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Viva Las TiVo!

    So, I have a DirecTivo (Hughes HDVR2). Now it's an older one, but it's still a series 2.

    A year ago I upgraded the hard drive to a 120Gb drive (from the stock 40Gb drive), which gave me about 100 hours work of recording time.. I attempted to do the bash hack, but failed miserably. It wasn't a big concern, but I had wanted to do it..

    After the recent /. posting about TiVo, I decided to get back into it, and bought a 160Gb drive to play with. I copied the image over to the new drive, and it worked fine. Then I got into the hacks. Ahhh, gotta change kernels, so it won't use the initrd image, rather than then on-drive ones.

    Now it skips the initrd image, and does use what's on the drive. I did manage to completely fuck up one partition, but TiVo is very smart, and has two copies of both the kernel and root partitions. cat /dev/hda4 > /dev/hda7 fixed that right up.

    I went to the store to try to find a compatable USB network device, but Best Buy only had one on the list, and it doesn't seem to want to fire up.

    Stargate, Stargate::Atlantas, and Battlestar Galactica were coming on, so I put the 160Gb drive in, and let it record them. I *do* have a bash prompt now, and I do have quite a few of the 'essential' utilities (like /bin/ls), but I can't seem to get the NIC drivers working yet.

    I decided it was a good stopping point, and bailed out to spend some time with my girlfriend, so it's been humming away happily on it's own. I'll mess with it more another day. The laptop is still plugged in, and I still have the serial console on, I just need to get those NIC drivers going, so I can try to get TivoWeb working. I really like the idea of being able to work it from a web browser whereever I happen to be. I'll probably do my own flavor of security, probably proxying the connections through one of my Linux machines, in a password protected area. That's nothing I haven't done before, it'll just be a matter of doing it.

    If anyone has hints (like the drivers and which ones to load in what order) for a Linksys USB200M USB NIC device, I'd appreciate it.

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  • We've got 2 of those DVR's; one we bought upgraded (120 GB drive, IIRC) from weaknees.com. I honestly don't know how I could've survived the overnight shift without one.

    The only hack we've got running (other than 30-sec skip) is the 'sort by name' hack. Have fun poking in the innards of your tivo, though. :)


    • I'm having a blast. It's almost been painful spending the weekend away from it, but I'm with a wonderful girl, so that makes it much better. :)

      I'll get into the fun part of hacking this week. I'm 1/2 way tempted to get a cross-compiler going so I can build my own apps. :) Oohhh, what I could do with some perl scripts on there. I believe the only scripting environments I have are bash and python.

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