pscsuk
02-03-2007, 12:22 AM
OK, I've got a similar problem other people have had with program guide data. The TiVo seems to download data every day, but the program guide data for certain channels doesn't seem to work properly (if I try to manually schedule a recording for, say, BBC1, it appears in the list OK, but the season passes say there are no upcoming recordings :confused: )
I've been having this problem for 6 months+ now. I 'fix' it by re-running a guided setup, but I need to do it every week or two, which is a big pain (especially if I go on holiday for 2 weeks and it only 'lasts' one week.
In December I got two new hard disks to replace my existing ones, and put them in. During this I seemed to have problems copying the data from one of my old disks, so I suspect it was busted
But I still have the guide data problems.
So, what to do now?
Is there any way to 'reinitialise' the guide database without doing a total reset?
I DID try a total reset before replacing the hard disks, and it worked - for a week or two, when I had to do another guided setup - but that may have been due to the faulty disk.
As far as I can tell the TiVo has V2.5.5 (TivoWeb says 2.5.5-01-1-023 ). I AM having problems with one TV in the house turning off when using TiVo with it (I thought it was a faulty TV somehow), and I've just read about 2.5.5a, so is it worth asking CS for that and seeing if that fixes my guide data problem as well?
The 'final' step would be to get more new disks with a brand new image on (or a restore of the image off my original 40MB I have stashed away from years ago), but I'm reluctant to do this because I have 150 hours of unwatched recordings on the TiVo, which I don't particularly want to lose.
I'm leaning towards buying another TiVo, swapping my network card onto that, and recording on the new one whilst watching off the old one, but I'd like to save money if there are other options first..
I've been having this problem for 6 months+ now. I 'fix' it by re-running a guided setup, but I need to do it every week or two, which is a big pain (especially if I go on holiday for 2 weeks and it only 'lasts' one week.
In December I got two new hard disks to replace my existing ones, and put them in. During this I seemed to have problems copying the data from one of my old disks, so I suspect it was busted
But I still have the guide data problems.
So, what to do now?
Is there any way to 'reinitialise' the guide database without doing a total reset?
I DID try a total reset before replacing the hard disks, and it worked - for a week or two, when I had to do another guided setup - but that may have been due to the faulty disk.
As far as I can tell the TiVo has V2.5.5 (TivoWeb says 2.5.5-01-1-023 ). I AM having problems with one TV in the house turning off when using TiVo with it (I thought it was a faulty TV somehow), and I've just read about 2.5.5a, so is it worth asking CS for that and seeing if that fixes my guide data problem as well?
The 'final' step would be to get more new disks with a brand new image on (or a restore of the image off my original 40MB I have stashed away from years ago), but I'm reluctant to do this because I have 150 hours of unwatched recordings on the TiVo, which I don't particularly want to lose.
I'm leaning towards buying another TiVo, swapping my network card onto that, and recording on the new one whilst watching off the old one, but I'd like to save money if there are other options first..