How can I help?

[irrelevant]

Hi All.

Two UK TiVos, and a US S1 in the cupboard that I bought to play with in about 2005. At the time I downloaded the oztivo stuff and had a good dig about, and managed to work out how to copy guide data between machines, but it was unreliable, especially via a serial link, and I didn't take it further.

Only stopped paying the tenner a month in October as by then both UK boxes had become unreliable - lost sound on one and sparkles all over the picture on the other.

I'm happy to pitch in, though, do any testing etc, as they are not now in regular use so can play with them now. Would be nice if a solution worked on imported TiVos too...!!

Was going to offer help with hosting but I can't compete with the sort of quality offers already made.. Might be able to help with implementing telecoms side, though, supporting dial-up users.

Rob

[Kitschcamppalace]

How much guide data is the XMLTV grabber able to get?

between 2 and 3 weeks usually. More often closer to 2. It can easily grab 100s of channels.

It might be sweet to populate a database that can be client accessed, thus enabling a team of people to be able to make amendments that could propagate through. Imagine all those "EPG Head's Up" forum messages being transformed into an actual correction, the community EPG could end up being better than the Tivo's own Tribune supplied data, heheh

That's my thought as well. The file structure of the pre-slice data isn't complicated. It would be good to be able to correct screwed up data. In my experience, a 100 channel line up with 2 weeks data is around 3MB slice download. That should give some estimates of bandwidth and why I said that wouldnt be a problem.

[healeydave]

How much guide data is the XMLTV grabber able to get?

between 2 and 3 weeks usually. More often closer to 2. It can easily grab 100s of channels.

The file structure of the pre-slice data isn't complicated. It would be good to be able to correct screwed up data. In my experience, a 100 channel line up with 2 weeks data is around 3MB slice download. That should give some estimates of bandwidth and why I said that wouldnt be a problem.

That is good news, thanks Stephen.

[bigwold]

Just checking in to offer what I can:

a 'few' spare TiVos and probably turbonet/terbonet cards so can loan or do some testing

ex-programmer but relevant skills limited to customising existing hacks

provider of upgrade drives in the early noughties so can assist others when the time comes!

[smatson]

If i can help testing got 5 tivos all on network

[spitfires]

a dab hand with a screwdriver

Excellent - I'll put you down for "user testing" We'll need non-techies to test the final product before we roll it out en masse.


Keep your posts coming in - I'm cataloguing what people are offering!

[spitfires]

If i can help testing got 5 tivos all on network

Well that's just greedy!

[Alek]

I have two boxs, one lifetime sub and one used as a manual recorder.

I would be very sorry to lose the subbed one. Nothing else compares.

I will help in anyway I can. I am pretty handy and learn fast, I know what Ubuntu is but must be considered a non techie.

Can I be your N Ireland correspondent.

Alek

[smatson]

One for me one the kids one for the missis the rest for family

its a lot but tivo is good

[reh]

The previous comments are all Greek to me (my programming skills stopped with Turbo Pascal). But if a Linux-illiterate can help in any way (checking guide data perhaps?), then count me in. If not, can I just send my heartfelt thanks from Jo/e Public for your efforts. Those whose TiVos are about to die salute you!

Oh, and in reply to einstein's post, I'm one lifer who would be more than willing to pay for a new EPG service if it would keep my TiVo alive.

[Rob_S]

Hello all,

Just to throw my hat into the ring, I'm a long time LAMP developer/admin who is very happy to help in anyway possible. Very annoyed that my perfectly working TiVo is going to become unusable/landfill, because of the VM tie-up. Even though I live in zone 3 in London, VM don't bother covering my street properly, as there is only housing on one side of the road!

[Nimbus]

just checking in to say I'm here and willing to help out, but not sure what I can offer really, as my programming skills also data back to Z80 and pascal when I was at uni 20+ years ago

I work in 3rd line support tho, so guess I could do some usability testing/trials...

[Paul_J]

I am happy to do any testing

I have a recently build TiVo using Hooch with a cache card. I can easily get a second disk up and running to use for testing.

I am a PC support engineer so good with general bits but vevry very little unix knowledge so I may be of use as a pilot tester.

[FliesOpen]

Hello all. Made my way here at last from tivoCommunity.

I have some technical skills, but lack time thanks to a paying job. I'm currently trawling through the details of getting guide data on Swedish Tivos. Fascinating stuff - I've always wanted to know how to do it.

[Kitschcamppalace]

It was several weeks of swearing gathering all the right tools together and getting them to play nicely!