Another brief introduction ...
Hi all! I am a IT Mrg in Palmerston North and am in the process of setting up a Thomson’s (UK) Tivo.
It was Tim’s excellent website that convinced me that I must have one of these. Like a kid at a toy shop, I read through Tim’s website and the oztivo website. Finally, in a frenzy of techno-lust I purchased the Tivo off ebay in the UK.
A few months ago I picked the Tivo up while on holiday. I have since purchased a 200gb hdd and have installed the UK image downloaded from oztivo.
I had a small issue getting the UK image onto the boot cd from oztivo. I finally managed to add the image to the ISO file using MagicISO.
My CasheCard arrived last week from 9thtee so my current task is to install the drivers. I am just getting over another slight hitch … I haven’t used my FDD for 2 years so forgot that it was broken. Who uses these things anyway?
Anyway I’m having a lot of fun with this. It reminds me of the day I got my first computer. An Apple in 1983.
I would be very interested in hearing from others that have set up or are in the process of setting up UK models in NZ.
remapping channel numbers
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Originally Posted by thomson
I noticed that the object (.o) module that was provided was not compiled with the NICAMSTEREOMODE defined. So it did not include the section in the source code that flicked the tuner into PAL-B/G NICAM Stereo only. I must admit that I have yet to compare the two modules as I stopped when I found that the NICAM only module worked correctly. It could be that by setting PAL-B/G Stereo (as broadcast in Australia) it will automatically detect NICAM, but I prefered the hardcoded option.
I think you'll find that with NICAMSTEREOMODE defined it only enables NICAM mode, whereas in the "default" mode it enables both NICAM and whatever the Aussies use and lets the chip work it out for itself.
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Originally Posted by thomson
I have remapped the channels in the source so that I can use the numbers on the remote to jump to a channel. Previously I had to use 1-TV1, 2-C4, 5-TV2, 11-TV3, 60-Prime... by changing the mappings I can now use 1,2,3,4,5.
There is a capability in the US Tivos to remap the channel numbers without changing the channel numbers in the module like you did.
The US Tivos have a field called "FCCChannelNum" in the MFS Station object in the MFS which is I gather the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) official assigned "number" for the channel.
I am not sure which of Number and FCCNumber when both are available provides the VHF/UHF channel number and which is the number you key into your Tivo remote to select that channel.
e.g. in your case you had to key in 11 to get TV3, thats because against your TV station object in the mfs you had Number=11.
What I'm not sure of is if you added a FCCChannelNum=3 would that mean that you can enter "3" to get to TV3?
Or should it be setup with FCCChannelNum=11 and Number=3? to make that work?
Note: In your case, you've changed the UHF channel numbers so this wouldn't work on your current palmod.o file but would work on original (unmodded by you) palmod.o file.
Also what I don't know is does the UK Tivo software support this feature (FCCChannelNum) [the US Tivos do/did].
As far as I can tell in the UK Tivos the Station line ups don't use the FCCChannelNum field in the Station Object and so you have to enter the UHF channel number of the channel you want to watch. However that doesn't mean you couldn't use it.
Note: When if/when you do enable the ability to just enter "3" for TV3, and you have a TV3 setup on your Sky decoder then you will find that whenever you select TV3 (by just entering 3) your Tivo will generally tune into the Sky channel TV3, if you enter 3 again it will then flip to the TV3 channel on UHF and will toggle between them as you keep entering 3 (enter) on the remote.
This is due to the Tivo always selecting the highest quality source available by default for any given channel where multiple channels with the same number (station ID) are available. But will then cycle to the next highest quality when selected a second time etc.
Also, when a Station is on a Settop box [e.g. controlled via IR], then you may be able to control which "numbers" are sent to the settop box to select that channel as compared what you key on the remote to select it using the same technique (setting FCCChannelNum).
If you do experiment and it works, please report back what you find.
[both here and to the OzTivo forums]