Hacking your Series 2 DTivo just got a WHOLE lot easier...

[Cybert]

I have recently used the Zipper to hack two of my DTivo 6.2 boxes (SDDVR40, DSR7000). I am able to access them via TWP and response times are reasonable but bring up the now playing list on the TV takes 30 seconds or more to display. Is this a normal for a hacked box or do I have a problem?

THANKS!

[rbautch]

Thats a problem. See the zipper wiki on how to fix it.

[Cybert]

rbautch,

I found the DNS problem on Wiki. I kinda thought that it was network related.

I tried option 1 which is adding a valid dns to resolv.conf however if I rebooted the machine my changes are reverted back.

I did some searches on the forums here and found that if I remove DNS from the nsswitch.conf file it made it much faster after a reboot.

Thanks!

[bingle]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Perhaps putting a link to the Wiki on http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html would help. I didn't see a link to it there (at least not directly).

[MATT1981M]

rbautch,

I found the DNS problem on Wiki. I kinda thought that it was network related.

I tried option 1 which is adding a valid dns to resolv.conf however if I rebooted the machine my changes are reverted back.

I did some searches on the forums here and found that if I remove DNS from the nsswitch.conf file it made it much faster after a reboot.

Thanks!
for those who dont want to remove dns from rnsswitch.conf but keeps having their changes reversed in resolv.conf, load TWP and edit there under the "net config" option AND in resolv.conf and then reboot... the changes wont revert then.... i have zipped 52 dtivos and have had 40 that have had the npl issue... this corrected each one of the them....

[bingle]

Well, I bit the bullet today and tried to zipper my HDVR2. Everything was going fine until trying to telnet to my HDVR2 to run the tweaks.sh script once the zippered drive was back in and had booted (and rebooted once) and was otherwise working (i.e. I had Live TV). I couldn't telnet to the HDVR2 (or even ping it). :(

I'm trying to use a DWL-122 that I had lying around (I've verified that the DWL-122 works on one of my XP machines). I don't have access to a wired USB ethernet adapter and don't have a serial cable to use. It was my understanding that the initial zipper.sh script would set up the proper networking configs so that I could get in wirelessly so that I could run the tweak.sh script.

I have followed the directions and have turned off security on my linksys wrt54g completely, I'm using an address for the HDVR2 within the appropriate range (192.168.1.120) and entered the ip of the router (192.168.1.1). When the HDVR2 goes through the boot process, the power light on the DWL-122 does light and the link light flashes twice, but that's it. Just the power light stays on and the link light is off.

Does the initial wireless support (pre tweak.sh) not support the DWL-122?

I should be able to use the DWL-122 after I've run the tweaks.sh script, right?

TechniKal seemed to have the same problem back at (post #3573 (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3751217&&#post3751217) in this thread, but I never saw how he managed to get around it.

Thanks,

[rbautch]

The DWL-122 should work fine, pre-tweak. Try what I told TechniKal, and then hit the Zipper wiki. First thing I'd check is to make sure you dont have a firewall running.

[rbautch]

Thanks for the confirmation.

Perhaps putting a link to the Wiki on http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_zipper.html would help. I didn't see a link to it there (at least not directly).That's a great idea. Coming soon.

[bengalfreak]

if anyone needs or wants a larger drive, tiger direct has a Seagate / Barracuda 7200.10 / 320GB / 7200 rpm / 16MB cache / ATA-100 / EIDE / OEM / Hard Drive for 114.99-45.00 rebate=69.99!!!!!! plus shipping....the sale is valid 7/14....


Good luck getting that rebate from tiger. they are notorius for not fulfilling them.

[bingle]

The DWL-122 should work fine, pre-tweak. Try what I told TechniKal, and then hit the Zipper wiki. First thing I'd check is to make sure you dont have a firewall running.

If you mean telling him to try a different IP and a different USB port, I've done both with no apparent difference. :(

From the Wiki...

1. Check to see if your adapter is compatible.

DWL-122 is on the list

2. Make sure you turned off WEP security on your router.

WEP is disabled

3. Is the link light on your adapter lit up? If so, make sure you are telnetting to the correct IP address.

No link light

4. Make sure no firewalls are preventing a connection.

None that I can tell

As far as I can tell, I don't have any firewall configured on my linksys wrt54g. Since the DWL-122 worked on my XP box, I have to assume that it isn't an issue with the DWL-122 and the WRT54G themselves, but some kind of issue between the DWL-122 and the HDVR2.

Thanks!

[ttodd1]

What about the firewall settings on your XP pc????

[bingle]

What about the firewall settings on your XP pc????

Well, since I can't ping it from my Linux box or my iBook on the same network and the fact that the link light on the DWL-122 isn't lit, I don't understand how my XP pc would be related in the slightest.

I pulled the drive back out of the tivo and put it back into one of my intel boxes (no XP drives plugged in at all on that box) and booted up the PVT boot disk. Mounting the correct partitions (/dev/hda7 as /tivo and /dev/hda9 as /tivo/var), I did some poking around. The network_mfs (or mfs_network - I can't remember and the drive is back in the tivo now) file that gets created for "troubleshooting" had the right information in it, so I have to assume that the right info got stuck into the MFS partitions, right? I even recreated the reboot_flag file so that when I put the drive back in the tivo it would do the "reboot once" like it did after the drive was initially zippered.

[dlmcmurr]

Good luck getting that rebate from tiger. they are notorius for not fulfilling them.

I did okay on my rebate, but I chose the option to credit the $50 back to PayPal for a fee of $5.50. It took just over a week from the time I mailed it in.

I bought the Seagate 250 for $68 a few weeks ago to replace my dying 80gb. That was my opporunity to try Zipper for the first time. It went great, but I am seeing a delay in going back to the NPL list from looking at a particular entry. It delays for about 15 seconds about every other time. Other times, it is immediate. I just haven't had the time to research it yet.

One of my four coax was cut when I was trimming shrubs, so I was wondering if that was related. When booting up, it complains that not all of my channels are receivable, but I can't tell that any are missing. My four coax go to a 4x8 multiswitch if that makes any difference.

Thanks guys for your great installation and the time you spend helping us newcomers.

Dave

[newkid]

Is there a RSS Script that will let me display local weather, local cinema times, news feeds, etc.. to my Zippered SD-HDVR DTivo?

[Phillip Chapman]

JavaHMO will do all of that and more...

http://javahmo.sourceforge.net/

[newkid]

JavaHMO will do all of that and more...

http://javahmo.sourceforge.net/

Thanks for the information, the features look great. While on the site I noticed a link to http://galleon.tv/ is this a upgraded version of javaHMO? Is one more stable than the other? Why would I choose one over the other?

Thanks.

[Babynana]

I don't care about having more capacity or bells and whistle's on my Hughes SD-DVR40. I just want to enable the USB ports so I can update wireless (Vonage). My software 6.2-01-2-351. Do I still have to take the drive out and run "Zipper" to get those ports to open or would there be an easier way? Thanks...

[Arcady]

Thanks for the information, the features look great. While on the site I noticed a link to http://galleon.tv/ is this a upgraded version of javaHMO? Is one more stable than the other? Why would I choose one over the other?

Galleon requires 7.x, which means it will not run on Dtivo boxes.


I don't care about having more capacity or bells and whistle's on my Hughes SD-DVR40. I just want to enable the USB ports so I can update wireless (Vonage). My software 6.2-01-2-351. Do I still have to take the drive out and run "Zipper" to get those ports to open or would there be an easier way? Thanks...

If you zipper, you don't need to update by phone or network anymore.

So the answer is: "sort of." You need the zipper to get the network running, but the zipper makes having a connection unnecessary (unless you want to use MRV or do other fun things...)

[rbautch]

Well, since I can't ping it from my Linux box or my iBook on the same network and the fact that the link light on the DWL-122 isn't lit, I don't understand how my XP pc would be related in the slightest.

I pulled the drive back out of the tivo and put it back into one of my intel boxes (no XP drives plugged in at all on that box) and booted up the PVT boot disk. Mounting the correct partitions (/dev/hda7 as /tivo and /dev/hda9 as /tivo/var), I did some poking around. The network_mfs (or mfs_network - I can't remember and the drive is back in the tivo now) file that gets created for "troubleshooting" had the right information in it, so I have to assume that the right info got stuck into the MFS partitions, right? I even recreated the reboot_flag file so that when I put the drive back in the tivo it would do the "reboot once" like it did after the drive was initially zippered.If mfs_network gets written to, that means the networking script ran and the parameters are set properly in MFS. Is it possible you're loading drivers from your author file or someplace else with insmod, causing a conflict?

[MATT1981M]

I did okay on my rebate, but I chose the option to credit the $50 back to PayPal for a fee of $5.50. It took just over a week from the time I mailed it in.

I bought the Seagate 250 for $68 a few weeks ago to replace my dying 80gb. That was my opporunity to try Zipper for the first time. It went great, but I am seeing a delay in going back to the NPL list from looking at a particular entry. It delays for about 15 seconds about every other time. Other times, it is immediate. I just haven't had the time to research it yet.

One of my four coax was cut when I was trimming shrubs, so I was wondering if that was related. When booting up, it complains that not all of my channels are receivable, but I can't tell that any are missing. My four coax go to a 4x8 multiswitch if that makes any difference.

Thanks guys for your great installation and the time you spend helping us newcomers.

Davecheck the wiki and my most recent 5 posts for info on the NPL issue... the guide data issue is because the coax....replace the coax or splice it and use some weatherproof connectors and a inline coupler..(best to replace...)

[tivomoid]

I've got several DTivos that I hacked long ago, before the great work of Gunnyman, Rbautch and others. They obtain their IP, etc. via DHCP and all communication outside of my local subnet is blocked by the router. Someplace, long ago, I found this little tidbit when looking to solve problems with the Now Playing List and HMO features. Maybe y'all have discussed it, maybe not. Maybe it's lame, maybe not. I do know it completely solved my problems without doing anything else. I leave it to those more knowledgeable than myself to explain what it does and why it works.

This entry is in my rc.sysinit.author file:


# Fix the hosts file to fix the Now Showing problem with DNS lookups
/hacks/fixhosts.bash


This is what's in fixhosts.bash:


#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "`grep $SerialNumber /etc/hosts`" ]; then
mount -o remount,rw /
echo "127.0.0.1 $SerialNumber.localdomain $SerialNumber" >> /etc/hosts
mount -o remount,ro /
fi

[Babynana]

I have a couple of old computers around, can I take one of the hds out of it and try and hack it or does it have to be a new virgin hd? Thanks...

[rbautch]

Sure, old hd will work fine.

[Babynana]

Thank You Very Much. I'm gonna run your program and hope for the best....

[Lord Vader]

But virgins are just so...so...nice and tight. :D:D:D

[wadsworthj]

I'm guessing I'm in about my 20th hour of trying to hack my HR10-250.

Had soo many problems but finally thought I was on the right track. Had a bad IDE cable which took me about 10 hours to diagnose...couldn't get mfsadd to work, struggled with BlessTiVo.

At least I'm learning a lot. My previous 3 tivos (1SAT-T60 and 2 HDVR2s I easliy upgraded capacity on using mfstools, but never got into real hacking...really trying now)

I'll spare the details of all my previous errors which I think I have resolved and skip to my current problem.

While waiting for my new 250GB Maxtor to arrive in the mail I ran the zipper and it appeared to work ok. Since then I've restored a clean image, blessed my new drive and am now showing capacity of 63HD and 400+ standard.

Pulled the a drive and tried to zipper it. I receive a message saying "tivotools.tar is not on the tools disk. exiting..."

Tivotools.tar IS on the tools disk, and as I mentioned I was able to run the zipper successfully once before from the same CD.

I've since burned a couple of new tools disks, I've re-downloaded and extracted tivotools.tar.rar, nothing seems to be working, and I'm out of ideas.

For whatever it's worth, after I mount the cdrom drive and ls the directory it shows all the files but tivotools.tar and rbautch-files.tgz show up in red whereas everything else is in green...I'll display my relative ignorance of linux by admitting I don't know what that means.

I've done some searching and found one or two others who have had similar problems but haven't found a working resolution. Any ideas would be greatly, vastlly appreciated.

[DarthOverlord]

I'm guessing I'm in about my 20th hour of trying to hack my HR10-250.

Had soo many problems but finally thought I was on the right track. Had a bad IDE cable which took me about 10 hours to diagnose...couldn't get mfsadd to work, struggled with BlessTiVo.

At least I'm learning a lot. My previous 3 tivos (1SAT-T60 and 2 HDVR2s I easliy upgraded capacity on using mfstools, but never got into real hacking...really trying now)

I'll spare the details of all my previous errors which I think I have resolved and skip to my current problem.

