Remote Help

[bigmal]

Update - I left the tivo turned off for the day while I was at work. Came home, turned it on and it's going great guns.

Next time it locks up I'll try covering up the ir receiver for a while to determine if it's a flooding issue.

Something strange i did notice the other day was that when I was pushing the directional buttons on the tivo remote (when the tivo wasn't responding) the sky ir receiver flashed as if it had received a request to change channels. That shouldn't happen should it? I have a new pace sky decoder DS230NNZ.

I'm determined to get to the bottom of this problem. I'll post my results for those who're interested.

[petestrash]

Glad to hear it's working again.

Being in Oz I'm not familiar the the sky box you mention, but I do have other gear (S2 TiVo for example) that flashes every time any IR Signal is received regardlesss of the type of remote used. So you Sky box might be similar. I would be worried if the TiVo remote made the Sky box actually do something.

Peter.

[bigmal]

*Update*

The remote problems continued for days. Sometimes it would respond other times it wouldn't, so I ordered a new remote from Darren King.

A couple of days before the remote arrived I edited rc.sysinit.author and commented out endpad, tivoweb and tivoftp (I know this should've been my first point of call but I'm a newbie ). Since stopping those programs from running the tivo has been going great, no remote lockups for a week. When the new remote arrived that worked fine too.

I'm running the latest NZ Image with a 512mb cachecard. For thorough testing I'll start tivoweb, tivoftp and endpad one at a time and try to determine which one was potentially causing the lockups. I won't do this testing for a while tho as I want to enjoy having the tivo running for while :-)

Thanks to everyone who helped me on this one.

Jeremy.