It works. No need for NowShowing.tcl. I had to edit the star command in TyTool to remove the call for it however.

I'm now extracting an episode of Futurama from my HDVR2 with TyTool running on VirtualPC on my Powerbook. SWEET. Only catch was that I have to run wired to my network as VPC has some wonkiness when running the virtual switch over wireless... it just doesn't work. But wired, both Mac and VPC get an IP and the extraction is going fine. I'll update this post once I get it extracted and start trying the next steps in TyTool!

Damn I wish I knew how to program so I could whip up a Cocoa app to use all of the available scripts and make it a one step process on OSX. Hell, If I could figure out how to do it straight on a mac period, i'd write up some applescripts.

The guide here in the first post is actually pretty good. This looks like an older version of TyTool, but these are the steps I take.
http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?mode=hybrid&t=26095

IT WORKS! WOOOOT! I have a DVD of a Futurama episode sitting here. Amazing. I've been looking forward to this day since the day i got my DTivo. Finally, it works. Thanks again Rob for all the helpful links.

Well, I got my replacement Maxtor 160GB drive... but DAMN it's noisy. I never heard the original drive at all but I can hear this one scrubbing all the time. Grrr.

That's adjustable -- "acoustic management" (hdparm -M)

EDIT: like this: hdparm -M252 /dev/hdc

Does that feature also control the spin motor speed noise? Or just the head movement noise?

No effect on spin-noise -- the drives always spin at exactly 7200rpm (or 5400rpm) when operating.

But the head-scrubbing noise will completely disappear with the right values. Note that this is a *persistent* setting, so a person could boot KNOPPIX to change it once with hdparm, and then use MS-Win from there on..

[EDIT] and/or do the change with the drive temporarily plugged into a different system, and then transplant it back into the TIVO or whereever.

Cheers

Ahh... now that's interesting. So what are the value ranges? Should I just use what you've suggested? Thanks for the tip!

I've forgotten the "best" values, but you should experiment with 254,252,248. Anything lower doesn't usually make much of a difference. 254 is the noisiest, and other values down to 128 are normally quieter (and slower seeking).

Cheers

I'll give that a shot. Thanks Mark.

On another note, I've successfully loaded the USB 2.0 drivers and am running them with a Netgear FA120 USB->Ethernet adapter, and getting extraction speeds close to 2MB/sec, when before I was running at about .4MB/sec. Sweeeeeet.

Here's the guide:
http://www.dellanave.com/projects/tivo/usb20net.html

I just cracked open a 120gb drive and am going to take a stab at this tonight.

EDIT: Mark, you're a celebrity! Your name popped up in a few Tivo threads.

I'm finally starting this today (spend the last day or so running Cat5 and coax to another room). Thanks to Loren, I was already on step 6 when I started! Thanks Loren!

But, I'm already having an issue... I booted off of the PTV disk. Worked. I swapped to the Tools CD and typed "mkdir /cdrom" and have now been staring at a blinking cursor for 5 minutes... I'm getting worried. Prior to this, I tried the "mkdir /cdrom" command before swapping to the Tools CD on accident. I immediately got a "kernal mkdir not found" error message. I'm not getting it this time, so I'm assuming "something" is happening, but I'm getting worried. Maybe I'm used to our FAQ where it will tell you when to expect for a long pause for certain commands.. Okay, it's been another 3 minutes or so and I'm still getting the blinking cursor.

DVD drive is secondary slave, unformatted Tivo drive is secondary master.

Should I keep waiting or is something goofed up? Bad CD?

EDIT: I'm an idiot. I saw the "boot:" prompt after booting from the PTV CD and thought that's what the bash prompt looked like when booting from the CD. Would have helped if I read the "Press <Enter> to boot". NOW I swap CDs. sheeesh.

Wow, what a cool guide! There is just something cool about telneting to the Tivo from a wireless notebook. I'm still getting used to the non-DirecTV menus, but it seemed to go quite well...

Do any of you remember someone posting here that they were able to get mp3s streaming from their EMPEG to their Tivo? I could have sworn I read that here once, but no amount of searching found it...

EDIT: Just found it. I had to limit my search to the Subject.

I also remember posting here a link to a site I found that had a HMO hack that would resolve scheduling conflicts by looking for an open tuner on another networked Tivo and schedule the "3rd" show to record there. This will be worth looking into!

For anyone looking to get the USB 2.0 drivers running... I have a few tips:

1) Before starting the guide, you need to mount the drives rw. Copied from part of the 4.0 guide:
mount -o remount,rw /

2) Once you launch the "vi" editor, you need to get out of "Command Mode" and into "Insert Mode". You do this by pressing i.

3) When you are done editing your file, go back to Command Mode by pressing Esc.

4) To save the file and quite, press : then type wq then Enter.

5) To see if your changes took, just relaunch vi with that file: vi /test.conf.

6) Exit again, this time with out saving by pressing : then q and then Enter.

7) Finally, put the drives back into ro mode:
mount -o remount,ro /

I hope this helps... Once I get my PC back together , I think I'll shoot that guy an email. here is a good beginner's guide for vi.

I'm thinking of disabling the backdoors stuff. The "Clip List" is a bit annoying and the title bar for mem usage is broken... I'm assuming I can do:

mount -o remount,rw /

cd /hacks

mv tivoapp.bak /tvbin/tivoapp

mount -o remount,ro /

That should restore the backup right?

