Dish Network 512 manual Using Event Timers, Tune to the channel

Chapter 4

Reference

Using Event Timers

What Is Happening	Possible Reason	What to Do
You try to set up an event	• You must enter the password	• To be able to set up an event timer for the program, first enter the
timer and the receiver	before you can create an event	password.
displays a message noting	timer for a locked program.
that the program is locked.
You try to set up an event	• You must order a pay per view	• To be able to set up an event timer for the event, first order it.
timer and the receiver	event before you can create an
displays a message noting	event timer for it.
that the program is a pay per
view event.
You try to set up an event	• You already have set up the	• To be able to set up a new event timer, delete one of the event
timer, but the receiver	maximum number of event timers.	timers you set up earlier.
displays an Error message
giving you the option to
delete an event timer that
was set up earlier.
You set up an event timer,	• You may have set up a Reminder	• Remember that a Reminder Event Timer just reminds you that the
but the receiver does not	Event Timer but what you should	program is about to start. An Auto-Tune Event Timer reminds you
tune to the channel of the	have set up is an Auto-Tune Event	and tunes the receiver to the channel of the program. A VCR Event
program, or does not record	Timer, or a VCR Event Timer.	Timer reminds you, tunes the receiver, and starts the VCR.
the program.	• If you are using Record Plus, it is	• Make sure you set up Record Plus timers when the other TV is not
	possible that someone at the other	being used.
	TV may have cancelled the timer
	when it activated.
You set up an event timer	• You may have set up a timer with	• Remember that a Once event timer operates just one time. A
for a program that is	an incorrect frequency.	Mon.-Fri.event timer operates Monday through Friday on the
repeated (such as a regularly		same channel at the same time. A Daily event timer does the same,
scheduled program), but the		Monday through Sunday. A Weekly event timer operates once a
timer does not operate for a		week on the same channel at the same time.
showing of the program.
You set up an event timer,	• The program time may have	• If the receiver is ON and finds an event timer overlap, it will
but the timer does not	changed so that the event timer	display the Event Timer Scheduling Conflict menu. You
operate at all.	overlapped another event timer.	must edit or delete one of the overlapping event timers.
	The program time may have	No event timer will operate if the program time changes by more
	changed by more than twenty-four	than twenty-four hours.
	hours.
You set up a Once event	• The program time changed.	• A Once event timer always operates at the actual time of the
timer, but the timer operates		program.
at a time different from what
you expect.
You stop the operation of an	• Stopping the event timer applies	• To stop all operations of a repeated event timer, you must delete
event timer for one showing	only to the current showing of the	the event timer.
of a program that is repeated	program.	Note: The receiver deletes a Once event timer when it operates.
(such as a regularly
scheduled program), but the
timer operates for the next
showing.
You are testing a VCR code	• The VCR may not be turned ON,	• Make sure the VCR is turned ON, with a blank tape inserted on
to see if the receiver controls	there may not be a tape inserted,	which you want to record, that the tape is rewound, and that the
a VCR. The VCR does not	the tape may not be rewound, or the	write-protect tab on the tape is intact.
do the test.	write-protect tab on the tape may	Try another VCR code from the VCR Codes table.
	have been removed.
	The code you are testing may not
	be valid for the VCR.

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