Enhance Your Hacked Tivo With This Script

[rbautch]

How do I use the the extract? I can ftp it but how do I get it to run? If I use sh tweak.sh it will not run with /enhancements. Do I ftp the extract to another folder and then use tweak.sh?

I will try the ping when I get home tonight. The IP addresses are static and were setup under 4.0.

Thanks for all your help. Let me know if you want me to test anything to see why the script is failing. First uninstall whatever is on there now, and then delete the enhancements directory. FTP the tweak.sh and rbautch_files.tgz files from the Zipper archive anywhere on your tivo, and then run tweak.sh. After you run the enhancement script, if you have ifconfig statements in your author file, remove them. After you reboot, try using the latest script from the enhancement script and see if it will download a new script successfully.

[tonydi]

I guess it was just fate that the third HDVR2 install went fine. On my final unit I again used the XP SP2 telnet instructions even though I don't have SP2 installed.

It appears as though the only error in the tweak.sh process was that it couldn't find /enhancements/.joerc when I told it to install joe. It did say it made the necessary profile change, however.

So far the only thing consistent about this whole process is that it's pretty inconsistent! :( I've got four units and I don't think any of them turned out exactly the same, even the two where I uninstalled and reinstalled the enhancements. Weird deal, huh. :confused:

Anyway, can you show me how to install joe "manually" so I don't have to uninstall and reinstall the enhancements?

[rbautch]

Look for joe.tgz in /enhancements, and extract the archive which contains joe and .joerc. Copy .joerc to root. Done. I'm going to adjust the joe install since a few people seem to be having the same problem. I think it has to do with the version of tar that you have.

[rbautch]

How do I use the the extract? I can ftp it but how do I get it to run? If I use sh tweak.sh it will not run with /enhancements. Do I ftp the extract to another folder and then use tweak.sh?

I will try the ping when I get home tonight. The IP addresses are static and were setup under 4.0.

Thanks for all your help. Let me know if you want me to test anything to see why the script is failing. I adjusted the script to handle download failures better. I reposted it at the top of this thread. If you haven't yet used the one from the Zipper, give this a try to see if it fixes your DNS issue.

[Greencat]

I adjusted the script to handle download failures better. I reposted it at the top of this thread. If you haven't yet used the one from the Zipper, give this a try to see if it fixes your DNS issue.

I tried the new script and it tried to set the DNS but stopped.

bash-2.02# find tweak.sh
/var/packages/tweak.sh
bash-2.02# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory

I'll try the ping and also your other suggestions.

[Greencat]

I adjusted the script to handle download failures better. I reposted it at the top of this thread. If you haven't yet used the one from the Zipper, give this a try to see if it fixes your DNS issue.

After ftp the files.tgz file the script ran fine except it reported that the DNS was set to 0.0.0.0. I thought I had set it to the router. Even after reporting the 0.0.0.0 it did not offer to fix it.

I went to my other machine and I could ping the router but can not get the script to run. By the way how do yu stop the ping? is it ctrl-s?

Let me know if you want me to try something else. If not I will ftp the files to the other tivo.

Thanks for your help.

[sonyuser]

Many thanks to this forum and Rbautch and Gunnyman's help, I successfully got my Series II's brought up to date (at that time) with 6.2 and MRV back in Sept 2005. Got all my units talking to each other and even doing it wireless.

The "Tweak" Rbautch now has to offer appears to have a few more hacks added that the September version. What really catches my eye now are the USB 2.0 drivers (wireless I hope) and the CALLERID. Taking Rbautch's advice and monitoring my present telephone activity (with phone line unplugged), it appears that the unit is attempting to call out everyday but getting the "no dial tone" error so I am not ready to plug in the phone line just yet.

Question is this: Do I need to start over with an unhacked Tivo to install the latest version of your "Tweak" hacks or is there a way to update what I have already done? Hoping to get up to date without having to pull the lid off the Tivo unit (the heads of the screws are getting a bit worn).

By the way, did I mention that this is an EXCELLENT SITE!

:)

[tonydi]

Look for joe.tgz in /enhancements, and extract the archive which contains joe and .joerc. Copy .joerc to root. Done. I'm going to adjust the joe install since a few people seem to be having the same problem. I think it has to do with the version of tar that you have.
While joe.tgz is in enhancements, I searched for the components. Here's what I found...

kelly-TiVo# ffind joe
/etc/rc.d/joe
kelly-TiVo# ffind .joerc
/etc/rc.d/.joerc

I don't actually see .joerc in that directory but this could be a function of how ffind works.

Thought it might be helpful to you to know that joe.tgz got extracted but the pieces went to the wrong place for some reason.

Edit....

I extracted joe and .joerc from the original file in your archive and ftp'd them to enhancements and root. When I type author I get a whole bunch of errors. Here's a snippet of the very end.

'/.joerc 527: Bad key sequence '^K h
'/.joerc 528: Bad key sequence '^K ^H
'/.joerc 530: Bad key sequence '^P
'/.joerc 531: Bad key sequence '^[ [ A
'/.joerc 532: Bad key sequence '^[ O A
//.joerc 538: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
//.joerc 541: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
done
There were errors in '//.joerc'. Use it anyway?n
Couldn't open '/tivo-bin/etc/joerc'

Edit #2...

Ok, I extracted joe from the joe.tgz file in enhancements and moved .joerc to root and it works.

I think you're on the right track, clearly something about my tar must not be compatible.

[rbautch]

I tried the new script and it tried to set the DNS but stopped.
I'll try the ping and also your other suggestions. I had a typo in there (spelled DNS wrong :rolleyes: ) Try the new one I just posted.

[rbautch]

While joe.tgz is in enhancements, I searched for the components. Here's what I found...

kelly-TiVo# ffind joe
/etc/rc.d/joe
kelly-TiVo# ffind .joerc
/etc/rc.d/.joerc

I don't actually see .joerc in that directory but this could be a function of how ffind works.

Thought it might be helpful to you to know that joe.tgz got extracted but the pieces went to the wrong place for some reason.

Edit....

I extracted joe and .joerc from the original file in your archive and ftp'd them to enhancements and root. When I type author I get a whole bunch of errors. Here's a snippet of the very end.

'/.joerc 527: Bad key sequence '^K h
'/.joerc 528: Bad key sequence '^K ^H
'/.joerc 530: Bad key sequence '^P
'/.joerc 531: Bad key sequence '^[ [ A
'/.joerc 532: Bad key sequence '^[ O A
//.joerc 538: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
//.joerc 541: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
done
There were errors in '//.joerc'. Use it anyway?n
Couldn't open '/tivo-bin/etc/joerc'

Edit #2...

Ok, I extracted joe from the joe.tgz file in enhancements and moved .joerc to root and it works.

I think you're on the right track, clearly something about my tar must not be compatible.Thanks for the data. I changed the script to hardcode the extraction to a particular directory. Give it a try if you're up to it.

[rbautch]

Many thanks to this forum and Rbautch and Gunnyman's help, I successfully got my Series II's brought up to date (at that time) with 6.2 and MRV back in Sept 2005. Got all my units talking to each other and even doing it wireless.

The "Tweak" Rbautch now has to offer appears to have a few more hacks added that the September version. What really catches my eye now are the USB 2.0 drivers (wireless I hope) and the CALLERID. Taking Rbautch's advice and monitoring my present telephone activity (with phone line unplugged), it appears that the unit is attempting to call out everyday but getting the "no dial tone" error so I am not ready to plug in the phone line just yet.

Question is this: Do I need to start over with an unhacked Tivo to install the latest version of your "Tweak" hacks or is there a way to update what I have already done? Hoping to get up to date without having to pull the lid off the Tivo unit (the heads of the screws are getting a bit worn).

By the way, did I mention that this is an EXCELLENT SITE!

:)
No need to pull the drive. Just run the uninstall script, delete the rbautch-files.tgz archive, and delete the old tweak.sh. Then run the one that's attached to the first post of this thread.

[FastEddieG]

Thanks for all of your efforts on this script. I would highly recommend adding a version number to the file name. tweak1.21.zip vs tweak1.45.zip is a lot nicer than tweak.zip vs tweak.zip :)

I'm going to help a friend tomorrow. We set his HDVR2 up with zipper and your enhancement script a month ago. Now unfortunatelly his Linksys USB200 disconnected (around Thanksgiving). No link light even after multiple reboots. Not sure what went wrong, but I will begin troubleshooting by uninstalling the existing enhancement script, and installing the latest one.

Kind regards,
-Ed

EDIT:
Oh yeah, we also config'd it to use DHCP. I know DHCP is flakey, so hopefully that is the problem. Instead, I will just hardcode that mac to an IP in his router, and manually configure the same IP in the network portion of the script. Hopefully that will do it.

[tonydi]

In reading through some other threads here I happened upon one that talked about the kernel logs. I pulled the logs from all 4 of our Zipper'd HDVR2 units.

There are some errors in there related to the enhancements script that I thought you might be interested in.

Two of them have this error...

Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: Fakecall ran successfully!
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: couldn't open "/var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN": read-only file system
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: while executing
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: "open /var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN a"
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: (file "/busybox/fakecall.tcl" line 87)


The other two had this error but it looks like it eventually fixed itself as the file is there and has entries on both boxes....

Dec 15 08:28:45 (none) kernel: Fakecall ran successfully!
Dec 15 08:28:45 (none) kernel: couldn't open "/var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN": no such file or directory
Dec 15 08:28:45 (none) kernel: while executing
Dec 15 08:28:45 (none) kernel: "open /var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN a"
Dec 15 08:28:45 (none) kernel: (file "/busybox/fakecall.tcl" line 87)


What can I do about the first "ro" errors?

[FastEddieG]

Two of them have this error...

Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: Fakecall ran successfully!
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: couldn't open "/var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN": read-only file system
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: while executing
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: "open /var/spool/cron/cronlogs/CRONLOG-MAIN a"
Dec 16 20:04:58 (none) kernel: (file "/busybox/fakecall.tcl" line 87)



What can I do about the first "ro" errors?

I posted this earlier in this thread and it seems to work.

Nothing big, fakecall can't write to the log due to inability to write to the fs. So, I don't know if this is the ideal fix, but I changed the fakecall reference in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author to include rw before and ro after, just as I have it below, and it seems to work fine..

####################################
echo "running fakecall"
mount -o remount,rw /
fakecall.tcl
mount -o remount,ro /
####################################

Hope that works for you,
-Ed

[sonyuser]

No need to pull the drive. Just run the uninstall script, delete the rbautch-files.tgz archive, and delete the old tweak.sh. Then run the one that's attached to the first post of this thread.


Sounds easy enough. I am assuming this is to be done with my WIRED e-net connection (vice wireless). I am looking back at when I did my original hacking in September. I copied the TWEAK.SH and the RBAUTCH-FILES.tgz to my VAR directory on the TIVO. Today, I am still seeing the TWEAK.SH but cannot find the RBAUTCH-FILES.tgz archive file. Not sure what happened to it, but either way, if I did delete it, would I not need a replacement RBAUTCH-FILES.tgz archive on my machine for the TWEAK.sh script to run properly? The new Tweak.zip file only has the .sh file in it, no new .tgz file?

As usual, thanks for the quick replies this post provides.

[sonyuser]

OK, found RBAUTCH-FILES.tgz file in the \enhancements folder (after I did a bit more reading). But I guess this still takes me back to my final question: If I delete this file from my TIVO, does the TWEAK.SH script not need this .tgz file to properly run the script? If I understand it correctly, these .tgz files are similar to ZIP files in Windows.

[rbautch]

OK, found RBAUTCH-FILES.tgz file in the \enhancements folder (after I did a bit more reading). But I guess this still takes me back to my final question: If I delete this file from my TIVO, does the TWEAK.SH script not need this .tgz file to properly run the script? If I understand it correctly, these .tgz files are similar to ZIP files in Windows. Run the uninstall script first, which will copy the tgz file to your current directory before it deletes the /enhancements directory, and then delete the tgz file. The new script downloads a new tgz file directly to your tivo on the fly. That's why you don't want the old one in there.