That should do it. You might want to backup the "hacked" tivoapp too just in case.

Thanks Loren.

Here is what I ended up doing:
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mount -o remount,rw /

cd /hacks

cp /tvbin/tivoapp tivoappBD.bak

mv tivoapp.bak /tvbin/tivoapp

mount -o remount,ro /
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"mount -o remount,ro /" always errors out, but it worked!

Where are you guys finding TivoWebPlus 1.1? When I go to the official site, they only have 1.0 final.

Ah... okay. I didn't notice it was an attachment in the thread. They link to the official FAQ and the officla site, so I thought the site would have the "latest and greatest" but it looks liike the thread is the most up to date...

Thanks.

Yeah. All the TiVo stuff is a PITA to find since it's all in threads on dealdatabase. It's annoying when they link to a discussion thread on it as you end up having to poke through 25 pages of a thread to work out what to use/do.

I guess maybe we should license our TonyBot FAQ Builder to them...

-jk

What a coincidence, I hear it's looking for work.

I have just finished "slice upgrading" one of my previously hacked 4.0.1b DirecTiVos to 6.2 (the current DirecTiVo S2 software). The slice method retains recorded shows, seaons passes, etc. I was able to accomplish this thanks to this guide. However, it wasn't nearly as smooth as the 4.x guide by the same guy. I guess he needs feedback to polish it up. I will update this thread tomorrow with the "Ooopses" I came across. It's just that it's getting a bit late here now...

So, why upgrade to 6.2? Well, for one, it's newer software! Menu items and guide navigation seems to be way more snappy. See this site for info on that. HMO seems to work a bit quicker too and while playing MP3s, the info box moves around the screen so you can still see what's playing and not burn your TV. I haven't put TyTools back on yet, but it aparently works.

EDIT:

The first snag I hit with the 6.2 slice guide was this bit:

Quote:
3c) Figure out which ones you need, and un-gzip each one of them. Then un-gzip loopset-dtv-Series2.slice.gz, and THEN do it AGAIN to the same file. On Linux you need to rename the file to .gz again otherwise it won't recognize it as a gzip file. This could all be done quite easily on the TiVo, but now with those 5 files you have a nice package you don't have to mess with again.

I didn't proceed further with the guide until I thought about the part in red for a while and what the hell that meant. I eventually figured out the file loopset-dtv-Series2.slice.gz contains 1 file inside called loopset-dtv-Series2.slice once extracted. However, this file is also a gzipped file, but without proper extension. So, I had to rename loopset-dtv-Series2.slice to loopset-dtv-Series2.slice.gz and unzip it again.

The whole "tivotools" install from 4.x was a problem. I used an older version of the 4.x+ RID guide to initially hack my boxes. The version I used said to install tivotools.tar to /busybox. It seems the newest revision of the 4.x+ RID guide instructs the user to install the tools to /tivo-bin which is much more common.

Before rebooting your TiVo and letting it upgrade itself, I suggest you actually move /busybox to /tivo-bin on your 6.2 partition and add the below line to your rc.sysinit.author file if you followed the "/busybox version" of the 4.x+ RID guide:
Code:

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export PATH=./:.:/utils:/bin:/sbin:/tvbin:/tivobin:/tivo-bin

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There is also an issue with this part of the install:

Quote:
cd /var/packages/
chmod 755 superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.0.tcl
./superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.0.tcl
chmod 755 set_mrv_name_67.tcl
./set_mrv_name_67.tcl YOURTIVONAME # (Type in the name for your Tivo, if you have more than 1, choose something descriptive ("Bedroom Tivo"). If you use spaces, you need quotes "around it")

For some reason, I couldn't just run these files like ./superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.0.tcl. I had to run them by typing tivosh superpatch-67all-NutKase-1.0.tcl. tivosh is in the busybox/tivo-bin directory. The reason these files had to be run like that had something to do with the way they were extracted. That doesn't make too much sense to me since this is the first time I had this issue, but I was getting too tired to dig deeper, and tivosh worked fine.

I guess that's it for now. The torrent on the guy's site was down yesterday but the edonkey link worked fine. If anybody needs the 6.2 slices let me know, I can host them somewhere.

Please keep us up to date. That sounds very interesting.

Updated last night's post with the snags I hit.

After playing with 6.2 for a very short while, aparently there is no way to configure or see your IP address from within the Tivo UI anymore. There are tools to set a static IP on your tivo from the command line, but aparently multi-room viewing (MRV) doesn't work anymore when you have a static IP. So, you have to monitor your router's local DHCP table to see what IP your tivo may have if you want to telnet, ftp, or extract shows. Another option is to have your router reserve a static IP for your Tivo's MAC address. My Linksys router doesn't allow this, so I am a bit screwed at this point. If the IP of my tivo boxes change, I will have to look at my router's DHCP table. Lame.

Other than that, the guide and menu speed alone is probably worth the upgrade. Also, my 6.2 box has no problem sharing shows with my other 4.0.1b boxes (soon to be upgraded).

Kick ass. Thanks a TON for this info... with this and TivoTool for the Mac that I just discovered in another thread, I've got a bunch of new toys for the Tivo!

Thanks again for posting this!

I recently switched from Netgear to Linksys and I hate how I can't preassign IPs to MAC addresses anymore.

It looks like the guide was updated just two days ago so I might give him some more time to iron out issues before I try this. I can't figure out why TivoWeb just suddenly STOPPED working one day, but Tytools works and I'm happy with that!