6.3e Warning! (SD and HD DirecTiVos)

[yog-sothoth]

DirecTV is pushing out 6.3e for all Series 2 units (SD and HD).

For those with hacked SD units, you will lose MRV if you update, as it has been removed from 6.3e.

For hacked HD units, do not run the HMO/HME patches for 6.3-6.3d listed at DVRplayground; your TiVo will not boot if you do so. I'll post the updated patches in the near future.

[Lou Jacob]

Please see this article (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10) for updated information and scripts for enabling HMO/HME on 6.3e for the HR10-250. We will update the information for the SD units in time...

[yog-sothoth]

(For 6.3e on the HR10-250; from "labbie48" at DDB):

#No encryption
echo -ne "\x3C\x02\x00\x00" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=1601872


#30-second skip
echo -ne "\x10\x40\x00\x2b" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=6717416


#Backdoors
echo -ne "\x24\x10\x00\x01" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=2804964


#HMO/HME
echo -ne "\x34\x11\x00\x00" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=903776
echo -ne "\x24\x10\x00\x01" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=1118188
echo -ne "\x10\x00\x00\x14" | dd conv=notrunc of=tivoapp bs=1 seek=5704588

I haven't applied these yet myself; I'll work on that tomorrow.

[rolande100]

I just downloaded the ptvnet upgrade and instant cake. Should I wait until I get the upgrade before installing the new disk?

[Lou Jacob]

I just downloaded the ptvnet upgrade and instant cake. Should I wait until I get the upgrade before installing the new disk?

It doesn't really matter; the version that ends up running on your TiVo will be the one that came with your InstantCake CD. Obviously, once you've installed PTVnet, you won't want to let your unit update as the new version will overwrite any changes implemented by PTVnet.

[DHLarson]

I have a Hughes SDR40 which was running 6.2a. I ignored any previous versions but noted that 6.3 slices have come down as versions151 and 381. Are either of these valid slices for this unit to be installed with Slicer?

Directory listing of /SwSystem
Name Type Id Date Time Size
6.2a-01-2-351 tyDb 234886 03/01/07 02:06 724
6.3e-01-2-151 tyDb 950458 08/17/07 02:45 780
6.3e-01-2-381 tyDb 950463 08/17/07 02:45 780
ACTIVE tyDb 234886 03/01/07 02:06 724

Thanks

Don

[Biggles209]

For those with hacked SD units, you will lose MRV if you update, as it has been removed from 6.3e.


All 4 of my units have the phone line unplugged. They have 6.2 / InstantCake / PTVnet + TWP 1.3.1. 6.2a was present in /SwSystem but I never got round to installing it. 6.3e is now replacing 6.2a in /SwSystem.

If I sit on my butt and do nothing, am I safe with 6.2 and MRV?

[StephenKovacsiss]

I have a SIR4040 and it received the updates this morning. After the update I lost the networking as expected.:eek: I was running v6.2c before the update. Can I use the current version of PTVNet to reinstall the networking? That is what I used when 6.2c was installed.

Thanks,

Stephen Kovacsiss

[Lou Jacob]

I have a SIR4040 and it received the updates this morning. After the update I lost the networking as expected.:eek: I was running v6.2c before the update. Can I use the current version of PTVNet to reinstall the networking? That is what I used when 6.2c was installed.

Thanks,

Stephen Kovacsiss

You can try, but if there is even a chance of it working, you'll need to use the "force" option -- please see the PTVnet technical discussion (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17) for more details on that (and report your results there)...

[Barefooter]

I ran the patches that Yog posted. ( Thanks Yog ) NEVER MIND !

It works fine you just have to do things in the correct order !

[StephenKovacsiss]

Lou, Thanks for your reply. I will let you know what happens after I try it tomorrow. If it fails, when would a new version be available?

Thanks.

[Richard L.Allen59685]

When I made the decision to order PTVnet my Philips DSR7000/17 had Software Version 6.2. I downloaded PTVnet. When I went to install it
I discovered my Software had been updated to Version 6.3... so I did not attempt installation. Is the update of the software from 6.2... to 6.3... going to cause any problems with the installation of PTVnet?:confused:

[Lou Jacob]

When I made the decision to order PTVnet my Philips DSR7000/17 had Software Version 6.2. I downloaded PTVnet. When I went to install it
I discovered my Software had been updated to Version 6.3... so I did not attempt installation. Is the update of the software from 6.2... to 6.3... going to cause any problems with the installation of PTVnet?:confused:

Please see this post (http://www.dvrupgrade.com/forums/showpost.php?p=154&postcount=9)...

