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Anyone ever hack a TiVo?

Ichinisan

Ichinisan

Lifer
I picked up one for $20 from a thrift store. It appears to work fine, but it needs service to download program listings.

I'm not aaccustomed to paying for listings as my Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 computers download listings automatically from one of several free sources on the Internet. Is there any way to re-direct a hacked TiVo to get listings from a free source like TitanTV?

I know it's possible to expand the capacity of the hard drive and run a web server interface, but I'm looking for the most practical modification...one that bypasses TiVo's pointless and expensive "service".

Is this wishful thinking? I wanted to make it into something that my mother could use. Should I just scrap it?
 
Head over to the tivo community forums.

However - beware that hacking to get around the service fee is not tolerated there (your thread will be ignored and locked). The "hacking" I've done to mine is limited to stripping the OS off, backing it up, and spanning it to two much much larger hard drives (from 60 hours to 700+ hours).

Without paying the service fee, you can still do manual VCR-like recording. And, with freely available software, you can rip (via network if you have a series 2 Tivo with a USB connector) the media off and archive it.
 
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