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General Discussion / Re: Post your desktops
« on: July 30, 2015, 07:29:21 PM »
Haven't posted here in a long time. My iMac running the OS X El Capitan beta.
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General Discussion / Re: The Front Porch
« on: April 29, 2015, 12:27:00 PM »I'm back!Welcome back! Your name is familiar to me. A lot has changed since then... Haha
I don't know if anyone remembers me, but I've been gone from these forums for 7-8 years. I left when I was 13 because I got in trouble for being on these forums.
Anyway, obviously I'm a lot older now (and not still in trouble from that!).
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: Same image every single time on the Local on the 8's
« on: December 03, 2014, 01:35:29 AM »
The IntelliStar must not be getting the signal to change the image in the internal database. With my little exposure to the IntelliStar (and very minimal, I must say), the system will download the background files when sent over the satellite. From there on out, the STAR would listen for commands to use the specified background. The XL would work in this way as well, so there is no doubt in my mind that the IntelliStar is this way as well. In fact, I am 98% positive this is the concept used.
With that being said... it is most likely that the STAR isn't getting the command, or for whatever reason it isn't being properly written to the database to use the other backgrounds. TWC would have to look into it.
With that being said... it is most likely that the STAR isn't getting the command, or for whatever reason it isn't being properly written to the database to use the other backgrounds. TWC would have to look into it.
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: new Intellistar 2 Jr.
« on: November 17, 2014, 10:27:42 PM »Thanks for the information and reply. Yes, I own a small cable company but this definitely is not my forte. I have scoured the information sent to me with the new equipment and cannot find a number anywhere. I just checked again. The people to whom we talk with at WeatherChannel have been no help or I have not been able to talk to the right person. Anyway my tech was asking if I could be of some help and find out information for him. So, in my search, I stumbled upon this site. I actually printed and read the "TWC Tech Support Forum Rules & Posts Guidelines" and didn't see any harm in asking for help. I wasn't asking for any top secret information, merely some help from someone smarter than I (that isn't saying much). Thanks cirtjr4, this gives me something to give to my tech and I reply back with some of his more specific questions or concerns. Thanks again.No problem! If you have any questions, ask away. For the most part, you can drop the new IS2Jr in place of the old WeatherSTAR Jr (and remove the WeatherSTAR Junior Audio Alert as well if you have that system on the rack). The big thing is just getting the dish aimed and the cipher authorized.
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: new Intellistar 2 Jr.
« on: November 16, 2014, 02:59:44 PM »
Nah, those labels have pretty low quality adhesive in my opinion. The one on my Jr is about to fall off from heat.
Regardless, there are people on here who can help this guy out with whatever he needs to have done. Yeah, TWC Support is a good place to go to but we can give him the help he needs it sounds like. So just don't be too quick to turn them away from any help he may get on here.
And I do apologize, last night I was really worked up over some personal stuff. So I feel somewhat like a dork for lashing out like that. But hopefully people understand how I feel over that topic in general.
Regardless, there are people on here who can help this guy out with whatever he needs to have done. Yeah, TWC Support is a good place to go to but we can give him the help he needs it sounds like. So just don't be too quick to turn them away from any help he may get on here.
And I do apologize, last night I was really worked up over some personal stuff. So I feel somewhat like a dork for lashing out like that. But hopefully people understand how I feel over that topic in general.
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General Discussion / Re: Sports Thread
« on: November 16, 2014, 04:59:42 AM »
Any hockey fans in here? I must say I was quite impressed with how the LA Kings beat the Anaheim Ducks in overtime 3-2 
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / Re: new Intellistar 2 Jr.
« on: November 16, 2014, 04:46:14 AM »
As I'm a little tired, my response will be a little "scattered"... but given it sounds like you work with a cable company, this should make sense.
You'll want to aim your dish at AMC 10... which is located at 135.0°W. Obviously, you'll have to set the azimuth and elevation of the dish correctly to get a clear shot. Make sure that your DigiCipher is authorized to view TWCs SD feed on AMC 10. If I had the user guide in front of me, I'd be able to give a little more "in depth" instruction, but unfortunately I've misplaced it. The LNB shouldn't really matter... as long as you can get the signal locked on and have the authorized cipher, you should be able to run the IS2Jr. Just make sure that you have a decent sized dish. The digital feed doesn't appear to be as fault tolerant with data like the old analog feed. If I may ask, could you post some of your questions? I can try to lend a helping hand.
