tytools not seeing tivo

[md6317]

My tivo got hit with probably an update leaving it useless to tivoweb or extraction. I finally took the drive out again and reformatted it with instantcake, and PTV Upgrade. Immediately I was able to access it on my network and use tivoweb...piece of cake! Now my problem is that tytools is not seeing it. The obvious problem is that /var/hack/tserver does not exist...specifically tserver.../var/hack does. I transferred superpatch, and executed it via telnet. Any ideas on what I'm missing to not have the tserver directory appear?

[whitepelican]

tserver is not a directory, it is a binary file. You can download it from somewhere at this website and then ftp it to your Tivo. It's also not a great idea to keep all of your hacks in /var, since that will occasionally get deleted on a whim.

[md6317]

In the past, in Tytools under Options>Preferences>Server...the server execute string was: var/hack/tserver, meaning there was a folder in var/hack named tserver. I tried to create a new folder named tserver with my ftp program, but it would let me. Where should I put the tserver binary file, and once I ftp it over how should it be transfered?...in binary??

[whitepelican]

Once again, tserver is a binary file. That should also give you a clue on how best to ftp it. If you're dead set on having the server execute string read "/var/hack/tserver", then you should put tserver in the /var/hack directory. Otherwise, put tserver wherever you like, and change the execute string in TyTool to point to the correct location.

[captain_video]

You have to upload tserver to the Tivo and make it executable. It's not put there by any other means. The "/var/hack/tserver" is just the default location specified in TyTools. You can change the directory to anywhere else on the Tivo you wish. I would recommend that you put it somewhere other than /var/hack if you expect it to stay around for any length of time.

[md6317]

I moved the tserver file to another location on the drive and it worked! Not sure why though. Very strange that it did not work in the directory I had put it in initially. Thanks for everyone's help. You guys are great.