FTA Headends for Emulator

[slangnz]

Sorry I have not progressed much with this, I am getting married in the new year so have had little time.
But during my christmas/new year break I will find some time to finish it.

No Probs jaidev. Got married 3 years ago, now have 5 month old (future geek). Time that I can commit to this is also limited, but I'm building a couple (SKY Digital with Zenith STB) for my big boss.... Oh dear...

Anyway, current problem is that when I run the zenith.tcl (downloaded from http://nztivo.kiwiwebhost.net.nz/uploads/zenithSky.tcl, as that was the only place I could find it...) I get....

can't open object (errDbNotFound)

Most annoying, I think I've done everything OK up until now....

Cheers -

[thomson]

Anyway, current problem is that when I run the zenith.tcl I get.... can't open object (errDbNotFound)

That zenithSky.tcl looks fine... it is missing a call to the function but that all depends on how you wish to call it. It could be that you are not using binary mode to transfer the file to the TiVo?

If you transfer the zenithSky.tcl, found in the attached archive, to the TiVo and perform the following then it should work...

dos2unix zenithSky.tcl
chmod 755 zenithSky.tcl
./zenithSky.tcl

[slangnz]

That zenithSky.tcl looks fine... it is missing a call to the function but that all depends on how you wish to call it. It could be that you are not using binary mode to transfer the file to the TiVo?

If you transfer the zenithSky.tcl, found in the attached archive, to the TiVo and perform the following then it should work...

dos2unix zenithSky.tcl
chmod 755 zenithSky.tcl
./zenithSky.tcl

Hiya thomson, thanx for the reply. Yeah, the first time I tried it bombed completely - bother those windows text files... I fixed that a while ago.

I still get the error with a valid unix formatted file. It's complaining about the db object not being there or something. This is after it prints the message

"Setting Zenith Sky Decoder codes for TiVo 30001..."

so the script is executing up to that point.... I must have left something out, or gotten something wrong, but damned if I can find out - I've been taking detailed notes as I go.

Cheers -

[thomson]

I still get the error with a valid unix formatted file. It's complaining about the db object not being there or something.

It looks like you are missing the record in the database? This is unusual as it appears in the standard OzTiVo image. You can check this by using the "MFS" module under TivoWeb. If you browse through the database and check that you have a record for "/Component/Ir/TivoFormat/30001". If you are missing this then you can alter the script to create it, or simple change the 30001 for one of the records that do exist. It is sometimes easier to go through the GuidedSetup and select a STB and write down one of the numbers displayed in the list and use this instead.

[slangnz]

It looks like you are missing the record in the database? This is unusual as it appears in the standard OzTiVo image. You can check this by using the "MFS" module under TivoWeb. If you browse through the database and check that you have a record for "/Component/Ir/TivoFormat/30001". If you are missing this then you can alter the script to create it, or simple change the 30001 for one of the records that do exist. It is sometimes easier to go through the GuidedSetup and select a STB and write down one of the numbers displayed in the list and use this instead.

Yeah, I had thought that as well. I had actually gotten this far (after being confused...) Eventually found the directory via. TivoWeb. Indeed, 30001 wasn't there.

I had thought that I had tried another value that does exist (e.g. 1022) but that didn't work. However, you've given me the confidence to try again. This time, changing the script (zenithsky) to use 20001 and it works!

WOW. A lot of time, and almost getting there.

I'm building 3 of these, so I'll check the other hard disk images that I made, and see if the 30001 value exists in them.

Thanx for your time, I feel that I am actually making progress now.... I want to get the Sky Digital sorted (shouldn't be too hard...), then I'll move onto the philips VCR with FTA....

[slangnz]

Yeah, I had thought that as well. I had actually gotten this far (after being confused...) Eventually found the directory via. TivoWeb. Indeed, 30001 wasn't there.

I had thought that I had tried another value that does exist (e.g. 1022) but that didn't work. However, you've given me the confidence to try again. This time, changing the script (zenithsky) to use 20001 and it works!

WOW. A lot of time, and almost getting there.

I'm building 3 of these, so I'll check the other hard disk images that I made, and see if the 30001 value exists in them.

Thanx for your time, I feel that I am actually making progress now.... I want to get the Sky Digital sorted (shouldn't be too hard...), then I'll move onto the philips VCR with FTA....

Well, I was making progress....

After editing zenithsky.tcl to use 20001 instead of 30001, and following the rest of the GS instructions (http://www.nztivo.net/index.php/STB_IRcodes) it accepted the codes, but still doesn't change the channel on the Zenith STB.

Most strange, time to re-run Guided Setup I feel...

[slangnz]

Well, I was making progress....

After editing zenithsky.tcl to use 20001 instead of 30001, and following the rest of the GS instructions (http://www.nztivo.net/index.php/STB_IRcodes) it accepted the codes, but still doesn't change the channel on the Zenith STB.

Most strange, time to re-run Guided Setup I feel...

I think that I may have found something that hopefully someone can comment on.

When I install from a fresh image (leave tclient.conf as standard with AUS values) and run through GS, then I get the IR values over 30000 in the DB.

When I edit tclient.conf and make sure that only the nz emulator entry is there (remove/comment everything else (except the first 000 entry)), run through GS, then I don't get any IR values over 20001 in the DB.

This seems a little strange to me...