Tivo skip hack

It does, thanks to a little Easter egg magic. The button on the TiVo remote will bring you to the end of a program, or if you are at the end, it will bring you to the beginning. If you are fast forwarding, the button will skip you to the next tick mark.

This hack is all about repurposing that button to act as the second skip. Bring up any recorded program or Live TV. Your button will now skip forward by 30 seconds. After I get back from Seattle where I've been attending a conference all week , I'll gather the necessary pieces and parts, and see if I can do it.

In a couple of weeks, I'll be back with an update on my TiVo hacking adventures including a report on whether or not I got the shock of my life from that unshielded power supply. Start an "Is David dead? In the meantime, if you have any TiVo hacks of your own, let me know! What do you think? Have any TiVo hacks of your own? Think I'm risking life, limb, and a lifetime of Dossa and Joe reruns messing around with this stuff?

TalkBack to me below. Developers are in short supply. Here are the skills and programming languages employers need. McDonald's quietly revealed its stunning future -- and some customers will like it. The painful shame of owning an Android phone. Time for a Linux smartphone? Kenny, While you are correct, I think most Tivoers will get the wrong impression. Those are instructions to watch regular TV while Tivo is recording. I would have thought that kind of setup would be obvious, but maybe not.

This is one of the reasons I love MythTV. I can add as many tuner cards as I want, record different channels at the same time as watching live TV with all the usual Tivo type features, limited only by the number of tuners I have in my Myth box. Check out the HDHomeRun from SiliconDust; you can add as many tuners to your Myth environment as you want, without even opening your box and cheaper, too. But… this is not a TiVo hack, its something entirely different.

Record from dual, networked HD tuners. For the first hack, it looks like you lose the ability to skip in 15 minute increments. This should be mentioned in the article. That would eb helpful too. Milch: You do not lose the ability to skip in 15 minute increments.

To disable the second skip, repeat the sequence of remote codes above or just reboot your TiVo. You know what hack I want? Who cares about the time? Wonder what happened? My parents were confused with the instructions for the 30 second skipping hack…I posted photos of the actual buttons to press. Dave, I reviewed one in its infancy at DVRplayground.

Questions: 1. Is there anyway to watch a tivo show that is currently being recorded onto a PC? We use the Tivo Desktop, but it requires the show to be completely recorded before transfering. Watch the last 10 minutes—finished rooms, pounded bots, voting off the island, etc. Local newscasters speak just too slowly for words? Want to skim the cream off that State of the Union Address without waiting for the morning paper to summarize it for you?

Turn on Closed Captioning [Hack 42] , and hit. Closed Captioning is perfect for skimming the news or cramming two or three of those reality shows into one hour of viewing without missing a single word. Remote control shortcuts mean cruising through the TiVo menu system at high velocity. Typical TiVo menu navigation is serial, moving step-by-step from one window to another using the Next and Previous buttons.

While its menu system is rather well laid out and designed for ease of use, after spending a significant amount of time with your TiVo and its remote control, the travel time and number of button presses can prove rather tedious. Thankfully, a set of navigation shortcuts are built right in allowing you to leap between major menu items in a single bound—that is, a single button press.

Table lists known remote control shortcuts and their associated menus. Forget about fast forwarding through commercials; blaze through in just three to five clicks of your remote. One of the religious differences between TiVo and ReplayTV owners is how they fast forward through commercials.

ReplayTV, on the other hand, has a second skip button, timed specifically for skipping through commercials. Since television commercials are traditionally a multiple of seconds long, ReplayTV owners just hit the second skip button three to five times to render commercials only a minor annoyance. This feature is so effective that it has stirred up quite a bit of controversy with the networks, who are getting their hackles up, labeling commercial skipping as theft and even taking ReplayTV to court.

If you are fast forwarding, the. This hack is all about repurposing that button to act as the second skip. Bring up any recorded program or Live TV. Then, enter the following sequence on your remote:. Note that this hack is not permanent.

If at any time your TiVo needs to be rebooted—after becoming unplugged or as a result of a power failure—the hack will go away and you will have to reapply it.

Turn your TiVo into a glorified and expensive clock. Watching TV is an amazingly effective way of losing track of time. This hack embeds a clock right there into your line of sight, at the bottom-right of your screen. You will hear TiVo bling with a thumbs-up sound, and a floating white-on-black clock will appear at the bottom-right of your screen, as shown in Figure To remove the clock at any time, simply reenter the sequence and visit any TiVo menu.

If you do not go to a menu, the clock will just sit there happily until you do so. Reduce the amount of time the play bar lingers on the screen. So, you are a speed freak. Not only have you mastered the. The one thing that particularly annoys you is that after you fast forward, then hit. There are two types of TiVo users: those who want as much output on the screen as possible, and the rest of us who want our screens to be as free of superfluous readout as possible.

To reduce the amount of time the play bar appears on the screen, enter the following remote control sequence:. Now give it a whirl; fast forward through a show and then push. That bar should disappear right away. Undo the hack at any time by entering the sequence again. Ever wonder just what your TiVo is up to?

The red light on the front of the TiVo box always raises some curiosity. To most of us, that hardly seems like a worthwhile thing to do. You can also peek into the mind of your TiVo. As with the clock hack [Hack 5] , reenter the button sequence, and visit any TiVo menu or live television to make it disappear again. Backdoors are the fun remote codes—the ones that require a little more knowledge to get into. To use any of the backdoor remote control codes, we first have to ask TiVo to enable the as-yet-inactive backdoors code.

The one complication in enabling this mode is that it fully depends on the version of the TiVo OS your TiVo is running. If your TiVo OS version is 3. You must enter each of these backdoor codes verbatim, so pay close attention to the spaces.

Follow this by pressing the. You will hear three thumbs-up blings, and your TiVo will briefly display Backdoors enabled! At this point, you are in like Flynn. The only way to disable backdoors currently is to reboot your TiVo. If your TiVo is running a version of the operating system newer than 3. More recent versions of the TiVo operating system have started making it a little more difficult to enable backdoor mode.

When you enter a potential code via Browse By Name or Search by Title as we did above, TiVo applies a special function to what you have entered and tests to see if the two hashes match up. The problem is, since the hash function is one-way, simply knowing the hash of backdoor code tells us nothing about what it is in the clear.

But it does tell us that if we know what kind of hash function the backdoor code uses in the case of the TiVo, it uses the SHA-1 hash , then we can replace the existing hash with a new hash derived from text we do know.