While waiting for my new 250GB Maxtor to arrive in the mail I ran the zipper and it appeared to work ok. Since then I've restored a clean image, blessed my new drive and am now showing capacity of 63HD and 400+ standard.

Pulled the a drive and tried to zipper it. I receive a message saying "tivotools.tar is not on the tools disk. exiting..."

Tivotools.tar IS on the tools disk, and as I mentioned I was able to run the zipper successfully once before from the same CD.

I've since burned a couple of new tools disks, I've re-downloaded and extracted tivotools.tar.rar, nothing seems to be working, and I'm out of ideas.

For whatever it's worth, after I mount the cdrom drive and ls the directory it shows all the files but tivotools.tar and rbautch-files.tgz show up in red whereas everything else is in green...I'll display my relative ignorance of linux by admitting I don't know what that means.

I've done some searching and found one or two others who have had similar problems but haven't found a working resolution. Any ideas would be greatly, vastlly appreciated.

When you 'ls' in linux, the color differential is between folders and type of files. The red color mean those files are compressed.

Also make sure the case of the name is correct. Tivotools.tar and tivotools.tar are read as different files. So when you search for tivotools.tar and it is namedTivotools.tar, linux will not find it.

[wadsworthj]

Darth,

I had started to formulate that hypothesis, re: red=compressed/archived.

Was aware that linux is case sensitive, but thanks for the tip.

Could never to get it to work, so am attempting to hack manually...I'll learn more tht way anyway.

[Krokus]

Is this site down? I'm trying to use the tweak file and I keep getting

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to xxx.mastersav_com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Connection timed out

I was thinking I did something wrong, but I can't ping that IP address.

Thanks

Krokus

(Had to put spaces in the address in order to get past spam restriction.)

[wadsworthj]

Well now 30+ hours in, but seem to have successfully, manually hacked and enhanced my HR10-250...leanred a hell of a lot more than I'd ever hoped to about linux & TiVo. :)

At anyrate, in case anybody else finds this by googling: "tivotools.tar is not on the tools disk" I'll give a very very easy explanation of the problem....took me several hours to figure this out and I feel like an incredible idiot.

ummm...read the directions and follow them explicitly: mkdir & Mount your CDROM to /cdrom...regardless of whatever conventions you might have learned/picked up.

i had mounted to a different mount point...duh. Should have read the zipper.sh script.

[Gunnyman]

the devil is in the details eh? :D

[Gunnyman]

Is this site down? I'm trying to use the tweak file and I keep getting

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to xxx.mastersav_com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Connection timed out

I was thinking I did something wrong, but I can't ping that IP address.

Thanks

Krokus

(Had to put spaces in the address in order to get past spam restriction.)
I'll have to let Russ handle wget issues. I have no idea if the server is up or down since it's not mine, but make sure your firewall isn't preventing tivo from accessing the internet.

[rbautch]

Is this site down? I'm trying to use the tweak file and I keep getting

Downloading latest Enhancement script...
Connecting to xxx.mastersav_com[69.90.236.30]:80
wget: Unable to connect to remote host (69.90.236.30): Connection timed out

I was thinking I did something wrong, but I can't ping that IP address.

Thanks

Krokus

(Had to put spaces in the address in order to get past spam restriction.)Site is up. Here is a link to the file it downloads: http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_tweak/rbautch_files.tgz

[rbautch]

Well now 30+ hours in, but seem to have successfully, manually hacked and enhanced my HR10-250...leanred a hell of a lot more than I'd ever hoped to about linux & TiVo. :)

At anyrate, in case anybody else finds this by googling: "tivotools.tar is not on the tools disk" I'll give a very very easy explanation of the problem....took me several hours to figure this out and I feel like an incredible idiot.

ummm...read the directions and follow them explicitly: mkdir & Mount your CDROM to /cdrom...regardless of whatever conventions you might have learned/picked up.

i had mounted to a different mount point...duh. Should have read the zipper.sh script.We've all made dumb mistakes. My big one was applying a tivo software image to my c: drive, wiping it out completely. :eek:

[Krokus]

Your right. I used cygwn wget to get the file. I uninstalled an old version of the script and was attempting to update it. After the uninstall I can still telnet and ftp but I cant get it to connect to the internet with wget. If I put the file there myself, the script will tell me to uninstall first. It does ask me if I want to add a gateway address but this doesnt help. Where are the network settings? I tried adding the network settings in my rc.sysinit.author, but that doesnt help either.

Thanks

Krokus

Nevermind - My DNS was wrong. Cant access internet without it.

[rbautch]

Your right. I used cygwn wget to get the file. I uninstalled an old version of the script and was attempting to update it. After the uninstall I can still telnet and ftp but I cant get it to connect to the internet with wget. If I put the file there myself, the script will tell me to uninstall first. It does ask me if I want to add a gateway address but this doesnt help. Where are the network settings? I tried adding the network settings in my rc.sysinit.author, but that doesnt help either.

Thanks

Krokus

Nevermind - My DNS was wrong. Cant access internet without it.If you ftp the rbautch_files.tgz archive to the same directory as tweak.sh, it will bypass the wget download and just use the archive.

[poopsie]

I am so confused. I ran the Zipper, everything went great. I have a USB200M adapter, Ver. 2 and I know these can cause problems. When I plug it in I get lights for a split second on the adapter, then they shutoff and nothing. No lights at all. Is this from the Ver.2? Or is there something else going on?

[rbautch]

Search this thread, especially the last few pages.

[rkshack]

Arguably, increasing swap space brings minimal (if any) benefit, and can cause other problems I don't wish to unleash on the newbie population. People have claimed that larger swap size my increase speed and performance, but I haven't seen any proof of that, so I'm keeping the swap at 127 for now. If anyone wants to do some testing on the relationship between speed and swap, I'd like to see a procedure similar to the one I used in the 4.01b versus 6.2 speed tests in my signature.


Would your recommendation to stay with the 127 mb swap still be true for series 1 tivos. I am going to upgrade to a dual drive with 250gb and an older 30gb original tivo drive. Should I up my swap to 192?

Rkshack

[JamieP]

Would your recommendation to stay with the 127 mb swap still be true for series 1 tivos. I am going to upgrade to a dual drive with 250gb and an older 30gb original tivo drive. Should I up my swap to 192?I know that question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll put my 2 cents in anyway: On a series 1, you are going to have to run tpip anyway to install a lba48 aware kernel. Why not run with a proper sized swap, as long as you are running tpip anyway?

It makes no sense to me to run a dual drive setup with a 30GB drive. You'll cut the likelyhood of a drive failure in half if you have use a single drive setup instead, and the 30GB only adds ~ 12% to your capacity. Not worth it, IMO, given the price you pay in expected MTBF (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MTBF).

[poopsie]

Well, I have read, and Read, and Read some more. Can the tweak.sh patch be applied just by having the HDTIVO drive connected to the computer? I have the v2 usb200m and can't telnet in to apply it. If so, how is it done? Kind of a Catch 22...Thanks!

[rpdre1]

You can't run tweak.sh on your PC.


Yeah it is a catch 22...

I'll send you a script that will install the USB2.0 drivers on your HR10 when I get home later today.

[rkshack]

I know that question wasn't addressed to me, but I'll put my 2 cents in anyway: On a series 1, you are going to have to run tpip anyway to install a lba48 aware kernel. Why not run with a proper sized swap, as long as you are running tpip anyway?


I was planning on doing dd_rescue then copykern -s then mfsadd to increase the size of the image. Then I am going to install the cachecard drivers. Does that sound like a reasonable plan?

[JamieP]

I was planning on doing dd_rescue then copykern -s then mfsadd to increase the size of the image. Then I am going to install the cachecard drivers. Does that sound like a reasonable plan?This is probably the wrong thread to discuss this, since this thread is specific to Series 2 DTivo hacking.

If you dd_rescue, there's no way to increase the swap. I'm not sure how important that is on a Series1.

If you dd_rescue, you may have trouble expanding with mfsadd since you'll be cloning the partition table. This (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=629559&&#post629559) post tells you how to work around that problem.

[dillan]

I've been searching the forums high and low for some info on the getting the 7.2 software running on a DirecTivo instead of 6.2. I am interested in some of the stuff that is being done with HME. I would also like to be able to use Galleon.

It would be great if I could upgrade my 6.2 Tivo to the 7.2 software with the ease of zipper.

The closest I've come to finding information about this is from the other site DDB.

[Gunnyman]

there was flurry of activity on this a while back, then it died.
I think it has proved too difficult.

[rpdre1]

brain fart, thought you had a standalone and wanted to use the zipper.

[cheer]

I don't think either that thread or reading zipper.sh will help with getting 7.x running on a DirecTivo...

[dlmcmurr]

I did the InstantCake/Zipper install to a new 250gb drive on my HDVR2 a month ago. It "zipped" right through everything with no complaints. Doing more lurking in the tivocommunity, I started looking at hackman and why it didn't run on my installation. I found the following in tivoweb.log:

TivoWebPlus Project - v1.2.1
snip....
Loading modules...
backup
channelprefs
favicon
hackman
--hackman Version 4.2.1--
-No problem running mips find -- mips version of find selected.
-No problem running mips sendkey -- mips sendkey selected.
POSIX EROFS {read-only file system} error renaming "/tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg.draft" to "/tivowebplus/modules/hackman.cfg": read-only file system
while executing
"file rename $config\.draft $config"
(file "/tivowebplus/modules/hackman.itcl" line 3021)
invoked from within
"source $module "
index
snip.....
Is there anything in the above explaining my lack of hackman? If not, give me some other ideas of where to look. I'm a fairly good Windows and networking person, but I'm a noob in linux and really don't want to kill my otherwise great system.

Thanks,
Dave

[Gunnyman]

we removed hackman from zipper a while back.

[poopsie]

Gunny or anyone for that matter, is there anyway I can get some help with Backport at all? I have been reading so much on here and did what people are doing for the hr10-250 to make the usb200m V2 work. I copied the 2.4.4 usbcore.o and usbnet.o to the tivo drive /lib/modules and my sysinit looks like this:

#install usb and ethernet drivers
insmod /lib/modules/usbcore.o
insmod /lib/modules/ehci-hcd.o
insmod /lib/modules/usbnet.o

Yet, I am still not getting any lights on my usb200m. Someone was going to give me a script but haven't heard anything so I thought I would learn while waiting. Thanks!

[JamieP]

I copied the 2.4.4 usbcore.o and usbnet.o to the tivo drive...Wrong modules. You need the 2.4.20 modules. "uname -r", run on the tivo, will tell you your kernel version, which must match the kernel version of the kernel modules. On an hr10-250, it will be 2.4.20.

[poopsie]

I ran that and it came back with 2.4.4 I'll give it a shot though, thanks!

[JamieP]

I ran that and it came back with 2.4.4 I'll give it a shot though, thanks!You have to run uname on the tivo, not on the PC.

[poopsie]

Still the same thing. How do I make sure I am checking the kernel on the tivo drive and not the computer? Do I just put in uname -r at the ptv#?

[JamieP]

Still the same thing. How do I make sure I am checking the kernel on the tivo drive and not the computer? Do I just put in uname -r at the ptv#?Nope. That's in your PC. You need to run the command on the tivo. Since you don't have networking working yet, that means from the serial console using a serial console cable.

But it isn't really important, since I am certain that and hr10-250 runs a tivo software version that uses a 2.4.20 linux kernel.

[madmartyk]

Well I just ran Zipper on my New DRV40 receiver, what a breeze! Works great and DVR40 #2 will be finished tonight, THANKS!!!

One question, the receivers they are replacing have lots of shows recorded. Is there any way to hook both HDs up and transfer the recorded shows from the old DTivo to the new one? Old DTivo #1 is a series 1 style and DTivo #1 is a D10 (yes I was stupid!). Any help on this one would be appreciated!

Then we start working on networking!!

Thanks
Marty

[Bobbis2000]

Hi Again,
I've noticed that if I record a movie in the wee hours of the morning, it is often split into 2 partial recordings. I am guessing because my tivo is set to automatically reboot every day at 5am EST?
Is it supposed to reboot even if something is being recorded? Is there anyway to tweak this so it won't reboot if I am recording something?
Thanks,
Rob

[Gunnyman]

yeah re-run the tweak.sh and change your answer to the reboots question to only reboot if nothing is being recorded, or change the crontab to a more appropriate reboot time whichever you feel more comfortable with.

[madmartyk]

Another question on the above subject. Can I take a series 1 Dtivo drive, Install the 6.2 image on it, Run Zipper and tell it to KEEP the recordings, put it in the DRV40 and send them over the network to the other DVR40?

[cheer]

No -- installing the 6.2 image will wipe the recordings.

[madmartyk]

No -- installing the 6.2 image will wipe the recordings.