[agouvis]

I'm considering taking the plunge and ordering PTVNet with the intention of running it on my RCA DVR40 DirecTiVo (upgraded from stock 40GB to 130GB drive with MFSTools 2 years ago), which is currently running the 6.3e OS (standard OTA upgrade from DTV). Based on all the warnings, etc. in this forum, I'm wondering if anyone has successfully.

I've scanned both the "Success Stories" and "PTVNet Tech" forums topics, and saw nothing about PTVNet and 6.3e running cooperatively.

And, I'd rather not run InstantCake or anything that would "roll back" my DirecTiVo to an older OS version (such as 6.2) because I'm very happy with its performance under 6.3e. I'm just trying to expand the functionality offered by PTVNet.

Thanks in advance for any direction or guidance that anyone can provide here.

[BruceS]

I have PTVNet running with no problems on a HR10-250 after upgrading from 6.3d to 6.3e using the Slicer.This drive was originally created using InstantCake 3.1.5f.

I have no idea whether it will work on a drive created with mfslive.

I would check out the mfslive.org forum and tivocommunity.com to see whether you can find networking information for mfslive.

[Lou Jacob]

I'm considering taking the plunge and ordering PTVNet with the intention of running it on my RCA DVR40 DirecTiVo (upgraded from stock 40GB to 130GB drive with MFSTools 2 years ago), which is currently running the 6.3e OS (standard OTA upgrade from DTV). Based on all the warnings, etc. in this forum, I'm wondering if anyone has successfully.

I've scanned both the "Success Stories" and "PTVNet Tech" forums topics, and saw nothing about PTVNet and 6.3e running cooperatively.

And, I'd rather not run InstantCake or anything that would "roll back" my DirecTiVo to an older OS version (such as 6.2) because I'm very happy with its performance under 6.3e. I'm just trying to expand the functionality offered by PTVNet.

Thanks in advance for any direction or guidance that anyone can provide here.

Please see my previous two posts on this topic; running PTVnet with the "force" option should work fine.

[agouvis]

Please see my previous two posts on this topic; running PTVnet with the "force" option should work fine.

Lou,

Thanks for the confirmation; the previous post using the "force" option for PTVNet made it sound sort of iffy. Sounds like its worth a try, though.

Thanks.

-Angelo

[MeThisGuy]

Ok...so here it is in short. I had successfully used InstantCake and PTVnet to upgrade my Hughes SD-DVR40 to version 6.2 with the PTVnet networking options. Everything worked according to plan and for the last year I've enjoyed my networked DirecTiVo with HMO and TiVoWebPlus.
However, I had the network call on and it recently updated itself to 6.3c. I tried redoing the PTVnet (without InstantCake) and that's when my TiVo got stuck in a reboot loop and never booted again. I'm now back at square 1 with 6.2a and PTVnet, but does PTVnet work with 6.3 (c or e)?
I have scoured these slim forums again and again to no avail. Any help out there would be appreciated. Two options I have read (but without success stories) are the slice method and the PTVnet force method. Anyone have any luck with either of these before I have to redo my drives for the 3rd time?

[BruceS]

I am not familiar with your particular D* box, but I have upgraded my HR10-250 to 6.3e using the slicer.

I am still able to use TivoWebplus, ftp and telnet with no problems.

[rrauenza]

I tried a kernel from the zipper cd -- didn't boot.

Will the ptvnet cd work for me? I don't want to use an earlier OS -- I like 6.3.

Not exactly willing to fork over the money without knowing it will work first...

Rich

[Rick Travis]

As of now only 6.2a has been shown to work with PTVnet.Lou has said you can use the FORCE option and it may or may not work. As the product is not officially supported you have to experiment at your own risk.

[rrauenza]

So it booted with the dvrupgrade logo... no network yet, but I'm using a TrendNet TU-ET100C. When I plugged it into my Linux box, it said it was a Pegasus chipset, so I gave it a try. Although I also only plugged it in halfway through the boot process (Forgot to plug it in!)

