Quick intro..

[jaidev]

Introductions huh? errrrrrrrr ok then...

Hello my name is Jaidev (lol feels like school)
I have been using TiVo for 3 years now...... now I'm not going to get all nostalgic and tell you all about running a TiVo with the 1.3 image...no guide data, and stuttering PAL

Anyway things have come a long way since.....

I'm the person who makes the guide slices and uploads them...also I'm only human so *rarely* a bad slice may slip through.
If you find any issues with the guide please direct all guide data issues to the NZ guide data area. Or to the NZ Tivo Mailing list.

Since TiVo hacking is kind of an art, please read the HowTo's and the NZ newbie section (work in progress)
Happy TiVo'ing

thanks

Jaidev

[timmy]

ok fine i'll do my intro too, mind u i already did a big one on my website.

yeah basically i'm 24, studied computer science for four years at Waikato. Have always been very interested in TV recording. I have this dream for 'World TV' (which I think is a better idea than Jaidev's Internet Toilet idea but thats another story).

Have been very interested in the whole open source ideology but have been and probably always will be a windows man tho I love the unix command line.

I love coding but still consider myself very amateur (although I'm employed as an systems analyst/application developer). I make the grabber code for Jaidev to run. I think I've got grabbing down to a fine art tho it's not considered a particularly difficult programming task, just laborious mostly.

Got very angry when I heard others were using Tivo in NZ and hadn't told anyone, after using it for a six months or so decided enough was enough and put up some pages to get others started.

[Fuzion]

Hi,

Ive just come back from London, had a Tivo the day them came out there and found it hard comming back last year to no "Tivo Service", had to stat thinking for myself again.

Just being using it a gloryfied VCR until last week, now has new HDD's and Turbonet etc.

Didn't reimage, kept the Uk 2.5.1 running on Thomsun Series 1, added required scripts etc, also have put location of codes for IR for STB Motorola DTH325-4 box in IR Codes thread.

Living in Wanaka, run a computer sales/service business.

Steve

[Grant]

Howdy! fyi intro..

I'm in Ohoka near chch and do IT/Comms project management

I saw the tivo launch at Las Vegas CES a few years ago and have wanted one ever since so was stoked to read Tims site info!

I have just got a series 1 with 2x120gb drives, from servicedvr.com for US$209 ! :~)

and even managed to get a mate to bring it back from NY in luggage! so no freight either , happy happy...

Thanks for the help so far and I'll be nominating Tim, Jaidev & Ed etc for president /PM /ROU ...


Grant

[ehintz]

Mmm, intro time I guess.

34, living in Wellington, with wife and (rather loud) 6 year old son. New arrival to NZ, came over from San Francisco in November. Just got a job offer yesterday, which means that all I need to do now is get NZIS approval and I can stick around for a while. Background is twofold, long time mac user (worked for Apple for about 2.5 years), and for the last 4-5 years unix sysadmin. The job offer is to pimp Mac OS X at unix guys, so I guess I'm moving from the OpenBSD crowd more into the mac camp again(10.3 was the first relase I've thought was really ready for wider serverroom use). Anyway, my first Tivo came home with me on 24 Dec. 2001, a series 1 DirecTivo, and of course we couldn't live without it now. Going to a standalone is a bit of a step down, but it beats the hell out of nothing at all. I got my SA up and running here back in Dec or so, with a lot of excellent assistance from Daniel. I was rather keen to get the DTivo running, but I'm not terribly optimistic, sounds like Sky uses a few different hardware bits so it's unlikely.

But, being a nutjob, I have other wacky ideas for the DTivo now... I understand the sat guys can pull in the DTV sat over Hawaii with a 16ft dish in Brisbane, so once I buy a house and all I figure I may look into this. Having a DTV/DirecTivo feed would seriously kick ***. Probably the most immediate project once NZIS gives me a work permit is to get a second decoder box and Tivo, and setup sanderton's excellent conflict resolution hack.

[gurti]

I am the newest of newbies... just joined today! I live in Auckland, and have absolutely no puter training. Acutally work in the health profession. Can fix most of the nuts & bolts things that go wrong with my puter & OS myself, but know virutally nothing about writing code.

Have been toying with the idea of tivo for a year of so, but having just got back from the UK and seen it promoted over there, am keen to do something about it.

Am still in the deciding stages... would hate to get all the gear and find it goes in the "too hard" basket when it comes to installation.

Nice to meet you all... are there many other girlies on this site??

[David]

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.

[thomson]

I have a UK TiVo up and running. I am using the standard v2.5.5 installation that came with the unit and have patched it up myself. I do not run Sky or Saturn so am only interested in FreeToAir (FTA) channels.

I have recompiled the ukchan-2.5.5_nz.c tuner module so that I now have perfect nicam surround sound - do not listen to the oztivo posts that say the MP3 encoding removes the surround channel... The sound is encoded at a constant 192kbps which is more than enough. The issue in Australia could be related to them only having PAL-B/G Stereo and not PAL-B/G Nicam. Either way it works fine over here.

The RF (antenna) video output works well in the UK TiVo, but you will find that the audio comes out on a 6MHz offset (PAL-I) which is fine if you have an older TV that can handle this (PAL-B/G uses 5.5MHz). I have an old 33" Mitsi Diva that handles it fine, but the audio is not being recognised as nicam stereo, so I am using the left/right RCA audio connectors instead. I have available a Scart->Svideo adapter, but wanted to play with the RF first.

I have attached a few programs that I have found handy... they are:

Manual Record
This is a plugin to TivoWeb/TivoWebPlus that allows you to manually record programs via a web interface. I have modified it slightly to allow you to set a recording for up to 2 months in the future. This removes the need to have the slice information working correctly and allows you to use the TiVo as a VCR until you are happy with slice updates.

Tivo Title
This is a small application that has the ability to rename/alter the program title information. I use it to change my manual recordings (made with the above tool) into "special" recordings - this stops the Tivo UI from prepending "Manual:" to all of my recorded shows.

EndPadPlus
This is a great little module that automatically pads your recordings so that you can have recording start 5 minutes early and run 10 minutes late if there are no other consecutive recordings scheculed.

ukchan-2.5.5_nz-nicam.o
This is a loadable module (loaded via insmod) that allows you to tune into PAL-B/G Nicam broadcasts using the UK Tuner supplied with the UK TiVo (which by default tunes to the UK frequencies and looks for PAL-I Nicam).

NZ6001-headend
This is a simple headend slice that I used to get the standard v2.5.5 software to tune to the Free To Air (FTA) channels in Wellington (NZ6001). It is unlikely to be of much use unless you are in Wellington and only want access to the FTA channels. Used in combination with the ManRec plugin it can turn a freshly-reset Tivo into a VCR in a short period of time.

[watling]

Hello, I the new Tivo guy here in Christchurch. Got that UK model off trademe, and happy so far, just trying to get my head around what's involved to get the tuner doing what a tuner should.