So in saving old recordings I'm SOL?

[Finnstang]

So in saving old recordings I'm SOL?
i believe if you install using slices method, recordings stay intact, but I could be wrong.

[JamieP]

i believe if you install using slices method, recordings stay intact, but I could be wrong.True, but I do not believe you can update a series 1 to 6.2 via slices (or by any other means). 6.2 is a Series2 release only.

[madmartyk]

True, but I do not believe you can update a series 1 to 6.2 via slices (or by any other means). 6.2 is a Series2 release only.

OK, how do I do this?

[cheer]

The only solution would involve something we cannot discuss here.

[ForrestB]

I had the same problem. Solved it by simply keeping the old series 1 DirecTivo connected to the TV just to watch the old shows. You just need to keep a card in the old DirecTivo, but you can disconnect the satellite dish and unsubscribe the old Tivo and it will still playback old shows.

[madmartyk]

I had the same problem. Solved it by simply keeping the old series 1 DirecTivo connected to the TV just to watch the old shows. You just need to keep a card in the old DirecTivo, but you can disconnect the satellite dish and unsubscribe the old Tivo and it will still playback old shows.


That's what I figured, I was going to move them to a different TV all together.

[pgold]

So I zippered my tivo drive and then ran tweak.sh. Everything looks great, except a couple of things. When I connect to tivowebplus, I cannot see hackman at all. I searched through this thread and I think it suggests that I need to run uninstall_tweak and then reinstall it. Is that correct? That is fine, but I cannot seem to FTP to the tivo. I think tivoftp is running, but when I try to connect (using ws_ftp) it asks for a username and password. If I enter nothing it just keeps asking. If I try to ftp from the windows command prompt, I just never connect.

So my first question is do I need to uninstall and reinstall tweak.sh and second, how to I ftp to the unit. Sorry if this is all covered elsewhere, but I have searched for quite a while.

Thanks

Phil

[ttodd1]

http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=4210644&&#post4210644

[pgold]

what about my ftp issues?

[Gunnyman]

there is no username and password for tivoftpd
couple of things to check
1) firewall issues
2) VPN for some reason wreaks HAVOC on Tivo FTP

[rbautch]

So I zippered my tivo drive and then ran tweak.sh. Everything looks great, except a couple of things. When I connect to tivowebplus, I cannot see hackman at all. I searched through this thread and I think it suggests that I need to run uninstall_tweak and then reinstall it. Is that correct? That is fine, but I cannot seem to FTP to the tivo. I think tivoftp is running, but when I try to connect (using ws_ftp) it asks for a username and password. If I enter nothing it just keeps asking. If I try to ftp from the windows command prompt, I just never connect.

So my first question is do I need to uninstall and reinstall tweak.sh and second, how to I ftp to the unit. Sorry if this is all covered elsewhere, but I have searched for quite a while.

Thanks

Phil
Hackman was removed because newbies were fubaring their Tivos because they didn't fully understand how to use it. If you think you possibly fall into that category, go to the Hackman thread, download it, and install it manually. In mfs_ftp, open up the settings for your connection, and enter any arbitrary username and password.

[Bobbis2000]

yeah re-run the tweak.sh and change your answer to the reboots question to only reboot if nothing is being recorded, or change the crontab to a more appropriate reboot time whichever you feel more comfortable with.

Gunny,

When I run tweak.sh again I get this:
Enhancements directory detected. Run the uninstall script first. Exiting...

I searched this thread as to how to uninstall but couldn't find it.
Do I really need to uninstall first and if so, how?
Thanks again,
Rob

[pgold]

what about my ftp issues?


Turns out it was a wireless issue. My laptop that I was using connect via the wireless router and the tivo and my desktop go wired. FTP works perfectly from the desktop.

Thanks

[Gunnyman]

Gunny,

When I run tweak.sh again I get this:
Enhancements directory detected. Run the uninstall script first. Exiting...

I searched this thread as to how to uninstall but couldn't find it.
Do I really need to uninstall first and if so, how?
Thanks again,
Rob
there's a tweak uninstall script in the same directory as tweak.sh run it.

[willardcpa]

Gunny, in that avatar pict, are you behind a couple of big green margharitas, or is that your employee badge photo for Hooters??? :cool:

[SteelersFan]

...And is that a DirecTv shirt???

[Gunnyman]

Those are Borg Spheres served at Quarks at the Las Vegas Hilton and I am wearing my TC-Con T-Shirt.
That picture was taken last month in teh Vegas.
here's the full sized pic
http://homepage.mac.com/jsmeeker/Vegas2006/IMG_3206.jpg

[rbautch]

Those are Borg Spheres served at Quarks at the Las Vegas Hilton and I am wearing my TC-Con T-Shirt.
That picture was taken last month in teh Vegas.
here's the full sized pic
Look mom, no hands! Now that's talent.

[Gunnyman]

considering there's 10 oz of liquor in each of those I'd have to agree. :D

[ForrestB]

I'd imagine the hard part is standing up after you've finished off those two drinks - now that's the picture I want to see :)

[Gunnyman]

well to be fair I only drank about half of one myself.
The picture was a gag pretty much for avatar purposes :)

[newkid]

I'm been running JavaHMO, but can not get the Email plugin to work.

Does this JavaHMO plugin work with GMail or any other service?

My settings are:
Protocol: Pop3
Server: pop.gmail.com
Username: username@gmail.com
Password: gmailpassword

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

[dlmcmurr]

My settings are:
Protocol: Pop3
Server: pop.gmail.com
Username: username@gmail.com
Password: gmailpassword

You need to use the server name, username, and password that match the ISP you're connected to. Most ISPs block outgoing e-mail that is not from them unless it is sent using a different port than 25. I haven't used JavaHMO yet to know if that is an option. I'm using port 3535 on Outlook to send out my gmail, but it needs to go to smtp.gmail.com for outgoing.

[newkid]

You need to use the server name, username, and password that match the ISP you're connected to. Most ISPs block outgoing e-mail that is not from them unless it is sent using a different port than 25. I haven't used JavaHMO yet to know if that is an option. I'm using port 3535 on Outlook to send out my gmail, but it needs to go to smtp.gmail.com for outgoing.

The JavaHMO Mail plugin only allows you to download and view, not send. It is only intended to view unread email on the DirectTivo.

The GMail Pop page indicates:

Incoming Mail Server: pop.gmail.com
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.gmail.com (not needed)
Username: full email address
Password: password

Which is what I'm using. But I also understand the work on JavaHMO stopped some time ago - so I'm not sure if it still works with GMail, if it ever did.

Does anyone have this working?

[cheer]

You need to use the server name, username, and password that match the ISP you're connected to. Most ISPs block outgoing e-mail that is not from them unless it is sent using a different port than 25.
Wow, really? I can honestly say I've never encountered that. I have four different POP accounts -- my current ISP, my old ISP (they haven't bothered to shut it off), a personal account (so I don't lose it if my ISP biffs -- I got burned by the @home shutdown!), and a business account. I can access all four (both in and out) from here on my personal ISP, from my neighbor's on their ISP, and from pretty much anywhere I've tried. The only trick is to enable outbound authentication.

ISPs that filter traffic make me sad.

[madmartyk]

Well the DTivos are hacked and kinda working fine. One strange thing, when I view a recorded program and delete it, the my programs section is blank (there are other recordings there). If I go in and out of the menu a few time they return. Any ideas?

[rpdre1]

Sounds like the DNS problem.

read this: http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#Blank_entries_in_the_.22Now_ Playing_List.22

search this thread for more info also.

[dlmcmurr]

Well the DTivos are hacked and kinda working fine. One strange thing, when I view a recorded program and delete it, the my programs section is blank (there are other recordings there). If I go in and out of the menu a few time they return. Any ideas?
Try http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=248850 also. I just posted what worked for me this afternoon.

Dave

[rm226]

As a noobe to this stuff I've been wading through the forum trying to solve the same problem. Can't get Airlink USB2.0 adapter to be recognized by the HDVR-2 after the Zipper was applied, I was able to telnet in using a borrowed 1.1 adapter and I see that I don't have the /hacks/drivers directory. It appears that the drivers are in the /tivoroot/lib/modules dir. I did use the PTV instantCake CD for the 6.2 image and the "Tools CD" from rbautch's enhancement. Is there an interium fix and what files might I need and wher should they located?

I have a second HDVR2 to be done after I get this one on the network with the USB 2.0 adapter. :confused:



...


echo "Extracting drivers2.4.20.tgz from rbautch_files.tgz"
tar -xzvf /cdrom/rbautch_files.tgz drivers/drivers2.4.20.tgz -C /tivoroot/hacks/ 1>/dev/null
sleep 10
echo "Installing Jamie's backport USB2.0 drivers..."
tar -zxvf /tivoroot/hacks/drivers/drivers2.4.20.tgz -C /tivoroot/lib/modules 1>/dev/null

...



that's line where it failed.

it's supposed to have tar extract only drivers2.4.20.tgz (instead of all the files in rbautch_files.tgz) out of rbautch_files.tgz to /tivo.

when I tested this line on in telnet (with rbautch_files.tgz in /var/) it always worked:


tar -xzvf /var/rbautch_files.tgz drivers/drivers2.4.20.tgz -C /hacks/ 1>/dev/null



it made a /hacks/drivers/ (without me having to mkdir /hacks/drivers/ first) and put drivers2.4.20.tgz in there (tar is keeping the relative path drivers2.4.20.tgz in rbautch_files.tgz)

i've tested that line at least 5 times and its always worked.
maybe the tar in the PTV CD doesn't support extracting only one file from a .tgz


...


I think I will just have the next usbscript require the user to extract drivers2.4.20.tgz from rbautch_files.tgz before burning the Zipper Tools CD




im glad that worked,

what $9 generic did you use?

[rpdre1]

my script made /hacks/drivers/, the zipper didnt make that, ignore all that... i will repost the script tonight


but in your case,
since you already have a working connection you can just let tweak.sh install the USB2.0 drivers (if you ran tweak.sh already, thats fine.. as long as you said yes to the drivers) and then copy the attached usb.map file inside that zip and place it in /etc/hotplug/ (rename the original usb.map to anything else before you do)

this usb.map will add support for

product 0b95 7720 Airlink ASOHOUSB
product 0b95 1780 Airlink AGIGAUSB

is that one of the airlinks you have?

(you must have the backport drivers already installed)

make sure you upload usb.map in binary mode

[Tonedeaf]

How can I add logos to the Tivo? Have some HD Logos that I would like to use(Universal HD, TNT-HD....) found at the other place. Not sure how to add them and which directory to send to if they can be FTP'd.

Anyone?

[Gunnyman]

you need to find a logo.slice file
and dbload it from bash or use the logo module in tivoweb plus

[rbautch]

...or run the enhancement script to install logos.

[Gunnyman]

well yeah but if we're talking NEW logos :p

[atlynch]

I have three zippered TiVo's, 2 DSR7000's and an HR10-250. I have noticed during the day that when I am on the phone, I frequently and randomly have events that seem like someone else picking up an extension. A click, a slight reduction in the volume of the call, and 10-20 seconds later another click, and a return to normal volume. It also seems that this occurs several times in succession.

It may be coincidental, but when I disconnect the TiVo's from the phone line, this behaviour ceases.

Why would the TiVo's be picking up the phone mid day? Is there a log file I can check to test this theory? Is there some was to control this without disconnecting the TiVo's from the phone line?

TIA,
Drew

[Gunnyman]

more than likely it'd teh call directv to report ppv call.

[Tonedeaf]

well yeah but if we're talking NEW logos :p
Yup, wanting some new logos not only for the D* HD channels, but logos for Local HD channels also.

[rbautch]

I have three zippered TiVo's, 2 DSR7000's and an HR10-250. I have noticed during the day that when I am on the phone, I frequently and randomly have events that seem like someone else picking up an extension. A click, a slight reduction in the volume of the call, and 10-20 seconds later another click, and a return to normal volume. It also seems that this occurs several times in succession.

It may be coincidental, but when I disconnect the TiVo's from the phone line, this behaviour ceases.

Why would the TiVo's be picking up the phone mid day? Is there a log file I can check to test this theory? Is there some was to control this without disconnecting the TiVo's from the phone line?

TIA,
DrewPost #8 discusses this issue. You can check your cronlogs to see if fakecall is running regularly, and your tivo is rebooting regularly. This is what prevents the tivo from picking up the phone, and makes it think it's never the right time to make a call.

[BBQ-AllStar]

Quick question...

I zippered a S2 Tivo about a month ago for a friend...however, I forgot to run the "sh tweak.sh" command....(I know..I had a few bneers in me...)

Well, I went over to his house yesterday, and telent'd into the TiVo and ran the "sh tweak.sh" command...answered all the questions...rebooted...had a few beers and BBQ...went home.

