The title pretty much says it all:  trying out my new TinyTV 2.  It's wonderful, as long as you like it to start each video at a random point when you change channels.  There is a setting for this, but not only does the setting not do anything, the device changes the settings file to its preferred setting of "true" every time.

If I set the randStartTime option in the settings.txt to false, it resets itself to true and I always get the random start behaviour.  The first time I look at the settings.txt file after turning it on to view, the file has changed back to its original randStartTime=true.  I edit the settings.txt on the device directly, it resets itself.  I edit it on my PC and copy the settings file to the device, it resets itself.  I try a power cycle between, no difference.  I try ejecting, power cycle, re-insertion, still reset.  The device itself seems to be opening the settings.txt file and writing randStartTime=true to its own configuration file, before starting to play, so I always get random start times.

What am I missing?  The specific little videos I'm using need to be seen from the start.

The title pretty much says it all:  trying out my new TinyTV 2.  It's wonderful, as long as you like it to start each video at a random point when you change channels.  There is a setting for this, but not only does the setting not do anything, the device changes the settings file to its preferred setting of "true" every time.

If I set the randStartTime option in the settings.txt to false, it resets itself to true and I always get the random start behaviour.  The first time I look at the settings.txt file after turning it on to view, the file has changed back to its original randStartTime=true.  I edit the settings.txt on the device directly, it resets itself.  I edit it on my PC and copy the settings file to the device, it resets itself.  I try a power cycle between, no difference.  I try ejecting, power cycle, re-insertion, still reset.  The device itself seems to be opening the settings.txt file and writing randStartTime=true to its own configuration file, before starting to play, so I always get random start times.

What am I missing?  The specific little videos I'm using need to be seen from the start.

Ditto on this, I am having the same exact problem.

Hi, same problem months later (Dec 2025) trying to get TinyTV 2 to start at the beginning of video 1 on power-up. I've updated the firmware and adjusted the settings for randStartTime and randStartChan to false, per the help page. (I even tried renaming randStartChan to randStartChannel, the way it's listed on the FAQ/help page). I also tried per a suggestion here to make the file read-only.  I even tried turning off loop in case that locked it in to where it was when it powered off. No dice.
Anyone find or figure a solution? I'd really like this to start at the top of channel 1 whenever powered on.
Otherwise - loving it!

Thanks