By pressing "select," then "play," then "select" again, the number "30" and "select" with the remote control, users can skip through programs for 30 seconds at a time. TiVo has said the second-skip feature is not officially part of the company's product and the company doesn't promote it.
Industry analysts have said TiVo could find itself embroiled in a lawsuit if it was found that it developed a system that allowed customers to skip through commercials.
Digital Experts Swap Talk. Tinker around with Gadgets and Gizmos. Raffi Krikorian is an unapologetic TiVo fanatic. It should be possible to eliminate the need for a VM, working directly on a physical Linux host but I prefer some of the niceties VirtualBox provides like Shared Folders and VM snapshots, and also complete system isolation.
Also by using VirtualBox, your TiVo virtual disk images are presented to the virtual OS as block devices, which is what mfs-utils is expecting. This makes our future life much, much easier.
Of course, TiVo can't do this right out of the box--and it probably never will. But the nice programmers left a backdoor open for those of us willing to join the ranks of TiVo hackers.
AS WITH ANY good hacking article and this will only be a fair one , I should warn you up front that proceeding further could render your TiVo useless, void your warranty, violate all sorts of end-user licensing agreements, and, in extreme cases, kill you if you happen to touch the unshielded power supply inside the box while having an especially unlucky day. That caveat out of the way, let me tell you how I got started down this road to hackerdom.
It began when Steve Kovsky heard me griping about my TiVo on the radio. After Steve heard me griping about how TiVo won't let me skip ads, he sent me an e-mail containing a sequence of keystrokes. When entered via the TiVo remote control, these keystrokes turn the "skip to beginning" and "skip to end" keys into "skip back about 10 seconds" and "skip forward 30 seconds" buttons. It took me about four tries before the sequence worked. But ever since then, I've been skipping commercials whole as opposed to merely fast-forwarding through them with aplomb.
For starters, TiVo is Linux-based. It also helps more that the company seems to take a benign view of activities of this sort. But the real key is that button reassignability was built into the machine in the first place, perhaps indicating that the TiVo people have a warm spot in their hearts for people smart enough to discover and enter reprogramming codes. I won't publish the keystroke sequence here, because I think you need to read about it in some detail before you start messing around.
Another hard drive with a small FAT32 partition is really recommended. Rename the virgin kernel file to vmlinux. Copy that over to the second drive. If the kernel file you downloaded ends with a. For simplicity, uncompress these files before you copy them over to the secondary drive. I recommend using 7-Zip as it supports all the compression formats listed in this guide. Extract tivotools. Again, 7-Zip will handle this task flawlessly.
It is also free. Hinsdale How-To You should have everything you need now. Let's get our hands dirty! First and foremost, disconnect any drives that you do not need. It is quite possible and easy to wipe out Windows or important data during this process, so it is best not to tempt fate.
Follow the Hinsdale How-To. This is an excellent guide for backing up and restoring the TiVo software to a larger drive. Be sure to test that your new hard drive works in your TiVo before continuing. For DirecTiVo owners, you might want to force a few calls because this is the last chance it will have to update itself. Allowing a DirecTiVo to call in after it is hacked is not recommended.
If you lose your local channels, check out this tip. If you need or want a clean image of the latest TiVo software for your device, consider purchasing an Instant Cake CD from dvrupgrade.
This CD has a simple wizard that installs the image on your hard drive. Unlike Windows, you must mount the hard drive partitions before you can access them. If you followed the Hinsdale How-To, you should be familiar with this, but I will review it. First you need to create new directories which you will use to access the various drives and their partitions. In the example above, we are creating a mnt directory to mount our hard drive partitions.
Then, we create directories for the 4th, 7th, and 9th var partitions on the TiVo drive. Now we need to mount the drives. Don't be too alarmed if you see some messages or warnings. Use the cd and ls -l commands to make sure your drives are configured correctly. If you TiVo has never upgraded itself or you are using a clean image, there may not be anything on hda7.
It can be tricky to find and mount the correct serial drive. If you mount the wrong drive, use the umount command to unmount and try again. Modified files are replaced with the originals. Obviously, you want your hacks to be there whenever the power goes out.
Fortunately, there is a program to kill this hdinitrd process called killhdinitrd. Copy the vmlinux. An example follows. It may or may not be the right commands depending on your file names and locations. Follow the on-screen prompts to patch the kernel file. Once that is done, apply the kernels to the two root partitions An upgrade will wipe out your hacks, and it is best to upgrade only when you are prepared to do so.
Enter this command for your TiVo drive:.
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