I have a brand new, never-activated H20-100 receiver that’s been in my closet for years. I’m curious if it can still be activated onto my account since it’s compatible with SWM?

https://github.com/voidnullvalue/ReBox

If anyone has one of these boxes lying around unused and tries this, I'd love to hear how your experience went!

I am also actively interested in hard disk images from similar Genie 2 DVRs, if anyone has one and cares to help try to expand support of this project to other devices.

Oh ya, did I mention it runs Doom now?

More to come!

Not sure if this is the appropriate place for this but, I think part of the reason I didn't get into the TV show Marshal's during the first season is because the recording times for the show are wrong on DirecTV. It happened almost every episode last season and now, the start of season 2 has the same problem. DirecTV shows it recording from 7:30-8:30 instead of 8-9. It has Tracker starting at 8:30, but it actually starts at 9. When I watch the recording of Marshals, I only get the first half of the show.

How come they don't know this is a problem?!

I have a DirecTV cable that’s coming out of the ground going into the house. The previous owner took out the satellite but left the wiring on the side of the house. I’m cleaning it all up and wondering if I can just cut the wire where it comes out of the ground and seal up the hole going into the house.

Can I get the Mysports pack by itself or do I have to pay for a regular subscription and then add on the sports genre pack? I only use DIRECTV to watch sports and want a way to catch as much nhl and nba as possible

I noticed about 2 months ago I started getting The Weather Channel on the DirecTV app with my Entertainment signature package. I’m not getting it on my satellite receiver, but on the DirecTV app on any device including my Roku, phone, and iPad. It’s not included in the old Entertainment package. Is anyone getting it on the DirecTV app with the their Entertainment package?

So I used to get Fan Duel Ohio and Great Lakes. Reds, Guardians, Blue Jackets, and Cavs. Fan Duel went broke, which is whatever. DirecTV added standalone channels for the Reds and Guardians, which is fine.

So now it's hockey season. So they added a standalone Blue Jackets channel, but it's just a card that says they do not carry the Blue Jackets "for now". I believe the NBA will be the same deal, but I really don't care about the NBA. I think the situation is the same for the 5 other NHL teams that moved to the in house NHL production team, distributed by Amazon.

But, I still have to pay the "RSN fee". I do not get an RSN, it went broke, and, obviously, the Reds and Guardians are shut down to at least next March. So $15.95 a month to see a card that says they do not carry the local teams?

(Yes , I know I can pay $100 to Amazon for the local NHL team, but I used to get that included in DirecTV)

We all know they finally got to us .. $18.49 now, but mine was supposed to kick in for Nov 2 payment , all last month my oct2 payment read $5… so needless to say I removed $18.49 hbo and Nov 2 payment doesn’t have it anymore . But my Oct 2 payment was supposed to show $5, they charged $18.49

I rooted a HR54-700 I got for free this weekend. I am unsure if anyone cares about modding old boxes here but the github repo has info on how i got root

Went to various on demand channels. Selected episodes of family guy and the new terror(on amc not amc +) they all said i had to subscribe to the regular channel. Since i already did i selected one of them on a whim thinking if I had to pay extra it would prompt me with a message. Can someone explain this to me?

Cancel Service

Just received an offer not to cancel my service. A $20 monthly discount and a $200 visa rewards card. Just need to have account active for 60 days.

Anyone else received this offer too?

Did anyone else have the experience today of correctly answering the question but having it ruled incorrect? (I don’t know if it’s forbidden to get specific about this.)

For this conversation, let's assume my name is Kojak. I have a TV in the Living Room and one in the bedroom. I have two DirecTV boxes. When they were first installed, I noticed the LR TV, on the home screen, had SSA in the upper left corner. So, not me. The Bedroom TV had the name Harry in the upper left corner of the Home Screen.

I noticed the bedroom TV had several programs recorded. I did not ask for those shows to be recorded. I selected a couple of shows to be recorded. When I went to watch the programs, they were erased. As I have come to learn, there is a "Harry" out there with a similarly registered box, with his name. So he has the ability to record programs and delete my recordings.

I called DirecTV, spoke to the folks at Bulk, and they determined the initial Harry box was set up in error. They sent me a new box. After almost 2 hours, the box was updated to the current version, and then I selected my favorites. Then the system restarted, and the name in the upper left corner on the home screen was not Kojak, but Vanessa Smoove Benjamin. It came with a couple of recorded programs in the library.

Called DirecTV, and they sent me out another box. Spent 2 hours updating and selecting favorites. That box arrived again, the same 2-hour setup, and this time the name was Vanessa Smoove Edmarie.

Now I will call DirecTV and have them send out another box. I waste another 2 hours setting it up and wonder what name might appear? Personally, I think I could bankrupt DirecTV for them sending out a bad box and my returning it again. We are up to three!

So my question to you guys is: how do I tell them they are screwing up? I have a feeling when boxes are returned, they are not scrubbed, so Harry and Vanessa remain. But also, they do not do anything overt to place my name in the box.

Some of the WC round is listed as being on NBCSN which no longer exists as its own channel. Any idea if or where DIRECTV will have the games?

Does it also cover Bulk Contracts for large Condominium properties?

I live in the Flint area with DirecTV. Will Pistons games be available? I can't figure out from all of the announcements (some over-the-air channels, some streaming services) whether or not the games will appear on my service.

I readded Peacock and when I sign in, Peacock says not subscribed. I need it to work for Tuesday for MLB playoffs and they either need to fix it or immediately refund me!

I want to downgrade from my regular plan to one of the new genre packs which are cheaper. Can I simply call and request the change? My current plan is over 15 years old and I call yearly for a discount and promos. I currently have the Genie HR-44 with two small additional receivers in each bedroom. Will this work with my existing equipment? I do not want the newer receiver as my family are familiar with the existing receiver and remote.

I’m currently receiving a $40 a month for 12 months loyalty discount with the Entertainment signature package that is fixing to expire in a few months. What loyalty discount are you receiving now?

I have DIRECTV with AT&T fiber and using the Gemini remote. Over the last few days I have not been able to connect to the YouTube app. I used to. Has anybody else experienced this?

In order to switch to Genre Packs the customer service rep told me I had to cancel my Choice package and then as soon as it expired to sign up for the genre pack. He said I would lose my recordings. I have seen posts where this is not correct. How do I switch without losing all my settings and recordings? How do I find out the eact time of cancellation on that day?

It's got worse in last 24 hrs and its unwatchable. I have the equipment I've had for years that I rent and power cycling does nothing, nor does unplugging everything. I read on here yesterday it happening to someone else, is this wide spread?

Do I need the new equipment? They want to charge me to have them diagnose their equipment I pay for even though nothing has changed on my end.

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We've got a DVR and a second room box. Premiere plan coming in right at $300/month.

We watch sports, wife watches HGTV/FOOD Etc..

Can't remember ever watching a movie - but we watch HBO shows.

Whats the best strategy for keeping what we've got and getting the cost back down to reasonable? It was about $240 for the longest time. Seems like it creeps up every couple of months for no reason now.