He calls me today and tells me that he can't watch any of his previously recorded shows. They are all there in the Now Playing list, but only the new recordings are playable. When he selects the old shows, he gets an error message telling him that there was no signal or something to that effect.

Is it because the previous shows are "encrypted" and now won't play? He won't be needing to transfer shows to his PC for "extracurricular" activies...he just wants to be able to watch his previously recorded shows...

The funny thing is, I don't remember having to do anything to my previous shows to watch them when I zippered my Tivos a few months ago... :confused:

What are my options? Do I have to go to DDD and "search"...which I have done, but I didn't want to go over there and mention "The Zipper"...so I thought I'd post here first.

Thanks!


PS Regarding the "error of not being able to watch recorded shows" due to "no signal" -- has ayone else seen this error...I've gotten it a few times on my zippered HD TiVo. Just recently the other day when I went to watch my recording of The British Open...as soon as I press play...I got the error. I then accessed my tivo via TiVoTool, and played the program for a few minutes...then went back to my HD TiVo and the show played fine. Weird??? This also happened with some World Cup soccer games.

For some reason I think EndPadPlus has something to do with it...I have it set to record 2 mins before and after each program. When I disable EndPadPlus, I have no problems...

Anyway, it hasn't happened too often...

[slydog75]

Quick question...

I zippered a S2 Tivo about a month ago for a friend...however, I forgot to run the "sh tweak.sh" command....(I know..I had a few bneers in me...)

Well, I went over to his house yesterday, and telent'd into the TiVo and ran the "sh tweak.sh" command...answered all the questions...rebooted...had a few beers and BBQ...went home.

He calls me today and tells me that he can't watch any of his previously recorded shows. They are all there in the Now Playing list, but only the new recordings are playable. When he selects the old shows, he gets an error message telling him that there was no signal or something to that effect.

Is it because the previous shows are "encrypted" and now won't play? He won't be needing to transfer shows to his PC for "extracurricular" activies...he just wants to be able to watch his previously recorded shows...

The funny thing is, I don't remember having to do anything to my previous shows to watch them when I zippered my Tivos a few months ago... :confused:

What are my options? Do I have to go to DDD and "search"...which I have done, but I didn't want to go over there and mention "The Zipper"...so I thought I'd post here first.

Thanks!

Is he getting the error51 message? All encryption stuff was taken care of previous to running the enhancements scripts, so that shouldn't have changed anything. You also shouldn't have any trouble watching previously recorded shows, you just won't be able to 'play' with them.

[cheer]

Yikes. Sure sounds like the CSO keys may have been cleared, and if that's the case he may be in trouble. (Tweak.sh doesn't do that, so I'm not sure what happened.)

Telnet into the Tivo and run ciphercheck, and post the output here.

[BBQ-AllStar]

Is he getting the error51 message? All encryption stuff was taken care of previous to running the enhancements scripts, so that shouldn't have changed anything. You also shouldn't have any trouble watching previously recorded shows, you just won't be able to 'play' with them.

Doesn't "running" (sh tweak.sh) the Enhancement Script diasble encryption? So the shows he has prior to this are encrypted..are they not?

Nope, it's not the error51 message...it's an error that says "Are you done with this program? If so delete to make more room for more programs..."

He presses "don't delete" - and then on the screen it says "Error playing recording...the recorder was not able to record this program because there was no video signal on the channel. You may have been trying to record on a channel you don't receive."

Again, this has happened a few times on my HD-Tivo...but after I access them via TivoTool and play them on my Mac...they play fine. Then I go back to my TiVo and press play on the Now Showing list and they work....weird.

I'm gonna have to go over to his house tomorrow and run ciphercheck...

[cheer]

Doesn't "running" (sh tweak.sh) the Enhancement Script diasble encryption? So the shows he has prior to this are encrypted..are they not?Correct...
Nope, it's not the error51 message...it's an error that says "Are you done with this program? If so delete to make more room for more programs..."The Error 51 occurs when the master key stored in MFS is bad or missing. Different problem.
He presses "don't delete" - and then on the screen it says "Error playing recording...the recorder was not able to record this program because there was no video signal on the channel. You may have been trying to record on a channel you don't receive."Only time I've seen that is when trying to play encrypted shows that are missing CSO keys, or trying to play unencrypted shows that for some reason have CSO keys set.

Let us know what ciphercheck spits out.

[dlmcmurr]

I went through exactly the same thing, except for the beers. My drive was dying, I bought a new one, used InstantCake and Zipper, but didn't have a network adapter or serial cable, so just started using it for about a week. When I built the serial cable a week later and finished the job, I could no longer watch the programs recorded during that week. Got the exact same messages. I tried a couple of things and listened to some of the expert opinions, then decided it just wasn't worth it and deleted them from the NPL and made a mental note to not stop in the middle of the next upgrade (which will be happening next week on the SD-DVR40)! Fortunately, I only lost a week plus everything on my dying drive.

Dave

[slydog75]

Doesn't "running" (sh tweak.sh) the Enhancement Script diasble encryption? So the shows he has prior to this are encrypted..are they not?

..

I"m pretty sure the superpatch (which disables encyrption) is applied during the zipper process not the as part of the enhancements scripts, but that's neither here nor there.

[cheer]

I"m pretty sure the superpatch (which disables encyrption) is applied during the zipper process not the as part of the enhancements scripts, but that's neither here nor there.
Don't think so...pretty sure superpatch has to run on the Tivo itself.

[rpdre1]

I"m pretty sure the superpatch (which disables encyrption) is applied during the zipper process not the as part of the enhancements scripts, but that's neither here nor there.


Nope, superpatch is run when you run tweak.sh (the enhancement script part)

[slydog75]

interesting.. I stand corrected.

[Gunnyman]

Nope, superpatch is run when you run tweak.sh (the enhancement script part)
but not on an HR10-250 no superpatch there. Just for FYI purposes.
As to BBQ's problem I have seen it happen exactly ONCE before.
(paging Langree) and we have no idea why.

[BBQ-AllStar]

but not on an HR10-250 no superpatch there. Just for FYI purposes.
As to BBQ's problem I have seen it happen exactly ONCE before.
(paging Langree) and we have no idea why.

Great...just my luck...my friend is going to kill me if he can't watch his saved Deadwood shows :eek: He hasn't watched any of the 3rd season yet because he is catching up on season 2.

I'll see what happens tomorrow...maybe uninstalling the "tweaks" and then re-installing it may do something...

I'll post back tomorrow evening...

[rbautch]

Quick question...

I zippered a S2 Tivo about a month ago for a friend...however, I forgot to run the "sh tweak.sh" command....(I know..I had a few bneers in me...)

Well, I went over to his house yesterday, and telent'd into the TiVo and ran the "sh tweak.sh" command...answered all the questions...rebooted...had a few beers and BBQ...went home.

He calls me today and tells me that he can't watch any of his previously recorded shows. They are all there in the Now Playing list, but only the new recordings are playable. When he selects the old shows, he gets an error message telling him that there was no signal or something to that effect.

Is it because the previous shows are "encrypted" and now won't play? He won't be needing to transfer shows to his PC for "extracurricular" activies...he just wants to be able to watch his previously recorded shows...

The funny thing is, I don't remember having to do anything to my previous shows to watch them when I zippered my Tivos a few months ago... :confused:

What are my options? Do I have to go to DDD and "search"...which I have done, but I didn't want to go over there and mention "The Zipper"...so I thought I'd post here first.

Thanks!


PS Regarding the "error of not being able to watch recorded shows" due to "no signal" -- has ayone else seen this error...I've gotten it a few times on my zippered HD TiVo. Just recently the other day when I went to watch my recording of The British Open...as soon as I press play...I got the error. I then accessed my tivo via TiVoTool, and played the program for a few minutes...then went back to my HD TiVo and the show played fine. Weird??? This also happened with some World Cup soccer games.

For some reason I think EndPadPlus has something to do with it...I have it set to record 2 mins before and after each program. When I disable EndPadPlus, I have no problems...

Anyway, it hasn't happened too often...
When you run the Zipper, it asks if you have existing recordings you want to keep. If you answer yes, it skips 51killer when the drive hits the tivo. If you answer no, but you really do have recordings you want to keep, 51killer gets run, and screws up your existing recordings.

[BBQ-AllStar]

When you run the Zipper, it asks if you have existing recordings you want to keep. If you answer yes, it skips 51killer when the drive hits the tivo. If you answer no, but you really do have recordings you want to keep, 51killer gets run, and screws up your existing recordings.


That's when you run sh zipper.sh (Zipper), not sh tweak.sh (Enhancements)...correct?

When I ran the enhancements yesterday (sh tweak.sh), it only asks me about enhancements, not recordings...

Isn't this correct?

See, I ran zipper a couple months ago...but didn't run the enhancement script until yesterday.

[DrkPr1nc3]

This is my first post and I'd like to start by thanking everyone for all the great info on how to hack my Tivo and especially for the zipper.

This is the first time I've hacked a tivo (a Samsung SIR4040R), and as a result I don't already have a network adapter that is compatable. After reading through this thread, and comparing/searching all over for the various cards that are compatable, it seems like the only adapter that is still readily available that will work is the Linksys USB200M. That being the case, it seems like the path of least resistance after running the zipper and putting the tivo back together is:

1. Make a serial cable
2. Boot the tivo and run tweak.sh via the serial connection to install the USB 2.0 drivers
3. Hook everything back up and connect the network adapter

Is that the case? I know there has been a lot of discussion on the subject, and these steps are what I've pieced together as the best way to go about it. I just want someone to tell me if I'm way off or not, or if there's something I'm missing that would make this easier.

[cheer]

That's when you run sh zipper.sh (Zipper), not sh tweak.sh (Enhancements)...correct?

When I ran the enhancements yesterday (sh tweak.sh), it only asks me about enhancements, not recordings...

Isn't this correct?

See, I ran zipper a couple months ago...but didn't run the enhancement script until yesterday.
My bad; I've never actually used the Zipper so I tend to make assumptions which, as often as not, turn out to be wrong. :)

[rbautch]

That's when you run sh zipper.sh (Zipper), not sh tweak.sh (Enhancements)...correct?

When I ran the enhancements yesterday (sh tweak.sh), it only asks me about enhancements, not recordings...

Isn't this correct?

See, I ran zipper a couple months ago...but didn't run the enhancement script until yesterday.This is expected behavior then. 51killer doesnt actually run until you run the tweak.sh script. The Zipper sets a flag in response to the "keep recordings" question while the drive is still in the PC, then the enhacement script uses that flag to decide what to do.

[rbautch]

This is my first post and I'd like to start by thanking everyone for all the great info on how to hack my Tivo and especially for the zipper.

This is the first time I've hacked a tivo (a Samsung SIR4040R), and as a result I don't already have a network adapter that is compatable. After reading through this thread, and comparing/searching all over for the various cards that are compatable, it seems like the only adapter that is still readily available that will work is the Linksys USB200M. Not true! The USB200M is the path of greatest resistance. Look here: http://justdeals.stores.yahoo.net/fa120r.html Refurb, $12.95 shipped.
and here: http://www.tweeter.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1747497 for adapters that work out of the box.

[BBQ-AllStar]

This is expected behavior then. 51killer doesnt actually run until you run the tweak.sh script. The Zipper sets a flag in response to the "keep recordings" question while the drive is still in the PC, then the enhacement script uses that flag to decide what to do.

Ohhh...that makes sense...so are all the recordings that were in the Now Playing List toast?

So, basically, running the tweak script had no idea that 2 months had passed and therefore figured I had no recordings...Ouch! That's what I get for drinking too many beers during a zipper action.

Can I uninstall the script? Or are those recordings toast?

[DrkPr1nc3]

Not true! The USB200M is the path of greatest resistance. Look here: Refurb, $12.95 shipped.
and here: for adapters that work out of the box.

By 'least resistance' I meant adapter I could go out and buy tomorrow at CompUSA as opposed to waiting a week (or more) for it to arrive. That's the other thing that's confusing about the whole network issue. That second link you pasted is for an adapter that's USB 2.0, but it works out of the box while others don't. Clear as mud... :)

[Gunnyman]

This is expected behavior then. 51killer doesnt actually run until you run the tweak.sh script. The Zipper sets a flag in response to the "keep recordings" question while the drive is still in the PC, then the enhacement script uses that flag to decide what to do.
so the combination of saying no, then making recordings, then running tweak.sh after recordings are present causes the issue? Interesting.

[Gunnyman]

Ohhh...that makes sense...so are all the recordings that were in the Now Playing List toast?

So, basically, running the tweak script had no idea that 2 months had passed and therefore figured I had no recordings...Ouch! That's what I get for drinking too many beers during a zipper action.

