DIY for Geeks

Source: DVR Playground

While hacking your TiVo DVR, you should never use the original drive that came in your unit. Depending on the method that you employ while expanding the capacity, you might need to use the image on your original drive at a future date. The first thing you should do is remove the original TiVo DVR and store in a safe place.

Next, to determine which hard drive would be best suited for your TiVo DVR, you need to know what kind of TiVo DVR you have. For instance, do you have a TiVo Series 1, 2 or 3 and is it a standalone or integrated TiVo DVR (DirecTV TiVo DVR for example)? Next you need to determine if you want to add a drive, replace the current drive or replace with two new drives. Since we recommend not reusing the original TiVo DVR hard drive, you should really determine if you want to simply replace the drive or do you want to replace the drive with two new drives. Finally, you need to choose the right size and brand. We provide some hints below.

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Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.

Introduction

My MythTV system records DVB programmes into very large MPEG2 files. These can be streamed around the house over a wireless-g connection without any problems. The bast way to do this is to install a MythTV frontend on a laptop. However, what if I wanted to view them on a PDA or over the Internet?

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Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.

Welcome to part 2 of my guide on installing MythTV the easy way. It’s assumed that you’ve followed part 1 and got the basic system working. Now we’ll concentrate on some of the additional components.

Remote Control

Here we’ll look at getting the remote control that comes with the Hauppauge Nova-T working using the LIRC package. Contrary to almost everything you’ll read on the web, this can be done without compiling LIRC.

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Article courtesy of Garry Parker at parker1.co.uk.

Introduction

With the release of Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft), installing MythTV is now easier than ever.

Ubuntu is a great basis for a general purpose MythTV box and now comes with the latest version of MythTV (0.20) in its standard packages.

This guide focuses on DVB in the UK (Freeview), but much of it should be applicable to anybody installing Myth.

The old Ubuntu Dapper guide can be found here.

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