@Trevor... why not just give the guy the number? It's not like it isn't plastered all over the internet as well as these forums already. If he is a legitimate TWC affiliate, then they'll help him through the process. That's what their job is. I don't understand why people try to withhold helpful information on here. Everyone should be able to be educated on a topic of their choice, even if they're not in the industry. No need to stipend someones interests. I've always been told that I'll never get anywhere with this equipment, but I've gone pretty far and have a great deal of knowledge on how these things work. So, for what it's worth, if you know a piece of information that can further expand someones knowledge in a topic that they are needing help in, give them anything you know. We can't evolve as humans if we withhold information. And I realize that I am going a little overboard regarding a phone number... but it's the message I'm trying to put across that counts. If someone wants to know something, tell them. Nothing behind this technology is a secret. It's all out there on the internet in the wide open already. Let's not make it any harder than it is.
TL;DR: 1-800-554-7354. I wish you luck, Proprius. Feel free to post back here and I'll try to help.
You'll want to aim your dish at AMC 10... which is located at 135.0°W. Obviously, you'll have to set the azimuth and elevation of the dish correctly to get a clear shot. Make sure that your DigiCipher is authorized to view TWCs SD feed on AMC 10. If I had the user guide in front of me, I'd be able to give a little more "in depth" instruction, but unfortunately I've misplaced it. The LNB shouldn't really matter... as long as you can get the signal locked on and have the authorized cipher, you should be able to run the IS2Jr. Just make sure that you have a decent sized dish. The digital feed doesn't appear to be as fault tolerant with data like the old analog feed. If I may ask, could you post some of your questions? I can try to lend a helping hand.
@Trevor... why not just give the guy the number? It's not like it isn't plastered all over the internet as well as these forums already. If he is a legitimate TWC affiliate, then they'll help him through the process. That's what their job is. I don't understand why people try to withhold helpful information on here. Everyone should be able to be educated on a topic of their choice, even if they're not in the industry. No need to stipend someones interests. I've always been told that I'll never get anywhere with this equipment, but I've gone pretty far and have a great deal of knowledge on how these things work. So, for what it's worth, if you know a piece of information that can further expand someones knowledge in a topic that they are needing help in, give them anything you know. We can't evolve as humans if we withhold information. And I realize that I am going a little overboard regarding a phone number... but it's the message I'm trying to put across that counts. If someone wants to know something, tell them. Nothing behind this technology is a secret. It's all out there on the internet in the wide open already. Let's not make it any harder than it is.
TL;DR: 1-800-554-7354. I wish you luck, Proprius. Feel free to post back here and I'll try to help.
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WeatherSTAR Tech Support / San Luis Obispo, CA IntelliStar frozen
« on: October 07, 2014, 12:29:19 AM »
Hello STAR Team, if you all still lurk around here. Haven't seen any activity from you guys in quite a while.
IntelliStar 23782 of San Luis Obispo, CA has been frozen since 9:58 AM pacific time. It is now 9:26 PM, and it is still frozen.
I'll attach a picture of where it's frozen. The cable company is Charter Communications, channel 39.
Thanks!
IntelliStar 23782 of San Luis Obispo, CA has been frozen since 9:58 AM pacific time. It is now 9:26 PM, and it is still frozen.
I'll attach a picture of where it's frozen. The cable company is Charter Communications, channel 39.
Thanks!
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General Discussion / Re: What's Your Speedtest and Pingtest results?
« on: September 29, 2014, 02:03:39 AM »
Since everyone else is posting theirs...
From a few days ago:
From my house:
Charter finally upgraded us to 60mbps for free. I guess the story is no one on Charters network is below their advertised 60mbps anymore... this is the minimum speed they provide.
From a few days ago:
From my house:
Charter finally upgraded us to 60mbps for free. I guess the story is no one on Charters network is below their advertised 60mbps anymore... this is the minimum speed they provide.
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Question about IntelliStar 2
« on: September 04, 2014, 01:25:47 AM »
To correct Eric, what he said about the contracts is in no way confirmed from everything I have gathered over the years. In fact, cable stations have sold me equipment and Mediacom just gave an employee an old 4000...
