Hacking your Series 2 DTivo just got a WHOLE lot easier... - Page 315

Rick-s · 01-27-2007, 07:11 AM

Hello all,

First, I want to say Thanks to Gunnyman and rbautch for their work. I came back to dtv after a 2 1/2 yr visit to cable land. I found this thread and purchased a Samsung SIR-S4040R on ebay for $35 shipped to my door. I replaced the 40G with an 80G zippered it and it works flawlessly with a belkin 5050 adapter. Thanks again....

I brought with my re-sub some old hardware with me. One piece was Philips DSR-6000 that I re-activated. I live in a rural area now and the Phone call it wants to make is only available long distance.

I have searched the forums here several times and cannot seem to find information on how to stop this call and not have the "Your tivo hasn't made a call" error message.

It is at software version 3.5 now... it upgraded on one of it's calls.

Could anyone point me in the right direction? What other hacks are available to a series one without a turbocard/cachecard?

Should I just trash it and hope for another good deal on a series 2 on ebay?

Thanks so much in advance for any help you can provide.

Rick

Da Goon · 01-27-2007, 07:21 AM

If you don't want to bother with Turbonet,etc, for access to your tivo, then get yourself a serial cable from the 9thtee.com or build your own. Fixsub will eliminate the phone nags and can be installed quite easily. Check google or search for a deal..on a database and you'll find what you're looking for.

Rick-s · 01-27-2007, 07:31 AM

Thanks I'll check that out.

Tonedeaf · 01-27-2007, 09:51 AM

I am getting the following error when I try and run the tweak.sh after running zipper on myHR10-250.

edit: nevermind. ran again and seems to be working now.

Tonedeaf · 01-27-2007, 10:51 AM

Got thru the zipper like I had done in the past .

Should my HR10 now have MRV and HMO options on it? I know I answered to have the HMO(music and Photos) option in my main menu and it is not there.

Do I need to do anything ese to get those?

I can access via TWP now and will get the gototmydvr setup soon aswell.

Mr_Bester · 01-27-2007, 11:13 AM

Go to the thread "HR10-250 and HMO?" post #11. That will enable HMO for you...

I tried to post a link, but I need 5 posts. It's just about 10 threads down....

rbautch · 01-27-2007, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by sk33t3r

I got these same errors with the latest zipper and instant cake 63b. It couldnt back up the original drives and then some octal something, I knew I shoul dhave noted it.

But as Bluewookie said the network is up and running.

If you invoke the zipper with:

Code:

/cdrom/zipper debug

It will spit out more output, and allow you to back up and see the entire output.

wesmills · 01-27-2007, 06:47 PM

I'm officially stumped. I used Zipper (not the one posted on the 25th, the one just before) to hack an existing HD from a DirecTiVo DSR7000. Everything seemed like it went well. I have more channel logos in the Now Playing list, which is something.

However, networking seems to be on the fritz. When I ran Zipper, I gave the TiVo an address of 192.168.7.67 (which works just great in my network). If I try to ping it after the TiVo comes fully up, I get no reply. I re-ran Zipper just to make sure I hadn't fat-fingered anything, with the same results. My DHCP server shows no new devices, so the TiVo isn't picking one up from there.

The USB adapter I'm using is the USB200M v2.1. All three lights are showing on the adapter, and the link light on my DSL router (a 4-port Linksys) or the generic 4-port switch I have both light up when I plug the adapter into one of them. If I plug the adapter into a different port on the back of the TiVo, nothing changes. I did have the adapter plugged into the TiVo before I powered it up for the first boot; at no point did the IP address respond to a ping.

What did I do wrong? The adapter seems to be working properly, so I'm confused as to what else I should try... Would the latest version of Zipper possibly work?

doconeill · 01-27-2007, 09:18 PM

I also used the USB200M 2.1 on all three of mine. Only one came up without having to run the tweak.sh script via the serial port, for unknown reasons.

