thanks for the reply santa
i can see the channels change up/down but i had thought the plugin was a function to modify the behaviour of the buttons as in other images, i.e green button assigned to stop/start emu etc, but maybe that is somewhere else or not part of this image yet?
the telnet output reads
BusyBox v1.20.2 (2012-10-13 08:45:32 CEST) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.
IPBOX900:~# blkid
/dev/sda1: LABEL="ext2" UUID="bcbd209f-c621-4ec1-9ffc-54b29a6d64e7" TYPE="ext2"
IPBOX900:~# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 16.0 GB, 16008609792 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1947 15633392 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
IPBOX900:~#
which to me says it is reading the usb stick
i have an e-sata hdd which i wanted to use for recordings but maybe ths is not possible and as i say i have a limited knowledge.
thanks
h
ps sorry 1 other quick question - does the scart out work at the same time as hdim output as i want to send picture to 2nd tv.