Well I recently had IPTV installed from my local telco company. The service uses the Entone Amulet HD as the set-top-box but the package I choose did not include the PVR function. I know from looking at them at their office they are the same box's so it peaked my interest as to what makes the difference.
After everything was installed and the guy left I opened the case up... LOL What I found was a space for the hard drive and a IDE port as well as a power port so I got to work.
First I found a old IDE cable and next I had to find a male to male power connector. I was lucky and found a power Y splitter and I knew that it would work.
So I hooked everything up and turned the unit on. On the first screen it recognized the hard drive and start formatting it after a 60 second delay. At this point I was smiling from ear to ear but I knew it was to go to be true and sadly it was.
I was watching a show and when I would hit the record key it would say "This service is disabled by your service provider". Well when I first got this box I read the manual and learned that there is a special menu that requires a special key press which is "Input and then menu" and that brings up some settings for remotes and hard drive information as well as a "advanced menu". I was hoping that there would be something to enable the PVR function but was meet with a password screen. Unlike the normal 4 digit code you use in the normal menu this could have up to 7 digits. The password was "entone" spelled using the corresponding number. It took me half a day to figure that out.
Once within the advanced menu there were only a few functions none of which helps me. You can see system versions and boot image versions. I will open the menu up later and post all the information.
One last thing... In the help menu it list most of the software as opensource so I am wondering if after getting the source I can unlock all features that my provider disables.
Update to come...