[rbautch]

I posted this earlier in this thread and it seems to work.

Nothing big, fakecall can't write to the log due to inability to write to the fs. So, I don't know if this is the ideal fix, but I changed the fakecall reference in /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author to include rw before and ro after, just as I have it below, and it seems to work fine..

####################################
echo "running fakecall"
mount -o remount,rw /
fakecall.tcl
mount -o remount,ro /
####################################

Hope that works for you,
-Ed The issue is that cron used to write the logs to var, which is always mounted rw, but now it writes to /enhancements/varhacks (to keep everything out of var), which is not always mounted rw. Fakecall will run fine without having to mount the root filesystem rw, but it just won't write to the cronlog. Remounting in the author file (as noted above) will work fine for fakecall, but a better way to do it would be to modify the crontab to mount rw before each chunk of tasks, so all cron activites continue to be logged. Despite the warnings of keeping your filesystem mounted ro all the time, no one has ever difinitively documented anything bad happening because of having the filesystem mounted rw. So, keeping you filesystem mounted rw is another option. Or you could just make it rw when you want to start logging cron events. The vast majority of users don't care about looking at the cronlog anyway.

[rbautch]

Thanks for all of your efforts on this script. I would highly recommend adding a version number to the file name. tweak1.21.zip vs tweak1.45.zip is a lot nicer than tweak.zip vs tweak.zip :) Good suggestion, but.... The tweak script is not the main script. It merely downloads the files archive (rbautch_files.tgz), which contains the main script. The tweak.sh file does not change from version to version, so having a descriptor on it wouldn't mean anything. I started putting the version number in the start.sh file (the main script), and a complete version history is included in the readme.rtf file. I suppose I could add a descriptor on the start.sh file, but then I'd have to always remember to change the references to it elsewhere or else the script would fail. In short, you can always check your version number by examining /enhancements/start.sh, and as long as you run the uninstall script before running a new version, you'll be in good shape.

I'm going to help a friend tomorrow. We set his HDVR2 up with zipper and your enhancement script a month ago. Now unfortunatelly his Linksys USB200 disconnected (around Thanksgiving). No link light even after multiple reboots. Not sure what went wrong, but I will begin troubleshooting by uninstalling the existing enhancement script, and installing the latest one.

Kind regards,
-Ed

EDIT:
Oh yeah, we also config'd it to use DHCP. I know DHCP is flakey, so hopefully that is the problem. Instead, I will just hardcode that mac to an IP in his router, and manually configure the same IP in the network portion of the script. Hopefully that will do it. This is where a serial cable would come in handy. Otherwise, you'll have no way to run the latest enhancement script, or to check the network settings. Your only option may be to pull the drive and re-Zipper it, which will keep recordings in tact as long as you dont install a new image.

[dfriedland]

Here's what I get when I run the new script :(


David's Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Please enter the IP address of your router: 192.168.xxx.xxx
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
David's Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
David's Tivo-bash#

[Mullover]

Thanks rbautch! Your script ran flawlessly on my RCA DVR40. One mistake I made was saying "yes" to installing the network speed checker, when in fact, I do not have another networked Tivo. I just gave the script a "made up" IP address when I realized what I had done. I am assuming this is OK and should affect anything.

Once again, thanks a bunch!

--Mullover

[rbautch]

Here's what I get when I run the new script :(


David's Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y
Please enter the IP address of your router: 192.168.xxx.xxx
Setting DNS settings in /etc/resolv.conf...

Done. Please re-run tweak.sh. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
David's Tivo-bash# sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to www.mastersav.com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
David's Tivo-bash#
Sounds like something is wrong with your network settings. How did you set your default gateway?

[dfriedland]

Sounds like something is wrong with your network settings. How did you set your default gateway?


OK, well I got things running finally. Seems I made a simple mistake and entered my external ip address instead of my router address (192.168.xxx.xxx)
It still didn't work when I manually edited my resolv.conf file, but I re-ran the Zipper on the drive and entered the proper ip's there, and when I ran the newest script the first time, voila! It downloaded the new files.


Thanks for everyone' s help

[dfriedland]

So what are symlinks/symlinking?

[rbautch]

So what are symlinks/symlinking?Hacks that expect to be in var to /enhancements/varhacks. See first post in this thread.

[GaryD9]

out2osd - leaving zombies.

Starting to notice a pattern with running the caller id stuff.. Seems that it's spawn of out2osd is done in such a way that it's leaving zombie processes around on the tivo box. Here's a sample from (ps aux):
303 root 460 S ./ncidd
304 root 1948 S tivosh ./tivocid --no-gui --call-prog --program /var/
306 root 1948 S tivosh ./tivocid --no-gui --call-prog --program /var/
307 root 1948 S tivosh ./tivocid --no-gui --call-prog --program /var/
1458 root 3040 S tcphonehome
1664 root 11564 S myworld
8050 root Z [out2osd]
11829 root 2420 S tivosh /var/hack/tivowebplus/httpd-tt.tcl

This only appears to be caused by out2osd processes spawned by the ncid stuff. While not a major problem, really, it's annoying. I'm going to try and find the source for ncid and see if I can figure out whats going on.

BTW, from my linux machines "man ps":
Processes marked <defunct> are dead processes (so-called "zombies") that
remain because their parent has not destroyed them properly.

[Conklin]

While joe.tgz is in enhancements, I searched for the components. Here's what I found...

kelly-TiVo# ffind joe
/etc/rc.d/joe
kelly-TiVo# ffind .joerc
/etc/rc.d/.joerc

I don't actually see .joerc in that directory but this could be a function of how ffind works.

Thought it might be helpful to you to know that joe.tgz got extracted but the pieces went to the wrong place for some reason.

Edit....

I extracted joe and .joerc from the original file in your archive and ftp'd them to enhancements and root. When I type author I get a whole bunch of errors. Here's a snippet of the very end.

'/.joerc 527: Bad key sequence '^K h
'/.joerc 528: Bad key sequence '^K ^H
'/.joerc 530: Bad key sequence '^P
'/.joerc 531: Bad key sequence '^[ [ A
'/.joerc 532: Bad key sequence '^[ O A
//.joerc 538: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
//.joerc 541: Bad key sequence '^@ TO '
done
There were errors in '//.joerc'. Use it anyway?n
Couldn't open '/tivo-bin/etc/joerc'

Edit #2...

Ok, I extracted joe from the joe.tgz file in enhancements and moved .joerc to root and it works.

I think you're on the right track, clearly something about my tar must not be compatible.I get the same result when entering "ffind joe" at the bash prompt. How would i go about running your ammended script. I used the zipper with the script that came included.

[rbautch]

I get the same result when entering "ffind joe" at the bash prompt. How would i go about running your ammended script. I used the zipper with the script that came included. Run the uninstall script (hacks/tweak_uninstall.sh), then run the script that's attached to the first post of this thread.

[tsunami]

Still having issues with crond running with zippered HR10-250. Typing PS at bash prompt shows crond is running. But it isn't rebooting like it should.
What log should I check to see what is going on with crond?

[dsmturbo]

tsunami, don't mean to stomp on your thread here, but am wondering if you had any problems with HR10-250? I can not get mine to Zipper (hack) properly. I am thinking that it may be the image I am using. I don't think I have a 6.2 image file at all. I may have to go to the other place a beg one.

I can't use the same image as I use for my HDVR2 Tivos, can I?

[tsunami]

tsunami, don't mean to stomp on your thread here, but am wondering if you had any problems with HR10-250? I can not get mine to Zipper (hack) properly. I am thinking that it may be the image I am using. I don't think I have a 6.2 image file at all. I may have to go to the other place a beg one

Well you can't use 6.2, it doesn't work with the HR10. You have to use the version that is already on it. 3.15 or something like that.
With the exception of no reboot all is well with it.
Mike

[frodneb]

I have been reading this thread and many of the others for several weeks and am going to hack my Humax DRT800 and also upgrade to a QuickView 300GB drive.

I will probably acquire InstantCake and at the same time install the hacks.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I am fairly techno oriented and have worked with Linux in the past. I have also read and downloaded the free upgrade software from the site. Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated from you techno-wizards.

Thanks and Have a blessed Christmas/Chanukah.

Rich

[dsmturbo]

Yes, I realized that after I posted...I am an idiot.
tsunami, if you wouldn't mind taking a look at my posts in Hacking your tivo thread...I can't get this to work. I have tried 4 times at present and after I run Tweak, the Tivo just reboots
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3591450#post3591450

[dsmturbo]

Well you can't use 6.2, it doesn't work with the HR10. You have to use the version that is already on it. 3.15 or something like that.
With the exception of no reboot all is well with it.
Mike

Ooppss didn't see the reboot comment. What do you mean with the exception of no reboot?

[rbautch]

I have been reading this thread and many of the others for several weeks and am going to hack my Humax DRT800 and also upgrade to a QuickView 300GB drive.

I will probably acquire InstantCake and at the same time install the hacks.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated. I am fairly techno oriented and have worked with Linux in the past. I have also read and downloaded the free upgrade software from the site. Any words of wisdom would be much appreciated from you techno-wizards.

Thanks and Have a blessed Christmas/Chanukah.

RichUnless you have physically replaced the PROM on your Tivo, it cannot be hacked with the Zipper. See here. (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=254550)

[rbautch]

Yes, I realized that after I posted...I am an idiot.
tsunami, if you wouldn't mind taking a look at my posts in Hacking your tivo thread...I can't get this to work. I have tried 4 times at present and after I run Tweak, the Tivo just reboots
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3591450#post3591450
Try to troubleshoot it systematically by installing the hacks one by one to narrow down what the offender is. Start by selecting "no" to the usb 2.0 driver installation. You could also not run tweak.sh at all, and just reboot to see if some part of the Zipper is causing the non-boot.

[rbautch]

Still having issues with crond running with zippered HR10-250. Typing PS at bash prompt shows crond is running. But it isn't rebooting like it should.
What log should I check to see what is going on with crond?
There is a series of cron troubleshooting posts relatively early in this thread.

[TubaMan-Z]

I successfully Zipper'ed and tweak'ed my Philips DSR708 yesterday. My sincere thanks to Gunnyman and rbautch for an early Christmas present!!

Now I'm digging further into the details on just what I've done to myself. :-) On the first post to this thread, item 3. says "See the readme for the full list of aliases installed." Can I get a pointer to the location of the readme? I've looked in tweak.zip, /hacks, and /enhancements and can't seem to find it.

Thanks again!

[GaryD9]

out2osd - leaving zombies.
More info on this... the "client" portion of the NCID stuff is actually a shell script that re-spawns itself three times as a tivosh (tcl) script. That script uses 'exec' to spawn out2osd with a trailing "&" (which, in the unix world, usually means to spawn and detach.) I'm not sure how this works in the tivosh shell...

More info coming eventually...

[rbautch]

I successfully Zipper'ed and tweak'ed my Philips DSR708 yesterday. My sincere thanks to Gunnyman and rbautch for an early Christmas present!!

Now I'm digging further into the details on just what I've done to myself. :-) On the first post to this thread, item 3. says "See the readme for the full list of aliases installed." Can I get a pointer to the location of the readme? I've looked in tweak.zip, /hacks, and /enhancements and can't seem to find it.

Thanks again! It's usually in the /enhancements directory. (Maybe I forgot to stick it in there on a previous version). Also attached.

[TubaMan-Z]

Mea culpa - you didn't forget. I cat'd readme.rtf, not noticing the file extension. Sorry about that.

[HUGE2U]

I am having a problem downloading on my HR10-250. My rc.sysinit.author has this in it:

#configure Linksys USB200M
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.115 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.248.0
sleep 60

I have no problem telneting to the IP, but it refuses to d/l even when I enter the router IP.

My router info is:

Login Type: Automatic Configuration - DHCP
IP Address: 24.24.xxx.xxx
Subnet Mask: 255.255.248.0
Default Gateway: 24.24.xxx.xxx
DNS 1: 66.75.164.90

ANy help? Any other way to d/l the files?


