Free TiVo
March 25, 2008
I’m going to ask again:
Would anyone like my old TiVo?
If not, I’ll take it to the Salvation Army. I’m sure someone there will get good use out of it.
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I’ll take it, it will work with WOW cable right? I never looked into Tivo before, so I don’t know much about it, but I do want to get something to record stuff while I’m at work.
You’ll need to buy a USB wired or wireless network adapter, and pay the $12.95/mo service charge to use it. The adapter will run you about $60 in stores, or maybe $50 via eBay. Other than getting the adapter, you’d just need to plug it in and activate the service.
The WiFi adapter is a lot less at Amazon.com.
Ah, yeah. It’s $39.99. Still not cheap, but it’s worth it… That adapter works great.
If it’s just any old USB network adaptor, Woot.com has them for 10 bucks once in a while. They’re about $20 at newegg.
If it’s a special one for Tivo, I have no idea. Since it runs Linux though I’d bet that anything with the right chipset would work.
I wonder if anyone’s hacked a Tivo to work as a MythTV frontend? That would be cool.
Unfortunately, that was not our experience. We tried using a couple of different supposedly-compatible Linksys and Netgear wireless adapters and it’s ridiculous to the point where only particular serial numbers of the Netgear adapter (and those were available exactly nowhere in the SE MI area) will work. And yes, we did try one that didn’t have those serial numbers, and no love. We finally caved out of total frustration and bought the Tivo-branded wireless adapter and it worked right out of the box.
For waht it’s worth, I used a Linksys wired Ethernet adapter with my S2 Humax-branded TiVo (the one shown above) and it just worked great. This was back in the days when one had to put a special modem init string in, and the TiVo would magically use the ethernet adapter. It wasn’t until after a few firmware updates that it all worked as it does now.
Yeah, we were considering using a wired adapter if all else failed. Finally we just took the sucker route and bought the Tivo adapter. ;) But it does work well. I just could still kick myself cuz it ran $60! Oh well. At least we have Tivo Love now.
That’s too bad. I run Myth myself. I like the control, I like being able to do what I want with the video without jumping through hoops, the auto commercial skip, programming via web interface from anywhere, etc.
I wish someone had done that. Then I’d have a use for it.
I also just realized that because of how Comcast works, without an OTA HD antenna, my TiVo HD won’t be recording any HD content. Oh well.
I think I actually have a USB Ethernet adapter which I used with it for a while (Linksys 10mb, or something) but I’m hesitant to give it up, as I like to have one spare of each kind of hardware hanging around.
sounds good. when is a good time to pick it up?
Oh, pretty much any time works. What is good for you? I’ve got some plans this evening, but if you’re free tomorrow during the day, I can leave it on the porch so that you can just grab it sometime then. It’s safe enough to leave.
I work 11-5 tomorrow and Thursday, and 5-8 on Friday, any other time I’ll be available to pick it up.
When would you like me to leave it on the porch? I’m at 22 Mile and Schoenherr…
Friday afternoon would work best for me, around noonish.
Okay, cool. Do you know where my place is? I can leave it on the porch then…
No, don’t know where it is, I’m familar with the area though.
Find me via IM or email and I’ll give you directions. I’ll then put it out there on Friday morning before I leave for work.