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

[Rhughes]

Getting ready to Zipper a DSR708. The TiVo already has a 320GB drive and a good image. I left the image out of the Zipper CD. I plan to Zip this drive.

Regarding the TiVo IP address. Do I just pick one that is not being used by my router for other equipment? I plan to use a D-Link DWL 120+ adapter.

[sk33t3r]

Originally Posted by Rhughes

Getting ready to Zipper a DSR708. The TiVo already has a 320GB drive and a good image. I left the image out of the Zipper CD. I plan to Zip this drive.

Regarding the TiVo IP address. Do I just pick one that is not being used by my router for other equipment? I plan to use a D-Link DWL 120+ adapter.

Make sure you pick a IP out of the DHCH range. If you havent alreau configured your router to start DHCP at a specific IP then you will need to do so.

[Gunnyman]

pick one in the same subnet as your router but otherwise, yes just pick an available ip address.

[stringmun]

I have the HD10-250 Zippered

How do I change my bootpage options
from this:
root=/dev/hda4 brev=0x100A dsscon=true console=2,9600
to this:
root=/dev/hda4 brev=0x100A dsscon=true console=1,115200


For some reason I keep getting this at bootup via serial connection. Something keeps reseting my bootpage at every boot.
HDTIVO-TiVo# resetting boot parameters; must reboot to take effect...
root=/dev/hda4 brev=0x100A dsscon=true console=2,9600

[rbautch]

FYI, there was a flaw in version 2.3 that caused serial bash not to work. It's fixed in version 2.3a with is now uploaded. If you already hacked with v2.3, add the following line to your author file to get serial bash:

/bin/bash </dev/ttyS2&> /dev/ttyS2&

[tward_biteme1]

Originally Posted by rbautch

Looks like the TWP developers moved util.itcl to the /libs directory starting with version 1.3. Try this version of backup_write_static.tcl.

You probably already knew this, but I finally had the time to put it in and run it last night and it works just fine now...

Thanks for all the work on the enhancements, makes life hacking the DTivo much easier!

[bnm81002]

is there a way to disable the 30 second skip code from being used? I like pressing the advance button to get to the end of a recording rather than 30 second increments

[SteelersFan]

Originally Posted by bnm81002

is there a way to disable the 30 second skip code from being used? I like pressing the advance button to get to the end of a recording rather than 30 second increments

Try this thread.

[Finnstang]

If you press fast forward, then hit the skip to tick, you can jump through one tick at a time.

[tward_biteme1]

I read this:

Blank entries in the "Now Playing List"
This is occurs when DNS doesn't work. Your Tivo is trying to resolve the names of any other Tivo(s) (for HMO/MRV). Once it finally fails, your Now Playing List is properly displayed.
Resolution:
The /etc/nsswitch.conf file determines what services are used to handle different tasks, including DNS. The default entry for resolving names is:
hosts: files dns
This means that to resolve a name, your tivo will look to the /etc/hosts file, and if that fails, it will then try your DNS.
If you delete the DNS entry, then it will only use the /etc/hosts file, and will never use DNS. However, this also means that you will not be able to resolve names other than your other Tivo(s), so you won't be able to use wget to download files for the latest enhancement script for example. That should be fine for most folks, since you really have no need to resolve names at all. Your options:
(Preferred) Set a valid DNS that will resolve names quickly. This requires your router to be connected to the Internet, and will allow you to use wget for downloads. This requires no mods to /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf, only /etc/resolv.conf.
Set a valid DNS, and also add your other tivo IP addresses to /etc/hosts. This eliminates the need to have your router connected to the Internet, since it will look to the hosts file first before it tries to resolve names with DNS. This will keep the Now Playing List from getting slow, but if you want to use wget downloads, you'll need to connect your router to the Internet.
Set your DNS to 0.0.0.0 so DNS requests fail quickly within /etc/resolv.conf. This will keep your NPL from being slow, but will prevent wget and other downloads. This also requires no mods to /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf.
There's a few more combinations that should work fine, but this gives you an idea of what you're trying to achieve...quick failure or quick resolution.
This was comprised from a couple of postings from rbautch, dnemec123, and dealjake.


