TivoLCD v.01 - Instructions and How-To for adding an LCD statu screen to Tivo

[wdwms]

After adding another hard drive to my Tivo, enabling telnet, ftp, TivoWeb, TyTool and all the other cool goodies that are out there, I started searching around for a new project. I stumbled across this web page: http://www.notacon.com/tivolcd/ where a guy in the UK added a 2 line screen to his Tivo. Very cool I thought, why can't I do that.. so I began reading his page, (which left much to be desired in terms of instructions), but I figured enough out to realize that only needed a few parts to get this up and running...

I've completed my guide for adding an LCD screen to Tivo, as well as my hacked-to-pieces code. Please see http://www.disneycorner.com/toddscorner/tivolcd for full details.

Enjoy!
Todd


http://www.disneycorner.com/toddscorner/tivolcd/tivo_l9.jpg

http://www.disneycorner.com/toddscorner/tivolcd/tivo_l10.jpg

[scanman0]

I've been away from the scene since my dtivo started to get dusty. (Ahem!)

So, I switched back to cable and brought my series 1 312 unit back in action with cable.

It's a lifetime sub, never called in to tivo since V1.3 !

It's been out of action for 2+ years.

I'm Back!!

I have two 250 gig drives in the old beast, and placed a CacheCARD in there.

I just spent the entire night playing with the Crystalfontz LCD display .PDF and runningit on my PC. I'm too trashed to use my dremmel tool and I even have the dremmel drill press!

Anyhow, I have created a startup screen for the display. (It has memory), and can boot a message, and a scrolling one at that, that will be displayed the moment power is applied to the Tivo, before the rc.sysinit even starts to go!

:)

I plan to expand the information from the current scripts on this new toy.

Here's my "cold boot" display, by simply applying power to the display.

[scanman0]

The second line will scroll and looks neat!

The beta s/w o program the boot display is on the crystalfontz (ad www & com) page.

Rename the attached file "startup.cf"

The crystalfontz boot image editor is quite simple.


I'll move further into the .tcl and sutch tommorow.

[eBoyDog]

Any updates to this esp for S2 Tivo's or Dtivo's ???

Also the above link DOES work if you add a trailing "/" to the link and there are still TCL scripts available for S1's to download!!

http://www.disneycorner.com/toddscorner/tivolcd/

[wdwms]

Sorry no plans for any S2 version of this... 1. I dont' have an S2, and 2. It may not be possible.

Sorry

[mw1fly]

Both links on the original post don't seem to work, any ideas where I can get info on this project?

Regards
Richard.