Quote Originally Posted by Brenth View Post
Pete - at the risk of sounding stupid what can we do with a serial cable? I don't appear to have a serial port on the back of my Tivo?
You should. In the general area of the centre of the rear panel next to the fan grille should be the modem phone jack, and just to the right of that is the the IR Blaster port and the Serial port. You need to either make or buy a 3.5mm "null modem" cable or make one as per here: http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/vie...ingSerialCable


You can use the serial method of getting a bash prompt with a terminal program (ie Hyperterm or similar) to do pretty much everything you can do via a Telnet session.