Quick intro..

[brucer]

Hi there, Just thought I'd introduce myself briefly, My name's Bruce, I live in North Canterbury and I develop software for a living. I've had my Tivo up and running for about a week now it is:

Phillips Series 1 /80GB
Turbonet card connected to DLink wireless bridge (wireless bridge was about the same price as a wireless PC -Card for the airnet and a more flexible option I think).

I bought the TIVO w/drive off ebay (www.tekgems.com) and the turbonet card from 9th Tee.

I've had a lot of fun (and a wee bit of hair pulling) getting it all going, but it works great now (at least until the latest slice ) thanks entirely to Tim's Tivo pages.

I have a Zenith Sky decoder and created an IR-Code file from my pronto remote (www.zitafarm.com/zenithSky.tcl)

one issue I had was "stoppling" or random pausing and/or pixellation when watching recorded material, to cut a long story short after researching all the probable causes I stuck a UPS on it and it seems to be cured (AC power is pretty bad out here), I'm guessing the tiny Tivo power supply doesn't have much leeway to handle spikes/dips etc.

Well that's it.. I look forward to seeing the Tivo "cult" develop in NZ

[Benji]

I'm also a newbie, I'm from Auckland and work as a Technology Mgr. I had been talking to Tim for a couple of months on and off prior to Russell Browne's Listener article and then decided to get off my butt and order my Tivo. Imported a Series 1 Philips SA from PowerOn in a no hard drive state. I've since installed an 80 Gb drive and a Cachecard (Rev 2.2).

I only really started setting it up today at work but seem to have everything running after about 2 hours on and off.

I'd also like to thank Tim for his excellent work on helping the newbs

Cheers

Ben

[timmy]

Hi Bruce,

Good to hear from ya, I really appreciate hearing from people who have gotten Tivo up and running. Nothing worse than being in the dark about who the 'community' really consists of

I hope you and others can stick around and help contribute to NZ Tivo.

[timmy]

heh its funny how tivo nz is bringing in all the techie types like you guys who work in IT, likewise with myself, Jaidev, and numerous other people I have talked to. LOL fringe computing...

certainly wont find many chics this way guys but might have some talent to draw on, answer questions, etc.

good stuff, love it...

TiM

[zollymonsta]

Time for me to introduce myself?


*coughs and looks at shoes*

I'm in Wellington and a technical officer. Got my TiVo on Sunday and got it all up and running in a couple of hours. It's a Phillips series 1 with a 120gb HD and turbonet card. In the middle of another re-image now, seems to have worked but I think I'm having the same problem with the slice.

Working well with a Saturn 3300 decoder.

Already addicted to TiVo, I can see why everyone else has too

[jaidev]

Introductions huh? errrrrrrrr ok then...

Hello my name is Jaidev (lol feels like school)
I have been using TiVo for 3 years now...... now I'm not going to get all nostalgic and tell you all about running a TiVo with the 1.3 image...no guide data, and stuttering PAL

Anyway things have come a long way since.....

I'm the person who makes the guide slices and uploads them...also I'm only human so *rarely* a bad slice may slip through.
If you find any issues with the guide please direct all guide data issues to the NZ guide data area. Or to the NZ Tivo Mailing list.

Since TiVo hacking is kind of an art, please read the HowTo's and the NZ newbie section (work in progress)
Happy TiVo'ing

thanks

Jaidev