Can I uninstall the script? Or are those recordings toast?
there MIGHT be a method to unscramble those shows so they are viewable, but we can't discuss that here. Check google for a deal on database aka ddb. For info.
You my end up bit torrenting that deadwood.

[Gunnyman]

By 'least resistance' I meant adapter I could go out and buy tomorrow at CompUSA as opposed to waiting a week (or more) for it to arrive. That's the other thing that's confusing about the whole network issue. That second link you pasted is for an adapter that's USB 2.0, but it works out of the box while others don't. Clear as mud... :)
it's all about the linux and chipsets that present in these usb adapters.
many of them didn't change the chipset when they went from a model that was usb 1.1 to usb 2.0. The FA120 is one such adapter. Now the USB 200M V2 uses a different chipset than the V1. The V1's drivers at least the usb 1.1 ones are built into the Tivo whether you hack it or not. The usb 2.0 version (and the new chipset drivers) are added by the tweak.sh script portion of the zipper.

[cheer]

there MIGHT be a method to unscramble those shows so they are viewable, but we can't discuss that here.
Not after a 51killer, I don't think. 51killer blows away the master CSO key in MFS, I do believe, which would mean sayonara to encrypted shows.

[Gunnyman]

Not after a 51killer, I don't think. 51killer blows away the master CSO key in MFS, I do believe, which would mean sayonara to encrypted shows.
makes sense
so I guess we need a 51 putter backer huh? :p

[DrkPr1nc3]

it's all about the linux and chipsets that present in these usb adapters.
many of them didn't change the chipset when they went from a model that was usb 1.1 to usb 2.0. The FA120 is one such adapter. Now the USB 200M V2 uses a different chipset than the V1. The V1's drivers at least the usb 1.1 ones are built into the Tivo whether you hack it or not. The usb 2.0 version (and the new chipset drivers) are added by the tweak.sh script portion of the zipper.

Ah, I guess that makes sense then. Thanks for the explanation.

[Moebius]

My apologies for the small thread hijack here, but this seems to be the most active and is directly related to my questions.

Long story short, we're considering switching to D*, but concerned about some of the features we use on our current SA models. The idea would be to get an HR10-250 and either hook my SA model to a receiver, or try and find a hackable model online.

So for the questions. From what I've read of the zipper so far, it enables MRV/HMO features, but are they standard or needing other items? For example, would it connect to TiVo Server on my PC and be able to play mp3s, or would I need a different server app like galleon? Second, would MRV work between a D* and SA model, or would they be incompatible (I'm assuming incompatible, but never really thought about this)?

[cheer]

Neither HMO nor MRV work currently on the HR10-250, only on the SD models.

I assume you don't mean TivoServer -- I assume you mean Tivo Desktop. I am told that it works, though you might need an older version. You can also use JavaHMO. Galleon doesn't work (requires HME). MRV will work, IF you hack and superpatch the standalone S2 Tivo. But again, not from an HR10-250 (yet).

[Moebius]

Follow up question. How do hacks like this work with subscription packages on D*? From what I read on the site, the subscriptions need phone line access, but most of the hack information I've read instructs unplugging the phone line to prevent "updates" from the mother ship. Now, I also read that you can use the fakecall stuff and some tweaks to leave the phone line connected, but will the calls for things like MLB Extra innings or such cause problems?

[Lord Vader]

None of that's affected, including sports subscription packages. The phone line being disconnected really only affects your PPV remote ordering ability, which is no big deal. In fact, ordering PPV via directv.com is better, since it's the same price, AND that PPV movie then becomes viewable on ALL your receivers and not just the one that you would have used the remote to order.

[cheer]

Just to clarify...fakecall by itself does not prevent calls. It merely convinces the DTivo that a successful call has been made, so the DTivo doesn't try for a while. (Evidently the Zipper sets up periodic reboots, which causes fakecall to be re-run. You could also use cron.)

But if the DTivo does want to call out, it will.

The call to the "mothership" is a different call from the one to DirecTV for PPV/packages/etc. So in theory you could, I suppose, leave the phone line connected and it will make the D* calls but not the mothership calls (due to fakecall). That's just theoretical as (A) I don't have any of the packages and (B) I don't have a phone line hooked up.

[Lord Vader]

One thing many haven't considered is this: an increasing number of people are going to VoIP service for their phone service at home. As far as I have been told by many, including a DTV rep., VoIP service does not work with DTV receivers; the receivers need a typical dial tone and cannot call out with VoIP service.

[djdavis75]

First of all a huge thanks to you guys for The Zipper and the Enhancement Script. Also many thanks to the authors of the various utilities installed by your scripts.

Let me run through a brief what I have and what I did before I get to the questions...

I have a Samsung Series 2 DTivo w/6.2. Here is what I did to it: Pulled the original drive and backed it up using MFSTools. Restored the backup to a new drive, of the same size. Ran Zipper on the new drive and reinstalled it into the Tivo. Booted the Tivo, it did the automatic reboot the first time as expected, then booted up again and worked great. Did the telnet and ran the enhancement script...then rebooted the unit again. Everything went pretty much by the book.

Now for the questions...Standby has moved to Messages & Setup, as expected. I saw a patch somewhere to fix this and put Standby back on DirecTV Central. Can someone point me to this patch and is it alright to apply this to a Zippered Tivo?

Second one, in Messages & Setup, I have this option called Promotions. If I select it I see what looks like HTML code. Anyone have any idea what this is and how to fix it or get rid of it?

Last...I have a Search by Title (Demo) entry in Pick Programs To Record now. Doesn't seem to do anything, what the heck is that?

Thanks for your help.
David

[Gunnyman]

check this out in the Zipper Wiki (http://www.thewallens.net/Zipperwiki/index.php?title=Troubleshooting#The_.22Standby.22_option_is_ gone...)

will make everything right again.
The things you describe are side effects of the hacks.

[djdavis75]

Thanks Gunnyman. Would you mind elaborating on which hacks cause these things to show up. I installed everything from Zipper/Enhancement Script just as a trial run. I plan on pulling the drive again and starting over once I learn what I really need and what I don't.

Thanks,
David

[Gunnyman]

superpatch mostly
superpatch turns on back doors permanently. The items you listed are side effects of that.

[djdavis75]

I see the script you pointed me to fixes the Search by Title (Demo) problem too. That should work. I appreciate it.

[Gunnyman]

no problem

[BBQ-AllStar]

Correct...
The Error 51 occurs when the master key stored in MFS is bad or missing. Different problem.
Only time I've seen that is when trying to play encrypted shows that are missing CSO keys, or trying to play unencrypted shows that for some reason have CSO keys set.

Let us know what ciphercheck spits out.


Well, I'm over at my friend's house and did a cypercheck...all the old shows say "YES" for Encrypted and "Yes" for CSO Set.

How do i know if the CSO keys have been erased...it says CSO Set = Yes

Any suggestions?

If the shows are encrypted, can they still be played??? or do they have to be unencripted in order to play...or am I f*cked...:(

[BBQ-AllStar]

Ummm, I decided to uninstall the tweak script and re-install it...but when I do so, I run into problems...

I uninstalled the script fine (sh tweak_uninstall)...but when I try to re-run it it says that it is trying to download the script...but the tivo is not connected to the internet...what's the problem? Why won't sh tweak.sh work again?

[Gunnyman]

IS tivo connected to the internet?
did you modify your unit to get around a slow now playing list for example?
you can always download the latest zipper file and ftp it over that way if you still have wget issues.

[rpdre1]

you can download rbautch_files.tgz (http://www.mastersav.com/tivo_tweak/rbautch_files.tgz) and then upload it to the same folder as tweak.sh to bypass that.

[BBQ-AllStar]

Thanks...that worked...I re-installed the script.

So ciphercheck showed "Yes" to encrypted and "Yes" to CSO Set, but from my understanding the recordings are toast...

So does uninstalling and reinstalling the script toast the other recorded programs by running the 51killer script? If so, this should be an option to do so and not the norm...

[rbautch]

Just to clarify...fakecall by itself does not prevent calls. It merely convinces the DTivo that a successful call has been made, so the DTivo doesn't try for a while. (Evidently the Zipper sets up periodic reboots, which causes fakecall to be re-run. You could also use cron.)

But if the DTivo does want to call out, it will.

The call to the "mothership" is a different call from the one to DirecTV for PPV/packages/etc. So in theory you could, I suppose, leave the phone line connected and it will make the D* calls but not the mothership calls (due to fakecall). That's just theoretical as (A) I don't have any of the packages and (B) I don't have a phone line hooked up.A funny quirk with fakecall is that it only does a partial job of convincing your tivo you've made a successful call. The enhancement script runs fakecall every night with a cron job, but even so, the "last successful call" does not get updated until you reboot, hence the bi-weekly reboots in the script. Without the reboots, the call will still fail because of the loopback IP's in the author file, but the Tivo will nontheless try to pick up the phone line, which is annoying if you happen to be on the phone at the time.

[Gunnyman]

Thanks...that worked...I re-installed the script.

So ciphercheck showed "Yes" to encrypted and "Yes" to CSO Set, but from my understanding the recordings are toast...

So does uninstalling and reinstalling the script toast the other recorded programs by running the 51killer script? If so, this should be an option to do so and not the norm...
the 51 killer only runs if a flag is found in the author file to do so.
Re-installing the script won't re-run 51killer.

[Lord Vader]

Guys, I've been trying to use fileZilla to transfer my tsevrer file to my HR10-250, but every time I attempt to upload the file to the HD-TIVO, I get the "upload" failed error message, and on the bottom of fileZilla's window, it says "critical transfer error."

Am I doing something wrong? (And yes, I'm choosing binary for file type.)

[DarthOverlord]

Guys, I've been trying to use fileZilla to transfer my tsevrer file to my HR10-250, but every time I attempt to upload the file to the HD-TIVO, I get the "upload" failed error message, and on the bottom of fileZilla's window, it says "critical transfer error."

Am I doing something wrong? (And yes, I'm choosing binary for file type.)


I personally use SmartFTP. Never had an issue with it.

Are you running some software firewall? Zonealarm for instance. That may be the problem. Try disabling it and then transfering.

I hope you understand, padwan. :P

[danny7481]

Guys, I've been trying to use fileZilla to transfer my tsevrer file to my HR10-250, but every time I attempt to upload the file to the HD-TIVO, I get the "upload" failed error message, and on the bottom of fileZilla's window, it says "critical transfer error."

Am I doing something wrong? (And yes, I'm choosing binary for file type.)

did you allow the tivo to read/write
typing rw at the bash prompt

i was having the same problem you are they other day and thats what i had to do.

[Lord Vader]

G**dammit! I hate it when it's always the simple things!!! :o

I fixed my problem, dumbass me. Now I just have to configure the program-that-shall-not-be-named. :D

[Lord Vader]

Now that I got that problem fixed, I have to figure out why I've lost the ability to connect to my TIVO. I can't get telnet access all of a sudden, and even when I try to take a look at my TIVO's contents via ftping its IP addy in a browser window, it keeps telling me it can't open the window and that I don't have permission. This is strange.

I telnet using either tera term pro or the cmd prompt. Tera term pro times out and doesn't connect at all. At the cmd prompt it just says "telnetting to 192.XXX.X.XXX..." and hangs there.

I have NO idea why this happened, either. :confused:

[ttodd1]

You didn't modify the author file in hackman did you? Can you ping the Tivo?

[Lord Vader]

No, all I did was upload the tserver file. It WAS working for a bit immediately afterward. Something happened following my configuring of TyTools.

[ttodd1]

Have you tried a reboot

[Lord Vader]

That problem has been resolved. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to get my TyT... program to connect. This isn't supposed to be talked about here, so one can PM me with info if need be.

Thankfully everything has been resolved.


I think. :D


It's always the simple things!

[overzeetop]

Uh oh. I just went to do some transfers on my traditionally-hacked HDTivo and sometime in the last couple of weeks the...hey...wait...it's working again. Nevermind.

Okay, so this isn't a var-directory-cleared emergency, but it could have been. So I'll still ask my question:

Can I "zipper" my TiVo without taking the drive out. I.e.: can I ftp the package over to my tivo and run the script to put all the hacks in place and put them in a "safe" directory, or is the boot CD process necessary to set up the process. I'd prefer not to mess with the hardware again since I can FTP and can telnet into a bash prompt. FWIW, I only hack the tivo for forbidden pleasures (at least forbidden here). My daughter must have her "Charlie & Lola" on the go :-)

If I know where everything should be (it looks like I can do that based on the shell), can I just copy everyting over and run tweak.sh from a telnet session? Is there something I should know about setting up the ip address (the next to last last section of the zipper.sh)

Um..background - I hacked the machine 8 months ago based on d*b forums and and haven't touched it since. I don't know linux much - I have a general idea about where things go, but don't get much past basic filesystem nav commands by heart. I am an old DOS hound so command line is comfortable. If there's a set of sample zipper.sh results somewhere I can look at, I could probably recreate the script results...it's the final syntax that makes me nervous.

tia

[Gunnyman]

the only thing that happens to the tivo drive when its in your PC is the chain of trust is broken and ftp and telnet access are turned on. Also network parameters are set.
Other than that the heavy lifting all comes from tweak.sh.