THANKS!

HUGE


PS - It worked fine on my DSR704 :)

[rbautch]

First, are you the HUGE of 4.01b RID guide fame? When it fails, does it give you the option to fix your DNS settings?

[HUGE2U]

Yes and yes :) I put in the router IP (192.168.1.1) and it does change the file, I checked. But it still does not work. Hmmm.....


HUGE

[Gunnyman]

is this huge as in Huge's guide?
man you got me STARTED in all this stuff!
Nice to see ya!

[Philly Bill]

Hey Huge. Good to see ya :up:

[rbautch]

Yes and yes :) I put in the router IP (192.168.1.1) and it does change the file, I checked. But it still does not work. Hmmm.....


HUGE Try adding your router IP to the /etc/hosts file. If still no worky, download the script and files archive from the Zipper website.

[HUGE2U]

I will try thge host file first, but where is it on the site?


HUGE

[rbautch]

I will try thge host file first, but where is it on the site?


HUGEOn the tools disk. Top left.

[HUGE2U]

I just looked at the hosts file, it looks like this:



127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost




Do I just change the 127.0.0.1 or add a new line?

HUGE

[rbautch]

New line

[dgilbert]

rbautch,
Great job! Just out of curiosity, why did you decide to put the cron log (cronlog-main) in a folder under /var/spool/cron rather than with all the other logs (/var/log)? Was there a technical need for this?

Again, thanks for the effort!

[rbautch]

It's been awhile, but I don't think there was any overiding reason other than to keep it with the rest of the cron stuff.

[cdunavent]

Is it safe to run this script on a DSR7000 that was hacked using Instant Cake and PTVnet??

[rbautch]

Yes. The only conflict I've seen is with Tivowebplus, so you might delete the TWP folder that PTVnet installed and remove the startup command from the author file. If you search this thread for PTVnet, you should be able to find more info.

[Dan Collins]

It's been awhile, but I don't think there was any overiding reason other than to keep it with the rest of the cron stuff.If you put it in /var/log it could be browsed from the log browser in TWP.

[charlieg]

I am having a problem downloading on my HR10-250. My rc.sysinit.author has this in it:

#configure Linksys USB200M
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.115 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.248.0
sleep 60

I have no problem telneting to the IP, but it refuses to d/l even when I enter the router IP.


Just one comment, don't you need to define a default route to your router in your rc.sysinit.author file if you want to get outside your home network from the HDTiVo? Something like:

route add default gw router_address

(I'm not sure if that's exactly the proper syntax since I don't have access to my hacked HDTiVo at the moment). You should be able to verify that you've got external access by using the nslookup command if you've got AlphaWolf's all-in-one tools installed.

- Charlie

[rbautch]

Just one comment, don't you need to define a default route to your router in your rc.sysinit.author file if you want to get outside your home network from the HDTiVo? Something like:

route add default gw router_address

(I'm not sure if that's exactly the proper syntax since I don't have access to my hacked HDTiVo at the moment). You should be able to verify that you've got external access by using the nslookup command if you've got AlphaWolf's all-in-one tools installed.

- Charlie This line is automatically added by the Zipper, but if you hacked your HR10 some other way, it might not be there. Maybe I'll add a sed check for "gw" and then append that line if it's not found.

[charlieg]

This line is automatically added by the Zipper, but if you hacked your HR10 some other way, it might not be there. Maybe I'll add a sed check for "gw" and then append that line if it's not found.

I did mine the old fashioned way I guess (manually) ... I need to read more about this zipper thing but I just wanted to get enough of an understanding to apply your enhancements first. Thanks for all the work!

[HUGE2U]

New line


No love from either of my HR10-250's. I just used the d/l instead (which worked great). BTW- if it matters, they were both at 3.1.5. I never bothered to do the updates.

Thanks, this script rocks.



HUGE

[rbautch]

Huge,
Just for my own curiosity, could you post your network settings from your author file? I wonder if there's something querky about 3.1.5 that would prevent an outside connection.

[HUGE2U]

Huge,
u
t for my own curiosity, could you post your network settings from your author file? I wonder if there's something querky about 3.1.5 that would prevent an outside connection.


Here it is:

#configure Linksys USB200M
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.115 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.248.0
sleep 60


The other one is exactly the same, except it is 192.168.1.110. I know I can connect to them from outside using Oreseno (sp?), but I have never tried doing it the other way. Let me know if anything else will help diagnose.

HUGE

[rbautch]

Here it is:

#configure Linksys USB200M
ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.115 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.248.0
sleep 60


The other one is exactly the same, except it is 192.168.1.110. I know I can connect to them from outside using Oreseno (sp?), but I have never tried doing it the other way. Let me know if anything else will help diagnose.

HUGEIf you add this line to your author file and reboot, it should work: route add default gw RouterIP...where RouterIP is your router's IP.

[knutsont]

Alls I can says is WOW...a full hack in minutes instead of hours....

THANKS SO MUCH. This is a huge timesaver.

[willgetin]

rbautch:

I was having pretty much the same problem as Huge2u on ,y hr10-250.

That last part about adding the gw enabled the script to run through. It actually allowed me to put in the gw during the script which it wouldn't do before adding that line.

Thanks much!

[dsmturbo]

Nice to see you guys having luck with HR10-250..I didn't have any at all. I guess i gotta grab a different image file.

[dgilbert]

If you put it in /var/log it could be browsed from the log browser in TWP.

My thoughts exactly!

[HUGE2U]

If you add this line to your author file and reboot, it should work: route add default gw RouterIP...where RouterIP is your router's IP.


I dont; know what happened, but now it is stuck in read only. When I type:

mount -o remount,rw /

I get:

o: applet not found



Any thoughts?

[Fofer]

This script is so awesome that I just bought a DSR7000 shell from Weaknees simply so I can experiment and play some more. I already have two hacked/networked HDVR2's and I apparently can't have enough.

Thanks again, rbautch and Gunny!

[rbautch]

I dont; know what happened, but now it is stuck in read only. When I type:

mount -o remount,rw /

I get:

o: applet not found



Any thoughts? Check for existance of /bin/mount. If it's there, type "mount" and see if it works. Obviously, this is not related to adding a default gateway.

[rbautch]

This script is so awesome that I just bought a DSR7000 shell from Weaknees simply so I can experiment and play some more. I already have two hacked/networked HDVR2's and I apparently can't have enough.

Thanks again, rbautch and Gunny!
You're welcome! Tivo hacking appears to have aged you some. My wife is starting to raise an eyebrow now that the number of Tivos in my house exceeds the number of televisions.

[SteelersFan]

You're welcome! Tivo hacking appears to have aged you some. My wife is starting to raise an eyebrow now that the number of Tivos in my house exceeds the number of televisions.
You're married? How do have time for her and us? :D You and Gunny are amazing! Thanks again for all your hard work. My wife used to think I was crazy for getting our DTivos networked (Zippered), now she brags about it to her friends! :)

[lee espinoza]

some help:
bash-2.02#dos2unix tweak*
dos2unix: tweak*: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#
bash-2.02#

[Gunnyman]

you need to cd to wherever you ftp'ed the tweak script

[dsmturbo]

Nice to see you guys having luck with HR10-250..I didn't have any at all. I guess i gotta grab a different image file.

Yep, was the Image file. Downloaded Instant cake for the Image and Voila!! Hacked HR10-250. Sure wish they ran V6.2 though

[lee espinoza]

how do you dos2unix on tweak.sh?

bash-2.02# tweak.sh
: command not found
: command not found
in /etc/fstab or /var/mtab
': File existsmake directory `/enhancements
': No such file or directoryes.tgz' to `/enhancements/
Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch-files.tgz: No such file or directory
'leep: invalid time interval `4
: No such file or directory
: No such file or directorystart.sh
: command not found
: command not found
: command not found

[lee espinoza]

Sure!

Please... :) I used Ultraedit.

Smells like DOS line endings. Please help me troubleshoot this. A few things to try:
- Try running it from a different location (root, var, etc.)
- Try running dos2unix on the tweak.sh, just in case.
- Try opening up tweak.sh on your Tivo with vi to see if you have the dreaded ^M ^M carriage returns.
- Open the newly created /enhancements directory. Did it move rbautch-files.tgz there? Did it untar any of the files?
- The tweak.sh script serves only to copy files and launch the real script, which is /enhancements/start.sh.
- Delete the enhancements directory in it's entirety before you run the script again to save space. Or try the uninstall script.

I'll try to duplicate the problems your having this morning. The script runs flawlessly for me on by HDVR2 with 6.2. I've been testing it for 2 days.


edit: - Did you FTP rbautch-files.tgz and tweak.sh to the same directory?
- Try using the attached debug version of the tweak script.

1) Try running it from a different location (root, var, etc.) no luck there
2)- Try running dos2unix on the tweak.sh, just in case. don't know how
3)Open the newly created /enhancements directory. Did it move rbautch-files.tgz there? Did it untar any of the files? no,no
4) Delete the enhancements directory in it's entirety before you run the script again to save space. Or try the uninstall script.done

[lee espinoza]

anyone?

[Fofer]

1) no luck there
2)don't know how
3)no,no
4) done


I saw at least 9 tips/questions there and yet you only have 4 responses/answers, without any correlation.

:confused:

Help us, help you.

[lee espinoza]

I saw at least 9 tips/questions there and yet you only have 4 responses/answers, without any correlation.

:confused:

Help us, help you.
Try opening up tweak.sh on your Tivo with vi to see if you have the dreaded ^M ^M carriage returns.
don't know how vi?

The tweak.sh script serves only to copy files and launch the real script, which is /enhancements/start.sh. will do

Did you FTP rbautch-files.tgz and tweak.sh to the same directory? yes

Try using the attached debug version of the tweak script. done

[Dan Collins]

First you have to be able to navigate directories...can you do that at a command propmpt in Windows?? Linux is very similar except you use / instead of \.

So, you need to go the directory where tweak.sh lives: cd /enhancements

Then, run dos2unix on the file: dos2unix tweak.sh

then, run the script: ./tweak.sh

[lee espinoza]

First you have to be able to navigate directories...can you do that at a command propmpt in Windows?? Linux is very similar except you use / instead of \.

So, you need to go the directory where tweak.sh lives: cd /enhancements

Then, run dos2unix on the file: dos2unix tweak.sh

then, run the script: ./tweak.sh
after that I got Permission denied

[lee espinoza]

bash-2.02#cd /enhancements
bash-2.02#dos2unix tweak-debug.sh
bash-2.02#./tweak-debug.sh
mkdir: cannot make directory `/enhancements': File exists
mv: rbautch-files.tgz: No such file or directory
Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch-files.tgz: No such file or directory
: command not found.sh:
: command not found.sh:
: command not found.sh:
: No such file or directory
: command not found.sh:
/enhancements/start.sh: line 96: syntax error near unexpected token `elif'
'enhancements/start.sh: line 96: `elif [ "$showcase" = "n" ]; then
bash-2.02#

but I have rbautch-files.tgz in /enhancements/

fixed the Permission denied thing

[Gunnyman]

you're going to have to learn some basic unix commands before you attempt this stuff Lee.

[lee espinoza]

were do I start?

[HUGE2U]

Check for existance of /bin/mount. If it's there, type "mount" and see if it works. Obviously, this is not related to adding a default gateway.


After a bit of tinkering, I got it all to work. Both HR10-250s d/led with no problems. Again, great script. The only addition I would make would be the increase buffer hack.


Thanks for your help,


HUGE

[n4zmz]

There is also the issue where it wants to reboot on a regular basis. The only reason I can see that you would want to do this is if you don't sync the time on the box using the ntpdate command regularly. It is part of the normal call processing.

The fakecall osd is annoying since it shows up in my prime viewing time.

[B Smooth]

How do you position the readout for NCID? Its at the top of the screen but about half cut off.

[austin61]

How do you position the readout for NCID? Its at the top of the screen but about half cut off.Edit /var/hack/etc/out2osd.conf You should find "set line = 1" commented out. Remove the # and change the value to a different line. I found that I like it set to 12.