You may need to get a serial cable and run tweak.sh from it to get networking to fully work.

justinz71 · 01-27-2007, 09:23 PM

Please someone help save my sanity...I have been at this two nights without any joy.

I overcame my inital scewup of having a jumper set to cable select and have sucessfully ran the zipper script to set ip, router ip etc. It says sucessfull and completes.

When I put the drive back in the HR10-250 it reboots a couple of times while showing the normal powering up screen, the seaching for satellite screen and a DVRupgrade splash screen that says "Please wait while we finalize your configuration and reboot you system just one more time..."

After the tivo is up you can watch live tv but if you go into the menu it says "A hardware problem hasbeen detected which needs your attention, untill its fixed you cant record... blah, blah" And it wants you to reboot, so I do and the whole reboot process begins again.

At no point in time during any of the reboots do I get a power light on my netgear FA120 (which works fine on my DSR704). So obviously no netorking for me.

I have run the whole process a couple of times on what was a new drive. Could running it multiple times be the cause of my problems. I think that I am going to wipe the drive clean an try it fresh.

Also, I have been saying that I want to use wireless (I also have linksys wireless adapter that I may use in the future)...this can't be causing me trouble, can it??

Has anyone that has done a HR10-250 using Zipper 2.7 / instancake6.3b/ PTVLBA48 4.04 seen any of these issues. Any clues at this point will be appreciated. Thanks in advance!!

greensquirrel · 01-27-2007, 09:33 PM

I'm experiencing a similiar problem to some here but with a few differences.

I have recently zippered my HR-250 and at first I tried using a TU-ET100C USB Adapter that lit up with power, but no ethernet activity. I installed a D-Link DUB-E100 and it lit up the ethernet great and I telneted to the box. After running tweak.sh I started using TWP and all was good. I rebooted several times after and had excellent results.

Shortly after that I believe I must have gotten "click happy" in TWP, asking it for too much, and the system rebooted. Shortly thereafter the ethernet came back up and I could ping and telnet to the box once again. Problem is that shortly after boot, about 30-60 seconds, the ethernet goes down. I can't ping it or see it on the network. After that, I have noticed the lights on the USB ethernet go off completely as if it isn't powered any longer. If I reboot, it will work again for the same short period of time.

I ordered a serial cable however I have yet to get it to work. I have it set at 115200 8N1 and no results. I'm not new to Linux, so if someone has any advice on how to use that 30 second window at boot that I have to get in and fix something I'll try it.

When I Zippered this I used the 3.1.5f image. Perhaps I should have used something different but it was working.

Thanks for your help.

[edit] - I used 9600 for on the serial and I am in now. I could swear I read somewhere that was 115200. Oops. Still working on the Ethernet problems.

[edit2] scrap that. 9600 worked only for a bit, and not too well at that. Still dead in the water far as serial and network goes.

jspencer · 01-27-2007, 10:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JWThiers

You shouldn't need to run tweak with the serial the first time you should have access through an ethernet cable. But I guess you know that. You have a great network adapter so that won't be an issue (provided it is functional of course). I need a bit more information to help. What model tivo, what IP address for router and tivo, Any error messages when you ran zipper, any warning/error messages when you did get into the tivo via serial (or ethernet for that matter), are the lights on the fa120 on (power and link)? While you are waiting for a reply you might want to check the wiki. It will give you a basic idea for the kind of things that you will be doing (if not exactly)

Never got it to work. I went back to a previous version of the zipper i had run adn all went well. The download from last week was just not working for me. I could only access with a serial once then when it ran the enhancements it ran much differently. Th e express version simply ran with no prompts. I have no idea what is going on but I got it to work with a disk from Sept 06

justinz71 · 01-27-2007, 10:57 PM

Success!

Not sure which of the 2 changes was the silver bullet.

1)I did a quick format of the drive, erasing the partition info.

2)I said no to the wireless this time, I will read up tomorrow to find the script to set up wireless (done this once before a long time ago).