[richr69]

rbautch,

Will the zipper work on the R10, if the prom mod is made. I noticed that you have the R10 modded, that is why I thought you might know.

Thanks,
richr69

[dlmcmurr]

I've been digging through my new Instantcake/Zipper HDVR2 learning more and trying things, but trying to avoid clobbering everything. Here some info in the var/log/kernel that caught this linux noob's eye.

Jul 28 22:57:58 (none) kernel: running fakecall
Jul 28 22:58:02 (none) kernel: Running fakecall version 6
Jul 28 22:58:02 (none) kernel: Fakecall ran successfully!
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: /enhancements/fakecall.osd: cd: /var/hack/bin: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: /enhancements/fakecall.osd: out2osd: command not found
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: while executing
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: "exec sh /enhancements/fakecall.osd"
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: (file "/busybox/fakecall.tcl" line 92)
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel:
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Jul 28 22:58:03 (none) kernel: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: cd: /var/hack/sbin: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:04 (none) kernel: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: ./ncidd: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:04 (none) kernel: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: cd: /var/hack/bin: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:04 (none) kernel: /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: ./tivocid: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:04 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state BOOT to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:13 (none) kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Jul 28 22:58:14 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:15 (none) kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Jul 28 22:58:17 (none) kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Jul 28 22:58:23 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:30 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:35 (none) kernel: crond: /var/spool/cron/crontabs: No such file or directory
Jul 28 22:58:35 (none) kernel: rc.sysinit is complete
Jul 28 22:58:39 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:43 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to FAST_LOAD
Jul 28 22:58:49 (none) kernel: ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to STEADY_STATE
Jul 28 22:59:26 (none) kernel: ....sending Done event
Jul 28 22:59:26 (none) kernel: ....sending Done event
Jul 29 01:22:07 (none) kernel: !!!!WARNING: Needed 2 tries to set video STC to 0x007a48d1
Jul 29 01:22:07 (none) kernel: Before = 0x007a0597, After = 0x007a05c4
Jul 29 01:22:07 (none) kernel:
Jul 29 01:56:27 (none) kernel: !!!!WARNING: Needed 2 tries to set video STC to 0x0475eece
Jul 29 01:56:27 (none) kernel: Before = 0x0475ef28, After = 0x0475ef56
Jul 29 01:56:27 (none) kernel:
Jul 29 02:41:02 (none) kernel: EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended

Looks to me like the caller id stuff and osd is not installed, at least not where the startup file is expecting it, but I didn't need it anyway. But cron isn't starting either, with all the benefits that zipper is supposed to setup in it. Before fools go rushing in to fix cron, anyone want to offer any suggestions? Any concerns over the other warnings? BTW, the system is great! I'll be doing two more dTiVos soon.

Thanks,
Dave

[Kadex]

Hello, a newb Tivo hacker with little linux knowledge. Running a HR10-250 and have followed the zipper instructions. Everything thing booted up fine but the only problem was no internet connection. Using a D-link DUB E-100 adapter, checked to make sure it worked on a computer and also checked the Eth cable. Still a no go I try to re-zipper with no luck

I made a serial cable and hypertermed to the tivo and proceeded with the Enhancement script. I'm now all hacked but still cannot get any type of networking. I've seriously spent two days on this and looking through these forums and am now resorting to posting. What and how do I check or retry USB drivers to get networking going? Any help or a finger toward the right direction would be fantastic.

Oh, by the way I'm not getting any connection light on the adapter what so ever. I also tried another adapter which I know don't work but does show power from the USB port.

Thank You

[Gunnyman]

best bet is always always aways a netgear FA120 adapter.
I've never seen one NOT work.

[rbautch]

Hello, a newb Tivo hacker with little linux knowledge. Running a HR10-250 and have followed the zipper instructions. Everything thing booted up fine but the only problem was no internet connection. Using a D-link DUB E-100 adapter, checked to make sure it worked on a computer and also checked the Eth cable. Still a no go I try to re-zipper with no luck

I made a serial cable and hypertermed to the tivo and proceeded with the Enhancement script. I'm now all hacked but still cannot get any type of networking. I've seriously spent two days on this and looking through these forums and am now resorting to posting. What and how do I check or retry USB drivers to get networking going? Any help or a finger toward the right direction would be fantastic.

Oh, by the way I'm not getting any connection light on the adapter what so ever. I also tried another adapter which I know don't work but does show power from the USB port.

Thank YouThe D-Link Dub E100 uses the ax8817x chipset, which does get loaded by the Zipper for the HR10-250, so it shoud work. With your serial cable, open up the author file and write down all of the lines that start with insmod or ifconfig, then post them here. Also capture the conole output as the tivo is booting up.

[Kadex]

The D-Link Dub E100 uses the ax8817x chipset, which does get loaded by the Zipper for the HR10-250, so it shoud work. With your serial cable, open up the author file and write down all of the lines that start with insmod or ifconfig, then post them here. Also capture the conole output as the tivo is booting up.


Ok, Remember I'm a newb I will do so as soon as I figure out how, might be a bit before posting the info.

Edit: Found where the author file is, now trying to gain access to it.

[Kadex]

Ok, I got this to come up. One thing I'm confused about is the route add -host and the route add -net. Shouldn't this be my router and tivo IP's? I know that's not what I entered when I installed zipper. If it's wrong where can I find steps to change it? Also, how does everything else look? Oh, I will post the tivo boot stuff shortly.




echo "set environmental variables"
export PATH=./:.:/utils:/bin:/sbin:/tvbin:/tivobin:/busybox:/enhancements
export TIVO_ROOT=
export MFS_DEVICE=/dev/hda10

echo "starting telnet and ftp"
tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
tivoftpd

echo "starting serial bash"
/bin/bash </dev/ttyS2&> /dev/ttyS2&

echo "running fakecall"
fakecall.tcl
route add -host 204.176.49.2 gw 127.0.0.1
route add -net 204.176.49.0 gw 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

insmod /lib/modules/usbcore.o
insmod /lib/modules/ehci-hcd.o
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author" [Read only] line 1 of 68 --1%--

[Gunnyman]

the route commands send tivo's IP's to your "local host" effectively blocking the unit from contacting the Tivo Inc Mothership, which is what we want.

[Kadex]

Tried posting whole boot process but I'm under 5 posts so I'm posting from where the author starts.


Scanning for phase4 repair scriptsred=162). Set
starting rc.sysinit.author ShowcaseIdent
set environmental variablesda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 h
starting telnet and ftp
starting serial bash
running fakecall056, i_blocks w
bash: no job control in this shell.mpkey Tms.temp.28ount
bash-2.02# MCP startup complete

Running fakecall version 3 TvDcc
Fakecall ran successfully!ks wrong 4976 (counted=497
PCI: 00:0d.2 PCI cache line size set incorrectly (0 bytes) by BIOS/FW, correctin
ProgramToSeries.temp.26 TvFont.mpkey
g to 32
Using a smartSorter!
Creating ApgReader
**Transition from unpaired to paired card.** netperf.debugKbytes
Initialize with 2 live caches
ApgManager Transition from state INIT to ACQUIRE_MARKER
No response when asking version info, tried 10 times.
Microcode version is TiVo!
ApgManager Transition from state ACQUIRE_MARKER to BOOT
Adding networks of interest...ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgManager Transition from state BOOT to SECONDARY_BOOT
ApgBootState:::DoBackgroundWork
ApgManager Transition from state SECONDARY_BOOT to FAST_LOAD
In ClearChannels
Out ClearChannels
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
eth0: unknown interface.
SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device
SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable

EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended
Starting netserver at port 12865
rc.sysinit is complete
ApgManager Transition from state FAST_LOAD to PREP_SETUP
ApgManager Transition from state PREP_SETUP to EXPRESSION_EVALUATION
ApgManager Transition from state EXPRESSION_EVALUATION to STEADY_STATE

[Kadex]

the route commands send tivo's IP's to your "local host" effectively blocking the unit from contacting the Tivo Inc Mothership, which is what we want.



Thanks that makes sense.

[Kadex]

Here's the rest of the boot that's listed before the previous post. Sorry about the length, not sure what's needed or not.


Edit- Attached txt

[rbautch]

Ok, I got this to come up. One thing I'm confused about is the route add -host and the route add -net. Shouldn't this be my router and tivo IP's? I know that's not what I entered when I installed zipper. If it's wrong where can I find steps to change it? Also, how does everything else look? Oh, I will post the tivo boot stuff shortly.




echo "set environmental variables"
export PATH=./:.:/utils:/bin:/sbin:/tvbin:/tivobin:/busybox:/enhancements
export TIVO_ROOT=
export MFS_DEVICE=/dev/hda10

echo "starting telnet and ftp"
tnlited 23 /bin/bash -login &
tivoftpd

echo "starting serial bash"
/bin/bash </dev/ttyS2&> /dev/ttyS2&

echo "running fakecall"
fakecall.tcl
route add -host 204.176.49.2 gw 127.0.0.1
route add -net 204.176.49.0 gw 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0

insmod /lib/modules/usbcore.o
insmod /lib/modules/ehci-hcd.o
"/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author" [Read only] line 1 of 68 --1%--
This got cut off right at the good part. Scroll down and post the rest. Alway post long outputs (like console) as an attachment.

[ronkuba]

Here's the rest of the boot that's listed before the previous post. Sorry about the length, not sure what's needed or not.


Edit- Attached txt
I had the same problem with my HR10-250. I found that what I was doing wrong. I was just shutting down the computer rather the doing the umount of the drive and halt and then pressing power to shut the computer off. It may sound stupid but it work for me and I didn't have a problem with my 2nd HR10-250. I hope that helps. By the way also using the D-Link adapter.

[Kadex]

Guess I'm not doing this right. I keep getting cut off at the same spot. Is it possible to point me to right place to get the info? Searching with no luck.

Thanks

[dlmcmurr]

I've been digging through my new Instantcake/Zipper HDVR2 learning more and trying things, but trying to avoid clobbering everything. Here some info in the var/log/kernel that caught this linux noob's eye.

snip....

Looks to me like the caller id stuff and osd is not installed, at least not where the startup file is expecting it, but I didn't need it anyway. But cron isn't starting either, with all the benefits that zipper is supposed to setup in it. Before fools go rushing in to fix cron, anyone want to offer any suggestions? Any concerns over the other warnings? BTW, the system is great! I'll be doing two more dTiVos soon.

Since nobody replied to my question yesterday evening, I spent some more time reading .tcl's and .sh's. I ran var-symlinks.sh and that seems to have solved the problems. Just thought I'd share it in case someone else can benefit.

Dave

[slydog75]

Ok, I'm allready zippered.. What do I need to do to add a second hard drive?

[danny7481]

Ok, I'm allready zippered.. What do I need to do to add a second hard drive?

you should have added the second hard drive before you zippered...i think.

[djdavis75]

My crond stopped working and I tracked it down to /var/spool being gone somehow.

I did a ln -s /enhancements/varhacks/spool /var/spool and that seemed to fix it.

The problem may have been caused by HackMan, I disabled it because I'm not smart enough to mess with it yet.

Question, was /var/spool just a sym link to /enhancements/varhacks/spool in the first place or do I need to remove the sym link and cp -R /enhancements/varhacks/spool /var?

[rbautch]

My crond stopped working and I tracked it down to /var/spool being gone somehow.

I did a ln -s /enhancements/varhacks/spool /var/spool and that seemed to fix it.

The problem may have been caused by HackMan, I disabled it because I'm not smart enough to mess with it yet.

Question, was /var/spool just a sym link to /enhancements/varhacks/spool in the first place or do I need to remove the sym link and cp -R /enhancements/varhacks/spool /var?It was a symlink in the first place. When /var gets wiped (as it often does), on your next reboot the author file should recognize the absence of a flag set by the enhancement script, and will restore all the symlinks by running the script called /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh.

[djdavis75]

Thanks rbautch. It is working fine now. I see the code that checks for the existence of the reboot flag. But I don't see the code for calling /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh. Of course, my knowledge of bash shell scripting is what you would call limited at best. I have:


echo
if [ -e /reboot_flag ]; then
if rm /reboot_flag; then
reboot
fi
fi


I may have got funky with joe or vi, it's been awhile, and removed a line from rc.sysinit.author. Is there an original somewhere I could look at or would you mind pasting that portion of code as it should appear in rc.sysinit.author?

