TiVo hacks / Raffi Krikorian.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Krikorian, Raffi.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Digital media.

Home entertainment systems.

Interactive multimedia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (389 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

100 industrial-strength tips & tools

Place of Publication:

Beijing ; Sebastopol, California : O'Reilly, [2003]

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

TiVo Hacks helps you get the most out of your TiVo personal video recorder. Armed with just a screwdriver and basic understanding of PC hardware (or willingness to learn), preeminent hackability awaits. This book includes hacks for changing the order of recorded programs, activating the 30-second skip to blaze through commercials, upgrading TiVo's hard drive for more hours of recording, use of TiVo's Home Media Option to remotely schedule a recording via the Web, log in to the serial port for command-line access to programming data, log files, closed-captioning data, display gra

Contents:

TiVo Hacks; Contributors; Preface; How to Use This Book; Caveat Hacker; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; How to Contact Us; 1. TiVo Remote Control Hacks; 1.2. Remote Control Hacks; 1.3. Backdoor Hacks; 1. Swinging TiVo; 2. Must-Skim TV; The 10-FF40-10 Solution; Speed Reading; 3. Navigation Shortcuts; 4. The 30-Second Skip; 5. An Onscreen Clock; 6. Making the Play Bar Disappear Faster; 7. What&s Your TiVo Doing?; 8. Opening the Backdoor; Opening the Backdoor on TiVo OS 3.1 or Later; 9. Italicizing Everything; 10. Sorting the Now Playing List

11. Turning Off Overshoot Protection12. Controlling Overshoot Protection; 13. Pushing Fast Forward to Eleven; 14. Viewing Suggestions in the To Do List; 15. Viewing ""Hidden"" Recordings; 16. Activating the Node Navigator; 17. Enabling Advanced WishLists; 18. Turning Off the TiVo Software; 19. Applaud the TiVo Team; 2. Adding More Hours; 2.2. Basic Assumptions; 2.3. Gathering Some Information; How Many Hard Drives Does Your TiVo Currently Have?; Should You Add to or Replace Your Drives?; Should You Back Up Your TiVo Before You Upgrade?; 2.4. Getting Everything Together; A Spare Computer

Some SoftwareOther Accessories; 20. Opening the Box; 21. Removing TiVo&s Hard Drive or Drives; Removing the Hard Drive from a Type 2 TiVo; Removing the Hard Drive from a Type 3 TiVo; Removing the Hard Drive from a Type 4 TiVo; 22. Installing TiVo&s Hard Drive in Your PC; 23. Using MFS Tools for Backup and Restore; Boot MFS Tools 2.0 CD or Floppy; Verify Drive Sizes; Unlock Your Drive; 24. Backing Up Your TiVo Software; 25. Restoring from Backup; 26. Adding a Second Drive the Quick-n-Dirty Way; Using BlessTiVo; 27. Putting TiVo&s Drives Back; Putting Hard Drives into Type 2 and Type 3 TiVos

Putting Hard Drives into Type 4 TiVos28. Testing Your TiVo&s New Capacity; 3. The TiVo Shell; 29. Mounting and Working with TiVo&s Drive Partitions; Mounting Partitions; Poking About; Go To; 30. Enabling Bash over the Serial Port; 31. Copying Unix Binaries to TiVo; 32. Clean Up and Shut Down; 33. Connecting to TiVo Serially; ZTerm on Macintosh; Minicom for Linux; Boot TiVo; Troubleshooting; 34. Installing Unix Binaries on TiVo; 35. Poking Around; 36. Moving Stuff to and from Your TiVo; ZTerm on Macintosh; 37. Installing the less Pager on Your TiVo; 38. Text Editing with vi on Your TiVo

Running elvisSee Also; 39. Text Editing with Emacs on Your TiVo; 40. Displaying Images on Your TV; 41. Putting Text on the Screen; 42. Capturing Closed Captioning; Showing Closed Captioning on Your Television; 43. Caller ID on Your TV; 44. Running the Same Thing Over and Over...; 45. Save Multiple Shows at a Time to Your VCR; 46. Playing MP3s on your TiVo; 4. Bring the Internet to TiVo; 47. Running PPP over TiVo&s Serial Port; 48. Accept a PPP Connection from TiVo on Your PC; Configuring Linux; Testing Your PPP-over-Serial Connection; 49. Getting Your TiVo Series 1 Online

50. Getting Your TiVo Series 2 Online

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF (ebrary, viewed September 28, 2013).

ISBN:

9781306817080

1306817080

9780596153427

0596153422

9780596552411

0596552416

OCLC:

609841235