TiVo Hacks
By Raffi Krikorian
   
Publisher : O'Reilly
Pub Date : August 2003
ISBN : 0-596-00553-9

   Copyright
   Credits
     About the Author
     Contributors
   Preface
     What Is a TiVo?
     How to Use This Book
     Caveat Hacker
     How This Book Is Organized
     Conventions Used in This Book
     How to Contact Us
    Chapter 1.  TiVo Remote Control Hacks
     Section 1.1.  Hacks #1-19
     Section 1.2.  Remote Control Hacks
     Section 1.3.  Backdoor Hacks
     Hack 1.  Swinging TiVo
     Hack 2.  Must-Skim TV
     Hack 3.  Navigation Shortcuts
     Hack 4.  The 30-Second Skip
     Hack 5.  An Onscreen Clock
     Hack 6.  Making the Play Bar Disappear Faster
     Hack 7.  What's Your TiVo Doing?
     Hack 8.  Opening the Backdoor
     Hack 9.  Italicizing Everything
     Hack 10.  Sorting the Now Playing List
     Hack 11.  Turning Off Overshoot Protection
     Hack 12.  Controlling Overshoot Protection
     Hack 13.  Pushing Fast Forward to Eleven
     Hack 14.  Viewing Suggestions in the To Do List
     Hack 15.  Viewing "Hidden" Recordings
     Hack 16.  Activating the Node Navigator
     Hack 17.  Enabling Advanced WishLists
     Hack 18.  Turning Off the TiVo Software
     Hack 19.  Applaud the TiVo Team
    Chapter 2.  Adding More Hours
     Section 2.1.  Hacks #20-28
     Section 2.2.  Basic Assumptions
     Section 2.3.  Gathering Some Information
     Section 2.4.  Getting Everything Together
     Hack 20.  Opening the Box
     Hack 21.  Removing TiVo's Hard Drive or Drives
     Hack 22.  Installing TiVo's Hard Drive in Your PC
     Hack 23.  Using MFS Tools for Backup and Restore
     Hack 24.  Backing Up Your TiVo Software
     Hack 25.  Restoring from Backup
     Hack 26.  Adding a Second Drive the Quick-n-Dirty Way
     Hack 27.  Putting TiVo's Drives Back
     Hack 28.  Testing Your TiVo's New Capacity
    Chapter 3.  The TiVo Shell
     Section 3.1.  Hacks #29-46
     Hack 29.  Mounting and Working with TiVo's Drive Partitions
     Hack 30.  Enabling Bash over the Serial Port
     Hack 31.  Copying Unix Binaries to TiVo
     Hack 32.  Clean Up and Shut Down
     Hack 33.  Connecting to TiVo Serially
     Hack 34.  Installing Unix Binaries on TiVo
     Hack 35.  Poking Around
     Hack 36.  Moving Stuff to and from Your TiVo
     Hack 37.  Installing the less Pager on Your TiVo
     Hack 38.  Text Editing with vi on Your TiVo
     Hack 39.  Text Editing with Emacs on Your TiVo
     Hack 40.  Displaying Images on Your TV
     Hack 41.  Putting Text on the Screen
     Hack 42.  Capturing Closed Captioning
     Hack 43.  Caller ID on Your TV
     Hack 44.  Running the Same Thing Over and Over...
     Hack 45.  Save Multiple Shows at a Time to Your VCR
     Hack 46.  Playing MP3s on your TiVo
    Chapter 4.  Bring the Internet to TiVo
     Section 4.1.  Hacks #47-62
     Hack 47.  Running PPP over TiVo's Serial Port
     Hack 48.  Accept a PPP Connection from TiVo on Your PC
     Hack 49.  Getting Your TiVo Series 1 Online
     Hack 50.  Getting Your TiVo Series 2 Online
     Hack 51.  Figuring Out Your TiVo's IP Address
     Hack 52.  Getting Telnet to Your Ethernet-Enabled TiVo
     Hack 53.  Fetching Files from the Web
     Hack 54.  wget Things from the Web
     Hack 54.  Setting Up an FTP server
     Hack 56.  Using the Same Filesystem
     Hack 57.  Reading Email on Your TiVo
     Hack 58.  Using the TiVo Control Station
     Hack 59.  Turning Your TV into a Virtual Window
     Hack 60.  Streaming Internet Audio Broadcasts to TiVo
     Hack 61.  Watching Your Email
     Hack 62.  Listen to Your Email
    Chapter 5.  TiVo and the Web
     Section 5.1.  Hacks #63-80
     Hack 63.  Signing Up for the Home Media Option
     Hack 64.  Remotely Scheduling a Recording Through the HMO
     Hack 65.  TiVoWeb, a Web Interface to Your TiVo
     Hack 66.  Scheduling a Recording with TiVoWeb
     Hack 67.  What's on and beyond the To Do List?
     Hack 68.  Deleting Scheduled Recordings
     Hack 69.  Undeleting Recordings
     Hack 70.  Renaming Recordings
     Hack 71.  Editing Season Passes
     Hack 72.  Emulating the TiVo Remote
     Hack 73.  Emulating TiVo's Screens
     Hack 74.  Using TiVo Mail
     Hack 75.  Changing Channel Logos
     Hack 76.  Automatically Assigning All Logos
     Hack 77.  Creating Your Own Custom Logos
     Hack 78.  Dropping New Extensions into TiVoWeb
     Hack 79.  Starting TiVoWeb with TiVo
     Hack 80.  Putting Your TiVo on the Web
    Chapter 6.  Working with Videos
     Section 6.1.  Hacks #81-87
     Section 6.2.  Limitations
     Hack 81.  Pulling Video from Your TiVo over FTP
     Hack 82.  Pulling Video from Your TiVo via Web Interface
     Hack 83.  Playing Extracted Video
     Hack 84.  Streaming Video Directly from TiVo
     Hack 85.  Converting Extracted Video
     Hack 86.  Putting Videos Back into TiVo
     Hack 87.  Moving Shows Between TiVo Units
    Chapter 7.  Writing Code
     Section 7.1.  Hacks #88-100
     Section 7.2.  A Crash Course in Tcl
     Hack 88.  Navigating the Media Filesystem
     Hack 89.  Inspecting MFS Objects
     Hack 90.  Extracting Your Now Showing List
     Hack 91.  Discovering Your Favorite Actors
     Hack 92.  Discovering Your Favorite Writers, Producers, and Directors
     Hack 93.  Turning Favorites Lists into JavaScript
     Hack 94.  How Do You Watch TV?
     Hack 95.  Browsing Through TiVo's Resources
     Hack 96.  Making Recordings Start Late and End Early
     Hack 97.  Editing Resources with a Point and a Click
     Hack 98.  Catching TiVo Events
     Hack 99.  Disabling the Live TV button
     Hack 100.  Cross-Compiling C Code for TiVo
   Colophon
   Index

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