My "Tivo", for some reason, has stopped taping "Suggestions" and only records "season pass" stuff. Any ideas?

Question

My "Tivo", for some reason, has stopped taping "Suggestions" and only records "season pass" stuff. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Yeah.  As a TiVo owner for 8 years, I would suggest that your TiVo is full of Season Pass shows leaving no room to record "Suggestioned" shows.  They are only recorded if there is free space on your TiVo, under the presumption that the shows you requested to record are more important to you than the suggestions that TiVo made.

If you want to make more room for Suggested shows, delete shows when you are done viewing them.

What Are TiVo Suggestions?

http://tivosupport2.instancy.com/LaunchC...

One other thing, make sure someone in your household didn't turn of the recording of Suggestions.  That would be the other reason the shows are not recorded.

If these don't help, TiVo support has more information and troubleshooting:

http://tivosupport2.instancy.com/LaunchC...

Answer 2

If Suggestions is still selected in the shows to record make sure it is set to record at ANY TIME not just a specific time.  If they changed the start time it will not record.  Also if it is set to record NEW shows only make sure it was not a REPEAT and next time before it is to record make sure the word NEW appears at the end of the information (program listing) on the box.  Sometimes the descriptions get so long the NEW gets omitted and that is all it takes for some DVRs to not record a NEW ONLY show.

Answer 3

Hi jeffv71,

You are most likely low on hard drive space. TiVo stops recording "suggestions" when space is low.

There are a couple ways to resolve this. First you can delete any unwanted recordings to free up space.

Second you can put in a larger drive. You can either have it done or do it yourself. Check here for info - http://www.weaknees.com/

Norm