Ruth (...I love my Toppy, except when the UI drives me batshit insane...) B
On 20 Jun 2007, at 21:43, Adam Bower wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 09:33:42PM +0100, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
Ruth (...I love my Toppy, except when the UI drives me batshit insane...) B
<looks furtive> Err, yeah, I do. <hides>
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.
R
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? 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.
Adam
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
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 11:32:33PM +0100, Ruth Bygrave wrote:
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.
You need to look at getting some of the "Taps" to run on it, you really *need* MyStuff ( http://www.bobdsmystuff.co.uk/ ) and the other associated bits that go with it. Without these bits it's not a great pvr but as soon as you add them it's a really capable machine. I'd also look at trying to get your aerial sorted maybe as it will grumble sometimes if things aren't perfect.
As for the stuff I was on about, hmmmn, it'd probably be easier to explain in person, but the Asus box is just running an embedded form of Linux with a few packages to make the contents of the Toppy available over the network. You probably want to take a look at http://www.toppy.org.uk as there is plenty of useful things on that forum that explain it in depth. I was going to write a script that would automagically setup an Asus router but I've not got a round tuit yet.
Adam
No toppy, but i do have a dreambox, that i spend waaay to much time mucking about with, im also im the process of building a high def satellite home theatre pc pvr type dohicky (bits came today, currently struggling to connect everything to a fiddly ABIT mATX MB... with my stubby fingers not easy!)
was planning on posting results here when i get mythtv up and running to satisfaction, so watch this space.
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