Thanks for the reply catdog.

Quote Originally Posted by catdog View Post
The UK software has the option to enable the front IR blaster in the tivo menu
Ah yes! Now that you mention it, I do recall seeing that option. That probably explains it then - oztivo defaults to the external LEDs. I'll go ahead and get some wands. Unless anyone knows of a way of re-configuring the oztivo set-up to use the front blaster.....