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Hardware / Re: HOW TO

14. Dec 2009, 14:22

Hi Guys i am finally out of my BT Contract so i currently have a paper weight or door stop! I am looking to do something useful with the box but i am a little unsure what the best way to go is.

Part of the problem is it looks like the Linux guys have gone a fair way and it says on the Front page Audio and Video support is there now BUT i cant see a good "How To" about to even know where to begin to get started.

My Vision Box is fairly old so i don't think i will have a problem setting up the mod chip although the firmware has been updated so if i go the WinCE route i think the exe patch could be a problem and the PDF is quite out of date.

What do you guys think?

DJHope

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Software / Re: secret keys

08. Jul 2008, 11:33

Hi Mick,

These worked!! They didnt seem to do anything overly interesting though and it seemed to be fairly unreliable, i.e. i got perfToggleDiagnosticsSequence to work which displayed the contents of some variables at the top of the screen but then couldnt de-toggle it, luckily these were gone after a reboot. The dvrDiagToggleSequence just displayed "DVR Diagnositcs Enabled" but then didn't seem to do anything else. Maybe they can only work one at a time? I'm sure i didn't manage to get it to toggle all the possible options, but then i guess some could be disabled?

Very interesting!

DJHope

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Software / Re: development SVN server is available now

02. Jul 2008, 18:49

please add me to the svn my username is the same as here...

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Software / Digging around

09. May 2008, 14:57

I did some digging around and came across some other sites hacking boxes running windows CE (i guess its Mediaroom) these use the TV2Client at any rate, but alas an x86 processor.

i don't know if any of these are helpful but i thought id post them anyway.

http://www.ip-phone-forum.de/showthread.php?t=122562

and

http://thomson.dreamgates.de/dokuwiki/index.php?title=Download_Original-Dateien

Actually it looks like they've re-written the set top box software for the thompson box:

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fthomson.dreamgates.de%2fdokuwiki%2fsot%3astart

Has anyone managed to dump the registry or edit the registry of the MIPSII Boxes?

Dave

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Hardware / Re: Progress...

09. May 2008, 11:18

Thanks that's great, now i need to hop on to ebay

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Hardware / Progress...

07. May 2008, 12:21

Guys,

I am a newby to this forum and am highly interested in your attempts to open up the Philips box, i initially became frustrated with the possibility of ending up with a door stop when my subscription ends. I am slightly lost as to exactly were we are with this can anyone please bring me up to speed with the following questions:

• Firstly, I understand you have been able to get through most of the boot up sequence by using the debug firmware signature files found on the BT Server and also using the JTAG cable to patch out the signature checks, but everything fails when it tries to load the user data! Is this a correct assessment of the current progress?


• Second i believe you can boot Linux on the device but this is currently amounts to a router without the required hardware drivers?


• Third is there any use in creating an internal TFTP server so that the box attempts to download files from there rather than over the net?


• Fourth is there any way to extract the user data and point the vision box at an internal TFTP server or get it to download from somewere else?


• And Finally is there anyway at all to get the box running standalone?

I am keen to get involved with the project and am looking foward to buying a second box on ebay to help with progress.

Thanks

DAve