I have been following the thread about "simple instructions for ReplayTV 3000 owners?". I have several showstoppers and at least one 3000. Some 4500s too.
So my 4500s right now are working ok and are lifetime activated. My showstoppers are dialing in nightly and that all works fine, as expected this being prior to the drop dead date of 7/31/2011.
One of my showstoppers is at a vacation home. None of the WIRNS and Freesco solutions are appropriate for that location. There's no broadband (unless I am there and can leech wifi from the neighbors, which is fine with them).
There has been a clock set console released for the early dialup units, and there may be one for the later networked units soon. And why not? That's a good solution.
It seems the other thing that's needed for the future is a dialup settings console for the older non networked units.
We need a way to
And, since the clock hack was done years ago by some clever person, and since we have so many clever persons here, can all this be done?
Or is this just too much of a hack? From reading the threads it seems like some people know a lot about the internal software in those things.
And more may emerge, I suspect the actual engineers who made all this are actually lurking here. After 7/31 we may find guys with sourcecode, and more. Maybe they can't talk yet because of their nondisclosure. Maybe they can just email the stuff to someone who would then know what to do with it.
It could happen!
So my 4500s right now are working ok and are lifetime activated. My showstoppers are dialing in nightly and that all works fine, as expected this being prior to the drop dead date of 7/31/2011.
One of my showstoppers is at a vacation home. None of the WIRNS and Freesco solutions are appropriate for that location. There's no broadband (unless I am there and can leech wifi from the neighbors, which is fine with them).
There has been a clock set console released for the early dialup units, and there may be one for the later networked units soon. And why not? That's a good solution.
It seems the other thing that's needed for the future is a dialup settings console for the older non networked units.
We need a way to
- Set dialup numbers, discarding the dialup numbers that the replaytv company used.
- Enter login username and password for the dialup account.
- Connect to an address, which could be a wirns server I host at my regular home, or one that is shared among users who need it. That would be a better solution.
- Login with a username and password to that box so it can get the needed data.
And, since the clock hack was done years ago by some clever person, and since we have so many clever persons here, can all this be done?
Or is this just too much of a hack? From reading the threads it seems like some people know a lot about the internal software in those things.
And more may emerge, I suspect the actual engineers who made all this are actually lurking here. After 7/31 we may find guys with sourcecode, and more. Maybe they can't talk yet because of their nondisclosure. Maybe they can just email the stuff to someone who would then know what to do with it.
It could happen!
