- #IVIEW STB3500II MOD#
- #IVIEW STB3500II UPDATE#
- #IVIEW STB3500II PORTABLE#
- #IVIEW STB3500II SOFTWARE#
- #IVIEW STB3500II PLUS#
The SIMPLE.TV tuner works quite easily for scheduling, playback, and archiving, plus I can watch live TV or previously recorded shows away from home, or at home on any Roku, tablet, or PC.
I record on the IVIEW or the Homeworx sometimes when they are the sole source for a program I want to see later, but I usually record network programming on my SIMPLE.TV (on yet another antenna). So I use my TV tuner for Fresno, the IVIEW tuner for Sacramento, and I will use the Homeworx tuner for San Francisco. I am able to receive TV signals from 3 market areas, and I don't like to rescan when I can simply switch inputs on the TV.
For live OTA viewing I use the television's tuner. In my environment the iView is only powered up when making a recording or watching one. True enough the only change on the LED if the unit is not in standby mode would be the ersatz channel number. Has anyone else experienced a good "live" signal, but unacceptable recording? I have a Silver Sensor antenna on another tuner that I can try on the IVIEW. I'll try an older USB 2 disk to test that theory. I wonder if the electronics in the USB 3 external disk drive are causing interference. I haven't yet tested recording other channels yet. However, I can record CBS (on RF 12) perfectly. But when I hit RECORD, the live picture (and the recording) becomes UNWATCHABLE.
#IVIEW STB3500II PORTABLE#
I'm recording to a Toshiba Canvio 1TB USB 3 external portable hard disk.Īfter much antenna location and orientation experimentation, I am now able to get a good signal from PBS when watching live. (Just a UHF loop and rabbit ears for now). I'm in Chicago in a high-rise condo less than 2 miles from the towers, but with many other buildings in the way. My problem: The station I most want to record - PBS (on RF 47) - is the hardest one to receive cleanly. I recently bought an IVIEW 3500 STB II (with 3/4 switch).
#IVIEW STB3500II UPDATE#
I hope they include this in the "promised" firmware update for the STBII with the ch 3/4 switch. Since a completed recording on either the Homeworx or the IVIEW includes the station ID, I see no reason why the station ID from PSIP information could not be displayed on the IVIEW LED in lieu of strictly numerical data.
#IVIEW STB3500II MOD#
If there is a power supply mod that makes USB power more reliable, at least it is still switched properly.
Also, the USB power is OFF when the unit is powered off with the remote (just like the homeworx), so the power that keeps the tuner memory live is separate from the USB power. The IVIEW tuner seems to be "hot" as long as the unit is plugged in and connected to the antenna (with a green LED), so the bootup time is very short. I also noticed two other differences from the Homeworx: my HW-150PVR would take an agonizingly long time to start up, flashing the logo on the screen during bootup, apparently to populate the EPG before it actually started to show live programming. using tape with some transparency over the IVIEW LED may be a good idea - but I would be inclined to use some sort of dark smokey plastic to match the case. That is what I depended on with the Homeworx. I usually place my hard drive so that I can see the activity led on the HD - if it's blinking, it's either recording or playing back. Most channels are at or near 100% signal strength (using the INFO button).Ĭlick to expand.I did not notice any change in the LED display when recording is started if the unit is already on - it may do this for timed recording as it switches ON. Most likely I will end up using black electrical tape over the LED display.Īntenna in use: 91XG plus Y10-7-13 with a Winegard LNA-200 preamp pointed toward Sacramento (90 miles). The menu option which displays the channel by LCN, Service Name, Service ID, and ONID does not seem to have any effect on the LED display. I like the IVIEW remote much more than the simpler Homeworx remote. It should have an ON/OFF or DIM setting somewhere. This is good, but the bright LED display, which only displays numerical channel number information that is not related to the digital channel ID, is very distracting. The IVIEW seems to have a more sensitive tuner than my Homeworx HW-150PVR when hooked up under identical conditions.
#IVIEW STB3500II SOFTWARE#
It has software version 20140305V2 and the hardware version is ATSC7816XD-02-Z00. This week, I received a new IVIEW 3500STBII with ch 3/4 switch and the new remote.