Category: TiVo

Index of ftp://ftp.alt.org/pub/tivo/mirrors/kazymyr/

This guy has a ton of TiVo 1 software that I am anxious to try. Among other things, he has a version of libc that solves the "Illegal Instruction" errors that occur in a number of utilities, because TiVo's libc is broken. Tim's...

I got quite a few useful utilities from: this page

I don't know whether this cross-compiler is perfect or not. I was able to compile BusyBox with it and run most of the commands, but there are some problems with the resulting BusyBox (e.g.: "ls -l" and "top" cause an "Illegal...

I needed this to get BusyBox to run on my TiVo (placed it in /lib). (I'll post BusyBox after I test it and iron out a few of the wrinkles - e.g.: "Using fallback suid method") I simply took the .zip file from here:...

Pretty exciting news from TiVo... Tivo's HME SDK (by Jeremy Zawodny) I'm glad to see TiVo trying to do some new tricks and opening things to the developer community. They're going to need every trick in the book to fight the...

Yesterday, I took the A drive out of Series 1 TiVo and put it in my PC , booted Knoppix, and did a backup using "dd" (mfstool would not work for me, presumably because my TiVo Series 1 has two drives and mfstool probably needs to...