I have just experienced my first-ever lock-up since owning a Toppy in February. I've missed recordings in the past, but very rarely...

We went away for a surprise romantic weekend (Venice, if you must know) and came back yesterday to find that the box froze sometime after Friday. SWMBO was feeling less than romantic but certainly surprised when we found the Toppy awake but frozen on a frame, and no recordings for Saturday / Sunday / Monday (X Factor, Maria, Corrie, all her faves).

I'm running the latest (Bastille) firmware and MS 4.54, eit2mei 7.2, DE, TAP commander, PowerManager. Has anyone else had this experience?

The only thing that was different that I could see is that, for the first time, I had clashing timers, which I did not resolve before I went away. I presume that clashing timers are just ignored?

I'm not blaming MS, or even any particular TAP. Once I'd powered down and up again, it reset all the CTs and recorded the second Corrie last night.

If it was friday then its probably due to the BBC OTA transmission.
MyStuff was not at fault.
See the thread in the Bugs forum.

Even odder: moving that third timer down to the bottom of the list also left me without a clash, which is great, and even odder still, moving it back to its position when I had the problem, somewhere in the middle of the priorities (I noted it) still doesn't bring back the problem.

I wasn't imagining it, really

Well, I tried power-rebooting and it hasn't helped. Here's my 'H'Block seetings:

H1=2
H2=Never
H3=Freeview.mei
H4=5m
H5=Yes

Any other settings needed?

K

Aha, may have found the problem. Switched H1 to 'Never' and it has started refreshing every 5 mins (visually, at least!). I'll keep an eye on it.

Ah right, how old is your mystuff.mei file then? Your settings are such that it should only try loading your freeview.mei if your mystuff.mei file is more than 2 days old (which it probably is, but I'm just checking!)

In that case your H1 should be Never, since you dont have a MyStuff.mei file.

It should probably work anyway, so I will check the code, but it is correct for you to have it set to Never, not 2 (which tells it to use your nonexistant MyStuff.mei file for 2 days)

Are you running Exclusive Mode? Do you access the standard Toppy Archive for any reasons?

CW

Like RobbieC I also have noticed slowdowns in archive display. I am running in exclusive mode and I do sometimes access the standard Tioppy archive. Is this a no-no then ? I find I need to as some programs don't display if they're still recording.

Showing the Toppy archive will make the next MyStuff archive slow. Can you narrow down when programs that are still recording do not appear in the MS archive?

Yup, just press 0 in the archive to get a full refresh. But please do try to find what circumstances stop the current recording appear before then.

Thanks