AltEPG

Hi,

Many moons ago I bought a Tivo S1, and paid the £10 a month there after - for about 8/9 years?! So I have invested quite a bit in tivo over the years. I also bought replacement handsets, a power supply and a turbo network card - just in case.

I didn't ever get to install the Turbo card, and I'm now wondering if it would be a good time to do so with the possibility of the alternate EPG looming (thanks everyone involved with that).

If so, could any one point me to any instructions on how to set the network card up - my instructions now long lost, and remind me if I need to add memory to the memory slot, or was that optional?

Many thanks

Dave

I'm in a similar position. I have a "terbonet" card in the loft in a padded bag. No instructions. no cd.

I designed the Terbonet clone card (just setting the credibility here )

The driver software was built into the S1 software load (which is where I got the source code to reverse with) so you don't need any CD to get basic connectivity and to use the ,#401 backdoor to enable the network card. You may want to add the networking utilities by 'hacking' your TiVo so you have access to ftp, telnet, TivoWEB, etc. but that's another story (maybe they'll be included in the altepg image?). Installing it should be as easy as removing the case, slipping the card onto the plated header, attaching a network cable and feeding the end back out of the box. Jim Main did a nice photoshoot when he was distributing Terbonets in the UK (attached).

You don't need extra memory for the basic network card. You could upgrade the mainboard memory to make a loaded TiVo respond faster via the UI, but those chips are now impossible to find, and they were a PITA to install by hand too. The CacheCard (Turbonet's big brother) would take a DIMM of up to 512MB if I recall.

Take standard electronic precautions, don't install the card on a dry day in shag carpeted room! Keep yourself grounded, don't work with the cover off and the plug in, don't touch electrical contacts of the main board, nor the network card.

FYI This file was archived here: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/terbonet/files/

D.

PS you don't have to get as fancy with the network jack, I used to just run my cable out a cooling hole near the fan (yes I had to recrimp a new connector). Tin snips will work in a pinch...if you are in a hurry...but watch for metal filings left inside!

Thanks for these instructions.

I'll have a go on Sunday.

Many thanks

Dave

d0ugmac1 wrote:I designed the Terbonet clone card (just setting the credibility here )

And my TurboNZet card is in turn based on Doug's card. (Hi Doug!)

d0ugmac1 wrote:I used to just run my cable out a cooling hole near the fan (yes I had to recrimp a new connector). Tin snips will work in a pinch...if you are in a hurry...but watch for metal filings left inside!

With UK Thomson Tivos you can usually poke the network cable through the hole next to the upper left corner of the fan (as you look at it from the front of your Tivo) with the connector still attached. If you want to put the lid back on fully, you need to either bend or snip off the tab with the centre screw hole.

If you poke it through the hole on the other side of the fan you don't have to loose a screw either.

Just an fyi, my preferred route is the hole beneath the fan, you can drop the fan out by just bending the 2 lugs apart at the top of the fan.
A crimped RJ45 fly lead will fit through the hole as can be seen in the picture. The Fan will sit back in fine with the cable beneath it.
Then the cable routes nicely along the floor of the tivo (under the power supply cables going to the main board) and round to the NIC on the edge card connector.

I put one card onto a altepg machine. Works no probs.

I put one onto a standard tivo and put in the ,# bit but it still uses the phoneline to phone home.


Alek

The ,#401 trick does not work with UK Tivos I believe. You need to install the appropriate drivers which I guess are the same as the Turbonet ones.

Where does "one" get said drivers and associated info.?


Alek

The AltEPG disk image includes drivers.

Ash wrote:The AltEPG disk image includes drivers.

Yes but I wouldn't know which ones to change.

Alek

The 9th Tee Turbo net drivers are here

http://forum.technicalpeak.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=13

I downloaded and burned the iso, it seemed straight forward except when I try to boot to it I get an error. "only one processor found"


Alek