Odd, PVNet worked though, I didn't need to specify FORCE. It does say 6.3e-01-2-151 in the TIVO system info. Im using ptvnet62-1.10

Rebooting tivo again..

Nope.

Swapping in the other adapter (more expensive USB2.0 Linksys USB200M) without rebooting...

aha -- DHCP request.

No telnet.

Rebooting again.

Aha -- DHCP request and...

[rrauenza@tendo ~]$ telnet 192.168.100.167
Trying 192.168.100.167...
Connected to DVRupgrade-TiVo.private.shroop.net (192.168.100.167).
Escape character is '^]'.
bash-2.02#

And this time the DHCP request said:

Sep 16 21:59:11 tendo dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.100.167 (192.168.100.1) from 00:1a:70:8f:d9:39 (DVRupgrade-TiVo) via eth1
Sep 16 21:59:11 tendo dhcpd: DHCPACK on 192.168.100.167 to 00:1a:70:8f:d9:39 (DVRupgrade-TiVo) via eth1

The other USB device didn't register now that I look at the logs:

<6>hub.c: new USB device 00:0d.0-1, assigned address 3
<4>usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x7a6/0x8511) is not claimed by any active driver.

Aha -- insmod pegasus.o fixes that! I can add that to the rc.sysinit.author.

<6>pegasus.c: v0.4.32 (2003/06/06):Pegasus/Pegasus II USB Ethernet driver
<6>usb.c: registered new driver pegasus
<6>pegasus.c: intr interval will be changed from 80ms to 128ms
<6>pegasus.c: eth1: ADMtek ADM8511 "Pegasus II" USB Ethernet
<6>pegasus.c: setup Pegasus II specific registers
<4>pegasus.c: link partner stat 0
<6>pegasus.c: link speed and mode 10HDX

One worry -- I think it lost it's connection to the satellite at one point during my testing. I guess I should just back up my /dev/hda# OS partitions just in case.

Thanks DVRupgrade!

Rich

[rrauenza]

Ok, that was strange.

Here's what I've done.

Had a two drive setup that I had mfsrestored to a single 500GB drive. But I couldn't move the shows since I was out of partitions, so could only use mfsrestore/backup to copy the OS and season passes -- so I then used mfsutils to extract the tmf files, and now am trying to get networking to work so I can upload them to the 500GB drive hoepfully using mfs_ftp

I ran PTVnet on the dual drives with no problems. I had been mucking with it, tpip'ing alternate kernels from the zipper CD that I couldn't get to work. So I put the original kernel back on. Here's the odd bit, which is that it didn't boot the first time, it then rebooted, then came up. I then tried PTVnet successfully.

Confident it would work based on my old drives, I then I moved to the 500GB drive. I had to use the force option (actually I did PTVnet debug). Without it, I went through the whole process and no flags were set at the end.

I can't explain why the process would be different for the two setups.

[Lou Jacob]

I can't explain why the process would be different for the two setups.

I can... the execution path of the PTVnet scripts is slightly different for dual-drive configs and single-drive configs.

In single-drive configs, the software version information is automatically detected and the package will not be installed unless the software on the drive is determined to be correct. In dual-drive configs, because of either a bug in mfsinfo or the way the information is stored, the same commands cannot be used to determine the software information on the drives.

This is why I previously stated using the "force" option when attempting to install on 6.3; the package was created prior to the release of 6.3, so it doesn't know that it exists and shouldn't install by default on a 6.3 single drive. It does work on two drives because it cannot check for the version information in that case...

[rrauenza]

Great -- that explains it!

The other oddity now is that it takes a lot longer to sync with the satellite. It aborts a couple time with a warning it couldn't connect before it finally syncs...

I've now applied the HMO 6.3 patches and it takes even longer. Seems to be working ok, though, once it syncs.

Rich

[RiskyBusiness]

Have there been a lot of changes to PTVnet since 62-1.01. I have an HDVR2 that I purchased it for a good while back. HD died and finally got around to replacing. Have 6.3E and want to get networking back. Do I need to purchase the software again for the latest changes?

Thanks,