Setting up from scratch

[mylovelyhorse]

Evening all,

My mother in law's VCR is on its last legs and I have a spare TiVo in the loft. I thought I'd set it up for her when we were next up at her place. That was a month or so ago. I set up an account here, added my TiVo to it and took the machine and (I thought) all the parts up to her place (several hundred miles away). When I got there and started putting everything together, like a chump I found that I'd forgotten the IR wands, so I stopped getting it set up and left things for when I was up there next (today).

Today I had a few problems.

1. I tried to log on here using my already set up account but could not. I re-did registration and could use the same account name, email and password. I presume that means my account got deleted as I had not posted since I joined. Fair enough. Only minor problem is that my TiVo's number has not been deleted from the db and so I cannot register that TiVo as associated with this account. Curses. I don't know how much of an impact that has on things going forward.

2. My TiVo was bought from TiVoland some 4 or 5 years ago and has a larger drive in, TiVoweb installed and a network card. The MiL does not have an internet connection (or indeed a computer) so I am reverting to dial-up connectivity. I followed the instructions for using a phone number in the 'Installation & Configuration' post titled 'Connecting an Existing TiVo Image to AltEPG (via Dial-UP)'. According to my TiVo it could dial but nothing was answering. I tried both the numbers shown. I dialled the numbers by hand and they were answering all right. Could this be linked to issue (1) mentioned above?

I brought the whole kit and caboodle home and have just downloaded and burnt a copy of altepg-1.0c.iso and shall be having a go with that (possibly not tonight). I hope that this will mean I can perform first update here at home and then take it back to the MiL and install it there. Her first TiVo at 82

Cheers

M

[millsb]

I think the problem you're having is because your tivo is still trying to use the network card rather than the modem - you need to reconfigure the tivo by running 'nic_config_tivo' to tell it to use the modem. That step is not explained in the "Connecting an Existing TiVo Image to AltEPG (via Dial-UP)" post, because that post assumes you're using an unmodified tivo without network card.

If you are able to get the network connection working then it's probably easier to do it that way and then reconfigure it to use the modem, rather than rebuilding with the AltEPG ISO CD - but if you want to go that route it certainly has benefits, eg it enables you to switch between network and modem via the TiVo UI, and it has better diagnostics so it's easier to find out what's going wrong.

FWIW I don't believe your problems are anything to do with your registration glitch. Even if you're not registered the server will still accept your dial-up connection.

[mylovelyhorse]

That makes sense - thanks for your reply. I will probably still go the altepg image way to take advantage of the differences that have been added in.

Cheers!

M