[dslider]

does this work with the newest verison of Tivo... 7.2

[B Smooth]

Thanks austin. I was looking for a way to add "blank" lines instead of just increasing the number. It works great. Tranparency is cool as well. It was worth hacking the HD-Tivo for this feature alone.

[rbautch]

does this work with the newest verison of Tivo... 7.2 Yes.

[rpdre1]

rbautch: do your showcases menu item on directv central switch from "Showcases & TV Guide" to "Showcases" after running sc62add.tcl?

if i go into NPL and then press the directv button and keep switching between the two, it will toggle from "Showcases & TV Guide" to "Showcases"

[rbautch]

rbautch: do your showcases menu item on directv central switch from "Showcases & TV Guide" to "Showcases" after running sc62add.tcl?

if i go into NPL and then press the directv button and keep switching between the two, it will toggle from "Showcases & TV Guide" to "Showcases" My script only sets the tokens to signal DirecTV to download showcase slices to your tivo. How that affects the tivo interface is not something I've messed with.

[texboy]

Will this script work on the series 1's ?

[rbautch]

Will this script work on the series 1's ?
No.

[dslider]

does this work with the newest verison of Tivo... 7.2.... or do I even need it with 7.2

[TubaMan-Z]

Where in the scripts does it permanently enable 30 second skip? We got rather used to ff'ing through commercials and using the tick-to-end.

Thanks.

[rpdre1]

Where in the scripts does it permanently enable 30 second skip? We got rather used to ff'ing through commercials and using the tick-to-end.

Thanks.

if its tick to end you want, how about while fast forwarding you press the skip button to go to every tick. it will only take you a few skip button presses to get to the end.

[rbautch]

does this work with the newest verison of Tivo... 7.2.... or do I even need it with 7.2 Yes it works. "Need" is something you should determine for yourself. Look at the first post of this thread, and determine if you want those things.

[rbautch]

Where in the scripts does it permanently enable 30 second skip? We got rather used to ff'ing through commercials and using the tick-to-end.

Thanks.Permanent 30-sec is enabled by the superpatch, which you either installed yourself or put on your tools disk as part of a Zipper installation. To disable the 30-sec skip you have to restore your old tivoapp, edit the superpatch file to delete the corresponding tivoapp patches, and then reapply the superpatch.

[TubaMan-Z]

Thanks. It came with a Zipper'ed install. At this point 30 second skip stays as what would need to be done to undo it is beyond my meager hacking skills (right now... :) ) I'll try the FF and skip combination.

[dieselpower]

were do I start?


Try here...

http://www.econ.ucla.edu/TApages/wan/unix.html

[bnm81002]

Russ,
my Pioneer unit has 7.2.1 OS version, can I hack it with the enhancement script? does the unit need to have the Tivo subscription service to be able to use the scripts? thanks

[Gunnyman]

which pioneer? does it have Tivo Basic?

[bnm81002]

which pioneer? does it have Tivo Basic?



opps, DVR810H DVD recorder with Tivo Basic service

[Gunnyman]

Everything SHOULD work.
But YMMV since I don't have one of those units.

[bnm81002]

Everything SHOULD work.
But YMMV since I don't have one of those units.





well since I'm going to upgrade to a larger drive, if it doesn't work, can I just wipe out the scripts by re-imaging the original drive to the larger drive using the weaknees guide? thanks

[Gunnyman]

well since I'm going to upgrade to a larger drive, if it doesn't work, can I just wipe out the scripts by re-imaging the original drive to the larger drive using the weaknees guide? thanks

Yup :D

[marc_a_power]

Hey guys,

I'm getting terrible inter-Tivo throughput.

T1: NetGear FA120 connected to WRT54G via Wire.
T2: NetGear FA120 connected to WET54G bridge via Wire. WET54G connected via WPA to WRE54G, which is connected wirelessly to WRT54G.

My network throughput via 'speed' oscillates between 0.05 and 1.8 Mbps. And the MRV transfers are VERY slow.

/var/log/kernel seems to reflect USB 2.0 drivers are loaded.

The slower machine to ftp from seems to be T2, but that's even testing from my laptop, which is also connected via the WRE54G...

Any thoughts? This is crazily frustrating.

Thanks,

Marc

[Tracy RainH2o]

Where in the scripts does it permanently enable 30 second skip? We got rather used to ff'ing through commercials and using the tick-to-end.

Thanks.

You can enable and disable the 30 sec. skip feature through Tivo Web Plus. I haven't tried it, but it is an option under the HackMan Backdoor Codes heading.

[ttodd1]

You can enable and disable the 30 sec. skip feature through Tivo Web Plus. I haven't tried it, but it is an option under the HackMan Backdoor Codes heading.

Doesn't work as far as I can tell (at least not on mine), I always have to do the remote keys to turn it off.

[rbautch]

Hey guys,

I'm getting terrible inter-Tivo throughput.

T1: NetGear FA120 connected to WRT54G via Wire.
T2: NetGear FA120 connected to WET54G bridge via Wire. WET54G connected via WPA to WRE54G, which is connected wirelessly to WRT54G.

My network throughput via 'speed' oscillates between 0.05 and 1.8 Mbps. And the MRV transfers are VERY slow.

/var/log/kernel seems to reflect USB 2.0 drivers are loaded.

The slower machine to ftp from seems to be T2, but that's even testing from my laptop, which is also connected via the WRE54G...

Any thoughts? This is crazily frustrating.

Thanks,

Marc
Those are bad numbers. Sometimes rebooting everything on your network can clear up a problem. Also try pinging one tivo from the other, and look at the packet loss numbers. Are you using homemade cables/connectors?

[Dan Collins]

Hey guys,

I'm getting terrible inter-Tivo throughput.

T1: NetGear FA120 connected to WRT54G via Wire.
T2: NetGear FA120 connected to WET54G bridge via Wire. WET54G connected via WPA to WRE54G, which is connected wirelessly to WRT54G....You need to simplify the setup to debug it. Try eliminating the WRE54G - even if you need to move the TiVo temporarily. What kind of performance does the Laptop attached to the WRE54G get when accessing the internet?

Wireless repeaters can be tricky to set up. If all works well without it, then we'll know where to concentrate.

[pOiNTBLaNK127]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the scene.

I get the following when trying to run the script:

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
tweak.sh: wget: command not found
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory

I downloaded the toolset for HR10-250 Tivos as the instructions sugguested but still no cookie.

Any ideas?



Thanks in advance.

[dieselpower]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the scene.

I get the following when trying to run the script:

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
tweak.sh: wget: command not found
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory

I downloaded the toolset for HR10-250 Tivos as the instructions sugguested but still no cookie.

Any ideas?



Thanks in advance.

Did you ensure that your scripts have had the carriage returns stripped? There are many references in this thread to people having similar problems, which were remedied by running the dos2unix script or you can alternatively strip them out using sed or directly in vi, which is what I'd probably do.

[rbautch]

Hey Guys,

I'm new to the scene.

I get the following when trying to run the script:

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
tweak.sh: wget: command not found
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: n
Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory

I downloaded the toolset for HR10-250 Tivos as the instructions sugguested but still no cookie.

Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.The fact that it's not recognizing the wget command means you probably did not add the /busybox directory to your PATH statement in your author file. Do that, reboot, and try again.

[landie]

I'm stuck here:

bash-2.02#
bash-2.02#sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: www.mastersav.com: Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]: y

Make sure your Tivo is connected to the internet, and
your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02#y

This is an already hacked tivo with the following directories:

62_init_framework_ddn
archive
bin
busybox
cdrom > tivowebplus, tytools
dev
dist
etc
etccombo
initrd
install
lib
lost+found
mnt
opt
proc
sbin
tvbin
tvlib
var
tmp

tweak.sh

Is my problem still my network set up?

As discussed here:
http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=265929&page=77&pp=30

Originally Posted by landie
Wireless router > a PC with wireless network adapter and ethernet adapter > wired 10/100 Hub > Tivo
Correct, if you mean that the Tivo is wired directly to the hub.[I]
Looks like you need to move your hub in between the Airport and the PC/Tivo. In other words, connect your hub to your Airport and then plug your PC and Tivo into your hub.

Thanks in advance.

[rbautch]

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf file to include your DNS.

[landie]

Edit the /etc/resolv.conf file to include your DNS.

/etc/resolv.conf/ has no file

[rbautch]

/etc/resolv.conf/ has no fileIf the file is not there, then create a file of the same name. It should contain one line that reads: nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx where the xx's are your DNS.

[pOiNTBLaNK127]

Thanks Gunnyman and rbautch!!

After my HR10-250 recieved an update last night and wiped out my hacks I decided to use Gunnyman's "The Zipper" and rbauth's Enhancement Script. Everything is perfect and installation was a breeze. I have very minimal UNIX experience and these guys made it sooooo easy for people like myself to upgrade our Tivo's.

Thanks for all your hard work guys. :) :up:


I only have one problem after using both "The Zipper" and the Enhancement Script. When I'm using TivoWebPlus and try to go to the Screen menu I get the following error:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_screen '/' ''
invalid command name "SendKeyAndWait"
while executing
"SendKeyAndWait dumpState"
(procedure "::action_screen" line 14)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--

:confused:

Any ideas?


Thanks.

[landie]

If the file is not there, then create a file of the same name. It should contain one line that reads: nameserver xx.xx.xx.xx where the xx's are your DNS.

I'm obviously in deeper than I should be : (
I've never used an editor for bash to make a file.
Can I edit the same type of .conf file (which?) and ftp back?

If I enter the wrong nameserver in the file in error, do I lose access to my tivo to change it?


Thanks for your quick reply!

[rbautch]

You can't hurt anything by doing this. Navigate to /etc and type vi resolv.conf to create the file and start editing. Hit i for insert mode and start typing - google vi for full command list and to save the file.

[landie]

You can't hurt anything by doing this. Navigate to /etc and type vi resolv.conf to create the file and start editing. Hit i for insert mode and start typing - google vi for full command list and to save the file.

This is what I did:

cd /etc <return>
vi resolv.conf <return>
i <return>
nameserver 65.167.41.2 <return>
ESC <return>
:wq <return>
bash-2.02#

This is what I save with my actual IP in place of xx's found on the airport properties also tried DNS servers listed there too without success.
nameserver xx.xxx.xx.x
~
~
~
~
~
bash-2.02#

this is what I get sh tweak.sh:

bash-2.02#cd
bash-2.02#
bash-2.02#sh tweak.sh
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
wget: www.mastersav.com: Host name lookup failure
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]:

Is there something to enter to troubleshoot or even list what my IP settings are? Firewall off. Checked resolv.conf file via ftp size is 20, viewing with WS_ftp shows search localdomain and not what I edit.

Supposedly my hub should be between my computer and the airport and not after the computer with the tivo connecting to the hub as it currently is set up.

I'd have changed it to check but it requires moving furniture that is heavier than I can move right now. I'd rather do that as a last resort.

I don't want a fish, I'm really (really) trying to learn how to fish ; )

Thanks

[AJRitz]

I'm having the identical problem that landie details above.

The one thing I can add is that the TiVo I'm trying to enhance was previously zippered. It was working fine, until /var got wiped and I lost tivoweb. Before the wipe, I was able to browse Tivoweb over the Internet, so I know it had Internet connectivity. I was excited to update, because one of the updates was to move tivoweb out of /var.

[rbautch]

Actually tivoweb is the only hack I still left in var. The reason is to spread the hacks out between var and root, and because the tivowebplus folder can be easily ftp'd back over if it gets wiped. I suggest keeping a copy of the tivowebplus folder handy (it can be extracted from the rbautch_files.tgz archive) for just such an occasion. That said, if you really want the update, see my post here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3628750&&#post3628750) to get your DNS working. Learning how to create and edit files on your tivo is a basic skill that will serve you well in the future. If you really get stuck you can extract the rbautch_files.tgz archive from the Zipper tools disk and copy it to the same directory as tweak.sh. It will recognize that the file is there and will use it instead of downloading a fresh one.

