I know you all heared rumours about different numbers, but it prooved yesterday: 128 is the real magic number. OK, the story is much longer, but here is the summary: I just love cycling and trying to watch heros in action I browsed through the channels my DVB-S receiver gives me.
Now the thing is this: after 127 channels (Astra in Germany is just insane - 8 news channels, 7 music video channels, ... all this is free) I still didn't have a broadcast from Barcelona (eurosport shows Giro - but seriously: who wants to know if Pettachi manages 17th stage today or tomorrow?). So I switched to channel 128 and the receiver crashed. Yes, it crashed. Good thing the Grundig designers added a crash handler that automatically reboots the machine. Just too bad they also added session management, so it booted right into channel 128 - which makes it crash. Now I have this little setup box that I can make endless reboot cycles when I put it on the power cord. It's pretty useless to me, I guess I should sell it at ebay.
So I'm back to analog TV (it looks so disgusting - I mean, analog is so 90ties), but this gives me the buffer not having to buy the most expensive receiver there is just because my beloved would miss O.C. otherwise - that trouble no hero can compensate. So I looked around and I think I'm going with a hdd receiver this time and there is a pretty neat one: the dreambox. When I saw that they ported linux to the dbox at LinuxTag I thought they are pretty insane, but now I think it's pretty cool - I'll have a linux box in the living room. Just look how neat it can look like: http://sky.heim.at/skins/. If you have some experience with it, please let me know.
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This may be a stupid idea
... but have you tried unplugging the cable and other connections from the back, then plugging it in? It can't be that the box will always crash on channel 128 (that would just plain suck for anyone that does have a channel 128.
You're wrong
I don't understand how no one has said that yet, but 128 is not the magic number. There is and there will ever be only one magic number:
42
So long and thanks for all the fish.
Hmmm...
There must be a way to hard reset the box...
But if you are looking for a "media-center" solution with linux, you might want to look into www.mythtv.org. Looks really nice. And you can put just a client in your living room (which makes it quiet) and have the recording stuff done in the cellar.
Btw, if you are ever in HH drop me a line.
Hehehe
Next time, don't set the crash bit
What about returning the box?
Seems to me like it falls in the (obligatory 3month) gaurantee, so if its not too old; you can just return it to the store.
I mean; if its that easy to crash you can surely get your money back, of a good upgrade
Great debugging, though
Without knowing the exact box
Without knowing the exact box it is tricky to know if this works, but you could try holding the "Back Up" button (maybe it is called "Cancel" or something similar) and pulling the power cord. Keep the button held down and replug the power. If all goes well after a couple of seconds of holding the button down the lights on the box should flash and the box will do a full reset.
This works with Panasonic and Pace boxes, maybe Grundig too.