janderfu Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 I'm using the TiVo IP driver on my own home configuration. Have two boxes. Over the weekend, TiVo did a service upgrade to their software. Now it seems that the boxes won't respond to network control commands w/o a reboot once they've gone to sleep. They still show up on the network, and communicate fine w/ the outside world. But completely ignore any commands given by the 800 that is running my project. I know it is a TiVo issue because not even the remote app on the Android will see the boxes as network controllable. I tried editing the driver to remove the standby command, but for some reason it still does it. Anyone confirm or elaborate on this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwarchut Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Same issue here. Neither of the two IP drivers that are available will work now. Sigh.. I guess a switch to IR may be in order. Unless anyone else has an idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jwhitaker@revit Posted May 29, 2012 Share Posted May 29, 2012 Unplug the network cable on the back of the TIVO. Wait ten seconds...... plug it back in and you'll be back up and running! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomden Posted May 30, 2012 Share Posted May 30, 2012 unplug the cat5 cable or something different? i'm having the same issue with the tivo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmb Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 What does unplugging it do? Can I just restart it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomden Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 i have both unplugged the cat5 cable as well as doing a soft reboot (holding button on front in until it reboots) both with no affect. guess i'll try a hard reboot of the tivo next with the cat5 cable unplugged? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomden Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 still unable to control my Tivo with Control4. Tivo app on iphone works fine. Anyone have any ideas? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tekdoc Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 Did you reboot your 800? I have not had any problems with either of my TIVOs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomden Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 rebooted my hc300. tivo support suggests plugging ethernet cable into a different port on my network switch, then rebooting my router and Tivo. We'll see if it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
groomden Posted May 31, 2012 Share Posted May 31, 2012 It works now:-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mau47 Posted June 2, 2012 Share Posted June 2, 2012 It works now:-)Is it still working? I have been having the issue and a reboot solves it for a day or so then doesn't work again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4RVA Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Having the same issue here. I lose the ip connection around midnight every night. Any idea if the controller is doing some housekeeping tasks at midnight that would cause it to fail on a network connection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janderfu Posted July 3, 2012 Author Share Posted July 3, 2012 I've been going back and forth with TiVo tech support for the last few weeks about this issue, which is still going on. They have no clue what I'm talking about and have "never heard of this issue before." Oddly enough, I stumbled across a possible solution while googling around. I found a Crestron (yes, they are having this problem too) Yahoo Groups conversation about the same thing. And now I'm kind of mad at myself for not checking this. But it seems like what is happening is that even though the box has a static IP, every 24 hours it goes out and requests a DHCP address and sets that internally as the current IP address. Which is why it does not respond after that point but works after a reboot or by disconnecting/reconnecting the network connection. I just passed that info on to TiVo tech support, I'll see what they say tomorrow. It seems like a DHCP reservation in the router is the band-aid for this new "feature." heh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teryglenn1 Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 I was having a similar issue and it ended up being that the IP address kept changing for some reason, the only way to fix was to go into my router and make a static IP reservation in the router itself, set the TIVO for DHCP not static and then reboot TIVO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C4RVA Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Mine was fixed with address reservation too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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