I am not connected to the Internet (always) as I still can only get dial-up. So I put everything in the hosts files but it still happens..... I didn't think I had to reboot for the settings to take effect....

Sometimes the now playing list takes a minute or so to show..... Thought putting the IP's and Names in the hosts file would fix it...

[Neoistheone2000]

sinse there are over eight thousand responses on this thread you understand if i ask this (and if it was already asked im sorry i usualy look through threads but hear is my question)

i had my directivo zippered and running befor now i desided to upgread the hard drive and start anew my problem is now i cant telnet my tivo (something about port 23 blocked) i added the port to my windows firewall but no go i think its on the tivo or something i did everything exzactly like i did before i just cant get telnet to work i can how ever bring up the bash command when using a serial cable (what is a good terminal program i had a good one but i upgreaded to win xp x64 and lost it) but if anyone can help me il greatly apreaceat it

thank you

[Finnstang]

Originally Posted by tward_biteme1

I read this:

Blank entries in the "Now Playing List"
This is occurs when DNS doesn't work. Your Tivo is trying to resolve the names of any other Tivo(s) (for HMO/MRV). Once it finally fails, your Now Playing List is properly displayed.
Resolution:
The /etc/nsswitch.conf file determines what services are used to handle different tasks, including DNS. The default entry for resolving names is:
hosts: files dns
This means that to resolve a name, your tivo will look to the /etc/hosts file, and if that fails, it will then try your DNS.
If you delete the DNS entry, then it will only use the /etc/hosts file, and will never use DNS. However, this also means that you will not be able to resolve names other than your other Tivo(s), so you won't be able to use wget to download files for the latest enhancement script for example. That should be fine for most folks, since you really have no need to resolve names at all. Your options:
(Preferred) Set a valid DNS that will resolve names quickly. This requires your router to be connected to the Internet, and will allow you to use wget for downloads. This requires no mods to /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf, only /etc/resolv.conf.
Set a valid DNS, and also add your other tivo IP addresses to /etc/hosts. This eliminates the need to have your router connected to the Internet, since it will look to the hosts file first before it tries to resolve names with DNS. This will keep the Now Playing List from getting slow, but if you want to use wget downloads, you'll need to connect your router to the Internet.
Set your DNS to 0.0.0.0 so DNS requests fail quickly within /etc/resolv.conf. This will keep your NPL from being slow, but will prevent wget and other downloads. This also requires no mods to /etc/hosts or /etc/nsswitch.conf.
There's a few more combinations that should work fine, but this gives you an idea of what you're trying to achieve...quick failure or quick resolution.
This was comprised from a couple of postings from rbautch, dnemec123, and dealjake.


I am not connected to the Internet (always) as I still can only get dial-up. So I put everything in the hosts files but it still happens..... I didn't think I had to reboot for the settings to take effect....

Sometimes the now playing list takes a minute or so to show..... Thought putting the IP's and Names in the hosts file would fix it...

Did you try the bolded part?

[bnm81002]

Originally Posted by Gunnyman

unzip the archive you downloaded for twp
change the TivoWebPlus folder name to not contain caps. ftp that folder to your tivo overwriting the old one. restart twp

I quit TWP then did as you wrote here Gunny but as I FTP the 1.3.1 TWP files over to my Tivo, my unit goes into a reboot, it has happened on both my units with zipper version 2.3 on both units, then TWP doesn't start up and I have to uninstall then install the enhancement scripts in order to get TWP 1.3.0, what can I do to update it to TWP 1.3.1? I tried to do it through the TWP screen but I get the error message "extract.sh: Could not locate the TivoWebPlus directory"
some help please

[jporter12]

I've been searching all over all afternoon trying to figure out what I need to do to fix my networking. I had it working fine, bu tdue to some changes on my network, the settings are all different now, and I didn't get enough changed in the TiVo for it to work. All I need to do is reset my network settings, to use dchp, enter the router ip, etc..

