No Guide Data after 1/1/07 - Please help

See this thread: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=331931

Looks like an NTL problem.

 

The data that is downloading to others is correct - have you checked your account status?

 

My only other idea is that you data has got corrupt - you may have to redo Guided Setup.

Guide data here runs for 20 days.

 

It's not just me is it? Why is this problem affecting so many TiVo users??

My Toppy is on order and will arrive tomorrow ...

 

What's a Toppy?

 

I've ordered a Topfield TF5800 PVR, which is a dual tuner freeview PVR which allows you to connect a PC or Mac via USB to download recorded programmes, and lets you run TAPs (Topfield Application Programs) - an officially hackable product if you like.

Obviously it won't be as good as my beloved TiVo, but if I can't get guide data then TiVo's just a big doorstop.

I need something to record my favourite programmes over the rest of the festive period!! Amazing how attached I've become to TiVo. Good job I didn't buy that lifetime subscription though.

Don't know what the problem is with TiVo guide data, but I'm not the only user who is suffering since the start of December, so obviously it can't be down to the individual TiVo configurations - I certainly haven't changed anything recently. I'm on TalkTalk broadband, not NTL. I can ping internal and external IP addresses from TiVo, including the TiVo guide data server. But yet it won't connect - even though other users are updating fine.

 

Sounds interesting.

 

It's been around a while now - more info at
www.toppy.org.uk

 

SPs: No - not if you don't change the platform (ie: Sky to cable)

Now Playing: No

 

Just one of those things - usually disk errors are visable on screen - and often you can hear them.

 

I'll be surprised if its as reliable as a Tivo over even the next month.

What a pity Tartan Haggis didn't try rerunning Guided Setup first.

 

Given that the daily call is failing, I did not want to try GS as this could render my TiVo useless if it can't connect to the servers.

Now that the Topfield is here, I might give GS a go. For the record, no the Topfield isn't as good as TiVo!! But at least I can still use it without paying £10/month just for the guide data, and record two programmes at a time while still watching a third. The user interface is rubbish compared to TiVo, but if you install the iGuide TAP (Topfield Application Program) then it looks OK.

TiVo has unrivalled reliability, but unfortunately totally useless without guide data.

I'll try GS and let you know! If it works, then I guess I'll be left with the best of both worlds

 

But a second Tivo complete with a Lifetime Sub could have been yours off Ebay for less than the price of a Topfield.

And by networking them both and using Sanderton's conflict resolve feature you could also have overcome the recordings clash issue........................................

I will be interested to hear how you get on with re-running Guided Setup.

 

Well, GS worked! So I am now blessed with both TiVo and Topfield - at least I could carry on recording stuff in the meantime.

Funny how a number of us on here had the same problem ... our TiVo's couldn't all have corrupted surely??

 

Perhaps some kind of end of year database change that impacted on those of you who had databases that were already partially corrupted in some way. Or perhaps your boxes rebooted at some point in the past while the Tivo was in the process of Reindexing after the Daily Call and hence corrupting the database which then became gradually worse over time....