OK good news - I have made progress with the Thomson image! Thanks jaidev - tuned the TV to the TiVo RF ouput, and although the SCART o/p was blank, there was the picture. Annoyingly the start up default is not channel 60, it becomes that as part of the default setup if you don't change it. This means a bit of retuning is required when it switches to channel 60 early on in the setup, but hey ho. Odd that you get the "power up" and "Almost there a few more minutes" splash screens via SCART, then no more unless you use the RF o/p......odd
I have hit my first snag - the dial out is not working. I am a little baffled by this as I used the same settings on the Philips image when setting up the cachecard+RAM (static IP, DNS, MAC & gateway) and that worked fine.
I wonder whether the nzTiVo Thomson Beta image requires updating in terms of it's port addresses for the emulator ? I will check this, although the forum guide on this says that the"NZ images are pre-configured against port 8000, as of 11/3/06 (DJC). Any clarification or help on this would be greatly appreciated.
I have tried to use the ,#401 prefix, but that didn't help either.
I can use hyperterminal to access the TiVo, so I assume that means the cachecard drivers are loaded and all is OK.
I am not a PC programmer by any means, and am a bit shy of hyperterm file edits, but could manage a few.
Any hints, tips, help, or links to appropriate forum discussions (in cased I missed any) would be most welcome.
Thanks guys.
PS 40Gb drive did not work, so I am "committed" to making this work given I have now deleted the mostly working philips image.....aaaaggghhh!