[AJRitz]

Thanks for the pointer rbautch. I'll take a shot at that when I get home. I prefer to work from my linux laptop - that way I can edit text files in gedit and then ftp them back over to the TiVo without windows line ending issues and without having to deal with vi (I can never get comfortable with the command combos).

[tsunami]

Two DTivos both zippered. All of a sudden one has lost networking. I have rebooted the gaming adapter, rebooted the receiver. I am going to try and swap out the network gear with the functioning Tivo and reset the wireless router, but, if that doesn't work what is my best bet for getting back up without losing shows.
Can I put it back in my PC and run tweak unistall then rezipper?

[rbautch]

Two DTivos both zippered. All of a sudden one has lost networking. I have rebooted the gaming adapter, rebooted the receiver. I am going to try and swap out the network gear with the functioning Tivo and reset the wireless router, but, if that doesn't work what is my best bet for getting back up without losing shows.
Can I put it back in my PC and run tweak unistall then rezipper?
Don't rezipper yet. First run the uninstall script while the tivo is in the pc, then check the author file for the proper IP parameters. Try a different IP and then boot the drive and see if you can connect. If still no luck, then rezipper making sure to answer no to the image install.

[tsunami]

Don't rezipper yet. First run the uninstall script while the tivo is in the pc, then check the author file for the proper IP parameters. Try a different IP and then boot the drive and see if you can connect. If still no luck, then rezipper making sure to answer no to the image install.

When I mounted it in the PC it showed the /enhancements directory but would'nt let me go to it. Only a few directories would /var /etc. The others said not a directory.

[Heckler]

I've just run the Zipper on my DSR7000 and the cron portion of tweak.sh isn't working:

Do you want to install cron for improved performance/logging/backups? [y/n] :y
Existing crond binary detected, replacing...
Existing cron installation detected in /var/spool/cron, skipping cron install...

Do you want to automatically make weekly backups of your season passes?
[y/n]: y
Cron installation is needed for this feature and was not found. Skipping automa
tic seasonpass backups...

Do you want to make a backup of your season passes and wishlists right now?
[y/n]: n
Skipping instant backup...

I started with a clean image from the PTVUpgrade DSR7000 CD, so there shouldn't be a cron setup that wasn't being done by Zipper/Tweak... Thoughts?

[landie]

If you really get stuck you can extract the rbautch_files.tgz archive from the Zipper tools disk and copy it to the same directory as tweak.sh. It will recognize that the file is there and will use it instead of downloading a fresh one.
:up: :up: :up: Thanks rbautch...this finally made it much clearer.

It has been pretty frustrating but it all worked out in the end even though I couldn't "try your zipper" I did get to try your enhancements ;)

It's taken me a week to get through this but I'm finally getting off the porch never having done any of the following steps required:

use emule/find images
compile and burn an iso -- > use CDRW
image a new drive
copy a hacked drive - even when the power goes out!
telnet

up until now, mostly doing it over and over more than a few times!
Thanks for letting the inexperienced little dogs play! :) :) :)

Once you OPEN a tivo case and tear those "warning void if this seal is broken" stickers there is no turning back!

ftp was familiar territory, nothing else you all do here was.

Could not sort out dns to enter into the zipper even after moving the hub between PC and airport so I had to get enhancements through ftp

Made a tweak directory on the tivo and sent tweak.sh and rbautch_files.tar from my computer to the tivo.

Navigated to tweak directory and sh tweak.sh........

So if anyone is hesitant, get off the porch and play with these very wise, patient, big dogs. They've been generous in time and skills to make this available to everyone with the motivation!

[rbautch]

I've just run the Zipper on my DSR7000 and the cron portion of tweak.sh isn't working:

Do you want to install cron for improved performance/logging/backups? [y/n] :y
Existing crond binary detected, replacing...
Existing cron installation detected in /var/spool/cron, skipping cron install...

Do you want to automatically make weekly backups of your season passes?
[y/n]: y
Cron installation is needed for this feature and was not found. Skipping automa
tic seasonpass backups...

Do you want to make a backup of your season passes and wishlists right now?
[y/n]: n
Skipping instant backup...

I started with a clean image from the PTVUpgrade DSR7000 CD, so there shouldn't be a cron setup that wasn't being done by Zipper/Tweak... Thoughts? Run the uninstall script, then delete /var/spool/cron, then run tweak.sh again.

[dieselpower]

Run the uninstall script, then delete /var/spool/cron, then run tweak.sh again.

It was quicker for me just update the cron foo by hand and hup the process.

[tsunami]

Hey the first post on this thread mentions reading the readme.txt file to find all the shortcuts you can use rw, ro, etc. But that readme file doesn't seem to be anywhere now. Do you have a link to it?

[SteelersFan]

Hey the first post on this thread mentions reading the readme.txt file to find all the shortcuts you can use rw, ro, etc. But that readme file doesn't seem to be anywhere now. Do you have a link to it?
See post 1040. I happened to be looking for the file as well and searched this thread for aliases.

[SteelersFan]

Hey Russ, Any chance that TuikHelper.tcl and Superpatch67Standby.tcl (fixes the menus after being superpatched - discussued here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3526029&highlight=standby#post3526029) and here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3580782&highlight=superpatch67standby#post3580782)) could be included in the Enhancement script or The Zipper in the future?

[dieselpower]

Hey the first post on this thread mentions reading the readme.txt file to find all the shortcuts you can use rw, ro, etc. But that readme file doesn't seem to be anywhere now. Do you have a link to it?

From the command line, just enter the command "alias" (without quotes) and it will print out a list of aliases that have been defined.

[TubaMan-Z]

I saw over in the Zipper thread that there is an updated enhancement script. In case you take requests.....

Any plans to move the cron log from /var/spool/cron to /var/log - so that the log can be viewed from the TWP log viewer? (not my idea - see Dan Collins' post #1056 to this thread).

Any plans to relocate TWP in a future update to prevent it from getting wiped with /var? See post #2403 on the Zipper thread. All in the spirit of helping newbies and reducing support costs of course.... :)

[rbautch]

I'll eventually move the logs. Still debating on TWP. If your root partition fills up, that's not good either.

[rbautch]

Hey Russ, Any chance that TuikHelper.tcl and Superpatch67Standby.tcl (fixes the menus after being superpatched - discussued here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3526029&highlight=standby#post3526029) and here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3580782&highlight=superpatch67standby#post3580782)) could be included in the Enhancement script or The Zipper in the future? Perhaps, if I can permission from the author.

[SteelersFan]

Perhaps, if I can permission from the author.
Thanks. I may try to run this manually soon.
Are you familiar with it? Are there any "gotchas" I should know about, i.e. will it interfere with my zippered setup after running it?
Edit: I successfully ran the script on 3 of 4 of my boxes. Quick and easy, no issues.

[Heckler]

Run the uninstall script, then delete /var/spool/cron, then run tweak.sh again.

rbautch.

I should have done some further investigation before posting... After looking through start.sh to see what it was looking for, and investigating my drive further, I found that it's a "flaw" in the PTVupgrade InstantCake image for the DSR7000 (and, since I had purchased it as well, I checked the HDVR2 image which also contains this "flaw")... This was verified by using another hard drive and doing a manual "mfsrestore -i /cdrom/000001 /dev/hdc" of both the DSR7000 and HDVR2 images. After you restore the image and reboot, you can mount the /var/ (/dev/hdc9) partition and see for yourself that the cron stuff already exists:
mkdir /tivo
mount /dev/hdc9 /tivo
cd tivo/spool/cron/crontabs/
ls (you'll see "root")

If you open "root" in vi, you will find an entry for fakecall ("0 4 * * * fakecall.tcl"), so it begs the question "What else isn't 'stock' in the image"? I couldn't find rc.sysinit.author, or the fakecall.tcl itself, so I'm not sure what else, if anything, extra is floating around in this image... I must admit that I find this disappointing about these images being provided by PTVupgrade... It was bad enough that they didn't think to do a "Clear & Delete Everything" before creating the images, but now I've determined that the images they are providing aren't stock/un-hacked TiVo images (which is what you expect of the PTVnet images/CDs)... BTW, I had already thought to do a "Clear & Delete Everything" and re-backup the images so that I didn't have all the problems with the Chicago local channels, Chicago Area Codes/numbers and Dial/Call Waiting Prefixes, Chicago Zip Code in the Guided Setup as well as I don't have to run 51killer.tcl, it's a shame this didn't occur to PTVupgrade...

Fortunately for me, I have an original HDVR2 40 GB drive that I never even booted (upgraded the hard drives straight out of the box, think it has pre-3.1.1e on it, don't really recall), so I'll be able to DD that to another hard drive and then dial-in to get it updated to 6.2 and re-backup the HDVR2 image. Unfortunately, I have no such hard drive for the DSR7000, so I'll have to see if I can get PTVupgrade to correct their image, or alternatively, see if they will allow me to download a 3.1.1e image for DSR7000 that I can restore and similarly update by phone (as I recall, when your tivo software updates, it swaps back and forth between two pairs of partitions (4&6 and 7&9), so hopefully, even if they've got hacks on the 3.1.1e image as well, the update will ditch it...

Needless to say, if someone has a virgin DSR7000 40GB drive/image that they'd be willing to share with me, I'm all ears (and can provide an ftp site to dump an image)...

Alternatively, anybody know if you can use a HDVR2 virgin image (i.e. one that has had never been booted or has had a "Clear & Delete Everything" run on it) in a DSR7000? I know they're essentially the same hardware, so ??maybe?? If we didn't think it would hurt the hardware, I'd be willing to give it a try...

Heckler

[rbautch]

I wouldn't be so hard on the Instantcake product. It's not just an image, and I think the cron stuff was put there on purpose. Even if you do a clear and delete before making an image, it still won't exactly be a "virgin" image (I think), and will still require another CandD when you boot it in another tivo. I know they put alot of work/research into the images they package with Instantcake, and they're the closest thing to a virgin image you'll get. I encourage you to research this further in the PTVupgrade forums, ask some questions there, and post your findings here.

[slydog75]

Alternatively, anybody know if you can use a HDVR2 virgin image (i.e. one that has had never been booted or has had a "Clear & Delete Everything" run on it) in a DSR7000? I know they're essentially the same hardware, so ??maybe?? If we didn't think it would hurt the hardware, I'd be willing to give it a try...

Heckler

Yes, you can use any S2 DTivo image on any other S2 DTivo. You'll just need to run the 51killer.tcl to get rid of the Error 51 that you will get after booting.

[klaroby]

Russ
I am having the same problems as the previous posters with the enhancement script:

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to xxx.mastersav.xxx[xx.xx.xxx.xx]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (xx.xx.xxx.xx): Network is unreachable
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]:


I also have an HR10-250
I verified that wget is installed and that /busybox is in the Path.
I also tried your suggestion of copying rbautch_files.tgz from the zipper tools disk to the directory (/var) that I am running tweak.sh from. When I run tweak.sh it still trys to go out to the internet to FTP rbautch_files.tgz. It does not use the file that I saved to the directory. any suggestions?

[klaroby]

Thanks
Problem solved.
I had to use the tweak.sh in the zipper tools folder, not the one downloaded from the first page of this thread.

[rbautch]

Updated the first post so scripts are now identical.

[tbeckner]

Perhaps, if I can permission from the author.That would be great.


UPDATE ON MISSING USER INTERFACE: I checked out how TWP was building the HTML on the fly and finally figured out that the missing "User Interface" had to be a temporary quirk, so I restarted TWP and of course it magically appeared, so disregard the missing "User Interface".


BTW, I just updated with the latest ZIPPER and I can no longer find "USER INTERFACE" listed in the TWP menu, do you know why it might be missing? I thought it was there before and it was version 1.2.1.

Any Idea why it would go missing?

[HUGE2U]

I just noticed, the MFS_FTP control has dissapeared from Hackman. Why would that be?



HUGE

[rbautch]

Could be that it's not there, and hackman is not picking it up. Where did you have mfs_ftp installed? Can you verify it's still there?