I'm sitting here connect with a serial cable, got all the status messages as it booted, got to where it was done booting, but now no bash prompt.

I pulled the drive, and tried to re-run the zipper, but that didn't work out, do I need to remount as rw? I guess I'm just noobing it here! LOL

Anyway, what's the easiest thing to do from here?

I have a DSR-7000 with a 300 GB drive in it. Zippered (or was it just the enhancement script??? any way to tell?)

[tward_biteme1]

Originally Posted by Finnstang

Did you try the bolded part?

No, I didn't because I figured it would look at the hosts file and find it and not even bother with DNS..

I just changed it, does it require a reboot?

[jporter12]

I think I have it. The Zipper would not finish, said that the hacked kernel didn't exist. Well, I manually copied the stuff over to where it needed to be (/hacks and /busybox) and re-ran tweak.sh. I may need to mess with the networking stuff as I did when I originally zippered, but I should be ok now, just need to find my old posts!

[hgrising]

Hello.

I have been searching this thread for answers to why I have been unable to enhance my tivo for the past two days with no avail. Hopefully someone here can help.

I followed directions to burn the zipper cd image which I then used to zipper my tivo drive. Once I placed the drive back in the Tivo, I used telnet to connect and this is the message I received:

Running rbautch Hacked Tivo Enhancements...

gzip: stdin: unexpected end of file
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Unexpected EOF in archive
tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
unable to untar files archive. Could be a failed download.
Adjusting your dns settings. Please run tweak.sh again. Exiting...
Bash-2.02#

There was no message on tv during this. So, this didn't work so I started from scratch again and re-imaged and the rezippered my drive. I noticed this message while the drive was being zippered:

copying hacks to tivo drive
cp: Read error: Input/output error
/cdrom/zipper.sh: etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author: No such file or directory

Copying hacked kernel to tivo drive...

There is, I am sure, some hint there of what may be happening here. If anyone can help, I would appreciate it greatly.

Thanks.

[rbautch]

The zipper error doesn't have anything to do with your problem unpacking the tar file, and has since been fixed. Try deleting rbautch_files.tgz from /hacks, and run tweak.sh again. This will download a fresh copy of the archive.

[hgrising]

Ok, so I used the tweak uninstall and then ran tweak.sh again. The tivo attempted to download the latest Enhancement script and then

failed: Temporary failure in name resolution.
Download failed. Adjust DNS and try again? [y/n]:

i typed "y" and then

Make sure your tivo is connected to the internet, and your network settings are correct. Exiting...
rm: /enhancements: No such file or directory
bash-2.02# y
bash: y: command not found
bash-2.02#
bash-2.02#

what next? Thank you for your patience and help.

[pohlmacs]

Hi rbautch, gunnyman

First, want to thank you very much for the zipper script and the work that you have put into it. We had quite the weekend learning about how all this worked and debugging it a little.

We tried using the zipper script as is on a fresh 6.3a image on my HR10-250, with an Airlink ASOHOUSB, 400GB Seagate, and the PTVupgrade $5 iso. We encountered a few problems in the script that prevented the networking from being setup.

Here is what we saw and fixed to get it to work again on a fresh image (not-hacked):

1) The serial bash statement is not added for HR10-250. It appears that else statement is not reached and/or the command is redirecting to etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author which does not exist and should actually be /tivo/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit.author.

We found this when trying to serial link into with our laptop in hyperterminal, and had to set the bootpage from 115200 down to 9600 baud which then worked because our cable quality was not great.

For easier understanding, we reformatted the command as:
"/bin/bash < /dev/ttyS2 &> /dev/ttyS2 &"
(for people new to this: redirect the serial port input into bash, redirect all output including errors to the serial port, and background the process)

2) We see that the new kernel is not being used in copy kernel. We added a prompt to ask if we wanted to copy the new kernel. Not sure if we are using the new kernel yet because it is still reporting 2.4.20 (Feb 14 06)

3) The zipper.sh script is missing the quotes around the "y" for if $wireless when checking to modify the usb map for backported drivers. This prevented the usb map script from being created and entering the ASOHOUSB entry we needed to get the Airlink adapter to work.

