audiofix

Hi Matt,

I sent two emails to the audiofix address on 11/3/21 in respect of my two Tivos. So far, nothing has happened. No Message received, and no "running" display. Have I missed the boat? Should I just do the manual fix?

Thanks for your work,

Ned

Hi again Matt,

I have gone ahead and applied the manual fix. No problems encountered. Thanks again for your work.

Regards,
Ned

Hi Andrew,

I am also having the same problem as 1) following installing Audiofix 0.2.0. Many things do still seem to record properly sound wise, but we will also getting partial sound recordings and none at all. Its happening on ABC Kids / Channel 22.

Thanks,

(Another) Andrew

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Originally Posted by piersoar

Hi Matt and everyone. Thanks so much for all your work in keeping oztivos running for us.

Am wondering if anyone else is seeing a couple of problems possibly related to the audiofix patch?

1) Am seeing a couple of times a week programs recorded with no sound at all.
Tonight it was the second half of Michael Palin in North Korea on SBS HD. Mainly watch SBS and ABC HD primary channels here, and am suspecting something to do with subsequent programs on the same channel not triggering the audio channel selection - perhaps? Details of this instance now attached.

20:30 = 0930GMT - began recording Palin Part 2 on Tuner 0 whilst continuing 5-min end-padding of Palin Part 1 Tuner 1 (both have sound)
20:35 = 0935GMT - stopped recording Palin Part 1 on Tuner 1 (sound ceased on Tuner 0 for rest of recording)
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This could be something to do with the way audiofix detects a channel change. Probably not easy to fix

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2) The TiVo seems to be silently resetting/rebooting a couple of times a week now - evidenced by loss of the clock display we manually activate.
Strangely the logs show this often (but not always) happens at about the same time - within a few seconds anyway. Don't recall having to reactivate the clock ever (except for power failure) before the audiofix - so seem related but not necessary causal!

logs back to May-2020 show no fatal errors until 16-FEB-21. audiofix applied 15-FEB-21. Seems to have rebooted 17 times since then.
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Both problems are easily lived with, but with a stock setup (thanks Darren King) I'd guess others might be experiencing similar, but so far don't see it reported. Very happy to do more research - anything to help.

Thanks again, Andrew

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I have 3 Tivos running the patch at home. I've stared to monitor uptime on them. Currently:
Tivo 1: 3 weeks uptime
Tivo 2: averages 2-3 days uptime
Tivo3: averages 1-4 days uptime

I don't have any data from before the fix, so can't really draw any conclusions from this.

Matt

Please add 3 more to the list. I successfully used the manual approach. Was quick and easy.
BTW Using Kitty I could not SSH into a friends Tivo, so in Kitty I clicked Telnet and went straight in.
Pasted the following in one hit and clicked enter.

cd /tmp
wget http://hd.oztivo.net:8000/static/swu...te-v3.snow.bnd
tar xf OZ-update-v3.snow.bnd
tar xzf swupdate.tar.gz
./update.sh

It rebooted and all was good.

Thanks to MattCallow for this ("Manual install" page 5).

And many thanks to all for the great efforts.

When season passes record two consecutive programs on ABC-TV I am finding that the second program records with no sound. Specifically, this occurs with Gardening Australia and Vera on ABC-HD Channel 20 in Sydney. Presumably the second recording isn't generating the channel-change message required for audiofix. Are others experiencing this problem? I can try to record the second program on ABC Channel 2 to see if that helps.

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Originally Posted by edcba

... consecutive programs on ABC-TV [Channel 20] ... second program records with no sound .... Presumably the second recording isn't generating the channel-change message required for audiofix ...

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That sounds like (no pun) a reasonable hypothesis.

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... try to record the second program on ABC Channel 2...

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That would be a good work-around. Alternatively you could cancel the 2nd back-to-back show in the To Do list and then extend the end time of the 1st show to encompass the 2nd. The downside of this would be the recording title only listing the 1st show.

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Originally Posted by piersoar

The TiVo seems to be silently resetting/rebooting a couple of times a week

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Mines doing the same. Seems to be since I patched it recently. Let me know if I can supply any other info\data.

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Originally Posted by edcba

When season passes record two consecutive programs on ABC-TV I am finding that the second program records with no sound. Specifically, this occurs with Gardening Australia and Vera on ABC-HD Channel 20 in Sydney. Presumably the second recording isn't generating the channel-change message required for audiofix. Are others experiencing this problem? I can try to record the second program on ABC Channel 2 to see if that helps.

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I'm experiencing the exact same issue, except on SBS Viceland 31 HD of which there isn't a 2nd SD channel anymore so I can't record the second program on another channel. Matt, if you're reading this, do you know if it can be fixed from a technical standpoint?

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Originally Posted by boritz

That sounds like (no pun) a reasonable hypothesis.

