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HDR-FOX T2 to HDHomeRun, my journey

dearleuk said:
Anyone else upgrading a win 10 pc to 11 while running DvrOnTime?

Be really useful to hear any comments, good or bad. Or is anyone just going to leave win 10 running?

Thank you
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If you do go for it my recommendation in the light of my experiences would be to setup a load of recordings in the first few days to test the hell out it. If you have issues like me then you can rollback to Windows 10 fairly easily in the 1st 10 days, and I believe potentially even beyond that timeframe still, with some additional steps required.
 
sceptic said:
If you do go for it my recommendation in the light of my experiences would be to setup a load of recordings in the first few days to test the hell out it. If you have issues like me then you can rollback to Windows 10 fairly easily in the 1st 10 days, and I believe potentially even beyond that timeframe still, with some additional steps required.
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Thanks for that, really useful and I didn't know about the rollback option. As you can probably tell, I'm not a big Windows user.

I'll have a think about it and report back here either way.

Thanks again
 
I have DvrOnTime running on windows 11 without problems.

About the the only change i made (as far as my aged memory goes) was to change the windows service setting to always restart following a failure
The other hassle is finding and disabling all the sleep options in Windows to keep it awake - it would be nice if DvrOnTime could implement wake on timer, but now I have installed other apps that also work best 24x7 - NordVPN to allow remote access to home network and PRTG to monitor network.

The HDR/T2 is still my primary recording and viweing interface because the TV UI is easier to use than accessing recordings on a network device.
 
dearleuk said:
Brilliant thank you MymsMan. Was your win 11 an upgrade from win 10?
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I cant remember if PC was was sold as Win 11 installed, or Win 11 ready and upgraded shortly afterwards
In any event PC was bought in 2023 and only installed DvrOnTime on it earlier this year when previous win 10 computer finally gave up.
 
Upgraded Win 10 to Win 11 this morning. took about half an hour.

Hate the interface, right mouse click wouldn't work (had to uninstall Clover a tabbed file manager), but DvrOnTime is running and has just recorded two programmes without incident. Adbreaker is working as well.

So fingers crossed, all is well so far.

Thanks for everyone's help
 
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I'm setting up a Windows 11 PC to run DVROnTime to replace the Windows 10 one that has started restarting itself at random times (the Windows event log says kernel power failure).
I have a new (well secondhand PC running Windows 11) PC that I am setting up to run my 24/7 Home Theatre stuff (plex, get_iplayer etc.) and want to move DVROnTime to that but I'm not sure of what I need to do.
I have downloads of DVROnTime 1.0.5, 1.0.6 and 1.0.7.
I've looked at all of the instructions I have to install the various versions and patches.
What I intend to do on the new PC is :
Install 1.0.6. from scratch from the 1.0.6 download (SQLLocalDB.msi, reboot PC then DVRONTimeSetup.msi) not sure if I need to install .NET 4.8 and .NET Core 3.1. first.
Restart the service on new PC and run the channel tuning.
Stop the service on the old and new PCs.
Copy the DvrOnTime.mdf and DvrOnTime_log.ldf file from the old PC to the new, overwriting the current versions on the new PC.
Start/Stop the service on new PC and run DvrOnTime.exe from the 1.0.7 download to install the 1.0.7 updates.
Edit: After further investigation, I think the 1.0.7. modules just replace those in the C:\Program Files\DvrOnTime installation directory.
Not sure if I will need to reboot the Windows 11 PC between steps (apart from after the SQL install) and run Windows Update to pick up updates triggered by the install of DVROnTime/.NET stuff on the new PC.

Anyone out there who has migrated from Windows 10 to Windows 11 on different PCs that can verify this is correct?
 
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