But when my TiVo got hit by lightning and the warranty center reformatted the core hard drive I knew that I'd eventually have to do it.
I'd have to upgrade the TiVo again.
I did a quick audit of the state of TiVo hacking technology today. It has come a long way. The first time... about two years ago... I was stuck with disks, cd's, jumpers and a whole bunch of little tasks. Each one had to be researched and was a chance to screw the whole plan up... which is exactly what I ended up doing back then.
These days all the software you need is available in a single package. It took me about 30 minutes from start to end. You essentially remove the the TiVo hard drives, attach them to your computer, boot to a Linux variant, issue an mfsadd command and reinstall the hard drives in TiVo. After three months without TiVo at full strength it's nice to have have it back.
What caused me to do it today? The Vuelta a Espana has been on OLN lately and each day I've had to watch or risk losing the recording. The base TiVo just didn't have enough capacity. But now I'll be able to record each stage of the race and watch it at my leisure.
Glad that nothing went wrong with the upgrade because I was certainly not in the mood to spend a weekend with it.
30 Min Swim, 10 Min Stationary Bike
