Quote Originally Posted by thomson
You may want to try and load the slice that you generate manually...

This can be done using:

Code:
dbload30.tcl generated.slice
force_index.tcl
This way you can ensure that you are creating a valid slice that will be recognised by your headend. If a manual load does not work then you need to check that your headend and stations match up. You may also like to check your MFS database (via TivoWeb) to see what is being stored in there. Another thing is that you may like to increase the trailing "version number" for some of the records to see if that resolves any issues.

I hope some of the above might help... I know nothing about the emulator, but if you post your headend and a sample channel slice then I am more than willing to have a look at them and perform a "sanity" check

Thanks for the suggestion. I'd been meaning to try that but wasn't sure how to get the slice onto the machine. Solved that with a bit of googling :-) Also I had to remember to bring a slice home with me - I can only access the tivo via a serial connection, and it makes accessing the internet at the same time impossible (and makes it hard to access at all - the USB-Serial adaptor doesn't let me switch back to using the computers internal modem without a restart). A side-effect of all this is that I'm not sure I can access TivoWeb, so I have to get all info via bash or tivosh.

Anyway, I downloaded it OK with rz and ran the scripts you mention. It didn't kick out any error messages but I still don't have working guide data (both scripts were completely silent). Curiously, the 'account status' in the sys info screen has switched from 3:Good status to 5: Lifetime Service.

So, I guess there is something screwy in the guide data. As far as I can tell, all the channel/station numbers match up - I posted a somewhat trimmed (single station only) headend.txt and readguided slice (single program on that station) before - are you able to spot anything in that or should I post longer samples? What is the generally accepted way to post sample text/binary files here?

Thanks again,

David