Journal LinuxHam's Journal: Finally hacked my TiVo
I bought a 14 hour TiVo off EBay back in February. It needed a new remote, power cord, and IR transmitter. Once those arrived, I powered it up and tried to run a system reset. Well, it hung for three days on something that normally takes about an hour. I bought a new 120GB Maxtor drive for $100 a few weeks later. Finally, a few weeks after that, I sat down with a friend while we restored an image that we downloaded to the new disk. The docs unfortunately missed a command to recognize the expanded capacity, so it came up as 14 hours even with the 120GB drive.
Then we bought some TurboNet adapters. He found out the hard way that that TiVoWeb does not work with DirecTiVo units. So last weekend I installed the TurboNet adapter, but didn't mod the case to route the cable out. I also ran the command to expand the space, and it jumped from 14 hours to 144 hours. This weekend, I modded the case to route the cable outside and zip tied it to the fan grate. I also yanked the drive and started the telnet server and installed the ftp server. Finally, I installed TivoWeb.
Was it worth it? Eh, I guess. So far, the only real good thin that has come out of it is that it now uses ethernet for the daily update and with a Linksys WET11 wireless bridge, I'll be able to put the TiVo anywhere in the house without the need for a phone line anymore. Other than that, the process for extracting video for the purpose of burning VCDs or SVCDs is still wayy too manual.
That's all for now.
Oh, I read some new postings of a couple of my foes... they're still assholes and I'm leaving them automodded to -6.
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