Note: saying no to the wireless did lead to the "octal gid" errors that others have reported with 2.7 a few pages back. I will post the log containing the fulll gid errors in the AM....

dturturro · 01-28-2007, 07:39 AM

ok, I finally got the 6.3b upgrade without hacking but I still have constant audio skips during DD viewing. After doing a C&D All it's still an issue. I was going to Zipper using Instant Cake but I noticed it had a disclaimer saying only to use on drives that are known to work with the update. Mine doesn't work properly. Any thoughts on if I should bother?

justinz71 · 01-28-2007, 08:23 AM

Here is a capture of the error that I was talking about, but everything seems ok as of right now...

M1 inux.px.gz: 40.4% -- replaced with vmlinux.px

1+1 records in
1+1 records out

Will you use a wireless adapter to connect this Tivo to your network? [y/n]: n

Appending usb.map for backported drivers...

Backing up old drivers to /lib/modules/backups-orig, installing new drivers...
mv: unable to rename '/tivo/lib/modules/usbcore.o' : No such file or directory
mv: unable to rename '/tivo/lib/modules/usb-ochi.o' : No such file or directory
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Please enter a static IP address for your Tivo:

tsanga · 01-28-2007, 10:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justinz71

2)I said no to the wireless this time, I will read up tomorrow to find the script to set up wireless (done this once before a long time ago).

Note: saying no to the wireless did lead to the "octal gid" errors that others have reported with 2.7 a few pages back. I will post the log containing the fulll gid errors in the AM....

This is the script: /enhancements/setSSIDwep.tcl. I did the same thing - first say "no" to wireles to force the USB2 drivers to install, then go back and add the wireless settings.

greensquirrel · 01-28-2007, 11:37 AM

I rezippered mine with version 2.7 and 6.3b and recieved those exact Octal Gid_T errors but I pushed past. I also took Justin's route and formatted the drive prior to my THIRD attempt in about an hour.

Couple odd things:

When I first booted the new drive image, serial port worked at 115200, after the first reboot it went to 9600.

Splash screen didn't get replaced in /tvbin so I peeked at the script and did it manually as the script dictactes. The "We are going to reboot you one more time" screen from DVRUpgrade still shows instead of the pretty moon one. I'll have to find out where else this file lives and replace it there I suppose, odd thing is that it didn't replace it on my last unsuccessful zipper attempt.

Gotomydvr wouldn't install when running the tweak.sh script, it complained of read only files/drives. It then ended the script normally, but I believe it was at the end. After I stabilized everything else, I manually installed it after cheating and grep'ing the install out of the start-e.sh script.. I caught the output of that error to a text file if anyone wants to see it.

TWP doesn't have that great graphical representation of the remote control like I did when I zippered with 3.1.5f. I will try and upgrade TWP (installed 1.3.0) and see what happens.

I can't set it to record 24 on my local off-air FOX HD channel, says it can't get guide data - error #32. It'll probably go away in a day or so when it figures out what locals I'm supposed to get.. at least I'm hoping so.

Another thing is that I ended up going back to the TU-ET100C that I couldn't get to work at all before. The DUB-E100 I have is either flaky or underpowered to a point where it doesn't work correctly. I can't remember the exact error message I was getting, but I put it back on and look if someone wants it for troubleshooting purposes.

So at any rate, it is up and working, although I was about to (and still may) put velcro on my box instead of the screws. I'm sure I'll break it several more times before I stop playing with it. But that's half the fun.. well not for my wife actually. heh.

rbautch · 01-28-2007, 12:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greensquirrel

I rezippered mine with version 2.7 and 6.3b and recieved those exact Octal Gid_T errors but I pushed past.

The Octal Gid_T errors result from extracting the back ported drivers from the rbautch_files.tgz archive. The error have always been there, but I've been suppressing them because the extraction seems to work despite them. I just posted a new version that supresses them again.

dturturro · 01-28-2007, 03:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luder

I have the PTV bootable disk installed zipper made sure everything is exactlly how it should in your website besides instantcake.iso and made a bootable disk had everything setup

hdd cdrom
hda original tivo drive

after probing it shows

ideo at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq14
ideo at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq15

then it hangs
keybord is disabled and all

I also have a question can zipper work with MFSlive drives?
or do i have to use ptv work of art?

