Firstly you need to make sure you have connected your PVR's hard drive to the computer correctly. A guide on how to do this can be found in the tutorials section.

On opening the application you will be greeted by the following screen:

A list of detected Sky+ HD hard disks will be shown the left hand pane. Checking one of these will load it's planner:

All of the recordings in the planner will now be shown in the right hand pane. Clicking on a recording will show more detailed information about it at the bottom of the window.

Recordings with a red background are encrypted and will not be viewable on a PC (they can however still be copied to a new Sky+ HD hard disk). Recordings with blue text are Anytime Showcase recordings, and were recorded automatically by your box. Recordings with grey text are deleted recordings which are still in the Sky+ box's recycle bin.

A fully interactive tutorial which will take you through every step of using ExPVR and transferring your Sky+ HD recordings is currently under development.

In the mean time, there is a list of tutorials for gaining access to the hard disks of Sky+ HD boxes below:

Sky+ HD

Welcome to the ExPVR Support Pages.

Help pages describing how to use ExPVR are available from the menu on the left. Also available is a dynamic tutorial which will guide you though: Transfering Sky+ HD Recordings, Watching Sky+ HD Recordings on your PC and Upgrading your Sky+ HD Hard Disk.

Sky Router Tool V1.2.1

Standard Version (recommended for most users)

Standalone Version (no installer)

Source code is available from Google Code

Sky Router Tool V1.1

Standard Version (recommended for most users) | .NET2.0 Version (for Windows 2000)

Standalone Version (no installer)

Source code is available from Google Code

Sky Router Tool V1.0 Beta 6

Standard Version (recommended for most users) | .NET2.0 Version (for Windows 2000)

Source Code | Standalone Version (no installer) | .NET2.0 Standalone Version

Sky Router Tool V1.0 Beta 5 R3

Standard Version (recommended for most users) | .NET2.0 Version (for Windows 2000)

Source Code | Standalone Version (no installer) | .NET2.0 Standalone Version

Sky Router Tool V1.0 Beta 4

Standard Version (recommended for most users) | .NET2.0 Version (for Windows 2000)

Source Code

For other versions go to http://www.ph-mb.com/downloads/sky_router_tool/

Sky Router Tool is free software but if you have found it useful I would be incredibly grateful if you could give a small donation:

Sky Router Tool currently supports the Netgear DG834GT and DG934G routers. Other routers may work if they are similar enough. If you would like support for your (preferably linux-based) router then send me an email and I'll see what I can do.

	Router Type	Comments
	Netgear DG834GT	All features supported.
	Netgear DG934G	Changing the target SNR, viewing the SNR (not SNR margin), QLN and Attenuation graphs and resyncing are not supported. All other features work.
	Sagem F@ST 2504	All features except speed test and sky password calculation work. Requires custom firmware from http://www.skyuser.co.uk/forum/technical-discussion/44101-custom-sky-v2-8-firmware-sky-v3-sagem-f-st-2504-router.html.

• Supports the first 3 routers provided by Sky
• Works with stock sky firmware. No firmware updating required!**
• Fully AJAX web interface
• Bandwidth usage, ADSL Error and SNR margin logging
• Advanced statistics display, including full SNR and Bit Loading graphs*
• Ability to alter the target SNR margin on the router*
• Speed testing tool which runs from the router
• Full router process listing
• Uses password-protected HTTP to connect to the router instead of telnet
• Sky Username, Password, SSID, Wireless Password and Default Channel calculator for both the DG834GT and the DG934G (calculated from LAN MAC address and serial)

Sky Router Tool is a free, open source application which allows you to log various details from your sky router (bandwidth usage, signal to noise ratio margin and errors), display advanced ADSL line graphs and more! It now supports the first 3 routers released by Sky (Netgear DG834GT (Sky V1, white), Netgear DG934G (Sky V2, black) and Sagem F@ST 2504 (Sky V3, black).

Sky Router Tool is free software but if you have found it useful I would be incredibly grateful if you could give a small donation:

Testestestest

I have just uploaded a new beta version to http://www.ph-mb.com/products/ExPVR/downloads which adds a fair few new features, including support for copying from pre-darwin Thompson boxes (the legacy planner is now converted to the darwin format as part of the copy) and the ability to copy recordings from more than one source drive (disk merging). 

I have also added an option to add the date the recording was made to the beginning of the synopsis of each copied recording. The current sky planner only shows the day of the month, which can be quite annoying for people with older recordings. Obviously this will not work for recordings made after the copy, but it is better than nothing.

As this is a beta, there may be some issues, but I have tested all the features with my Samsung box, and a Thompson I purchased the other day, and everything seems to be working. One possible problem is that this version is a bit more picky when it comes to the database format (it has to be, as it must also create databases as part of the Thompson conversion and merging features), so if any of the boxes have a slightly different database version it may give an error. If this happens, I would be grateful if you could send me a copy of the databases (PCAT.DB and MFS.DB in the FSN_DATA directory of the sky hard disk) so I can add support.

This software is for personal use only. A license is required to use this software for commercial purposes.

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