As for plugging it in and getting forecasts... the answer is "yes" but "no". Yes for the XL, mine is still chugging along cuing a D or M flavor on the 8s... mostly D. This has taken some reverse engineering and three brains. Older legacy units... answer is still yes but with all of my reverse engineering efforts, I haven't been able to make much progress as the equipment I would need comes with a hefty price tag. Due to that, my II, III, and Junior sit in storage.
Now, would Comcast give an IntelliStar away? Doubtful. I'm sure that TWC requests them back if there is faulty hardware, and given it's still the most heavily used system in the field today there isn't a great chance of these machines sitting in an old equipment closet. Give it five more years when the IS starts to be replaced by the IS 2 Jr (if that happens...).
For those who say it's not possible for an XL to run without AMC 11... check out my youtube. I upload videos quite often. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9XWVJjbCUzImvznI1sHSpw
As for plugging it in and getting forecasts... the answer is "yes" but "no". Yes for the XL, mine is still chugging along cuing a D or M flavor on the 8s... mostly D. This has taken some reverse engineering and three brains. Older legacy units... answer is still yes but with all of my reverse engineering efforts, I haven't been able to make much progress as the equipment I would need comes with a hefty price tag. Due to that, my II, III, and Junior sit in storage.
Now, would Comcast give an IntelliStar away? Doubtful. I'm sure that TWC requests them back if there is faulty hardware, and given it's still the most heavily used system in the field today there isn't a great chance of these machines sitting in an old equipment closet. Give it five more years when the IS starts to be replaced by the IS 2 Jr (if that happens...).
For those who say it's not possible for an XL to run without AMC 11... check out my youtube. I upload videos quite often. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9XWVJjbCUzImvznI1sHSpw
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General Discussion / Re: Into The Storm
« on: August 13, 2014, 10:09:02 PM »
No matter how they try, nothing will replace Twister. Sorry...
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
« on: August 12, 2014, 04:28:21 PM »I suppose you're right there, But I'm not prepared to learn mono at this time. Especially as I'm busy coding my own emulator in VB right now.Mono is Visual Basic. The difference is when you code under Mono you can guarantee that your application will run on Windows, OS X, Linux, and others.
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TWC and your Cable Company / Re: Charter Communications Discussion
« on: August 12, 2014, 01:19:31 AM »Would it be nice if TVs with digital tuners could get at least a certain amount of channels without a box? Certainly. But unless someone wants to literally reinvent the entire cable TV infrastructure, it's not possible. Same argument with satellite television.I'd like to disagree and point a few things out. TVs with CableCARD capabilities can use their built in tuners... you just won't get the awesome on-demand stuff and perhaps a few other channels. If cable companies didn't encrypt their signals, anyone would be able to just split a coaxial cable somewhere and steal television, much like in the old days of analog. The CableCARD and STBs (set top boxes) are just there to ensure that cable isn't stolen. So if someone were to split a coax line and run one cable to the STB and another to a TV with a digital tuner that is capable of CableCARDs, you'd get a black picture or it'd tell you that you're unauthorized.
Oh, and has anyone on Charter recieved the new complimentary bump in internet speed to 60mbps? I know headends back in Michigan have already upgraded everyone to 60mbps for free, but where I am in California we are still at 30mbps, despite our cable system going completely digital as of August 5th.
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IntelliStar 2 Discussion / Re: Thinking about coding an IntelliStar 2 HD emulator
« on: August 12, 2014, 01:05:37 AM »Thats the problem, the intellistar 2 is full of animations, which would be difficult to recreate in Visual BasicNonsense. If you insist on using .NET based languages, then shoot for development under C# and XNA.
If you're like me and dislike proprietary programming languages and unsupported frameworks (XNA is no longer supported or developed by Microsoft), you could develop under Mono and Unity. The nice thing is Mono is essentially the same thing, but while programming with Mono you can port the program to OS X, Linux, and even Android if you really wanted to. This would be the route to go in my opinion.
Always have to remember this... It's not the programming language that caps your possibilities... it's the programmer (not to say that .NET is generally an awful language to do this stuff with due to lack of object/image manipulation, because .NET is seriously awful for graphic intensive applications.).
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Local Forecast / Re: Traffic on LDL
« on: July 26, 2014, 05:09:16 PM »
Don't see it on the IntelliStar or IS2HD in San Luis Obispo, CA. Must not be a big enough city for the product, despite having some nasty traffic sometimes. Especially during rush hour.