For those of you who, like me, were still in IMG 1.9.1 territory, you may have gotten updated last night to 1.9.4. It started around 2:55 a.m. by quickly resetting my STBs and leaving them without IMG functions for about 5 minutes. Then all the boxes started shutting down randomly to receive the new update. It finished about 3:30 a.m. EDT. Of course this was in the middle of one of my recordings, again (thanks Verizon).
I haven't discovered anything major yet. If your STB did not have the FiOS TV Home Screen before, you will need to disable it now (unless you enjoy spam when you turn your TV on, to each his own). Also, check your recording schedule (resets can do funny things like rescheduling conflicts that you'd already taken care of). And of course you will have to set your Guide mode again. Unfortunately, all the same issues with the Guide, Genres & Filters, and the Subscribed channels functions (as detailed here) remain in this update.
Probably the biggest change is to the Export Series to Cloud option. This setting can now be used to save all your settings to Verizon servers so that they can be transferred to a new STB/DVR in the event a replacement is needed. You can also use this function to transfer your settings from one STB/DVR to any other STB/DVR in your house. Not only does this mean that you do not have to reprogram all your settings into the replacement, but now you only have to program one box, Save those settings to the cloud and then use the Restore function to transfer those settings to any other box in your house. (Be aware that boxes get reset after a restore.)
To disable the FiOS TV Home Screen:
Menu > Settings > Television > Promotions > Disable > OK > Exit
The Export Series to Cloud function:
DVR > Settings > Export Series to Cloud > OK
The Save Settings function:
Menu > Settings > Save Settings > OK > OK > OK
The Restore Settings function:
Menu > Settings > Restore Settings > OK > OK > (Select Location Name) > OK
Not sure if the Export Series to Cloud function is the same as the Save Settings function, or if it still only does the Series settings. The Save Settings function describes itself in more detail and definitely does save everything (no not the recordings themselves). So I would choose this option until Verizon realizes that it left the other one there and decides to inform us of any differences.
That's it for now.
(Special thanks to Justin for tipping me off to the new ability to transfer settings from one STB to another.)
