Quote Originally Posted by DJC View Post

Yes, you are the only one, and you have had a null id since Aug '06

Well that's kind of interesting - I only built the tivo and fired it up for the first time last weekend...

I came by the mother board and case separately as spares in case the main tivo blew up (would result in WWIII in our house) and never got around to finding an HDD until last weekend when I wanted to try the latest image in a sandbox.

I guess there must be somebody else with a dud crypto chip who beat me to it by a few months.

So I'm interested to understand the behaviour of the emulator a bit better - my impresssion was that the emulator remembers the guide data its given you already and doesnt give you that chunk again.

Unless the emulator code handles a null id differently from valid ones perhaps?

I seemed to get a full download of guide data not just an increment. As its a spare I dont keep it powered up, its only had 2 or 3 GD downloads probably.