Western Digital TV Live , major update to hacked firmware

[Modelworks]

Brad is at it again and after a period of silence has release a new version of the hacked firmware for the WDTV Live.
Upgrading to the hacked firmware is really simple. Go to the link below. Get the firmware and place the files on a usb drive or thumb drive . They need to be in the root, not any folder. The drive has to be formatted as FAT, not FAT32 or NTFS. Unplug the WDTV, plug in the drive and turn on the WDTV, it will find the files and ask if you want to update. Select yes and then let it finish, can take 5-10 minutes so don't unplug until it boots up with the screen showing it is done.

I have used the previous version of the firmware and it opens up everything from changing the look of the OSD to full ftp support so you can connect a usb hard drive and ftp files over to it to play.





So what is new:

http://b-rad.cc/1066/wdlxtv-live0-3-0/

I have been working extremely hard the past couple weeks. The fruits of my labours have been plentiful too. I’ve stabilized the internals and fleshed out the system to make it more complete & correct…which probably means nothing to 99% of you, but still it needed to be done. After that I went around and started beefing up the firmware with everything I can think of that I might want or which might be useful to have. Well that turned out to be an epic journey down the binary rabbit h01e…After much struggle and a few bottles of potion I came out on top and all the cards fell into place

So now…

* Ever want to run bittorrent on your WD TV Live and manage it through an easy web interface? Check.
* Ever desire NZB (newsgroup/usenet) downloading & postprocessing, with a nice web interface? Check
* Ever Desire a web configuration menu so you don’t have to go to the console ever again to change all the mysterious hidden settings I have peppered everywhere? Almost check, webserver is there and config is under works.

Now I know I say this with every version I produce, but please–please–if you enjoy my produce then consider donating as much (or little) as you see fit. I put in around 200hrs of dev time into this release, and I think it shows.


0.3.0
* lighttpd-1.4.25 webserver w/gd included (default enabled)
* Deluge-1.2.0-rc4 Bittorrent client included (w/ webui) (default disabled)
* nzbget-0.7-r357 & nzbgetweb-0.1.4-t5 include (default disabled)
* hellanzb-0.13 included (default disabled)
* pure-ftpd-1.0.24 w/TLS included (default enabled)
* perl-5.10.1 included
* python-2.5.4 included
* php-cgi-5.2.11-2 included
* screen-4.00.03jw4 included
* unrar-free-0.0.1 included
* par2-0.4 included
* wakeonlan-0.41-10 included
* Rezmus USB-power-on-suspend patch
* fixed video_resume_points_table typo, should be video_resume_point_table
* cifs-interceptor entries now have optional 3rd field for mount options
* /conf/hosts for custom host definitions & fixed resolver for hostname lookup
* possible NTFS hub fix
* Day's S90net.mounts fix
* NTP fix for DHCP users
* 3 background options, look in S00custom-options for details
* crazymount & plug.watch utilize mdev
* working ldconfig & ldd + chsh & showmount included
* all init.d's are disabled during upgrade
* debian-wdlxtv upgraded to Squeeze
* live filesystem booting now working : D !!!!!!! (root filesystem must be in .rootFS to pivot)
* disabled online update procedure
* bash-4.0-4 included
* sshfs-2.2-1 included
* unionfs-0.23.hg.20090611-1 included

 

[Pimmer]

Well that looks very good, Modelworks!! You spend a lot of energy in this job. Thanks a lot. I'll report my experience later on.

 

[sdifox]

there seems to be a lot of people bitching about bricked player after an official bios upgrade.

 

[Modelworks]

there seems to be a lot of people bitching about bricked player after an official bios upgrade.

Yeah, WD a couple weeks ago did an official update that bricked some players. WD made it good , you had to send back your player to get it fixed though. I just use the hacked firmware. Works better and way more features.

 

[sdifox]

Yeah, WD a couple weeks ago did an official update that bricked some players. WD made it good , you had to send back your player to get it fixed though. I just use the hacked firmware. Works better and way more features.

Amazon is estimating 2 month for shipping...

 

[sdifox]

humm, now it's in stock. Ordered 2