I appreciate it.

Just got vserver streaming to VLC going about an hour ago. Kept looking for a place to download vserver and finally realized it was already installed by The Zipper/Enhancement Script. Live and learn I guess.

[gamo62]

I am having problems getting into Tivoweb Plus. At one time it worked. I can telnet and ftp into it. I have changed the port on the tivoweb.cfg file to 8088, and forwarded that port. But it still doesn't work.

TyServer works fine. I would like to get TivoWebPlus up so I can undelete some of my wife's shows. Thanks.

G.W.

[Kadex]

Had to take a break for a bit to clear my head. I thought I had messed up my author file last night be seems ok this morning. Think I finally am able to post the whole author file.

[rbautch]

Thanks rbautch. It is working fine now. I see the code that checks for the existence of the reboot flag. But I don't see the code for calling /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh. Of course, my knowledge of bash shell scripting is what you would call limited at best. I have:


echo
if [ -e /reboot_flag ]; then
if rm /reboot_flag; then
reboot
fi
fi


I may have got funky with joe or vi, it's been awhile, and removed a line from rc.sysinit.author. Is there an original somewhere I could look at or would you mind pasting that portion of code as it should appear in rc.sysinit.author?

I appreciate it.

Just got vserver streaming to VLC going about an hour ago. Kept looking for a place to download vserver and finally realized it was already installed by The Zipper/Enhancement Script. Live and learn I guess.
Here are the lines from the enhancement script that append the author file with the appropriate commands:echo "# Check if var got wiped, and if so, rebuild symlinks from /enhancements/varhacks" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author
echo "if [ ! -e /var/vardelete_flag ]; then" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author
echo " sh /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author
echo "fi" >> /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author

[rbautch]

Had to take a break for a bit to clear my head. I thought I had messed up my author file last night be seems ok this morning. Think I finally am able to post the whole author file.This looks fine.

[rbautch]

Ok, I'm allready zippered.. What do I need to do to add a second hard drive?You should be able to add a second drive at any time. You have two options:
1. Take a blank drive and run "bless tivo" on it. then add it to your tivo.
2. Remove your existing drive, put it in your pc with the new drive, and then run an mfsadd command to marry them.

[slydog75]

Ok, so I ran the zipper on my HR10-250 this morning. Everything seeminly went well throughout the install. I then put the new HD in my unit and powered it up. It got up to the 'loading satellite info' screen or whatever it is, then rebooted, which I read was normal, so it can set the network parameters. However, ever since then it doesn't get past the 'welcome, powering up' screen before it reboots and it's stuck in this loop. I hooked up my serial cable and this is what I got:



CPU revision is: 00005430
FPU revision is: 00005410
Primary instruction cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Primary data cache 32kb, linesize 32 bytes.
Linux version 2.4.20 (build@buildmaster5) (gcc version 3.0) #22 Fri Feb 20 18:19
:25 PST 2004
Determined physical RAM map:
memory: 08000000 @ 00000000 (usable)
On node 0 totalpages: 32768
zone(0): 32768 pages.
zone(1): 0 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
Kernel command line: root=/dev/hda7 dsscon=true console=2,115200 upgradesoftware
=fals
Monotonic time calibrated: 81.00 counts per usec
Calibrating delay loop... 161.79 BogoMIPS
Contiguous region 1: 12582912 bytes @ address 0x80583000
Contiguous region 2: 2097152 bytes @ address 0x81183000
Contiguous region 8: 23068672 bytes @ address 0x81383000
Contiguous region of 37748736 bytes total reserved at 0x80583000.
Memory: 91240k/131072k available (1222k kernel code, 39832k reserved, 81k data,
64k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 65536 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
Buffer-cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Checking for 'wait' instruction... unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at port 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS00 at iomem 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI en
abled
ttyS00 at 0xb4100100 (irq = 79) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0xbc010000 (irq = 133) is a unknown
ttyS02 at 0xb4100140 (irq = 81) is a 16550A
ttyS03 at 0xb4100120 (irq = 80) is a 16550A
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.31
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
hda: ST3400632A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x400-0x407,0x438 on irq 87
hda: 781422768 sectors (400088 MB) w/16384KiB Cache, CHS=48641/255/63
Partition check:
hda: [mac] hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 hda9 hda10 hda11 hda12 hda13
hda14 hda15 hda16
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 4096K size 1024 blocksize
PPP generic driver version 2.4.2
PPP Deflate Compression module registered
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 8192 bind 16384)
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (1024 buckets, 8192 max) - 152 bytes per conntrack
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
EXT2-fs: corrupt root inode, run e2fsck
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 03:07
<0>Rebooting in 1 seconds..

Analysis?

Edit: I should note to avoid confusion.. My earlier question concerning adding a second HD was for my SD unit that was zippered months ago.

[Kadex]

This looks fine.


Any other ideas why I'm not getting any signs of life on the network? It appears I won't have any better luck with the FA120. Maybe just back luck and have bad USB's on the Tivo or maybe try to reinstall the USB Drivers (no idea how to). I'm totally at a loss at the moment.

[djdavis75]

I don't have any of those lines about calling /enhancements/var-symlinks.sh in my author file. I don't know what happened to them. So I guess I need:

if [ ! -e /var/vardelete_flag ]; then
/enhancements/var-symlinks.sh
fi

Or something like that? Do I need to reboot if I had to rebuild the symlinks? What about a remount for rw? My / fs seems to be rw everytime I boot anyway.

[rbautch]

Those lines are what you need. First run the symlink script manually, which will create the flag in /var and reset all your symlinks. No need to reboot. You can test it out by deleting the flag and a couple of the symlinks, then rebooting to see if the symlinks get rebuilt. The flag is named /var/vardelete_flag.

[djdavis75]

Sorry, I took too long writing that other post and the answer got posted before mine.

I've attached my author file. I think I've got it now. I did move the code to restore the symlinks above the point where crond runs so cron would not fail due to no crontabs file. That should work, right?

I appreciate all the help.

[dlmcmurr]

Hey rbautch, cheer and others,

I'm getting ready to zipper my wife's DSR704, but I'm waiting a few weeks before I pull my ethernet cable to her location. (too hot in the attic! :mad: )

So, how should I proceed with hers so she will not experience any problems with having no network connection, i.e. the slow/blank NPL? I do have the FA120 already and can temporarily connect it after the upgrade if that will help. I also have a serial cable that I can use to finish the upgrade.

Any pointers?

Thanks as always,
Dave

[Kadex]

I had the same problem with my HR10-250. I found that what I was doing wrong. I was just shutting down the computer rather the doing the umount of the drive and halt and then pressing power to shut the computer off. It may sound stupid but it work for me and I didn't have a problem with my 2nd HR10-250. I hope that helps. By the way also using the D-Link adapter.

Didn't even see this post last night. Yeah, I did type unmount instead of umount and didn't catch the error the first time. I know I did it the second time though. I'm tempted to try the whole process from scratch just one more time.

Edit - Well I redid from from scratch and still no go. I can only guess there's a quirk with the adapter and have placed an order for a FA120. Not saying the other type won't work but maybe there's just something wrong with the one I have.

[djdavis75]

I'm helping a friend hack his Tivo. We took a 6.2 image from another box that had shows on it he wanted. Everything worked but we have error 51. I know I can run 51 killer and get rid of this message. But is there anyway to do this and keep the ability to play the encrypted shows on the box?

Thanks.

[Arcady]

Nope. Anything recorded before hacking can't be moved to a new box.

[djdavis75]

Thanks. But if I put the drive back in the Tivo the 6.2 image came from it shouldn't get error 51 and he can watch the shows on the drive?

[Kadex]

It appears I have finally found my problem in another forum. It is the adapter after all. This is what I found.

D-Link DUB-E100 (newer hardware version B1 will not work; look for versions up to A4)

Of course I have Ver. B1. I am waiting for the FA120 to show up, hopefully not long.

Edit - Appears to be a fairly recent discovery. Hope I don't get in trouble posting a link to the info. http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/3/327

[Gunnyman]

thanks for that info.
The FA120 won't let you down.

[Lord Vader]

Gunny, at what speed would an FA120 normally transfer a recording, assuming a USB 2.0 connection? I ask because after I Zippered my old man's HR10-250 and got everything up and running, including the FA120 USB connections and all, the xfer speed was around .68mb/ps or so. I'm just trying to guesstimate as to whether that's 2.0 speed or 1.1.

A 2-hour movie took about 45 minutes to download to his PC using that unnamed tie tool proggy. :D

[Gunnyman]

1 hr is roughly 12-18 minutes in standard definition for me.
I see, using tivotool 1600KB/s

[Lord Vader]

I wonder why it's taking him so long then. The show he downloaded was SD and not HD. Is it the program? That's the only one I've used, but if there's a better one you can recommend, feel free to PM me so we don't discuss that here. ;)

[Gunnyman]

Hey rbautch, cheer and others,

I'm getting ready to zipper my wife's DSR704, but I'm waiting a few weeks before I pull my ethernet cable to her location. (too hot in the attic! :mad: )

So, how should I proceed with hers so she will not experience any problems with having no network connection, i.e. the slow/blank NPL? I do have the FA120 already and can temporarily connect it after the upgrade if that will help. I also have a serial cable that I can use to finish the upgrade.

Any pointers?

Thanks as always,
Dave

The thing to be most careful about is 51 running 51 killer then recording a bunch of shows THEN running superpatch.
You will end up with unwatchable old recordings.
Use that serial cable to run tweak.sh and you'll be fine.
if you don't plug in the Network adapter you won't see the slow NPL problem as far as I know.

[Gunnyman]

I wonder why it's taking him so long then. The show he downloaded was SD and not HD. Is it the program? That's the only one I've used, but if there's a better one you can recommend, feel free to PM me so we don't discuss that here. ;)
could be any number of issues.
I think in my case I just have a kick ass network. :p
Plus there may be issues between the SD and HD Tivo. I don't have an HD Unit.

[ForrestB]

Using a 802.11g wireless bridge, it takes me about 10 minutes to transfer a 1 hour show from SD DirecTivo to SD DirecTivo using MRV. Using TivoTool, it takes about 16 minutes to convert to MPEG2

[rbautch]

Not that anyone's paying attention, but let's not get this thread locked by talking about extraction any further.

[Lord Vader]

Indeed. Good idea. :)

[Cure]

Russ, Gunny and Everyone -

Couple of quick questions:
1. Has anyone thought about making your FAQ on the wiki a sticky on the Underground? I'd be happy to help. 6,703 (and counting) is a lot of replies and the same questions come up repeatedly. I have seen Russ and Gunny patiently answer common questions like "run the Zipper on both drives?" more than once. Plus people on other threads ask about networking, HMO and MRV.
2. Is there a quick step to take to let 6.3 download onto the HR10-250 if and when it comes out? I just KNOW it'll come out the second I get done zippering.

[Gunnyman]

1) a sticky is a good idea
2) 6.3 is still just a RUMOR at this point.
It will be easy to move from 3.xx to it if it comes out.
Stay tuned.

[tall1]

2. Is there a quick step to take to let 6.3 download onto the HR10-250 if and when it comes out? I just KNOW it'll come out the second I get done zippering.Then please zipper today. I had a leased HD-Tivo installed this past weekend, got the phone line connected and I'm anxioiusly waiting for 6.3 to be downloaded so I can back it up and place it on my tools CD. ;)

[rbautch]

The easy part is letting it take the upgrade. The slightly-less easy part is letting it take the upgrade without wiping out all your hacks.

[Cure]

As you ably explained way back in Post #6418 ...

Well, when 6.3 comes out, we'll revisit the question, I'm sure.

[ajk816]

Newbie here, so be gentle...

I'm attempting to run the zipper.sh file but it's unable to mount the tivo drive. Here is the log:

Mounting tivo drive...
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
Unable to mount your Tivo drive. Please confirm there is a valid image on the drive, and that it is property connected to your PC.

One thing of note, the LBA48 CD i have will not recognize the drive as more than 137gigs, but the Weakness CD does. I thought it may have been a BIOS issue but I've tried it on more than one computer with the same result. So at this point I'm stuck. Any help would be greatly apprecaited.

[Gunnyman]

which LBA48 disk do you have?
Which channel is the drive located on?
drive power connector/ribbon cable are secure?

[Lord Vader]

Good questions, Gunny. I found that the best thing for someone not an expert in this to do is to simply call one of the local computer stores. I had forgotten about the channel issue, so when I picked up an old PC for $50, I asked the nice guy behind the counter to configure it the way I needed it, even telling him what I was going to do. He showed me where the connections went and explained the channel issue. Now I can recall exactly what's what.

