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| Drew Black broken crankshaft  8011 Posts 9/99 |  Posted - Nov 20 2003 : 12:35PMWe had DirecTV with Tivo installed yesterday. I noticed there are a couple USB ports on the back of the unit. Anyone know what these are for?
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Hardware  All-Star Member Your other left 14595 Posts 3/02 | Posted - Nov 20 2003 : 1:02PM [Link] |
| Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Nov 22 2003 : 2:51AM Granted, mine's a standalone, not a DirectTiVO, but I get my guides via the web, and can log onto MyTivo and schedule recordings which get added to the TiVO via the 'net etc... [Link] |
| Drew Black broken crankshaft 8011 Posts 9/99 | Posted - Nov 22 2003 : 3:04AM It looks like the tivo box runs a customized version of Linux with standard off the shelf guts in it. I might try to pick one up just to tinker with and try out some of these sofware hacks. [Link] |
| Jeff @ IAFD Webmaster IAFD.COM 931 Posts 6/00 | Posted - Nov 22 2003 : 3:17PM You can get a TiVONet kit from 9thTee which makes networking the Series I much easier... from there, it's fairly trivial to get to the BASH shell and hackaway. There's a humongous community to TiVO hackers out there... I wish I had the time to play that way, but sadly, I merely use it as a tool... tho I do with the streaming media wasn't so much of a hack; it's one of the few things ReplayTV got right... [Link] |
| Evil_Rip Senior Member Power overwhelming 1117 Posts 12/99 | Posted - Nov 29 2003 : 2:24AM Here's a site you may be interested in http://www.linux-hacker.net/ [Link] |
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