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  1. #1
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    May 2004
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    Auckland
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    Problems with Guided Setup

    I have had my Tivo for just over a week now and have tried everything to get it up and running. (I am a Tivo and Linux newbie - haven't hacked anything seriously since Dos 6.22)

    I started with the " NZ TiVo Newbie? Start Here..." thread (thanks Jaidev and Tim) and managed to get the oztivo 3.1 image on and successfully networked it.
    Then I tried the loadguide instructions (hadn't seen that the emulator was available). After editing and running all the tcls as per Tim's "Tivo Howto" I could not get past the Guided Setup. (I expected the Tivo to boot up and bypass the dial up because I read:

    > Note that you don't need to do anything with the OzTivo guided setup
    > onscreen because this is targeted for automating the setup to the OzTivo
    > Service Emulator"
    The Tivo insisted that I go through GS and then failed to connect.

    Anyway, I eventually noticed the "Emulator available" thread (thanks Ed) so I re-imaged the disk (in case I had accidently hacked it to bits) and I followed Ed's instructions.

    Again the Tivo fails to connect with the message "Failed. Service unavailable"

    From the tivo I can successfully ping 66.238.88.163.

    A few other things I have noticed that may be important:

    When I select "Logs" from the Tivo Web I get:

    INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
    --cut here--
    action_logs '/' ''
    no files matched glob pattern "/var/log/O*"
    while executing
    "glob "$TIVO_ROOT/var/log/O*""
    (procedure "::action_logs" line 20)
    invoked from within
    "::action_$action $chan $part $env"
    ("eval" body line 1)
    invoked from within
    "eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
    --cut here--

    ...before the list of logs displays.

    The tvlog concerns me too - it has grown to about 172,000 records in the few hours I have had it on since re-imaging it. (With the old image it had built up to over 26 million records in about 5 days so I now switch the Tivo off unless I am working on it). I can't see any obvious error messages - mostly looks like debug information - but if anyone knows what I could look for I would be grateful.

    Not sure if this matters but I do not have Sky (yet) - I have connected the Tivo to a VCR and want to try it out with Free To Air channels. I know I will need to sort out the IR codes but will cross that bridge later. Just using it as a manual recorder would be good to start with but I cannot get it to do anything.

    Any hints would be much appreciated....

  2. #2
    Join Date
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    One small step...

    I got past my "Failed. Service unavailable" by unplugging the tivo from my hub and plugging it directly into the ADSL modem.

    I can now connect every time but have to re-connect via the hub in order to use telnet or tivoweb. Since my hub is downstairs and tv upstairs this is a pain.

    The LAN is isolated from the modem by a standalone smoothwall firewall. Is there a trick to getting the tivo to work through a firewall?

  3. #3
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Victoria, Melbourne
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    Lightbulb

    Have you tried to do a "wget" from your TiVo?

    The syntax once you've telnetted into your box is:
    wget http://ip.address/directoryIfOneExists/fileto.get

    for example:
    wget http://131.244.9.101/TiVo/files/slic...Melb.FTA.slice

    Might be a transparent proxy issue as well. I believe this was discussed on the OzTiVo mailing list.

    Hope this helps.
    Ex Tivo Owner.
    Philips Tivo
    Version 1.3 Emulator Image from Minnie
    200Gig Western Digital HDD
    No Turbonet or Cachecard
    Slices: Cable Digital FTA

  4. #4
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    Smoothwall's proxy was the problem

    Thanks, tenty, for your hint - my Smoothwall was set up to provide a transparent proxy.

    I have disabled the proxy and now the Tivo connects through the hub and firewall - no problem.

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