[ajk816]

Version - ptvlba48-4[1].04DD.iso just downloaded today
My hard drives are on channel two
connections are secure

[rbautch]

My hard drives are on channel twoWhat does this mean? Primary slave?

edit: this could also mean that there is no tivo software image on your drive.

[Lord Vader]

My old man's HR10-250 lost its Caller ID capability for some unknown reason. I thought it might be because he switched to Vonage, a VoIP service, but then we remembered that it was working fine after the switch from SBC to Vonage, but it went kaput the last couple days. Everything else is OK. Is there any way to check something regarding the Caller ID or re-up it, so to speak?

[Gunnyman]

is ncid running?
check this with ps

[Lord Vader]

I would imagine it should be running. What would I be looking for to make sure it is? I'm at his place right now, it happens.

[Gunnyman]

do ps from a bash prompt
ncid listed?

[Lord Vader]

206 root 556 S ./ncidd

That's what's listed as far as ncidd is concerned.

[Gunnyman]

ok then it's running
I seem to recall a way to make sure OSD is working but can't quite place the memory.

[rpdre1]

telnet in and copy/paste this (one line):

echo "i am testing osd" | out2osd


I have Vonage and Caller ID (ncid) works on my tivo.

[Lord Vader]

Me too. I can't recall it either.

[Lord Vader]

"Command not found."

Oh well, it was worth the thought.

[rpdre1]

try this:

echo "i am testing osd" | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd

that should work.

then try:
echo "i am testing osd" | /var/hack/bin/out2osd

if that fails, you need to recreate the var symlinks (talked about a few days ago in this thread).

[ajk816]

What does this mean? Primary slave?

edit: this could also mean that there is no tivo software image on your drive.

The main hard drive is set up as master, the second hard drive is set up as slave. The hard drives themselves are "Secondary" in the BIOS, thus channel 2.

I ran InstantCake first to get the image on there. It says it was successful. My main concern, other than the error, is that the LBA48 CD doesn't see the drive as 250 gigs...

[Popvideo]

my apologies if this has been covered but I've gone thru the first 200 pages of this thread but can't find the answer:

Gunnyman, you work on a MAC, right? did you setup and run Zipper from a MAC or PC? because I can't get the first command to run the enhancement scripts to work using Terminal in MAC OS X. is this an XP command line? i've tried on Win 2000 (Yuk) and it gives me the help screen. any help would be appreciated.

popvideo

[sjmaye]

superpatch doesn't RUN on the HDTivo at all.

OK, so I am a complete noob to all this. I am just going review the steps and downloading all the needed files while waiting for my new drive to be delivered.

I got to downloading Superpatch and it only references series 6.x and 7.x. I have a HR10-250 Directivo. Do I just skip this part of the procedure?

[Gunnyman]

my apologies if this has been covered but I've gone thru the first 200 pages of this thread but can't find the answer:

Gunnyman, you work on a MAC, right? did you setup and run Zipper from a MAC or PC? because I can't get the first command to run the enhancement scripts to work using Terminal in MAC OS X. is this an XP command line? i've tried on Win 2000 (Yuk) and it gives me the help screen. any help would be appreciated.

popvideo
I used a PC
but terminal works fine on my mac
telnet -K tivo IP address.

[Gunnyman]

OK, so I am a complete noob to all this. I am just going review the steps and downloading all the needed files while waiting for my new drive to be delivered.

I got to downloading Superpatch and it only references series 6.x and 7.x. I have a HR10-250 Directivo. Do I just skip this part of the procedure?

right. Superpatch is not required on the HD Tivo.

[Gunnyman]

The main hard drive is set up as master, the second hard drive is set up as slave. The hard drives themselves are "Secondary" in the BIOS, thus channel 2.

I ran InstantCake first to get the image on there. It says it was successful. My main concern, other than the error, is that the LBA48 CD doesn't see the drive as 250 gigs...
so you have the drive set up on hdc then?
if the image is on the drive, I wouldn't be concerned about how big it thinks your drive is. when zipper asks where your HD is located are you telling it C (for hdc)

[Cure]

Doesn't Superpatch disable encryption, even on the HR10-250? If not, how do you do it?

[Gunnyman]

the tivoapp on the HDTiVo is patched manually. Essentially does what super patch does, but since super patch won't run on 3.xx software, we just patch Tivoapp instead.

[ajk816]

so you have the drive set up on hdc then?
if the image is on the drive, I wouldn't be concerned about how big it thinks your drive is. when zipper asks where your HD is located are you telling it C (for hdc)

Exactly, I enter C since it's hdc, and it starts to process, then I get the filesystem type error.

[Gunnyman]

is this drive jumpered as cable select by any chance? If so change it to master.

[ajk816]

Yes, it's set to master (i.e. no jumper).

[dw17]

Hello:

Thanks to all the help here and to Gunnyman and rbautch for the Zipper!

I seem to be having an issue I have not seen here...

the channel banner keeps changing settings...

There are 3 modes, small (channel number icon only), medium (blue bar across the top of the screen with program title), and large (medium plus description of program)

I prefer Medium. And have set that in my preferences, and use the right arrow key on the remote to cycle thru if need be...but it seems that everytime I go back to my TiVo it is back to large...

Is this something the hacks would effect? Can I change it?

HDVR2 with 160GB drive, zippered from new Instantcake image

Thanks!

dw

[Gunnyman]

nothing in the hacks that I am aware of mess with this. Mine is set at medium and stays that way.

[Lord Vader]

I have noticed that after a reboot, the channel banners default back to large size. One needs to press the right arrow to change it to medium size, and do it on both tuners. I've also noticed that the large banner is the default when one watches recorded shows, too.

This banner situation seems to be the same for all the DTIVO's, at least on my HDVR2's, Sony T60, and my father's HR10-250.

[PRMan]

I find if I ever hit the Info button, it reverts to large.

[Lord Vader]

It always will when pressing the "info" button because that does exactly what it's supposed to do--it gives you the channel and program's information. The channel banner size refers to when you change channels and the banner is up on the screen. Adjusting the size to small, medium, or large means whenever you change the channel the banner will be that size. It doesn't refer to using the "info" button, and it reverts back to default-large after a reboot.

[sjmaye]

Boot CD issues

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

in the zipper instructions it says...Copy the hacked kernel from the PTV Boot CD. It is located in /s2_kernels/3.1.5/VMLINUX_.GZ.

When I make a boot cd it ends up with two BIN files.

What is my boot cd suppose to look like if done correctly. Since all I can see are two BIN files, I am not able to find the VMLINUX.GZ file.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark

use nero or whatever your favorite burning program is and choose burn cd image.
the boot cd is an ISO.

I guess I did it wrong, too. I burned it as a cd image this time and got the following file structure:

_LIVE
_MENU
_ISOLINUX
S1_KERNE
S2_KERNE
AUTORUN.INF
WPSTART.EXE

I was then able to copy the VMLINUX_.GZ file as directed.

Thanks for the tip!

[sjmaye]

right. Superpatch is not required on the HD Tivo.

Hey, THX!

On the same line of the instructions it also says to download "set_mrv_name" .

When I went to the site specified it said that this file is now contained in Superpatch-67all.

" the "Superpatch-67all enables Home Media Option(HMO/Music and Photos) and Multi-Room Viewing(MRV) for any supported tivo on which it is applied"

Is this not needed for the HR10-250 model either? If it is where would it be downloaded?

[rbautch]

Set_mrv_name comes bundled with the superpatch zip file.

[cheer]

Is this not needed for the HR10-250 model either? If it is where would it be downloaded?
Neither set_mrv_name nor the superpatch work on the HR10-250. I believe the Zipper automatically does the tivoapp patches on its own, but of course there's no way to enable HMO/MRV. :)

[rbautch]

The Zipper script still check for the existence of superpatch before it will proceed. I'll make that check conditional (on not having an HR10-250) on the next release.

[Lord Vader]

try this:

echo "i am testing osd" | /enhancements/varhacks/hack/bin/out2osd

that should work.

then try:
echo "i am testing osd" | /var/hack/bin/out2osd

if that fails, you need to recreate the var symlinks (talked about a few days ago in this thread).

Both of these work, so the OSD is fine. I wish I knew why Caller ID won't work. :confused:

[sjmaye]

The PTV net product is awesome though, I don't want anyone to think I was knocking it.

I am trying to compare the two. Are there additional features or functionality between the Zipper and PTVnet cd?

Is one better for extraction of recorded material for burning to DVD?

[rbautch]

I am trying to compare the two. Are there additional features or functionality between the Zipper and PTVnet cd?

Is one better for extraction of recorded material for burning to DVD?Neither product addresses extraction.

[sjmaye]

I have so many posts I am a bit dizzy on networking and wireless networking after I zipper my HR10-250. Can someone confirm/clarify a few things?

Networking enables me to send additional upgrades and perform other operations on my HR10-250 from my PC AND allows remote programming via the web
Networking is not direct thru a wired RJ-45 network connector. I have/need to use a wired USB adapter.
If I want to use wireless "G" I have to connector a wireless bridge to the aforementioned wired nework adapter
Do I really need to have my network adapter ready at the time I first boot the zipper drive in the Directivo? Exactly what will I have to do via the network at the time of the first boot?
When you first bootup the zippered drive in your HR10-250 USB 1.1 is enabled and some other script/software must be run in order to enable USB 2.0?
And exactly how is that done?


Any help is appreciated.

[rpdre1]

1. yes.. the main attraction is extraction (that rhymes lol) but we can't discuss how specifically here (check the Wiki)


2. correct,
here's a good deal on a Netgear FA120 (highly recommended) for $12.95 shipped: http://justdeals.stores.yahoo.net/fa120r.html

that adapter goes out of stock often (it's out of stock now) but they get more a few days later. when you add it to your cart you'll see how many are in stock.

I'd wait a few days instead of paying $25-$30 for an adapter at retail.

3. correct.

4. you don't *need* to have the usb ethernet adapter ready,
but most of the hacks are installed when you run tweak.sh (a.k.a. The Enhancement Script, included in The Zipper) (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680) over telnet.

some of the "enhancements" in tweak.sh:

disabled encryption for all future recordings (superpatch),
permanant 30 sec skip,
those USB2.0 drivers,
and more

5. tweak.sh installs the USB2.0 drivers.

[Popvideo]

ok. One final question (maybe. <grin>)

i've run the Zipper on my HR10-250 in the PC. It said that everything worked. i install it back into the D-Tivo and boot up. the Linksys adapter (200M) shows green lights so the port is on. but the lights on my switch for that port are dark and the IP address that i assigned won't give a response to PING. am i missing something? i've ordered some new FA120s but want to make the Linksys work if possible and use the FA120s on my other boxes. any ideas? did i do something wrong with Zipper? i know it ran because the fakecall works.

just a suggestion for the Zipper docs, put in a link to the Wiki and mention the suggested hardware needed. i've had to search this whole thread to get the info on the FA120s and, while the thread is informative (and entertaining) reading, having the information up front would have saved me buying the Linksys adapter.

love the Zipper and can't wait to resolve this. thanks for the hard work and the patience with a novice hacker.

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Hi rpdre1,

Thanks for all the answers. I don't mean to ask questions that have been asked many times before. I truly have been reading a lot.

Let me make sure I understand.

1. yes.. the main attraction is extraction (that rhymes lol) but we can't discuss how specifically here (check the Wiki)
OK, so what the heck does "Wiki" mean and where can I find it?
So, I will be able to do extractions after zipping, but we are not able to discuss here, right?


2. correct,
here's a good deal on a Netgear FA120 (highly recommended) for $12.95 shipped: http://justdeals.stores.yahoo.net/fa120r.html that adapter goes out of stock often (it's out of stock now) but they get more a few days later. when you add it to your cart you'll see how many are in stock.

I'd wait a few days instead of paying $25-$30 for an adapter at retail.
Will do, thx for the tip!


3. correct.

4. you don't *need* to have the usb ethernet adapter ready,
but most of the hacks are installed when you run tweak.sh (a.k.a. The Enhancement Script, included in The Zipper) (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=250680) over telnet.
So tweak.sh run automatically during the "Zipper"?

some of the "enhancements" in tweak.sh:

disabled encryption for all future recordings (superpatch),
permanant 30 sec skip,
those USB2.0 drivers,
and more

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i've run the Zipper on my HR10-250 in the PC. It said that everything worked. i install it back into the D-Tivo and boot up. the Linksys adapter (200M) shows green lights so the port is on. but the lights on my switch for that port are dark and the IP address that i assigned won't give a response to PING.
The current version (V2) of the Linksys USB200M does not work with stock Tivo drivers, unfortunately. You can either wait for your FA-120 to arrive or you can pull the drive and install updated drivers.

Search the forum -- I think Russ had a post on how to do that a while back.