Hughes HR10-250 Tivo Hacking

Guides

• Ironman's Guide (aka DSmooth's Guide)
• ][ronman: My HR10-250 Hacking How-To (based on my personal experience)
• DSmooth's (a.k.a. ][ronMan's) HDTivo (HR10-250) Hacking Guide v1.10
• MarkZ's "Newbie guide to the Hughes HR10-250"
• DirecTV HD DVR HR10-250 Upgrade Thread
  See POST #652 by gr8reb8
• Yahoo HD Tivo group
  Excellent HOWTOs in the files section. Must "join" to access.
• HD TiVo / HR10-250 FAQ and Tips
• How to hack your Tivo Series 2 (AT&T/Tivo/Comcast model) w/HMO to stream content to your computer.
  This guide is not for the HR10-250 but another Series 2.
  Written by a personal friend and easy to read.
• Ryan Castellucci's TiVo Hacking presentation

Utilities and Sources

• TiVo Utilities Home Page
• My version of build_mips_x_compiler.sh that works on my Linux box.
• TiVo MPlayer
• Play Pack TiVo TY files in Windows Media Player
• elseed - A simple caller-id program for your DirecTivo
• YAC - YAC: Yet Another Caller ID Program
• Xybyre's Series 2 TiVo page - working elseed, yac, OpenSSH
• Fix for OTA locals in TiVoWebPlus on HR10-250
  Taken care of by another patch in Ironman's Guide
• TyStudio
  
• TivoTool - TyTool-like tool for Mac OS X
• Tivo - GNU/Linux Source Code

Supported wired networking cards

• Linksys USB200M (this is what I use)
• Netgear FA120

Hardware upgrade vendors

• PTVupgrade.com
  I bought a second generation "40 Hour" Add-On Kit from ptvupgrade.com. I had to use some common sense and the online version of the instructions from 9thTee instructions instead of the included PTVupgrade instructions.
• PTVupgrade DVRupgrade Kit Installation Instructions Hughes HR10-250 HDTV TiVo with DirecTV Add-On Drive Kit
• 9th Tee TiVo Disk Drive Mounting Bracket
• WeaKnees upgrade instructions