on a very interesting email about how the MySky Series Link feature is implemented.
15 Feb
Gmail and SpamCop
My now lengthy email discussion with SkyTV about my MySky problems hit a new snag today: I have been using my gmail account for this correspondence, and my last message failed to be delivered:
This is an automatically generated Delivery Status Notification
Delivery to the following recipient failed permanently:
skyweb@skytv.co.nz
Technical details of permanent failure:
PERM_FAILURE: SMTP Error (state 9): [...]
9 Feb
On the subject of MySky…
While I’m pointing out MySky flaws – it continually bounces back to the preview channel. Why?
It also comes up with the ‘conflict’ screen fairly regularly, with a program that is recording or set to recording and a “searching…” ‘recording’. Cancelling the “searching…” ‘recording’ seems to fix the problem. I think this is the series [...]
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