4) mfsnetwork is not being set to yes in the second elseif which is preventing network.tcl from being added to the author file for firstboot. Once we added that yes to the second elseif, networking finally worked.

5) The clear command at the end of the script masks an error message that is being generated by the second else-if in relation to the resolv.conf file. Upon further inspection, the file is not created because our fresh image already has a symbolic link from /tivo/etc to the other partition that isnt mounted in this script (not sure which one). So, when it tried to write to that file, it can't because the link is pointing to a file that doesn't exist and can't be written to.

6) It appears that there may be an issue with the new soft-linking of the hacks in /var/hacks to the enhancements directory. When tivowebplus is loading on restart, we see that it cannot write to some directory, as I am getting errors trying to change themes as well. Could it be that the new directory is not set rw? Because, by default, the /var directory has rw and don't need to mount -o...,rw to write to that. We don't want to enable rw explicitly for security... so I think I may need to move stuff back to var for TWP.

We made changes for 1-4 and recreated the iso, restored the fresh image, and ran the zipper script and it worked and finally got to ping the TiVo.

Now, a very tired, but owner of a hacked HR10-250 v6.3a. The new features in TWP are nice... just hope it doesn't crash and lock up my tivo anymore. (By the way, this whole re-hack was triggered by a failing Linksys USB200M v1... I really dislike the loose connector design)

Craig
Tempe, AZ

[ttodd1]

Originally Posted by hgrising

Make sure your tivo is connected to the internet, and your network settings are correct.

Have you?

[hgrising]

Originally Posted by ttodd1

Have you?

Well, the ASOHOUSB adapter has both green lights lit and is connected to the router. I would think that this means that it can connect to the internet if other computers on the network can as well. If I can connect to the tivo from my computer through telnet, I assume that this tells me that the ip address settings are correct. I am not sure how else to find out whether I am connected to the internet through the tivo.

[ttodd1]

What network settings did you give the tivo? DHCP or static IP?

[hgrising]

Originally Posted by ttodd1

What network settings did you give the tivo? DHCP or static IP?

static ip of: 192.168.1.104 for my tivo and 192.168.1.64 belongs to the 2wire dsl modem.

Update: ok, so I read up on ftp'ing and just ftp'd the rbautch_files.tgz and now it's working perfectly. Thank you all much and have a nice day.

[kimbray]

OK. Here is my situation. I have run the Zipper software for my 10-250 and everything is good on the install. I have mated two drives together and now have 80 hours of HD recording capabilities. Here is my issue. To get USB support for USB200M v2, I have to run the enhanced scripts per the Zipper documentation. However, to run this script, I have to be connected to the Tivo via a USB connection (or serial which is not my perfered method). During the install of Zipper it asked me for network perameters but it said during install that the 10-250 was not support. This was right after entering the service locator code of 357. Do I need to connect serial to envoke the enhanced scripts? Or is there something I am doing wrong. Thanks for your help.

[rbautch]

Originally Posted by pohlmacs

2) We see that the new kernel is not being used in copy kernel. We added a prompt to ask if we wanted to copy the new kernel. Not sure if we are using the new kernel yet because it is still reporting 2.4.20 (Feb 14 06)

The kernel that is copied is the 3.1.5 kernel from PTVupgrade lba48 cd that you started with, not the kernel that's in the zipper download. That one is a custom kernel that has not had killhdinitrd applied, and is used for R10 support.

Originally Posted by pohlmacs

3) The zipper.sh script is missing the quotes around the "y" for if $wireless when checking to modify the usb map for backported drivers. This prevented the usb map script from being created and entering the ASOHOUSB entry we needed to get the Airlink adapter to work.

Quotes are not necessary unless it's a multiword value. Try it for yourself by entering the following at bash:

wireless=y; if [ "$wireless" = y ]; then echo; echo "works without quotes"; else echo "no worky"; fi

The reason usb.map was not edited is because the Zipper thinks your tivo is running 3.1.5f software, which contains no usb.map (see below).

