{"id":151,"date":"2004-03-13T18:22:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-13T18:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/Miscellany\/tivoalive.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"tivoalive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jclark.org\/weblog\/2004\/03\/13\/tivoalive\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Alive… Alive!"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I noted previously<\/a>, my TiVo<\/a> required a reboot the a couple of days ago, after which It reported a severe error. This was accompanied by instructions to wait three hours while it tried to phone home for repairs. I went to bed before the three hours were up.<\/p>\n

When I checked on it again last night, it was still displaying the error message. Before calling customer service as directed, I decided to try one more time. I performed a reboot with extreme prejudice<\/em> (a.k.a. unplugging), and waited while it cycled through startup screens. Three or four minutes later, success!<\/p>\n

While I love my TiVo, and do not begrudge TiVo, Inc. the $13 a month I pay for programming info, this episode has gotten me thinking once again about exploring MythTV<\/a>. One of the things I’d really like to do is run MythTV on my existing TiVo hardware, since A) I already paid for it, B) It’s got a hardware MPEG-2 encoder built in, and C) it’s already a working Linux box. Accoring to the MythTV docs, you can’t run MythTV on TiVo hardware<\/a>. It seems to me that when I read the documentation several months ago, the stated reason was that the MythTV interface runs under X windows, and the TiVo couldn’t run X11. However, the 0.14 release notes<\/a> state that directfb is now supported; throw in QT\/embedded and X is no longer required. <\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the documentation now states that the TiVo has non-standard hardware for which no drivers (or programming info) exist. Of course, Tivo has released their kernel mods (GPL), but that doesn’t mean they had to release custom drivers. Still, I remeain hopeful. I’ve been looking for any related threads in mailing list archives, so far with no luck. If anyone knows more, please comment below. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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