Hack tivo hd

Our local Time Warner tech had things set up in less than an hour. The interface Once you connect the TiVo HD box to your TV and cable line, it automatically commences a to minute guided setup routine.

For the most part, the onscreen interface is all but identical to that of its earlier TiVo models. But that's a good thing, since the "classic" TiVo interface remains a major selling point for the company as it competes against a growing number of "generic" non-TiVo DVR offerings. Like the TiVo interface itself, the guided setup is largely idiot-proof. The system verifies that your AV cables are correctly connected and that your TiVo is online via phone line or broadband so that it can access the electronic programming guide.

Once the guided setup is complete, things stay just as simple. TiVo's designers chose real English phrases, such as "watch live TV" and "pick programs to record," for menu choices, instead of the cryptic icons common to so many other consumer electronics devices.

Text explanations were clear and timely, and we'd bet that even Luddites could figure out the basics in a matter of minutes--once they get over the shock of seeing live television on pause. But the box also offers another big distinguishing factor from its generic cable cousins: home networking and Internet access.

In addition to using your broadband connection to update its day electronic programming guide, the TiVo HD's network link provides a laundry list of features not available on competing DVRs:. But that's no longer an issue. As of fall , these features have been added to the TiVo HD via the 9. The newly added features are as follows:. It has the standard dimensions of a DVD player and will fit in any AV rack, but the silver-outlined bezel needlessly calls attention to itself.

There's no fancy OLED display as seen on the Series3 , but the front readout does have bright LEDs to indicate when the tuners are recording or when the unit is downloading material from the Web. Likewise, the output resolutions p, i, and so forth are clearly indicated as well.

This is optional, but helpful This starts up the VI editor. I'm not going to tell you how to use it as there are many, many websites that explain the VI editor in detail.

Do a search. Bash and telnet are already on the TiVo. Tivoftpd and fakecall. If necessary, change the IP address of The gateway address of If you did not rename dhclient earlier, you can delete or comment out these lines. TiVo will attempt to find the files and execute them, but will fail, and just skip down to the next command. Plug the TiVo back in and cross your fingers. If all goes well, you should be able to telnet to the IP address of the TiVo ex.

Congratulations, your TiVo is hacked! The following are some of the most common hacks, depending on what you want to do. While the hard drive is in the TiVo, the 4th and 7th partitions are read only.

You will need to issue the following command before you can modify files on those partitions:. The Superpatch takes care of most of these, but not all. May I also recommend the 30 second skip, which is in post 2. Post 13 explains how to format the command. For example, if you have a DirecTiVo with version 6. The default port number is You will need to download 3 separate archives and extract the files to the same directory, thereby copying over outdated versions.

The original author's license restricts someone from redistributing a working archive. For the dates and times to be accurate, you will need tzoffset. You will need to change the number depending on the time zone you are in. The value is the number of seconds between your time zone and GMT time. For Eastern, the offset is 5 hours difference x 60 x Central is Mountain is Pacific is On this second drive, you'll need a few downloaded files.

Here's how to get them You'll need a virgin kernel to apply the killhdinitrd patch. The first post in the link above has information as to which version of the kernel you can use for your particular TiVo, and the second post has information on where you can download them. Download sites frequently appear and disappear. Also check out the Backup image and slice begging thread or do a Google search. The 7. This CD image will also come in handy for the next section.

Download tivotools. Download iptables. Download rc. Copy iptables and rc. Makes TV ripping really easy. Tivo works with many Digital cable boxes, if that's what you're concerned about. If you poke around www. Last I had heard they were still working on trying to figure out whatever low-level format the tivo used for storing video data also doesn't it use some kind of encryption as well?

Bah, from the jist of it, the hack is: - burn boot utility to cd. I'm sure its an easy hack, but I hate the 10 page explanation, especially since they claim it only takes an hour. I need a morello quality one-page writeup! Read a website or two. Basically it's hacked and has a heavily modified Linux to get the kernal, read off of the stream, etc Tivo's are great products.

Ok, so hacking them might be cool. But to go through all the trouble of pulling the data off, why not just get some PVR software and a capture card for your pc. It just seems to make more sense to me. The beauty of the tivo was that we didnt need to use our pc's to record shows. I'm currently debating putting a TivoNet card into mine. You went to the prom??? What are you doing reading Slashdot? Score: 2. I'm pretty miffed, too, because I didn't get my robotic girlfriend built in time for prom night.

