1 Introduction

This TAP is intended to provide a means of backing up & restoring your system settings, so they can be easily restored after a crash, new firmware load, or Factory Reset.

It can be used in either of two ways:

(1) Run manually, when settings may be saved or restored.

(2) Run from Auto Start at boot time, when settings are restored.

The latter must be preceded by at least one instance of the former to record your settings.

2 Installation & Use

Download the TAP from here. Load the TAP into your preferred directory, and make sure you have a "ProgramFiles/Settings" directory as this is where your settings will be stored as "SystemSettings.txt".

When run manually from any directory (including Auto Start provided you have not just re-booted) you will be offered the choice of saving the currrent settings, restoring the saved settings (if it finds a set), and doing nothing. When you have made your choice, it is implemented and the TAP closes.

When run from Auto Start at boot-up, it restores the settings without user intervention, and shuts itself down.

If running from Auto Start, the load order should not affect operation, but it is probably sensible to have it last so any manually loaded TAPs come up last too (if a TAP is closed, its "slot" remains empty until the next to be loaded takes up its "slot" - the remaining running ones do not shuffle up).

3 Parameters Saved & Restored

These are:

Volume

Osd Language

Subtitle Language

Audio Language

Tv Type

Video Out Type

Scart Type

Tv Aspect Ratio

16:9 Display mode on 4:3 Tvs

Sound Mode

RF Output Type

RF Output Ch No

Osd Transparency

Info Box Time

Info Box Position

Timeshift on/off

Interactive On/Off (TF5800 only)

Subtitles On/Off (TF5800 only)

Current TV/Radio selection

Current channel selection

4 Sample System Settings File

The "zip file includes a sample "SystemSettings.txt" file.

Editing this to required values and loading the the TAP into Auto Start would allow recovery from a state where the Toppy got into a state where it was only producing a video type which was incompatible with your TV.

1 Known Limitations

(1) < 30 seconds from start up is used to decide whether the TAP has been run at boot up. Verifying files will therefore probably prevent it restoring settings after a crash. It would also be possible to run it manually withi this time, in which case it would restore the last settings without offering the option to record current settings.

(2) Current Favourites list selection is not saved/restored.

2 Version History

A1 Initial version

A1a More tolerant of, and less likely to produce, settings files with stray characters.