[HUGE2U]

It's there, and I can run it manually when I type:

/var/mfs_ftp/mfs_ftp.tcl

Other things are now gone from hackman too, like tserver.

FYI: this is on both HD Tivos, but not on the SD one. ( Damn HD) :)


HUGE

[klaroby]

I have had the same thing happen with Hackman a number of times. After reading the instructions for installing Hackman I found this solution:
Delete hackman.cfg and hackman.ini, do a quick reload in TWP. This does a new search for all hacks and regenerates the hackman.cfg and hackman.ini files.
In most cases this seems to have fixed my problems.

[HUGE2U]

I have had the same thing happen with Hackman a number of times. After reading the instructions for installing Hackman I found this solution:
Delete hackman.cfg and hackman.ini, do a quick reload in TWP. This does a new search for all hacks and regenerates the hackman.cfg and hackman.ini files.
In most cases this seems to have fixed my problems.


That did the trick - thanks.

HUGE

[marcone]

When I ran the script the first time it detected a double-linefeed problem, and told me to re-run the script after following the "additional instructions for windows xp users". I couldn't find those instructions anywhere. In the end I ended up using Putty to connect, and unchecking the option "Return key sends Telnet New Line instead of ^M" fixed the problem.

[kudron]

After being gone from this board since last spring, I have a lot of reading to catch up on, but I have a couple of quick questions.

I upgraded my Hughes HDVR2 last spring to 4.1 (Instantcake) with a 120gig hard drive and it works great. Can I run the zipper and keep my currently recorded programs? What about if I upgrade to 6.2, will I retain my programs? Do I run zipper or can I run just tweak.zip? Do I need to pull the drive out of the DTivo or can I FTP from my laptop?

So many toys, so little time...

[dfriedland]

bump

[rbautch]

bump Double posted and answered here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3688366&highlight=slices#post3688366).

[Lord Vader]

rb, I went to that referenced thread as well and got a bit confused. I currently have 4.01b and don't want to immediately change it to 6.2. So, will your tweak zip file cause any conflicts or problems with my HDVR2's?

Just checking.

[blhirsch]

Aggg. I put the ip address of the tivo itself in the field asking for the default gateway. I uninstalled tweak.sh and then reinstalled and it never asked me again and it reports "default gateway" as the ip address I put in (wrong.)

How do I change it now?

[dfriedland]

Double posted and answered here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3688366&highlight=slices#post3688366).


Sorry, I was just bumping to keep this thread up near the top.

It's helped me immensly!

Jersey Dave

[rbautch]

rb, I went to that referenced thread as well and got a bit confused. I currently have 4.01b and don't want to immediately change it to 6.2. So, will your tweak zip file cause any conflicts or problems with my HDVR2's?

Just checking.No, it will work fine.

[rbautch]

Aggg. I put the ip address of the tivo itself in the field asking for the default gateway. I uninstalled tweak.sh and then reinstalled and it never asked me again and it reports "default gateway" as the ip address I put in (wrong.)

How do I change it now?Navigate to /enhancements, and run: sh net-launch.sh

[tbeckner]

Hey Russ, Any chance that TuikHelper.tcl and Superpatch67Standby.tcl (fixes the menus after being superpatched - discussued here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3526029&highlight=standby#post3526029) and here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3580782&highlight=superpatch67standby#post3580782)) could be included in the Enhancement script or The Zipper in the future?Perhaps, if I can permission from the author.Any word on "Superpatch67Standby.tcl"?

[rbautch]

I'm afraid that's fallen to the back burner while I devote all my spare time to tivoserver and ripping my entire DVD collection. :)

[SteelersFan]

Any word on "Superpatch67Standby.tcl"?
If you haven't tried to install it, it's very quick and easy. Just ftp the files, run it and reboot. :up:

[Billy66]

Added patches for the HR10-250 to permanently enable 30-sec skip, disable encryption, enable backdoors, and menu sort.



Hey rbautch,

I've installed the most recent script and I'm having trouble with this.

I had to turn them on in Hackman and when I did, I can see them initiate when the unit reboots. The problem is that it is happening too early. The unit seems to be still acquiring sat so the first one fails (I think it's SORT) the second one (30 sec) sometimes works.

Is there a place where I can add a sleep command or something to prevent this? I have an HR10-250 running 3.15e

Thanks

[lee espinoza]

If you haven't tried to install it, it's very quick and easy. Just ftp the files, run it and reboot. :up:
I have installed it and it works great!!!
TIVO HACK-bash# cd /busybox
TIVO HACK-bash#
TIVO HACK-bash# Superpatch67Standby.tcl
Applying Superpatch67Standby Mod...
DIRECTV Central: Adding Standby
Searching for ui/TivoCentral/TivoCentralDocument.brf IndexPath...
Messages & Setup: Removing Standby
Searching for common/ui/Menus/SetupMainMenu/SetupMainMenuDocument.brf IndexPat
h...
Programs to Record: Removing Search by Title (Demo)
Searching for ui/PickPrograms/PickProgramsDocument.brf IndexPath...
Done!
TIVO HACK-bash#reboot

[rbautch]

Hey rbautch,

I've installed the most recent script and I'm having trouble with this.

I had to turn them on in Hackman and when I did, I can see them initiate when the unit reboots. The problem is that it is happening too early. The unit seems to be still acquiring sat so the first one fails (I think it's SORT) the second one (30 sec) sometimes works.

Is there a place where I can add a sleep command or something to prevent this? I have an HR10-250 running 3.15e

Thanks The script makes permanent patches to your tivoapp, so you should not have to turn anything on with hackman, or wait for anything to come up after the unit boots.

[Billy66]

Hmm, that I thought, pointed me in the right direction because I had enabled them previously via Hackman. So what I did was uninstall the script, download the newest one from the first post. Deleted the copy of the .tgz file from the previous install and reinstalled the script. Still no Sort or 30 sec on startup. Any idea what I'm doing incorrectly?

The script identified it correctly as HR10-250 Software 3.1.5e. It also proclaimed it Phoenix.

[ebetzler]

I'm confused, does the enhancement script install superpatch?
If it does, how can I verify that it was done successfully?
(I have reason to believe it didn't)
FYI, I used the zipper for doing my upgrades.

[yazyazoo]

I just installed the Zipper with a Netgear FA120. I just bought some Airlink ASOHOUSB from Fry's and when I install it, it doesn't light up or seem to work. Does the Zipper already have USB 2.0 and the drivers for the Airlink already. From the begininnig of the thread it seems so. Do I have to activate something. My wireless speed for transferring is only .3 Mbps which is slow. Do I have to do something to activate USB 2.0?

[Billy66]

Hmm, that I thought, pointed me in the right direction because I had enabled them previously via Hackman. So what I did was uninstall the script, download the newest one from the first post. Deleted the copy of the .tgz file from the previous install and reinstalled the script. Still no Sort or 30 sec on startup. Any idea what I'm doing incorrectly?

The script identified it correctly as HR10-250 Software 3.1.5e. It also proclaimed it Phoenix.

Well, I never could get it to go through the script, but I was able to just patch tivoapp myself after doing some more research. I'm all set , but maybe there's an issue with 3.1.5e. Maybe not, I don't know.

Thanks for all your work rbautch.

[rbautch]

I'm confused, does the enhancement script install superpatch?
If it does, how can I verify that it was done successfully?
(I have reason to believe it didn't)
FYI, I used the zipper for doing my upgrades. The enhancement script only installs superpatch if it is running for the first time after a Zipper install. If you didn't just run the Zipper, the script assumes you hacked your tivo some other way, and will not run superpatch.

[rbautch]

Well, I never could get it to go through the script, but I was able to just patch tivoapp myself after doing some more research. I'm all set , but maybe there's an issue with 3.1.5e. Maybe not, I don't know.

Thanks for all your work rbautch. The script only runs the patches if you are running for the first time after a Zipper install. You can also get it to run by creating a dummy file in root called zipper_flag.

[rbautch]

I just installed the Zipper with a Netgear FA120. I just bought some Airlink ASOHOUSB from Fry's and when I install it, it doesn't light up or seem to work. Does the Zipper already have USB 2.0 and the drivers for the Airlink already. From the begininnig of the thread it seems so. Do I have to activate something. My wireless speed for transferring is only .3 Mbps which is slow. Do I have to do something to activate USB 2.0? The Zipper doesn't install the drivers, but the enhancement script does. Others have gotten the ASOHOUSB to work with these drivers. You'll need to run the enhancement script with your FA120 attached, select the usb2.0 driver install, and then swap out the FA120 for the Airlink.

[Billy66]

The script only runs the patches if you are running for the first time after a Zipper install. You can also get it to run by creating a dummy file in root called zipper_flag.

Ahhh, that explains it. I'm all set now. I was mostly hacked pre-zipper so I didn't use it. Thanks!

[mskreis]

I zippered my HR10-250 and noted several problems. So I ran tweak_uninstall.sh and reran tweak.sh. This gave me the following:



HD-TiVo# dos2unix tweak.sh
HD-TiVo# sh tweak.sh
mv: //rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
chmod: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: n
tweak.sh: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

I need some help please.

[tbeckner]

I have searched this forum and threads, but I thought I had seen it before, but I cannot find the model numbers that can be zippered.

I just added a new SD-DVR80 to my three HDVR2s and the HDVR2s are hacked, but this SD-DVR80 say RID on the box and on the information screen. Does that mean it cannot be hacked? I thought that all SD-DVR80s could be hacked?

[rbautch]

I zippered my HR10-250 and noted several problems. So I ran tweak_uninstall.sh and reran tweak.sh. This gave me the following:



HD-TiVo# dos2unix tweak.sh
HD-TiVo# sh tweak.sh
mv: //rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
chmod: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
tar: /enhancements/rbautch_files.tgz: No such file or directory
Do you want to run the "express" version (for advanced users)? [y/n]: n
tweak.sh: /enhancements/start.sh: No such file or directory
Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y

I need some help please. Either download and FTP the copy of tweak.sh from the first post of this thread, or extract the rbautch_files.tgz archive from the tools disk and FTP it to the same directory as your current tweak.sh.

[rbautch]

I have searched this forum and threads, but I thought I had seen it before, but I cannot find the model numbers that can be zippered.

I just added a new SD-DVR80 to my three HDVR2s and the HDVR2s are hacked, but this SD-DVR80 say RID on the box and on the information screen. Does that mean it cannot be hacked? I thought that all SD-DVR80s could be hacked? RID does not mean it can't be hacked.

[tbeckner]

RID does not mean it can't be hacked.Thanks for replying!

Question does it require a hardware change? Or is software all that needs to be changed? I would like to MRV it with my HDVR2s.

[mskreis]

Either download and FTP the copy of tweak.sh from the first post of this thread, or extract the rbautch_files.tgz archive from the tools disk and FTP it to the same directory as your current tweak.sh.


I cannot FTP it because I'm being told:

ftp> send tweak.sh
200 PORT command successful.
550 Error opening file; Read-only file system.
ftp>

[rbautch]

So set the filesystem to read-write.

[tbeckner]

RID does not mean it can't be hacked.I am assuming that all SD-DVRXX models are RID models, but only the R10 requires the hardware change, is that correct?

It seems that I have verified that information, but I was looking for verification from the builder of the "ZIPPER", which by the way is great.

BTW, I was a little early on the signature, my SD-DVR80 was installed today and is still on 3.1.

[rbautch]

Correct. Be sure to upgrade to 6.2 before/during the Zipper install.

[tbeckner]

Correct. Be sure to upgrade to 6.2 before/during the Zipper install.Thanks for the reply, I am awaiting the install of 6.2. And by the way, "THE ZIPPER" is a great tool/upgrade script. There are a lot of people who appreciate what you have done for them. Two of my HDVR2s where previous upgraded with PTVNet, but all I did was remove TWP and "THE ZIPPER" installed perfect.

Thanks again for all of "THE ZIPPER", help, and information.

