Telnet to Tivo cd /etc rw nano tclient.conf
- This is for the server emulator on minnie.
127::66.238.88.163:80:::
Plug your tivo into the tv via the video out jack on the back. Reboot, run guided setup with the following options:
You’ll see “TiVo Service Terms”
Press ‘select’ to go to next screen
“Program Source” Select Cable and press “Select”
“Zip Code” Enter 02113
“Time Zone” Doesn’t matter.. just select the first one (Eastern) and press Å Select’
“Daylight Savings” select “no” and press “select” butto
“Area Code” Enter 002 and press ‘Select’
“Phone Dialing Options” select ‘no : continue’ and press ‘select’
“Setup Call” Press select to go past this screen
It will take a while to connect and do it’s thing.
Let it do its thing (go make a coffee or play quake for a bit)
When finished press ‘select’
“Dial In Numbers” choose ‘none of the above’ and press ‘select’
“No local Numbers” choose ‘sales and marketing program’ and press Å select’
“Cable box” select yes and press ‘select’
“Cable Providers” choose ‘Sky Digital Auckland’ and press ‘select’
On the screen where it asks about how the box is connected, set to appropriate choice for your environment (either composite a/v in or s-video).
On cable box brand, you can try to see if yours is supported in the existing lists but it probably won’t be. If it isn’t just select some random one and let it go (I chose Motorola choice 1, 3 digit channel, no enter key, but any will do as you’re going to replace it later anyway).
Let it do it’s daily call bit for guide data.
You’re done with G/Setup, reboot.
Redoing Guided Setup
If for some reason the Guided Setup fails (maybe the networking didn’t work), then you should be able to reboot your TiVo and it will retry the Guided Setup again. This is true for releases of the image after rc5. However, if you find that it doesn’t do this, and you need to redo the Guided Setup, then the easiest way is to point a web browser at the TiVo’s IP address and select Enable Guided Setup in PAL from the PAL/NTSC menu. If you don’t have networking working yet, but you can get to the Bash prompt on the TiVo, you can do this command:
[TiVo] # bootpage -p /dev/hda
Note lower case p
The output will look something like this:
root=/dev/hda4 TV_STD=PAL GS=0 netcard=turbonet
The output is the current boot parameters. GS has to be 1 to run Guided Setup or any of the hidden menus on a PAL TiVo, so we have to rewrite the boot params with GS=1. On the other hand is TiVo seems to be stuck in Maintenance Mode, you will want to set GS=0.
If your boot param output is as above, this command would update them to enable Guided Setup:
[TiVo] # bootpage -P ‘root=/dev/hda4 TV_STD=PAL GS=1 netcard=turbonet’ /dev/hda
Make certain to enclose the new params in single quotes. Everything between the quotes should be the same as the output of the first step except the value of GS
Reboot the TiVo for the change to take effect, and keep your eye on the second boot menu. If it says “Maintenance Mode” you will be able to navigate through the menus to get to GS: Messages & Setup, System Reset, Run Guided Setup.
If You Already Have 3.0 Installed
This section only applies to those people who installed 3.0 before Ed made it into the magical beast that it is now. These notes might help you to upgrade your system, but it might be easier to just start from scratch!
For an existing 3.0 networked Tivo, do the following steps. WARNING, running Guided Setup on an existing ozTiVo has not been tested extensively. A clear and delete everything might be required.
Step 1.
ln -s /etc/tclient.conf /etc/tclientUK.conf ln -s /tvlib/tcl/tv/Addr.itcl /tvlib/tcl/tv/AddrUK.itcl
Step 2. TiVo in PAL, MyWorld in NTSC to have access to all menus modify /etc/rc.d/rc.arch from:
echo “PALmod: leave routine” fi }
to
echo “PALmod: leave routine” if [ "$GS" = "1" ]; then export TV_STD=NTSC fi
fi
}
Step 3. Add this line to /etc/tclient.conf (tclientUK.conf for UK TiVos):
127::131.244.9.101:80:::
Step 4. Set the following in the MFS (dbset or dbsetx required):
/State/PhoneConfig DialPrefix ‘,#401′ /State/PhoneConfig DialConfig 127
The DialPrefix tells the TiVo to use the network, and DialConfig tells it to use minnie as the mothership. Optional – remove the attribute
/State/GeneralConfig Complete if you want TiVo to boot in Guided Setup Mode
Step 5. Get pal_ntsc-tivoweb.tar.gz, put it in tivoweb’s modules directory, and run it to set Guided Setup mode, or alternatively, use bootpage and append GS=1 to current boot params.
Go to step IV below.
REMINDER – set TiVo to PAL mode with tivoweb module before rebooting or run bootpage to set GS=0 so you’re not running in “jitter” mode all of the time! You can also write code to do it at boot time.