I'm having this same issue. The next post mentioned plugging in a serial keyboard, which I already have. Any other thoughts?

dturturro · 01-28-2007, 04:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by luder

I finally got ptv boot cd and zipper it was caused by my sata drive in the pc... but, in the zipper it's asking for a 3 digits of a service number ??

does anyone know what it is

How'd you get around the SATA problem? I'm stuck at the same point.

BigBoy_67 · 01-28-2007, 04:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ttodd1

Did you change the network setting to be wireless - assuming that you were wired before? If you are doing DHCP did you put the new MAC address in?

When I installed Zipper I did setup wireless, I entered my Router ID, but I also entered a IP address that my router would assign to the Tivo. I have two Tivos ready to setup, but can't seem to get the adaptor reconized.

rbautch · 01-28-2007, 04:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by justinz71

Here is a capture of the error that I was talking about, but everything seems ok as of right now...

M1 inux.px.gz: 40.4% -- replaced with vmlinux.px

1+1 records in
1+1 records out

Will you use a wireless adapter to connect this Tivo to your network? [y/n]: n

Appending usb.map for backported drivers...

Backing up old drivers to /lib/modules/backups-orig, installing new drivers...
mv: unable to rename '/tivo/lib/modules/usbcore.o' : No such file or directory
mv: unable to rename '/tivo/lib/modules/usb-ochi.o' : No such file or directory
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Header contains "\200\000\000\000\377\377\377\377" where octal gid_t value expected
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Please enter a static IP address for your Tivo:

You should be able to safely ignore these errors. They're supressed in the latest version (3.7a).

BigBoy_67 · 01-28-2007, 04:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doconeill

I also used the USB200M 2.1 on all three of mine. Only one came up without having to run the tweak.sh script via the serial port, for unknown reasons.

You may need to get a serial cable and run tweak.sh from it to get networking to fully work.

Could that be wahat I need to do also ? I have a DirecTiVo DSR7000....which is causing my problems as well. I tempted to do everything again with the new zipper, but I'm pretty damn sure I did everything correct the last time......

JWThiers · 01-28-2007, 05:11 PM

USB200M version 2.1 is NOT supported.

HellFish · 01-28-2007, 05:22 PM

Hello,
I wanted to thank everyone for all the help you've provided me. Using site:tivocommunity com with google came in extremely helpful as I successfully upgraded my SD Samsung DTivo to a 160 GB drive with all the bells and whistles.

I also wanted to register on here because I have some suggestions..

Gunny,
in post # 3185 in this thread (here) you have the incorrect syntax for changing endpadplus. I only mention this because it came up several times while I was trying to adjust my endpadplus settings. Do you think you could correct the post to say " endpadplus.tcl 1 1 " for the question that's being asked? The only reason I ask is so others searching through the site don't face the same problem.

Also, is there an easy way of knowing what has been included with the an updated version of the zipper? The only way I discovered what 2.7 added was by downloading the full zip file and then looking at the pdf file. Is the version history provided on the wiki and I'm just not seeing it? This would also benefit the downloading bandwidth of your site. Dates would also be nice with the revision history. I only see the date for the most recent version on the main zipper site. Is there any other advancements you are looking into doing with the zipper, besides making it more compatible with the HDTivos?

Again, thanks to you and everyone else for all of your help!! By asking the questions I had I was able to find the answers without asking in this thread that is approaching 10,000 posts. I'm sure there are many people like me who successfully do everything without ever needing to ask questions. And like me, they are forever grateful.

edit: to add link

edit2: former signature:
Two DirecTivos (160GB) 6.2a w/ The Zipper, TivoWebPlus 2.0, and Bufferhack41a . With JavaHMO 2.4 & Tivoserver 0.4.4-a4 on PC.
and 1 more DirecTivo on deck for upgrading.

doconeill · 01-28-2007, 05:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JWThiers

USB200M version 2.1 is NOT supported.