I didn't even get my dress off on prom night, I had to peel it off 18 hours later when I woke up underneath a volkswagon jetta that somehow made it into my garage.

And there were opened boxes from undercarriage lighting kits I felt so You forget, this is slashdot; we didn't go to prom night, and if we did goto prom, we looked like bad geeks and no girls would dance with us out of fear of social rejectition.

Reality is really strange. Away to Jail with Ye Score: 5 , Funny. Today the US Senate announced pending legislation designed to curb the growing problem of Tivo hacking. The House is expected to take up a similar bill next week.

Senator Orrin Hatch, chief sponsor of the bill, was quoted as saying "This issue is of extreme importance to the future of America. What kind of message would we be sending to our children if we allowed this kind of wanton hacking activity to go on unchecked? He has also opened a Paypal account to accept donations to help fund the mounting legal costs in persecuting attempts at allowing that evil Communist "freedom of information" idea that has been infiltrating our great fascist state.

You know, I have mod points, and could just mod you down, but I thought I'd reply instead. Re:Away to Jail with Ye Score: 2. What you're saying is the equivalent of saying there's nothing wrong with cocking a gun and pointing it at somebody's head. It's only pulling the trigger that's bad. This is a perfectly valid point in itself. However, the poster, who provoked me -- most certainly -- meant the German version of Fascism.

The Italian one just was not ugly enough, so there is no point in using it. Now that I could finally get logged in to reply to your post I meant Fascism in a general sense.

My comment was not directly related to Italy or Germany. Perhaps for the general population this is something that is a bit difficult to fathom but I have faith that most people here knew better when it came to what I said and based on your moderation and those under you I believe they did.

Yes, indeed. And "cretin" is a medical term too. Most certainly, however, Mr. Garcia used the term Fascism as a "dirty word". You know it, I know it, he knows it. Put away the dictionary Re:Away to Jail with Ye Score: 1. OK, I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but how does this type of activity merit the use of the word wanton. Didn't you read the definition you pasted?

Frolicsome, playful. Wanton is also defined on occasion as "with abandon", which is the sense in which I most commonly see it in pornography :. Score: 2 , Insightful. Just release the code. Score: 4 , Informative. Apparently a contest was made available first before a software exploit could be found. If their post [dealdatabase.

We request that all proceeds be donated to the EFF so that research of this nature remains legal in the future. Score: 5 , Insightful. This should be obvious. Larger point taken, however. This is the opposite of blackmail, smartguy. Score: 2 , Funny. Score: 1. VeGas writes:. Is this the opposite of digital terrorism?? Score: 3 , Insightful. I remember a while back the gang of folks threatening to release hacks for the Xbox unless MS paid up - don't remember hearing what happened there.

This seems to be similar but completely different - : I have to say that I'm against anything that might harm Tivo as a company; I'm a rabid fan who sees signs on the wall that Tivo may be in trouble within the next few years as the cable companies produce low-grade DVRs that do not give the database-powered juicy goodness that Tivo provides.

Just my two cents. Re:Is this the opposite of digital terrorism?? Score: 5 , Informative. They were threatening to release the software hack unless MS were to allow a signed version of Linux to be released on the XBox. Of course MS didn't, and the hack which allowed the user to load an unsigned linux loader without a hardware mod was released.

It was this very possibility that the original hacker wanted MS to avoid by allowing a signed Linux loader. WE've had them here in comcast that also record HD for over a year now.

I know this is off-topic, but what's up with the Magellan Meridian? I looked for a way to contact you, but not too much luck. Maybe then I wouldn't end up with double copies of every show as it get repeated for the west coast. Software-only hacks rule! Let me be one of the first today to say that software-only hacks rule!

There are a lot more people that can use that type of hack, then there are that would open the box and do stuff in order to get BASH, or what have you, to work.

There goes the system. How about a hack for the Series 2? Re:How about a hack for the Series 2? I beleive the series 2 were software hacked last year via the 3 card monty method. There are downloadable ISOs to prep the drives. It does stop updates from working though. Even hacks the Directivo. How about stepping into ? The two-card-monte method as applied to the Tivo Series 2 as long ago as February, OK, dumb question Score: 4 , Insightful. What would you be able to do with a TiVo hacked in this way that you can't do now?

Hook it up to a different hard drive and store more shows? Re:OK, dumb question Score: 5 , Funny.