Dish Network Solo 301 manual Using Event Timers

Chapter 5

Reference

USING EVENT TIMERS

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

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