User Purge - Apologies if your affected

[The maverick]

Hello from Portsmouth. A few hiccups getting the latest programme guide because the line busy but it gets there in the end.

So can we use it now

(from one who has just dicovered the joys of wishlists and tivos suggestions thourgh these threads, and also that I could delete my 350 season passes and start again!)

[MrShades]

I'm still alive in Swindon (but originally from Evesham for the benefit of whoever stated that earlier!)

Keep up the good work - whilst I've got a VM TiVo now my fully modded S1 plods on and is still on (network) updates from TiVo Inc but waiting eagerly to switch across to AltEPG

Shades

[robti]

Well hello from sunny Scotland NOT, just to say thanks for all the hard work you lot have been doing, lifetime sub and a disconnected monthly here and as they are not the main viewing boxes i upgraded both to altepg and both are running fine

Robert

[MikeCaine]

Hi, genuine user, just wondering what to do.

[Pete77]

Hi, genuine user, just wondering what to do.

Keep using the official Tivo/Tribune EPG for now but switch to the AltEPG if and when the worst happens and Tivo actually discontinues service would be my advice.

You have to enter a dial prefix under phone options on your Tivo and rerun Guided Setup in order to change over to the AltEPG. But as the AltEPG is still experimental and is ironing out various bugs and does not have data for as many days ahead as the official Tivo/Tribune EPG then why switch EPGs before you actually have to............

[mikerr]

Keep using the official Tivo/Tribune EPG for now but switch to the AltEPG if and when the worst happens and Tivo actually discontinues service would be my advice.

The official tivo dialin number was finally turned off last night.

[Pete77]

The official tivo dialin number was finally turned off last night.

I can confirm that my dialup Tivo shows Failed and Not Answered for its Daily Call at 11.56pm last night (June 13th) and also does the same thing if I try to force a Daily Call now.

My networked cachecarded Tivo shows a successful daily call at 8pm last night and also made a successful daily call when I forced a daily call just now even though no new data was yet available to collect for today.

You might have thought they would have at least avoided the 13th as switch off day! I wonder if they will ever bother blocking daily call access by networked card as a method that is not officially supported.

[IBP]

I wonder if they will ever bother blocking daily call access by networked card as a method that is not officially supported.

If they don't then could be a valuable source of EPG data for the altepg team! (Assuming of course it is easy to convert/pass on)

[healeydave]

Hehe, yes we could use their slices, but one suspects that if Tivo were happy to go on populating their servers with UK S1 guide data, users would simply carry on using the official service via its "unofficial" route rather than AltEPG.

Especially because it would be just as easy to modify dial-up Tivo's to use an alternative Internet point of presence (like the current exa-networks 0845 number) but still route to Tivo Inc's IP to get the data!

In fact if any Official TiVo Dial-Up users with an unmodified image want to try that out today, all you need to do is put the Exa-Networks 0845 number in your dial-string and force a daily call. What should happen is your call will connect to the Internet via Exa-Networks instead of the old discontinued number, but since your tclientUK.conf file still points to Tivo Inc's server, it should download fine just like the networked Tivo's currently are.

[Pete77]

Hehe, yes we could use their slices, but one suspects that if Tivo were happy to go on populating their servers with UK S1 guide data, users would simply carry on using the official service via its "unofficial" route rather than AltEPG.

In fact if any Official TiVo Dial-Up users with an unmodified image want to try that out today, all you need to do is put the Exa-Networks 0845 number in your dial-string and force a daily call. What should happen is your call will connect to the Internet via Exa-Networks instead of the old discontinued number, but since your tclientUK.conf file still points to Tivo Inc's server, it should download fine just like the networked Tivo's currently are.

I'm sure that your NDA Crystal Ball in theory already gives you the answer on all of the above.

Although perhaps in the unknown in the equation is how similar or identical in format to the Tivo S1 data the EPG data sitting on the Tivo servers for the new Virgin Media S4 series actually is.

However we need to look at the fact that what seems to be driving this whole S1 termination process is not saving money but giving Virgin a UK exclusive over the Tivo brand. On that basis they will also want the networked S1 Tivos to be cut off too.

[mikerr]

However we need to look at the fact that what seems to be driving this whole S1 termination process is not saving money but giving Virgin a UK exclusive over the Tivo brand. On that basis they will also want the networked S1 Tivos to be cut off too.

networked S1 tivos don't officially exist - so nothing to turn off

In fact if any Official TiVo Dial-Up users with an unmodified image want to try that out today, all you need to do is put the Exa-Networks 0845 number in your dial-string and force a daily call. What should happen is your call will connect to the Internet via Exa-Networks instead of the old discontinued number, but since your tclientUK.conf file still points to Tivo Inc's server, it should download fine just like the networked Tivo's currently are.

That won't work unless you also edit the pppoptions and pap-secrets....

the UUNET numbers may still work though:

0845 0885336
0800 2795740
0845 0810054
0808 1050026

[healeydave]

That won't work unless you also edit the pppoptions and pap-secrets....

Oh yeah, my bad.

[Pete77]

the UUNET numbers may still work though:

0845 0885336
0800 2795740
0845 0810054
0808 1050026

Mike,

I can't believe that you won't have already tried all of those. Even I with my pathological hatred of 084/7 numbers am willing to giving the 0800 and the 0808 number a try.

[Pete77]

0800 2795740

Its answered and has modem tone but the test call fails at Connecting...............

[Pete77]

Its answered and has modem tone but the test call fails at Connecting...............

Same thing for 0808 1050026 too.