[yazyazoo]

The Zipper doesn't install the drivers, but the enhancement script does. Others have gotten the ASOHOUSB to work with these drivers. You'll need to run the enhancement script with your FA120 attached, select the usb2.0 driver install, and then swap out the FA120 for the Airlink.


rbautch, the enhancements were the step where i type sh tweak.sh, and then afterwards it ask me all these questions. I said yes to the USB 2.0 supports. Did I do this correctly? My airlink still doesn't work after this.

[rbautch]

What kind of tivo do you have?

[bengalfreak]

Thanks for the reply, I am awaiting the install of 6.2. And by the way, "THE ZIPPER" is a great tool/upgrade script. There are a lot of people who appreciate what you have done for them. Two of my HDVR2s where previous upgraded with PTVNet, but all I did was remove TWP and "THE ZIPPER" installed perfect.

Thanks again for all of "THE ZIPPER", help, and information.


The zipper instructions page list all models that it will work on.

Zipper Instructions (http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html)

[yazyazoo]

What kind of tivo do you have?


Rbautch, I have the Dtivo the Hughes SDVR 40.

[rbautch]

Confirm that you rebooted after running the script. If it still doesn't work, download and install the drivers manually.

[Tivogre]

With the latest script, what is the effect of disabling encryption on EXISTING recordings?

Will I still be able to WATCH the existing recordings?

Does this mean that recordings AFTER the zipper / enhancements are available for extra curricular activities?

[kimsan]

With the latest script, what is the effect of disabling encryption on EXISTING recordings?

Will I still be able to WATCH the existing recordings?

Does this mean that recordings AFTER the zipper / enhancements are available for extra curricular activities?

May I just confirm rrbautch (to whom I owe a debt of gratitude).

Existing recordings (pre-hack) are playable locally, but that's it. Post hack recordings can be manipulated with Those verY special tools.

You *may* find a workaround if you Deal in Database Commerce, but don't count on success.

[bengalfreak]

If the recordings were made while the tivo was unhacked, they will be unplayable. Recordings after the enhancement script are fair game for you know what.


I was able to play all recordings whether they were made before or after hacking. Or do you mean unplayable after you know what?

[Billy66]

Right. Encryption is not the friend of You Know What. It has no effect on normal playback. So recordings made after disabling that are suited for YKW and the existing ones not. Normal playback will be the same regardless.

[Tivogre]

So.... if I Zipper my HR10-250 TONIGHT, will I be able to WATCH the shows that are sitting on it RIGHT NOW, all made PRIOR to the Zippering, on the television connected to the HR10-250?

I understand that ONLY the shows recorded AFTER Zippering will be available for "other stuff".

[Billy66]

I think we've already said too much TiVogre so I'll resist telling you that you are correct. :)

[rbautch]

I was able to play all recordings whether they were made before or after hacking. Or do you mean unplayable after you know what?My bad, I was thinking of 51killer. If the recordings were made on an unhacked tivo, then they are encrypted. If you move the drive to a new tivo and run 51killer, then they will be unplayable. But, if you restore the drive to the same tivo, you won't need to run 51killer, so they will still play.

[rbautch]

So.... if I Zipper my HR10-250 TONIGHT, will I be able to WATCH the shows that are sitting on it RIGHT NOW, all made PRIOR to the Zippering, on the television connected to the HR10-250?

I understand that ONLY the shows recorded AFTER Zippering will be available for "other stuff".
Yes, you'll be able to watch them as long as you don't run 51killer.

[Finnstang]

Yes, you'll be able to watch them as long as you don't run 51killer.
Which since you are zippering an image for the same unit, you should not get the Error 51 anyway.

[Luv2DrvFst]

I like the changes that you've made to the Enhancements script and want to reinstall them on my unit. Can I just run uninstall and then immediately re-install and not lose USB 2.0, wireless, etc?

[rbautch]

I like the changes that you've made to the Enhancements script and want to reinstall them on my unit. Can I just run uninstall and then immediately re-install and not lose USB 2.0, wireless, etc?The uninstall script will remove usb2.0 drivers, so just make sure you reinstall them with the new script. Wireless settings will remain unchanged.

[Luv2DrvFst]

The uninstall script will remove usb2.0 drivers, so just make sure you reinstall them with the new script. Wireless settings will remain unchanged.

Thanks, rbautch! Uninstall/reinstall worked perfectly. :up: To bring Hackman back to life I did this:

mv /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg.draft /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg

And then restarted TWP. That should do it, right?

Jim

[Finnstang]

Thanks, rbautch! Uninstall/reinstall worked perfectly. :up: To bring Hackman back to life I did this:

mv /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg.draft /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg

And then restarted TWP. That should do it, right?

Jim
Doesn't the hackman.cfg file get created when you open hackman in TiVoWeb? I thought the workaround to get stuff added to the cfg, was to delete it and do twprs and go back into hackman so it would recreate the file.

[astartz]

I have 4 direct TV tivos, if I install the tivo web plus can I watch a program from teh living room tvio in the bedroom and what not?

[starbiker99]

That is an MRV feature not a Tivowebplus feature. You would need to Zipper all Tivo and connect them to your home network. Then you could MRV between all Tivos. :)

[rbautch]

Thanks, rbautch! Uninstall/reinstall worked perfectly. :up: To bring Hackman back to life I did this:

mv /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg.draft /tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg

And then restarted TWP. That should do it, right?

Jim No. If you uninstalled and reinstalled, it should be there automatically.

[Tivogre]

First the good news... my HR10-250 upgrade with the ZIPPER is complete!

I am able to watch all shows (previously recorded AND post-ZIPPER recorded).

The better news: ALL Extra curricular activities work PERFECTLY.... I had NO IDEA that the tools would work out of the box on SD and HD material!!! I can now watch HD Stuff on my PC.... but MAN is that a LOT of data transfer!

I was even able to transfer a (SD) show from HR10-250 to PC and (via tivoserver) watch it on another ZIPPERED SD Tivo. It's not QUITE MRV on the 10-250... but it's not far off! AMAZING!

The bad news:

There was a problem during the ZIPPERING - specifically during the running of the enhancement script. Near the end of the process, I selected back-up season passes now. The process hung. I waited a god 1/2 hour; no dice. I aborted the script.

By looking at /enhancements/start.sh, I was able to see what steps remained and MANUALLY EXECUTE them from bash. I also had to add a few of the last profile and author entries to the files.

After reboot, everything is great.

Again, you guys ROCK!

[tbeckner]

The zipper instructions page list all models that it will work on.

Zipper Instructions (http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html)Thanks so very much, for some reason I couldn't find this page again.

[Luv2DrvFst]

No. If you uninstalled and reinstalled, it should be there automatically.

Hmmm, I don't know, when I first started up TWP after the reinstall, Hackman didn't show up in the TWP menu. All the hackman files were in /tivowebplus/modules, including the hackman.cfg.draft file. That file name seemed odd to me (and I had this nagging doubt about hackman getting installed after your post of a few days ago). So I renamed that file to hackman.cfg, restarted TWP and hackman was there. Weird. Maybe I missed something. So I should have just ignored hackman.cfg.draft?

I guess it doesn't really matter. Hackman is working. Thanks! :)

I think I'll just re-run the whole process and see if I can repeat it.

Jim

[Finnstang]

Hmmm, I don't know, when I first started up TWP after the reinstall, Hackman didn't show up in the TWP menu. All the hackman files were in /tivowebplus/modules, including the hackman.cfg.draft file. That file name seemed odd to me (and I had this nagging doubt about hackman getting installed after your post of a few days ago). So I renamed that file to hackman.cfg, restarted TWP and hackman was there. Weird. Maybe I missed something. So I should have just ignored hackman.cfg.draft?

I guess it doesn't really matter. Hackman is working. Thanks! :)

I think I'll just re-run the whole process and see if I can repeat it.

Jim
You seem to like being a guinea pig.

[Luv2DrvFst]

You seem to like being a guinea pig.

I learn better this way. :o

[Luv2DrvFst]

Rbautch, I re-did the uninstall/reinstall process and both scripts executed flawlessly except for one error. Uninstall no longer uninstalls TWP because the new install has moved it:

Deleting Tivowebplus Installation...
rm: /var/hack/tivowebplus: No such file or directory

This is good I suppose if you have no reason to uninstall TWP, but maybe uninstall should look for TWP in both places and/or this should be a choice for the user. Regardless, since I wanted a fresh install of TWP I manually removed the TWP directory.

After rebooting, Hackman does not show up in TWP the first time it is run and this file is in /tivowebplus/modules:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6339 Feb 2 15:18 hackman.cfg.draft

After manually stopping and restarting TWP, hackman is there with this file in /tivowebplus/modules:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6339 Feb 2 15:34 hackman.cfg

Guinea pig reporting in...

Jim

[Finnstang]

Rbautch, I re-did the uninstall/reinstall process and both scripts executed flawlessly except for one error. Uninstall no longer uninstalls TWP because the new install has moved it:

Deleting Tivowebplus Installation...
rm: /var/hack/tivowebplus: No such file or directory

This is good I suppose if you have no reason to uninstall TWP, but maybe uninstall should look for TWP in both places and/or this should be a choice for the user. Regardless, since I wanted a fresh install of TWP I manually removed the TWP directory.

After rebooting, Hackman does not show up in TWP the first time it is run and this file is in /tivowebplus/modules:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6339 Feb 2 15:18 hackman.cfg.draft

After manually stopping and restarting TWP, hackman is there with this file in /tivowebplus/modules:

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6339 Feb 2 15:34 hackman.cfg

Guinea pig reporting in...

Jim


From post 1206:

Doesn't the hackman.cfg file get created when you open hackman in TiVoWeb? I thought the workaround to get stuff added to the cfg, was to delete it and do twprs and go back into hackman so it would recreate the file.


:D

[Luv2DrvFst]

I just looked at /.profile and it has the alias listings and other things appended twice. I think somehow I lost the original. What does a virgin /.profile look like before the Enhancement script runs and what does it look like afterwards?

[Finnstang]

I just looked at /.profile and it has the alias listings and other things appended twice. I think somehow I lost the original. What does a virgin /.profile look like before the Enhancement script runs and what does it look like afterwards?
Isn't there a question when running the enhancement script multiple times about whther you want to append the .profile aliases?

[Finnstang]

Here is my .profile contents: (I added the alias for ll)
export TIVO_ROOT=
export TIVO_REMOTE=TIVO
export MFS_DEVICE=/dev/hda10
TERM=xterm
alias rw='echo "mounting read write"; mount -o remount,rw /'
alias ro='echo "mounting read only"; mount -o remount,ro /'
alias twp='echo "starting Tivowebplus"; /enhancements/TWPrunc.sh'
alias ffind='find / -name'
alias author='vi /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author'
alias root='vi /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root'
alias twprs='echo "restarting Tivowebplus"; sh /enhancements/TWPrestart.sh'
alias ll='ls -l'
#########################################
TERM=xterm

#########################################
TERM=xterm

#########################################
export PS1="\[\e[33;1m\]LivingRm\[\e[36;1m\]-\[\e[31;1m\]T\[\e[32;1m\]i\[\e[33;1m\]V\[\e[34;1m\]o\[\e[0m\]# \[\e[0m\]"
alias speed="/busybox/netperf -H 192.168.11.10 -C -c -- -S 65536 -s 65536"

[Luv2DrvFst]

Isn't there a question when running the enhancement script multiple times about whther you want to append the .profile aliases?

Yes, there is, but the uninstall script also restores the profile back to its original state. So if you do an uninstall/reinstall I think you have to answer yes to that question. My problem is that somehow profile.bak is no longer my original file so when uninstall restored it, it already contained the alias definitions.

jkTiVo-TiVo# sh /hacks/tweak_uninstall.sh
Removing directories and files...
Deleting Tivowebplus Installation...
rm: /var/hack/tivowebplus: No such file or directory
Deleting cron Installation...
Skipping CallerID uninstall...
Restoring original fakecall...
Restoring original usb drivers...
Restoring original profile...
Restoring original rc.sysinit.author file
Restoring original splash screen...
Done!