That would be a good work-around. Alternatively you could cancel the 2nd back-to-back show in the To Do list and then extend the end time of the 1st show to encompass the 2nd. The downside of this would be the recording title only listing the 1st show.

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I thought that the extended end time only applied to live programming events e.g. sport. Is this not the case?

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Originally Posted by xga

I thought that the extended end time only applied to live programming events e.g. sport. Is this not the case?

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No - you can extend the end time of any scheduled recording regardless of the TV EPG value.

You can also schedule a manual recording for several hours.

I used both of those methods but no longer have TiVos so I can't accurately describe the menu paths etc.

Have moved to FetchTV Mightys - better now than TiVo but they do lack the excellent TiVo Wishlist functionality.

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Originally Posted by xga

I'm experiencing the exact same issue, except on SBS Viceland 31 HD of which there isn't a 2nd SD channel anymore so I can't record the second program on another channel. Matt, if you're reading this, do you know if it can be fixed from a technical standpoint?

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Hi,

It is probably fixable. Not sure when/if I'll get the time/enthusiasm to look at it though. I wrote the script because I still use my TiVos and the sound problem made a number of stations unwatchable. I released it because I thought it would be of use to others. it has now been rolled out to over 300 TiVos.

There are problems with the guide data, which I know people haved asked about. It's an issue for me too, but I don't have the time/knowledge to fix it. It wasn't something I worked on originally and altough I have looked into fixing the data for a couple of channels, I don't know exactly what needs to be done and don't want to break what is already there. So I have left it alone.

Unfortunately, it seems that most of the community of developers that worked to get the original mods together have moved on to other things.

Matt

Hi,

I've updated the Tivo Server software so that it can send out the audiofix to all Australian Tivos without anyone needing to request it. This will mean that most people in Australia will get the audiofix update without needing to ask me for it. The fix is already running on over 300 Tivos with minimal issues, so I think it's pretty safe to do this now.

I'll leave this here for a few days to see if anyone has any good reasons for me not to do this.

Matt

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Originally Posted by MattCallow

Hi,

I've updated the Tivo Server software so that it can send out the audiofix to all Australian Tivos without anyone needing to request it. This will mean that most people in Australia will get the audiofix update without needing to ask me for it. The fix is already running on over 300 Tivos with minimal issues, so I think it's pretty safe to do this now.

I'll leave this here for a few days to see if anyone has any good reasons for me not to do this.

Matt

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This has now been enabled. All TiVos configured for an Australian lineup should get the fix overnight

Matt

Hi MattCallow, just wanted to say a big thank you for fixing my TiVo's sound issues.
Great to be able to watch ABC news on channel 24 again.
And thank you for doing it automatically- a very welcome surprise.
Charmaine

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Originally Posted by Charmaine

Hi MattCallow, just wanted to say a big thank you for fixing my TiVo's sound issues.
Great to be able to watch ABC news on channel 24 again.
And thank you for doing it automatically- a very welcome surprise.
Charmaine

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You are most welcome. Glad it is working for you.

Matt

Hi everyone. I have the audiofix installed and it works perfectly on abc and sbs, but am finding I get the nasty noises on 7flix now. I?m in central vic so this is channel 65. Seems that be only the one audio channel and it?s greyed out. I can?t watch any of my recordings from this channel and my dog gets very distressed if I turn it on. Is there anything that can be done to fix it? TIA.

I have the same problem with flix in fsnsw. I have turned the channel off.

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Originally Posted by mnmGirlOz

Hi everyone. I have the audiofix installed and it works perfectly on abc and sbs, but am finding I get the nasty noises on 7flix now. I?m in central vic so this is channel 65. Seems that be only the one audio channel and it?s greyed out. I can?t watch any of my recordings from this channel and my dog gets very distressed if I turn it on. Is there anything that can be done to fix it? TIA.

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Audiofix can't allow the Tivo to decode new audio formats. It can only change the audio format to one that the TiVo understands. If a channel does not transmit audio that the Tivo can understand, then I don't think there is anything we can do.

Matt

Oh dear that is no good! I was hoping someone would be able to help. I will have to turn the channel off then.

Anyone having audio problems with ABC again? I'm in Brisbane and starting this morning, ABC audio has dropped out a couple of times, only to come back when I switched to another channel and them came back to 2.

I have often seen a problem where I have the same channel on both tuners (for example recording back-to-back programs when you have Stop Recording = Extended or 5 minutes longer) that some times one tuner will have audio and the other will have no audio. Changing channel on either tuner usually fixes this (from that point onwards, too bad for anything recorded before I changed a channel). I'm not sure if the problem I described matches allanl's problem (probably not), but at least my problem is fairly reproducible (at least with ABC News 24 in Melbourne, but I suspect the same for other channels that need audio fix and for other locations).