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Hello, Is there anybody in there? Just nod if you can hear me Is there anyone home !!
Picked up another of these boxes today --- this one boots up with a different screen and works as a Freeview box.
The menu looks different.
Is there any way of sniffing the software off this one and using it in the other one?
Is this info on the hard drive or written into the board?
I haven't tried swapping the hard drives over to see if it will make the bad one work.
Any help appreciated --- even if you read this please just reply with a hello !!
Thanks
Regards
whoops, sorry for the delay. From how I understand the BTvision box works the new firmware is downloaded and written to the box itself, its not stored on the hard drive so there is no way to copy it.
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No. Its running another version of firmware, but its still giving me a c01 error.
According to the BT vision forums, BT are updating batches of boxes at any one time, however they expect it to be completed sometime around NOV/DEC 2013.
But people are saying that boxes that have been disconnected for whatever reason will NOT get the update unless you have an active BTBB connection as well as a live BTVision account.
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Whoa, I think BTVision have done something, I was playing with my black box again last night (I live in hope) and out of sheer frustration of it rebooting I kept hitting TVGUIDE, to see if the box was actually doing something, not just hanging, after the C01 screen. It promptly displayed a scan for channels, so I told it to do so. However it got to 60% of channel scanning and froze. It did find 48 channels though. So I did a power cycle again, and it did another channel scan which promptly froze at 0% no channels found after 20 minutes.
Maybe just maybe, you guys who have way more programming knowledge than I do, can see if the box will let you in? Its never done this before so maybe its from the software update recently released by BT
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Did try that Mick, either its my system or im doing something wrong, but I get an encrypted html address. BT have said that they are migrating everyone over to the youview system, but you know BT they say something but when they do it is a totally different manor
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Hi peeps, i decided to see if i could gain BTfirmware, by hooking up my box to a work BTBB connection with a Btvision account active on it. Got the box to boot up great, interrupted the BB connection and box promptly sulked. Now my Brother has BTvision black box, with a working BTvision account and his box will boot WITHOUT a bt BB connection. His box is running very different firmware to ours and it is running linux. Now for the nasty Bit, we called BTvision's ''help'' line to explain that we had bought a box on ebay so he could use it as multiroom, (BT dont support this but lots of people do it) so we gave them the box mac code and everything else the tech asked for so we could download the latest firmware for it. Tried to convince the box on more than one occasion to download the latest firmware, and all it does it reload the windows CE. When explained this to the ''vision tech'' his response was, only boxes linked to the account will get the new firmware which allows the box to boot without the BB connection and allows an epg over the air. When asked why, the response we got was ''We know there are lots of unused vision boxes out there, thus having them still locked to our system will mean people will have to come back to BT to get the box to work''
So it seems that to get the latest firmware that allows the box to boot and run without a BB connection to BT, would be to get a box already ''opened'' on the new firmware. The vision tech did say off the record that eventually all the black BTvision boxes would be unlocked as they are going to be un workable when they start streaming everything over fiber, and totally moving over to youview.
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The black box has the new linux firmware
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Mick!
Ive been following this with the hope to actually participate something, now i can.
I dont have my silver vision box but i can confirm this works with the black box.
*** YOU WILL NEED A BB CONNECTION ***
my black box has sat in the loft for almost two years, so its missed a few updates, but after being off work cos of the christmas hols, and that Bt have rolled out the ''new look vision'' linux software. I figured id try and download the latest firmware.
this works on any BB connection not just Bt.
***this will only get you the new firmware not activate your box ***
Do not plug in your ethernet cable just yet
press and hold ''ok and down''
insert power lead whilst still holding ''ok and down''
wait for the cog to come up on screen.
plug in the ethernet cable.
You should see the progress bar start to fill up once download completes
2 cogs will come up on screen and again a progress bar fills up.
once completed you will see the ''new look vision logo''
let it look for your hub, or let it come up C03 error, then go to diagnostics info, and there it is. The latest software installed on the box.
I have no knowledge of linux, but i figured this may help you.
