Hacking TiVo: The Expansion, Enhancement and Development Starter Kit (ExtremeTech) - Softcover

Keegan, Jeff

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0764543369 ISBN 13: 9780764543364

Publisher: Wiley, 2003

Synopsis

You love your TiVo. Make it love you back.

In Hacking TiVo, TiVo Underground insider Jeff Keegan blows the lid off of your TiVo, literally. Your TiVo does many wonderful things on its own; Hacking TiVo shows you how to access TiVo enhancements that you've never dreamed of.

The obvious hacks are all there, of course, including:

• vastly increasing the size of your TiVo's hard drive
• accessing the backdoor remote control codes
• full detail on how, when, and why to use over 35 backdoor codes
• adding on-screen sports scores, stock tickers and more
• starting and stopping installed hacks with your remote control
• hacking into the TiVo operating system.

Those hacks, while fun and interesting, just scratch the surface.

Advanced hacks covered in the book will show you how to not only connect your TiVo to the Internet, but also allow you to take control of your TiVo remotely via the Web once that connection exists. Hook your TiVo into online instant messaging services like ICQ or Instant Messenger; link it to your Caller ID; display your own photos onscreen; or insert footage from your camcorder into your TiVo.

At the heart of this book is its unique CD-ROM, which makes hacking your TiVo fast and fun. Simply insert the CD and reboot, and your PC becomes a Linux machine, pre-configured and capable of reading and writing to your TiVo hard drives. Simply follow along with the book to install the hacks one at a time, or use the CD’s “install all” feature to install all of the hacks at once! This is simply the easiest CD-ROM available today for TiVo hackers.

At over 500 pages, Hacking TiVo offers more extensive, hands-on coverage of backdoor codes, video extraction, and operating system hacks than any other TiVo book available. And with more than a hundred pages of guidance on writing your own hacks, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

Hacking TiVo is available exclusively from Amazon.com. If you’re looking for the very best book on getting the most out of your TiVo, you’ve come to the right place.

Your TiVo is already great. With Hacking TiVo, take your TiVo to the next level.

About this title

About the Author

JEFF KEEGAN — software engineer by day, TiVo hacker by night. A vocal and active member of the TiVo online community, Jeff wrote and released the mail, search, and log modules for the TivoWeb project. He's a frequent contributor to tivocommunity.com, a forum for TiVo enthusiasts.

In Hacking TiVo, TiVo Underground insider Jeff Keegan blows the lid off of your TiVo, literally. Your TiVo does many wonderful things on its own; Hacking TiVo shows you how to access TiVo enhancements that you've never dreamed of.

The obvious hacks are all there, of course, including:

• vastly increasing the size of your TiVo's hard drive
• accessing the backdoor remote control codes
• full detail on how, when, and why to use over 35 backdoor codes
• adding on-screen sports scores, stock tickers and more
• starting and stopping installed hacks with your remote control
• hacking into the TiVo operating system.

Those hacks, while fun and interesting, just scratch the surface.

Advanced hacks covered in the book will show you how to not only connect your TiVo to the Internet, but also allow you to take control of your TiVo remotely via the Web once that connection exists. Hook your TiVo into online instant messaging services like ICQ or Instant Messenger; link it to your Caller ID; display your own photos onscreen; or insert footage from your camcorder into your TiVo.

At the heart of this book is its unique CD-ROM, which makes hacking your TiVo fast and fun. Simply insert the CD and reboot, and your PC becomes a Linux machine, pre-configured and capable of reading and writing to your TiVo hard drives. Simply follow along with the book to install the hacks one at a time, or use the CD?s ?install all? feature to install all of the hacks at once! This is simply the easiest CD-ROM available today for TiVo hackers.

At over 500 pages, Hacking TiVo offers more extensive, hands-on coverage of backdoor codes, video extraction, and operating system hacks than any other TiVo book available. And with more than a hundred pages of guidance on writing your own hacks, the possibilities are limited only by your imagination.

Hacking TiVo is available exclusively from Amazon.com. If you?re looking for the very best book on getting the most out of your TiVo, you?ve come to the right place.

Your TiVo is already great. With Hacking TiVo, take your TiVo to the next level.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0764543369
• ISBN 13: 9780764543364
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 528