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Wednesday, May 21st, 2025

Tuner Activity cannot access live tv

I cannot access live tv - I keep getting an error that says "Your live tv tuner was taken by master at 5:21p Sun 5/18. To time to 360 FNCHD select an option below.  Press exit to return to to 9981 "DTV

9981 is a random movie called Novocain that says it's recording.  I cannot stop the recording or

ecen select it  

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1 year ago

Do you have satellite or one of the streaming-only options?

What are the models of box(es) you are using?

What troubleshooting have you tried?

Are you using a regular antenna (with AM21 or LCC) with your DirecTV equipment?

Community Support

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256.3K Messages

1 year ago

We have a technical team on standby ready to help with troubleshooting, @Slautenb. Sending you a DM now. Rhyan, DIRECTV Community Team

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14 hours ago

DIRECTV is aware of this issue impacting HR54-500 boxes with the 0x1DD1 build that started on 8/25/26.  Customers can manually downgrade the box to the current National build (0x1D96) by rebooting and entering 02468 on the remote when the Hello Screen is displayed.   Mark, DIRECTV Community Manager


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