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As part of the on-going duplication of data around the interweb, this page is more for my reference than anything else, but if you find this page (and find it useful, then good on you. The TiVo sites I frequent the most are NZ Tivo - The NZ TiVo Community and Oz Tivo which, despite it's name - has a lot of valuable resources for us Kiwis too! 30 Second Skip
The most used feature on our TiVo, great for skipping the lead-in / lead-out of recordings and all that stuff inbetween. <SELECT> <PLAY> <SELECT <3> <0> <SELECT> Setting the Time
When the TiVo drops the last few minutes of my Wifes favorite home-grown soap opera Shortland Street then I'm in trouble - while it's great that she has grown to depend on the TiVo over the short time that we've had it, I still find sleeping on the couch uncomfortable and, thus - it's essential that the TiVo keeps it's time as accuratly as possible (the broadcasters keeping to their advertised schedules is another arguement - and one which I never win). The following details the steps required to get your NZ TiVo keeping itself in sync with the regions NTP time sources. To do this, you need to: Check your ntpdate file #cat /bin/ntpdate
Change the Postcodes file
rw vi /etc/postcodezones
Create the Postcode directory in /hack/zoneinfo mkdir /hack/zoneinfo/Pacific Drop the Auckland Timezone file into /hack/zoneinfo/Pacific rw $ftp [Your TiVos IP]
ro Check that the system understands the NTP server addresses, the post codes, and will generate the correct format date/time string
should return something like:
/tvbin/settime `rtimetz 207.126.98.204 207.126.98.204 129.6.15.28 131.107.1.10`
That's it, if you're getting something like the above then all should be well in TiVo land. Don't forget to set your TiVo back to read only mode with a ro Forcing a Re-index
Every so often, my TiVo gurks and it gets the guide all FUBARed. Occasionally just getting the TiVo do make a daily call (by browsing to http://[Your TiVo IP]/Phone/) will fix it, but in some cases it's still feked and the only thing which seems to work for me is to force a re-index - this can put a heck of a load on the box, so use with caution, but what you need to do is: /hack/bin/force_index30.tcl or /hack/bin/force_index.tcl Loading a Manual Slice
On rare occasions, the daily call will fail and no guide data will be avalible- in these situations, it's possible to load the slice manually by following thise steps: wget http://216.58.174.222/tjvinfo/nztivo.slice dbload30.tcl nztivo.slice |
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