[ALUG] Don't suppose any others of you have got a Toppy PVR, have you?

[Ruth Bygrave]

On 20 Jun 2007, at 22:48, Adam Bower wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 10:19:30PM +0100, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
>
>> Do you know anything about updating the firmware and if there are any
>> good small programs? It seems to be so painful to use with a Mac over
>> USB 1 that I've only succeeded in downloading files when it feels
>> like it... Is it better to wait for OTA updates (which apparently
>> don't come along too often) or to try to do something.
>
> Yeah, updated the firmware and applied binary patches to it, I did
> disassemble a version of it the other day too but ran out of fu when
> fiddling. ;) You have the TF5800?
Yep -- pretty standard one, I don't think the others were that  
successful. We sent away for ours mail-order, but I have just seen  
them in Curry's, so it is at least a bit mainstream.

> I currently have mine connected via an
> Asus Premium 500GP wireless router that has usb ports and is running
> OpenWrt ( http://www.openwrt.org ) using ftpd-topfield to talk to the
> Toppy downloading programs and flashing new firmwares. I have done it
> with linux on my laptop before and was going to build packages for
> Debian and Ubuntu but never /quite/ got around to doing that.
Ow, hairy! Wish I could do this stuff, especially since I have the  
feeling that there are some little hacks that would improve a lot of  
the behaviour.

The only thing we see the entirety of are trailers, because the Toppy  
often clips the back or clips the front and does it inconsistently  
(and you can't fix it by padding because the next program that's one  
minute after it will break).

The Toppy won't series-link properly, although I had the impression  
that this was fairly general except for the Sky box and Tivo?

Apart from that, and the fact that we can't see anything on the ITV/ 
C4 mux because either the aerial or the transmission strength in our  
part of Ipswich is wrong, we're absolutely fine with it.

Although I do feel silly that I thought I was going to update it and  
Do Magic to make it work, and this never ended up happening, because  
it is far too techie for me, and by the end of your explanation I had  
run not only out of fu, but also ba :-)

R