Directv DVR controls stop working again after March update

After the February update, the DVR controls from a Harmony remote stopped forwarding the IR commands to my DirecTv STB.

After the March update, everything starting working again.

Today, I have seemed to loose this functionality again! Now I am back to the problems I had during the February update! I am not aware of an update today, so did Microsoft sneak one in on update Tuesday?

Anyone else seeing this?

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Directv DVR controls not working after update

Just to note, this isn't related to the Harmony remotes at all. I am having the same issue with 3 different universal remotes, none of them are Logitech. Voice commands and controller still work, but none of the remotes do.

I would like to add, when they get around to fixing this, I REALLY hope they update other generic controls on the remote (specifically the menu up/down/left/right/select buttons) so they are passed through to the STB as well. For example, if I am at the
home screen or in an app, I would expect my menu navigation to move around the Xbox selections on screen. But, when I an watching TV, I would expect those same navigation buttons to now send IR codes to by STB instead. If they did that, I could control my
STB DVR and apps like Netflix and Hulu without having to change modes on my remote every time.

This is such a blatant oversight, I don't know how it ever made it out of testing.

 

Directv DVR controls not working after update

No I hear you, all was good from day one and all of a sudden things are broken all over the place. I personally setup to control DirecTV directly because I hate the OneGuide and I couldn't use the number pad without remapping all the buttons. But either
way and for either preference it shouldn't matter cause like you said it should work as it always has.

As for my test, I deleted the xbox and readded it to make sure the profile was up to date, setup a TV 2 activity and controlled all functions through the xbox. Play/Pause, FF, RW, all work without a problem and didn't even miss a command at all. Channel
changes from within OneGuide worked great as well. FWIW I'm using an HR-34 Genie receiver, not sure what everyone else is on. I no longer have any older receivers to try.

And there was another blu-ray app update, and I have still my problem of Menu and Info not working. This is all just a big headache right now. MS needs to get things worked out.