Finnstang, any chance you could do a copy/paste for me to show me what an original /.profile looks like? Would appreciate it.

Thanks!
Jim

[Luv2DrvFst]

simultaneous post! thanks.

[Finnstang]

simultaneous post! thanks.
Simultaneous?!!?! I was good 7 minutes before you. :D

[Luv2DrvFst]

Simultaneous?!!?! I was good 7 minutes before you. :D

:) slow typing fingers today

[bengalfreak]

Yes, there is, but the uninstall script also restores the profile back to its original state. So if you do an uninstall/reinstall I think you have to answer yes to that question. My problem is that somehow profile.bak is no longer my original file so when uninstall restored it, it already contained the alias definitions.

jkTiVo-TiVo# sh /hacks/tweak_uninstall.sh
Removing directories and files...
Deleting Tivowebplus Installation...
rm: /var/hack/tivowebplus: No such file or directory
Deleting cron Installation...
Skipping CallerID uninstall...
Restoring original fakecall...
Restoring original usb drivers...
Restoring original profile...
Restoring original rc.sysinit.author file
Restoring original splash screen...
Done!

Finnstang, any chance you could do a copy/paste for me to show me what an original /.profile looks like? Would appreciate it.

Thanks!
Jim

What it sounds like to me is that you have run the install script twice without running the uninstall in between. Thus adding the aliases to your profile twice.

[Finnstang]

Yes, there is, but the uninstall script also restores the profile back to its original state. So if you do an uninstall/reinstall I think you have to answer yes to that question. My problem is that somehow profile.bak is no longer my original file so when uninstall restored it, it already contained the alias definitions.
Thanks!
Jim
When I have run the uninstall script int he past and then the install script, I chose no for the append and it worked fine.

[Luv2DrvFst]

What it sounds like to me is that you have run the install script twice without running the uninstall in between. Thus adding the aliases to your profile twice.

Haven't done that. You really can't. Uninstall kicks you out if it finds /enhancements already installed. I think my problem is that a good backup of the original .profile wasn't made when I first zipper'd or it got trashed accidentally.

[bengalfreak]

Haven't done that. You really can't. Uninstall kicks you out if it finds /enhancements already installed. I think my problem is that a good backup of the original .profile wasn't made when I first zipper'd or it got trashed accidentally.

In order for the aliases to have been added twice, somewhere along the line your profile was backed up with the aliases included meaning your original profile was deleted. When this 'alaised' profile was restored by uninstall, the aliases were already there. After reinstalling the script, the aliases were added again. This has happened to me in the past. In my case, I believe it happened upon an incomplete install of the tweak script, i.e. I fat fingered my response to the SETMRV name question and tried to hit backspace. I cancelled the script with a control-C key and I'm not sure I ran the uninstall script prior to running tweak again.

[dgpiii]

Is anyone here interested in helping me hack my three non R10 series 2 DirecTIVOs for MRV and the HMO functions W/ the Zipper? I am willing to pay for your time.

Anyone... anyone ... Bueller... Bueller...

Please PM me.

[Finnstang]

Is anyone here interested in helping me hack my three non R10 series 2 DirecTIVOs for MRV and the HMO functions W/ the Zipper? I am willing to pay for your time.

Anyone... anyone ... Bueller... Bueller...

Please PM me.
I think most people watch both of threads you posted this in, so it probably wasn't necessary to post the same post in both threads.

[dgpiii]

Sorry about the "over posting". I guess I am just psyched about the prospect of possibility getting this done.

Please forgive,

dgpiii

[Boboli]

After reading this entire thread (wow! Whatta read) I am guessing that this tweak will not work on an S1 Tivo.

Is this correct??



B

[rbautch]

After reading this entire thread (wow! Whatta read) I am guessing that this tweak will not work on an S1 Tivo.

Is this correct??



B
Correct.

[Boboli]

Correct.


Bummer, dood.....


B

[kevincol]

Hi,

I've succesfully run Zipper and can telnet into the HR10-250.

From Windows XP SP2, I run telnet -t vt100 myipaddress and get to the bash prompt.

From there I cd /hacks, sh tweak.sh

It downloads the updates
<<
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to [69.90.236.30]
rbautch_files.tgz 100% |*****************************| 2493 KB 00:00 ETA
Downloaded main scripts successfully!


Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y
>>

and then gives me the following:

<<
Your telnet client is adding extra line feeds, causing this script to fail.
No problem. Just re-run the script again using the "Additional
Directions for Windows XP users", or use a different telnet client with
the proper CR/LF settings. Exiting now...
>>

I've run DOS2UNIX Tweak* and i have looked at tweak.sh via VI and did not see CR/LF's.

I searched this thread and find referene to the "special telnet" instructions, but I can't seem to locate the "special telnet" instructions to all this to execute.

[kevincol]

Hi,

I've succesfully run Zipper and can telnet into the HR10-250.

From Windows XP SP2, I run telnet -t vt100 myipaddress and get to the bash prompt.

From there I cd /hacks, sh tweak.sh

It downloads the updates
<<
Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to [69.90.236.30]
rbautch_files.tgz 100% |*****************************| 2493 KB 00:00 ETA
Downloaded main scripts successfully!

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...
Checking your telnet settings. Do you want to continue? [y/n]: y
>>

and then gives me the following:

<<
Your telnet client is adding extra line feeds, causing this script to fail.
No problem. Just re-run the script again using the "Additional
Directions for Windows XP users", or use a different telnet client with
the proper CR/LF settings. Exiting now...
>>

I've run DOS2UNIX Tweak* and i have looked at tweak.sh via VI and did not see CR/LF's.

I searched this thread and find referene to the "special telnet" instructions, but I can't seem to locate the "special telnet" instructions to all this to execute.

I downloaded NetTerm and ran that and it seems to be running now. Still interested in how to disable CR/LF with Windows telnet

[tbeckner]

I downloaded NetTerm and ran that and it seems to be running now. Still interested in how to disable CR/LF with Windows telnettelnet -t vt100 {IP Address of TiVo}

[Luv2DrvFst]

I downloaded NetTerm and ran that and it seems to be running now. Still interested in how to disable CR/LF with Windows telnet

check this thread

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3092522&highlight=unset+crlf#post3092522

[rbautch]

telnet -t vt100 {IP Address of TiVo} I think you were the one that originally pointed this out to me, which eventually became part of the instructions. Thanks for that!

[mskreis]

I'm still having difficulty troubleshooting a perceived problem with fakecall. Every day this week I've checked the phone settings and found that the call is made at 9:20 pm and the next scheduled call is the next day at roughly 5 pm. I thought that the "next call" is supposed to always be 6 days in the future. I would like to hook my phone up for caller id.

Per previous suggestion I uninstalled and reinstalled the tweaks and the this behaviour persists.

Here is CRONLOG-MAIN:

HD-TiVo# more CRONLOG-MAIN
Tue Jan 31 09:22:03 UTC 2006 cron logs wiped
Tue Jan 31 09:22:03 UTC 2006 cron.test.out deleted
Feb 01 04:20am Fakecall was run successfully, run verified
Wed Feb 1 09:14:02 UTC 2006 TWP stopped
Wed Feb 1 09:15:04 UTC 2006 TWP started
Wed Feb 1 09:18:02 UTC 2006 LOG_ARCHIVE deleted
Wed Feb 1 09:22:02 UTC 2006 cron.test.out deleted
Feb 02 04:20am Fakecall was run successfully, run verified
Thu Feb 2 09:14:02 UTC 2006 TWP stopped
Thu Feb 2 09:15:05 UTC 2006 TWP started
Thu Feb 2 09:22:02 UTC 2006 cron.test.out deleted
Feb 03 04:20am Fakecall was run successfully, run verified
Fri Feb 3 09:14:02 UTC 2006 TWP stopped
Fri Feb 3 09:15:03 UTC 2006 TWP started
Fri Feb 3 09:22:02 UTC 2006 cron.test.out deleted
Feb 04 04:20am Fakecall was run successfully, run verified
Sat Feb 4 09:14:02 UTC 2006 TWP stopped
Sat Feb 4 09:15:03 UTC 2006 TWP started
Sat Feb 4 09:22:02 UTC 2006 cron.test.out deleted


Everything appears to be working correctly. Any suggestions?

Thanks

[rbautch]

Log looks fine. Try running fakecall manually and then check the phone settings.

[mskreis]

Log looks fine. Try running fakecall manually and then check the phone settings.

Prior to running fakecall the Phone settings show:

Last successful call Friday, Feb 3 at 9:20 pm
Next scheduled call Mon, Feb 6 at 12:51 am

I ran fakecall as follows:

HD-TiVo# fakecall.tcl
Running fakecall version 3
Fakecall ran successfully!
HD-TiVo#

After running fakecall manually Phone settings show:

Last successful call Saturday, Feb 4 at 3:30 pm
Next scheduled call Saturday Feb 4 at 5:00 pm

This doesn't look right. What's going on?

[rbautch]

Not sure. Maybe try downloading and running a new copy of fakecall.

[mskreis]

Not sure. Maybe try downloading and running a new copy of fakecall.

Thanks for your help. Where can I d/l this from?

Also, I notice there are different file dates and sizes.
In /busybox fakecall.tcl is dated Jan 31 and is 3205k.
In /enhancements its dated Sept 26 and is 2913k.

Could this be the problem?

[SteelersFan]

I'm just getting into the NCID and have done some research, but I have some questions (please forgive)...
Is this the only way to configure 2 or more boxes:
(from the Zipper thread)...When doing more than one box with caller ID, you must choose ONE box to be the SERVER. For all the OTHER boxes you must edit /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author and comment out the line that starts ncidd (the server process). You must ALSO edit the /var/hack/etc/ncid/ncid.conf file on each of the client boxes (line 11) to set Host to the IP address of the SERVER box. After making these two changes for each CLIENT box, you must reboot the box. Only the single SERVER box needs a phone line connected for ALL boxes to get on-screen caller-ID....
Can someone expand on this or do the above instructions explain it all:
12. Installs NCID CallerID Application. Both the client and server are installed on your Tivo. Also, you can manually configure it to run the server on one Tivo and have it communicate with multiple Tivo clients. Other options can be tweaked to your taste. See the NCID website for details. The on-screen display program used by NDID does not work for Series 2.5 Tivos, so this feature gets skipped.
I haven't tried editing Tivo files yet so I'm a little hestitant. Do I use the Joe editor or should I use something else? Is using Joe fairly easy to learn? Any links or pointers would be greatly appreciated. :)
EDIT: Did some more searching and reading. Got it working on the 2nd box (client). It was easier than I thought. Time to do the rest on my units. :D

[mskreis]

I'm just getting into the NCID and have done some research, but I have some questions (please forgive)...
Is this the only way to configure 2 or more boxes:

Can someone expand on this or do the above instructions explain it all:

I haven't tried editing Tivo files yet so I'm a little hestitant. Do I use the Joe editor or should I use something else? Is using Joe fairly easy to learn? Any links or pointers would be greatly appreciated. :)

I tried this and have not been able to get it to work. I have an HR10-250 and a DSR7000 both zippered. Caller id works well on the DSR7000. Like you I read the above info and edited the files on my HR10-250 without any difficulty. Caller id continues to work well on my 7000 but not the 10-250.

[bengalfreak]

Not sure. Maybe try downloading and running a new copy of fakecall.


Is there a different version of fakecall for the HR10-250's? I know when I run fakecall it says version six and not version three.

[rbautch]

Is there a different version of fakecall for the HR10-250's? I know when I run fakecall it says version six and not version three.I modified a version for the script to work with 6.2. That doesn't preclude it from working with other versions.

[mskreis]

I modified a version for the script to work with 6.2. That doesn't preclude it from working with other versions.

rbautch,

Any more suggestions for me. I will gladly try another version - where can I download it from?

Thanks

[kevincol]

telnet -t vt100 {IP Address of TiVo}

Yes, I tried that exact syntax and always got the error message.

[kevincol]

check this thread

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3092522&highlight=unset+crlf#post3092522

I bet that is it! Thanks!