A pivotal stage reached !!!

[cwaring]

...what Virgin have done to 'butcher' their Tivo is a travesty.

Except, of course, that VM haven't done anything of the sort. It's basically a US S4 with the VM colour-scheme.

Thanks for that very useful run down on the new Virgin Tivo and the many ways in which Virgin have clearly had it changed to have it operate like a more normal cable or satellite tv company box so that it is much more difficult to skip the adverts fully and you are also forced to pay attention to channels to which you either do not currently subscribe and/or also never watch.

What a load! As I said, it's a Series 4 Tivo with VM's colours.

It still does Series Links and it still does Wishlists. So it's a Tivo.

[Pete77]

What a load! As I said, it's a Series 4 Tivo with VM's colours.

So that completely excuses it losing a variety of its most useful features from a Series 1 Tivo does it?

Whilst you always claim to be unemployed given your repeated devotion to justifying ever part of Virgin Media's product offerings as they are it would be tempting to believe that you are actually covertly in the pay of Virgin as one of their marketing staff.

[Furbag]

Oh no he's mole

Fur

[mrtickle]

What a shame this celebratory thread had to be marred with petty bickering. I got weary of it on tivocommunity, and I really didn't expect it here and especially not in this thread of all threads.

[Furbag]

Dont panic Mrtickle, I think its just a bit general banter, just a bit of jest

Back to the pivotal stage stuff, I can report that I've said to my extremely worried 70yr old mother about how well your all doing and I can tell you the smile and joy that went across her face folks was worth its weight in gold

Keep it up cos we only got a few weeks left now

Furbag

[martinveasey]

Just wanted to add my own thanks to the team in putting all this work together.

I've just put one of our two Tivo's live this weekend and Automan's guide on setting up using a Standard Tivo image was absolutely spot on and simple to follow.

Many thanks !

[greenkr]

I'd like to add my thanks to the team for their initiative and hard work. My test Tivo seems to be working fine with the Alternate EPG.

[wadsworth]

Hi peeps

We have two Tivo's
One is connectecd to the web and mine is dial up. So we are going to do the web one first.
As I don't understand the techspeak should that be okay for Dobby and Wadsworth ( our Tivo's )

[elphinwhite]

Just wanted to say, very belatedly, that YOU GUYS ROCK!

Thrilled that my lovely TiVo will still be working and wish I could do more to help. But know that all your hard work is very much appreciated....

THANK YOU!!

[jrg]

Switch over to new EPG worked ok (via internet, turbocard), with Freeview input.

However, TiVo has rebooted a number of times today since ingesting the first guide download this morning.

The last one in the tverr log was:

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May 23 19:27:25 (none) TmkAssertionFailure[150]: (AssertValidPointer, line 2021 ())
May 23 19:27:25 (none) Scheduler[150]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread Scheduler <150> died due to signal -2
May 23 19:27:25 (none) Scheduler[150]: Tmk Thread Backtrace: 1a344ec 1a32a44 1b96114 1b9645c 1b95fd4 1b94294 1b4d3b8 1aa5834 1b96d20 1b3c9f4 1b3d0dc 1b3de98 1b3dafc 1b3d460 1b3d240 1b49398 1b44320 1af8b70 1c3ac30 1bdd718 1bde5c4 1bf42a8 1b5b5f8 1bdd1b0 1b91bb4 1c0644c 1c063bc 1c23c84 1c23df4 1c27364 1c28374 1c28420 1c27504 1c06298 1c06148 1bf71a4 1c239b0 1c2764c 1c28374 1c28420 1c27748 1c2379c 1c24388 1c2400c 1bf6b00 1c28af4 1800134 ipe
May 23 19:27:25 (none) Scheduler[150]: Tmk Fatal Error: Thread died due to signal -2
May 23 19:27:25 (none) Scheduler[150]: Invoking rule 834: rebooting system


(running TivoWeb 1.9.4, and Endpad 1.5.4.)

[Pete77]

It looks like it is objecting to the lack of a currently valid program signal source from those codes rather than having any issues with processing the data. Tivo automatically reboots when it doesn't find a valid signal available on the current program source for a certain number of minutes.

[bluel39]

Just wish to add my thanks, new altEPG seems to be working fine.

Well done, don't know what I would do without my trusty tivo.

[jrg]

It looks like it is objecting to the lack of a currently valid program signal source from those codes rather than having any issues with processing the data. Tivo automatically reboots when it doesn't find a valid signal available on the current program source for a certain number of minutes.

No I don't think it's that one, I've seen that error before too. It says something much more obvious about the lack of a TV signal. "signal -2" will be something to do with the Linux side of things. The logs show it has also died on "signal 11" (which is the more obvious SIGSEGV - a segmentation fault, i.e. a bug in the program but almost certainly triggered on by bad input.)

This seems to be something associated with Season passes and Guide data (which would be much more likely, having just made the EPG switch). This thread, from 2004/5, http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showt ... hp?t=35185, has suggestions of clearing out wishlists and season passes, and clearing out program guide data and todo data.

I've just tidied up a lot of duplicate wishlist entries that I had after running mikerr's Season pass convertor a few times, and I'll see if that makes any difference before I reset the guide data.

[Pete77]

This seems to be something associated with Season passes and Guide data (which would be much more likely, having just made the EPG switch). This thread, from 2004/5, http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showt ... hp?t=35185, has suggestions of clearing out wishlists and season passes, and clearing out program guide data and todo data.

The Tivo I updated to AltEPG with Guided Setup on Saturday I think only had three or four Season Passes and one Wishlist on it so may be that is why I didn't have the problem even though I didn't clear out my thumbs or Wishlists and SPs when I ran Guided Setup to the AltEPG.

As my main Tivo has around 150 Season Passes and 50 Wishlists this seems like it could be much more of an issue for that.

As Mike has only just released his SP to Wishlist conversion utility I suppose that might also be doing something nasty to the data that hasn't yet properly revealed itself to the world at large at this stage.

[johnscott99]

We've only got one TiVo.
The wife loves it and has said she'd rather get rid of the fridge that the TiVo.

I have a terbonet card in a packet with drivers.
I have also downloaded the AltEPG image and burnt to disk.

Before I wipe the TiVo, I decided to try the method of changing the dialling prefix, setting post code to "01000" and then doing a guided setup.

BY FLIPPITY - IT ONLY WENT AND WORKED!!!

I am so impressed with the work done. It's JUST worked.

The new EPG seems better then the old. The series/ episode number is a absolute gift. We'd miss an episode before and have to search on the intetnets for the the number that corresponded with the title to download it from a dodgy source. Or, I'd see an episode of Family Guy and think "is that from series 3 - which I have seen?". Now it's just better.

THANK YOU TO ALL THE PEOPLE FOR ALL THE WORK.

I will put the AltEPG image on when I get a large disk drive (currently 2x 120Gb), but for now it works.
Now - How can I help?