jonedwa said:

I just installed an upgraded HD and TurboNet on my original Sony TiVo (SVR2000). It boots up just fine and shows up as "PTVUpgrade" (or similar) on my DHCP list, but I can't get past the initial call. I even tried hooking up a phone line for the first call, and nothing happens.

I have set the dialing prefix to #401 just as the instructions said, and have a Series 2 TiVo hooked up to the same router in the same exact way, and it has no problems with daily updates. The router LED's show that the unit is connected, and as I said, it shows up on the DHCP list.

The Router is a NetGear WGR614 with the latest firmware.

What do I need to do next to try and get this working?

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Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
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Yes, there is a comma; if you didn't include it, it definitely won't work...

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john.ahrends said:

I have the same issue I had with 3.1.1x with the ptvnet. I put ,#401 in my string... I see this in the logs.



Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: ##### Initial dial prefix = ',#401'
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: Backdoor code 4, enable calls via broadband
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: After ,# final dialstring is ''
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: EtherBroadband: 0, EtherDebug: 0, networkCall: 0
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: UpdateStatus: InProgress phase=10 code=29
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: Get NetDevList info
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[168]: received a AVAILABILITY_RESPONSE
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[168]: received a IPV4_RESPONSE
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: NetDevList: Logging info for 1 devices
Jul 26 06:56:01 (none) comm[491]: Doing clips logging.
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: Found 0 recordings scanning clips.
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: Found 0 total recordings.
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: SvcLogRqst: open(/var/log/svclog.tmp)ed (tmpfd = 22)
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: SvcLogRqst: open(/var/log/svclog.upload)ed (uploadfd = 23)
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: SvcLogRqst: final (1463 bytes)::read() (status = 0)
Jul 26 06:56:02 (none) comm[491]: CmdProc: wrote /var/log/svclog.upload.gz


As you can see it sees the backdoor code... The thing is it still atempts to go out via my phone line.

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john.ahrends said:

that is the biggest reaason I wanted to put my tivo on the network is to NOT use my phone? why would you cripple it like that? How do I fix this broken situation?

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john.ahrends said:

Well my definition of crippled is when you prevent something from working. I beleive that follows my definition when you prevent me from being able to turn on ,#401 to make daily calls... and actually there are lots of posts that suggest that it works. I havent found ANY posts saying it is purposefully turned off to where YOUR customers CAN'T turn use ,#401... Being able to make daily calls is the reason why I needed my tivo to be able to connect to my network.

I don't know if you realize this but your disabling the call out feature is not something that tivo will like...

so I have two more questions...

How do I turn off the daily call feature (untill I can figure out how to fix this)

Also is there someone out there that understands Tivo enough that knows what the tivo runs once it establishes a ppp connction? If I can figure out that I can manually tell it to communicate with Tivo.

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Official InstantCake Discussion Thread, and the
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