Originally Posted by pohlmacs

4) mfsnetwork is not being set to yes in the second elseif which is preventing network.tcl from being added to the author file for firstboot. Once we added that yes to the second elseif, networking finally worked.

That's because the Zipper does not yet support 6.3a software. It recognized your service number as that belonging to a HR10-250, and proceeded as if you were running 3.1.5f. An easier way to handle this is to enter a service number prefix of 101, as I described here.

Originally Posted by pohlmacs

5) The clear command at the end of the script masks an error message that is being generated by the second else-if in relation to the resolv.conf file. Upon further inspection, the file is not created because our fresh image already has a symbolic link from /tivo/etc to the other partition that isnt mounted in this script (not sure which one). So, when it tried to write to that file, it can't because the link is pointing to a file that doesn't exist and can't be written to.

Again because you're using the Zipper on tivo software it wasn't meant to work with. Using a 101 prefix would have fixed this too.

Originally Posted by pohlmacs

6) It appears that there may be an issue with the new soft-linking of the hacks in /var/hacks to the enhancements directory. When tivowebplus is loading on restart, we see that it cannot write to some directory, as I am getting errors trying to change themes as well. Could it be that the new directory is not set rw? Because, by default, the /var directory has rw and don't need to mount -o...,rw to write to that. We don't want to enable rw explicitly for security... so I think I may need to move stuff back to var for TWP.

The newest version of TWP does indeed try to write files which fails on a read-only filesystem. IMO putting it in /var is bad idea, because /var occasionally gets wiped. A better solution is to mount the filesystem read-write before starting TWP and then change back to ro after it loads. The next version of my enhancement script will have this change incorporated.

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your observations, but I don't want confuse the masses into thinking they have to correct anything before they run the zipper. On the website, I posted instructions for zippering an HR10-250 using a procedure that I thought would be easiest for most newbies. Other users like you who know what's going on can use the 101 prefix, and easily deal with the symlinks, etc.

[pohlmacs]

Don't get me wrong, I appreciate your observations, but I don't want confuse the masses into thinking they have to correct anything before they run the zipper. On the website, I posted instructions for zippering an HR10-250 using a procedure that I thought would be easiest for most newbies. Other users like you who know what's going on can use the 101 prefix, and easily deal with the symlinks, etc.

That's good info, I guess obviously there is an issue when you are doing the right thing by answer the question "357" but do not get the expected results... sure caused a lot of headache for us from what should otherwise is a great way to script the hack that you've done. Maybe some mod can me made to the script to handle this honest case. Judging from some of the seemingly related network posts on getting zipper to work on HR10-250 on 6.3a, this may be the case and many may not realize it may be the same issue.

Thanks for the info... hope to hear back on TWP forum about getting the Web Remote back... it is the feature that I use the most and actually quite frustrating to do all of this upgrading and now realize it only works with 3.1.5f right now (from what I can tell). Doh!

Craig

[dpoteat]

This will be my 1st TiVo upgrade attempt. Newbie at this but I've always built my own computers (18 years). I know DOS - Linux similar, and I've popped open my TiVo to replace a noisy fan. I've read the newbie guides, hindsdale, weaknees and a hundred forums. I am too cheap to buy Instantcake.

I want to use weaknees to transfer my current 40 gig to an 80 I got for $10 (did I mention I'm cheap?) keeping the original disk as a backup. I then want to use Zipper after that - I did buy the $5 LBA ISO and made a proper zipper disk only without the Instantcake ISO.

My question is this okay? Do I need to reinsert the new drive in the Tivo in between Weakness and Zipper installations.

I have a $12 Linksys WUSB11 on the way too. Any forewarnings would be greatly appreciated.

[willardcpa]

Since this is your first run through. I would recommend putting it back in the box after the Weaknees copy operation, just to make sure that it works at that stage. Then pull it and run the zipper. Otherwise if it doesn't work you will be wondering which step was messed up.

[vMAC]

Originally Posted by Da Goon

No wireless "G" adapters are compatible with Directivos.

Right now I'm running a Tivo G adaptor on my HR10-250 seems to be working perfectly for me!