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Wednesday, December 4th, 2024 7:01 PM

TiVo cablecard V58

Same problem started 21:28 12-03.

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1 month ago

If the card is a Scientific-Atlanta/Cisco/Technicolor PowerKEY card, it may have died due to a date-related internal flaw. See https://www.lightreading.com/cable-technology/time-warp-could-cause-millions-of-old-powerkey-set-tops-to-go-on-the-blink. I haven't been able to find a list of which cards are affected, but the PKM800 series and earlier seem to be in trouble.

I have a Tivo Edge using a Technicolor Multi-Stream PowerKEY Model PKM908 card (printed dated 04/01/20) and so far it's still working. FWIW the card's firmware (from the "CableCARD Diag Screen") "OS Ver" is "PKEY2.0.1_F.p.1101, Build Time: Nov 2 2022".

Before declaring a CableCard problem it's worth checking the Tivo's signal stats. See https://tivoidp.tivo.com/tivoCommunitySupport/s/article/Troubleshooting-Digital-TV-Signals. Under "Signal Quality" ignore the "Maximum SNR" spec. The higher the SNR, the better. All six tuners on my Edge have SNR values of 40 or higher and work just fine.

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1 month ago

 

ty9999, Let us know if that did the trick or if you still need assistance. Thanks so much to @BruceW for their help. 

 

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24 days ago

same V58 error for me on 2 PKM800 SA Cablecards, but one came back??!!

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