Cable box conversion
I currently have multiple Motorola HD DVRs installed. Controlling those boxes is an IR transmitter system hard coded with the control codes for the Motorola boxes from Cox. The IR system is integrat...
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C2 can isolate the shows recorded on each box. There is an option in the Contour Saved Menu. In both the "recordings" and "scheduled" tabs. You'll see an option at the top which says "Recorded on:" if you want to hide your recordings from the kids' box then you can do so
viperthunder2...thanks for your response...don't get me wrong, the "recorded on" pull down kinda works, but I still find some issues. This pull down appeared sometime last year and has helped isolate ours and the kids DVR's..identified as Family and Office in each DVRs settings, however..
- when shows are recorded on the specific DVR, most of the time they appear under the respective identifier
- show are stored under the either fam/off only on the specific DVR. If I go physically to the Office DVR, I sometimes see files from Family, but these are actually stored on the physical Office DVR in a folder called Family. In other words, one DVR cannot physically see the stuff stored on the other DVR...it can only see whats in the 2 folders that are on that specific machine.
- the scheduled tab DOES show ALL the shows that are being scheduled on both machines, however after recording, the shows only appear on ONE machine....most (95%+) of the time you get the correct recording on the correct machine. Seems like if there is a record time conflict, you could get the other DVR to record files onto the 2nd DVR and store the actual files into the correct named folder. The multiple DVR system does not act like a Host/client setup....I have 2 of the same DVR, that I was attempting to mimic my old 2DVR setup.
- so if you really didn't want the other machine to NOT see the stuff you record on your machine, there is no way to isolate the Schedule listing....it appears on both devices. For me its not a problems because I don't have record anything that the other machine should not see....except I see this issue.
-Contour1 had an settings that allowed one to isolate a machine from the other...at least that's what the words say....have never heard anyone say if this works. I probably should convert to a Host/client setup but would require viewing all the shows prior to exchanging.
