Please bear with me on this.....

[davelee1097]

This is my first post so.....HELLO!

I have aquired a BT Vision Box today and stumbled upon this wonderful forum!
I am by no means a BT customer and understand the true capabilities of this PVR.

I have just read the How To and I am just trying to get my head around a few things first,

1. I need to Chip the Box
2. I need to "place" some files etc onto the HDD
3. What sort of progress has everyone been making on hacking this box?
4. What is this box capable of ie the USB ports etc.

I am not a programmer by any means but I do have a friend who is s**t Hot at C#

I can't really think of anything else to ask but if I think of something i'd be grateful if you could answer me, Thanks for reading this and Happy New Year!!

[warrmr]

Welcome to the forum,

1) Yes you will need to chip the box, the Schematics are in Micks how to guide.
2) It will probly be easyer to mod the files on your box yourself rather than download them form the wiki as i think they are for the german boxes. you just need to patch the NK.bin, and replace the booterce.exe and booterce.dll files with the ones in the wiki( they should be there if not i can upload them for you.)

3) Curently we have it watching TV and getting EIT now and next data for the TV guide and it displays the recording menu but wont record because of the intergration with the webservice.

4) from what we have seen in the code it is capable of media streaming from lan aswell as the standard PVR functions you get from a bt vision box as for usb functions i dont really know i would assume there would be a way to pull music and videos from a memory stick or similar but thats quite a while away.

It would be good to get another programmer on board as we have 2 very good c# programmers working on it and myself and i can work out the logic but im by no means a c# expert.

you would also need to replace the TV2ClientCE.exe that is in the NK.bin with a modded version but unfortunatly because its a copyrighted file i cannot post it on here and offer it for download.

[is0-mick]

This is my first post so.....HELLO!

Welcome glad to have someone new on board. More the merrier

4) from what we have seen in the code it is capable of media streaming from lan aswell as the standard PVR functions you get from a bt vision box as for usb functions i dont really know i would assume there would be a way to pull music and videos from a memory stick or similar but thats quite a while away.

USB memory sticks are enumerated as another drive, and recognised and can be accessed by the OS, so probably not that far away

I'm not sure if this functionality has been disabled in later builds of the software though as I couldnt get it to work again on the .642 build.

Mick

[redband]

I'm not sure if this functionality has been disabled in later builds of the software though as I couldnt get it to work again on the .642 build.

Yeah, I noticed that...  just when I was looking to make use of "Hard Disk3"...

[is0-mick]

@Redband
Just had another look and I realised I had forgot to add the

            <USBConfig Enable="1"/>

switch to the tv2config.xml

It does work now on the .642 version.

Maybe you forgot to do the same?
Mick