Anybody know how to hack this piece of shit Direct Tv DVR?
 

So Direct TV in all their wisdom has decided to disable the USB ports on the back of ALL their Tivo DVR units.

This would not usually be a concern but for those who use Vonage or other VOIP services, they are not compatible with Tivo units. To help with this, Tivo added USB ports and allows you to connect either a wired or wireless network adapter and download your updates over the Internet.

Kind hard to do this though when the idiots over at Direct Tv have the USB ports turned off.

I've been searching for an hour or so and all I can find is "Yes, you can hack the Direct Tv DVR's and turn on the USB ports but we can't discuss that kind of stuff here."

WELL WERE THE FUCK CAN YOU DISCUSS THIS THEN?????

Assholes. :thefinger

The Direct Tv Unit is a model number R10, series 2 with software version 6.1 and a service number prefix of 521.

I know a bunch of you are self proclaimed "l33t" hackers so let's se what you can do.

I'm going out now...Hopefully there will be a solution from the wonderful GFYers whom I love so much, when I return.

http://www.weethet.nl/english/tivo_dtv2_hacksleeper.php

or this one http://www.weethet.nl/english/tivo_dtv2_os4hackrid.php

google 4L

To connect the laptop and the TiVo together for the purposes of TiVoToGo transfers, you'll need:

- A crossover ethernet cable. This differs from a standard ethernet cable, in that several of the wire pairs are swapped, to allow direct transfer from one device to another without a hub or switch. You can pick one up at a store or online (or make your own if you have a crimper, etc).

- A wired USB ethernet adapter compatible with TiVo. http://www.tivo.com/adapters/ has a list of adapters that are known to work.

However, if you want to connect the TiVo to your DSL connection permanently, you might just want to invest in a broadband router (as cheap as free after rebate at times).

To transfer / watch the recordings, you'll need TiVo Desktop 2.1, available at http://www.tivo.com/desktop/.

Read the fucking thread Pete.

I'll check these when I get back. Thank you.

i saw this coming a mile away.

:(

U cant the usb is not setup for file transfer, thats why I was giving you a differnt way to do it AARON.

Should be the right one...

taken from the page:

The aim of this hack is:

Upgrade your TiVo and give it some more recording space (optional).
Make your DirecTV TiVo run OS 4.x (including those nice features like folders, HMO, look at pictures, share recordings, etc)
This will enable the TiVo's USB ports which we can use the ports for Ethernet connection.
Enable FTP/Telnet/TiVoWeb etc, so we can remote control our TiVo.
Enable TyTools so we can copy a movie from the TiVo harddisk to our PC, so we can burn our recordings to VCD, SVCD, DVD or DivX.

However, you can break into the DTiVo box to activate your USB ports and then attach an Ethernet or Wireless adapter. How you ask... well the folks at TiVo were kind enough to use the Linux operating system to run everything. And where there is Linux, there are a ton of Techies trying to give it more power (the sitcom "Home Improvement" comes to mind).

If this interests you visit http://www.tivocommunity.com and http://www.tivostuff.com/downloads/f....asp?sort=name


from here: http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2003/07/how_to_setup_a_.html

This is not even worth responding to.

Thanks to those who provided helpful information. I'll try some of these options tomorrow.

I use to love tivo, then one day my screen goes blue and i get this tivo message.

"Tivo has a serious error, we will attempt to fix this error, please do not touch tivo or change the channel for the next 3 hours"

i was like Ha, fuck this shit. changed the channel and my tivo has never worked since, this was 2 months ago, just ended up cancelling it last week when i saw it in the bottom of my closet.

good fucking luck you can do it you need software called CAKE nad a backup drive and ya have to do all kinds of stupid shit.. or you can buy pre configured drives from a few companies.. I finally gave up.. and by the way the fucking tivo to go does not work with most directtv dvrs YAY I have the hr10 250 and the guid sucks my dick... But I bought 3 of them at 800 bucks each so I am stuck witht hem for a while. also direct tv has dropped Tivo and has their own dvr comign out just to confuse and cluster fuck the whole thing more.

http://www.9thtee.com/tivo-dthd.htm

http://www.9thtee.com/tivo-instantcake.htm

I now use the cable companies DVR and it sucks and is soo clunky and slow. I enjoyed TIVO while it lasted, but companies are smartening up and cutting out the middle man, good bye tivo.

aaron, as someone posted, this is the link you need

http://www.weethet.nl/english/tivo_dtv2_hacksleeper.php

i have done it, and it is SWEET

yeah, the newest directv units are coming out with their own dvr system, and doing away with tivo

i could care less what I have, as long as I have DUAL TUNERS....you CAN NOT beat having dual tuners....except if you had TRIPLE TUNERS...haha

i am addicted....my mom and dad have a dvr with their cable, and it is a single tuner, and I am like, what is the point, might as well just use your vcr...LOL

We have three different units in our house.. too many people all different ages. We used to get it free till they did away with the P3 cards..or maybe it was p4 cards.
I still have my little card booter machine.. its useless now..dammit.

Yeah, I checked that out after tical posted it. Looks pretty straight forward and simple to do just gonna take a bit of time.

yeah, it is very straight forward....and honestly, i wish I had seen that little picture tutorial when I did it....all they had when I did it was a .txt document...LOL

that SUCKED

well worth it though

i still don't have a real phone line, only vonage, so I pack up my reciever about every 3 months and head to a friends house and plug it up to their phone line and grab the latest updates