Maybe so, but they DO work, but may need some additional massaging...as I said, all three of mine are V2.1. One came up before running tweak.sh, the other two worked fine AFTER running tweak.sh via serial console.

They appear to be the same chipset as the V2, and were detected with the same USB IDs.

JWThiers · 01-28-2007, 05:57 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by doconeill

Maybe so, but they DO work, but may need some additional massaging...as I said, all three of mine are V2.1. One came up before running tweak.sh, the other two worked fine AFTER running tweak.sh via serial console.

They appear to be the same chipset as the V2, and were detected with the same USB IDs.

If you can get it to work with additional work great. networking a directivo is not supported by directv, you can get it to work, sure do they support it no. Same thing Can you get a ver 2.1 to work, you did, should Russ (meaning him and everyone who tries to help with zipper) have to try to support something that the driver isn't made to do, No.

rbautch · 01-28-2007, 06:25 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HellFish

Also, is there an easy way of knowing what has been included with the an updated version of the zipper? The only way I discovered what 2.7 added was by downloading the full zip file and then looking at the pdf file. Is the version history provided on the wiki and I'm just not seeing it? This would also benefit the downloading bandwidth of your site. Dates would also be nice with the revision history. I only see the date for the most recent version on the main zipper site. Is there any other advancements you are looking into doing with the zipper, besides making it more compatible with the HDTivos?

There is a revision history included in the Zipper download. No immediate enhancements are planned, but I'm open to ideas.

Gargoyle557 · 01-28-2007, 06:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JWThiers

If you can get it to work with additional work great. networking a directivo is not supported by directv, you can get it to work, sure do they support it no. Same thing Can you get a ver 2.1 to work, you did, should Russ (meaning him and everyone who tries to help with zipper) have to try to support something that the driver isn't made to do, No.

Not sure about your analogy here... You are comparing a money hungry corporation to a sef-supported community of intelligent people. Of course the corporation is not going to support anything they are not going to make a profit from.

The fact is, if the v2.1 has the same PID and VID (Product ID and Vendor ID) as a v2.0 it will load the same driver for each device regardless of the OS. This leads us the fact that if they are requesting the same driver, they are going to be either the same chipset (most likely) or the chipset is different but acts the same when using the same software commands (less likely). I would also suspect that if there were large differences between v2.1 and v2.0 they wouldn't have just changed the minor revision number and would have changed the major revision number, perhaps to v3.0 instead of v2.1.

Here is a link to some good info on the USB interface standard.

Klydeman · 01-28-2007, 08:00 PM

I upgraded my HR10-250 from 3.1.5f today to 6.3b. I used the InstantCake 6.3b image and Zippered. There were a couple of problems.

1) Swap File Size - My (2) 500GB Seagate drives won't boot with the standard Swap File Size (GSOD). I had to use the the regular mfsrestore and increase the swap file size. The zipper using the Instant Cake Image does not give any options for increasing it or using multiple discs.

2) Superpatch67Standby.tcl - After installing the zipper and applying the script to remove 'Movies and Photos in DirectTV Central' and 'Standby in DirectTV Central', I realized I didn't want to do this and tried to 'tweak_uninstall.sh' and then re 'tweak.sh'. I did not get these options back and there is a discussion going on over at DDB. I did manage to get partially back using

Superpatch67Standby.tcl -tcs

Which is actually incorrect if you read the options. And the mnp option (+ or -) does not seem to restore the 'Movies or Photo's Option'. (assuming it is there in the 6.3x)

3) Now Playing List is not working correctly - This I don't know what to do. I have recorded 1 or 2 shows now, the shows are recording and they can be played, but when I select a show in the NPL (i.e. move 'forward' or 'right' arrow button, if you get my drift), I don't get the next menu, that identifies the show details, delete options, etc. It just seems to loop back real quick to the NPL list. Has anyone else seen this?

Other than that, the Zipper is a nice piece of work. Thanks for all the hard work.