Load SageTV Linux on a Tivo?

laurenglenn · #1 02-15-2006, 07:40 PM

Has anyone thought of installing SageTV on a Tivo box? All the necessary hardware is there..... USB ethernet, hardware MPEG decoder, remote..... you won't need a keyboard..........

If someone could either use the OSD and Mplayer plugins to get a Tivo box to work, it would be a reallllly cheap box with a hardware decoder.

Just hoping.

Lauren

dadams · #2 02-15-2006, 11:45 PM

I was wondering the same thing. I have a series 2 Tivo that I would love to switch over to Sage.

I was a little upset when I discontinued my Tivo service and learned I couldn't use the box to even manually set a timed recording. I was going to sell it on ebay, but never got around to it.

Dennis

dbfresh23 · #3 02-16-2006, 10:06 PM

It would basically be the same issue as the Roku. It's not x86 based so to do it you would need an x86 emulator at the very least. Last I knew the Tivo OS is open source so it could be worth playing with if you have an old tivo and a spare hdd so as not to mess up the Tivo stuff.

laurenglenn · #4 02-16-2006, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by dbfresh23

It would basically be the same issue as the Roku. It's not x86 based so to do it you would need an x86 emulator at the very least. Last I knew the Tivo OS is open source so it could be worth playing with if you have an old tivo and a spare hdd so as not to mess up the Tivo stuff.

If SageTV decided to also compile SageLinux in PowerPC for this purpose..... and released a different ISO..... then you wouldn't need the emulator.

Lauren

alijiwani · #5 02-22-2006, 09:09 PM

i have access to an old Tivo no longer being used. anyone know of anyway to load any third party software onto it? I dont care at all about keeping it in its original form and would be more than happy to load a custom kernal on it.

AboveUnrefined · #6 02-22-2006, 09:27 PM

http://tivo.stevejenkins.com/network...#_Toc101001739

Goes through how to get some sort of web interface on a series 1, among other things...

alijiwani · #7 02-23-2006, 05:13 PM

thanks for the link - but thats more for people who just want to extend the use of their Tivo so they can access their files. The tivo in question is pretty much junk - it was updated by Tivo so that unless I bother to go back to paying 13 a month again, it doesnt do much of anything. I would rather like to find a way I can run SageClient or SagePlaceshifting or something on it so that I can turn it into an MVP of sorts.

AboveUnrefined · #8 02-25-2006, 07:59 PM

Unless you can find yourself a good reverse engineer I think this task is nearly impossible.

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