Cisco virgin box hack

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You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Email required Address never made public. Name required. If you have a Pi kicking around and are willing to spend out on the Pulse Eight box, we can do the following:.

TV receives remote signal. Pumps signal to Pulse Eight box, which sends it via USB to PI which decodes that input to port control signals for the tivo and sends it to the tivo over the network, which then responds to the keypress.

Note this happens quick and seamlessly: you won't notice it is any different from the virgin box being CEC controlled. This code is the worst piece of hacky code ever.

But it does achieve this goal though no promises are made , and it works without any significant problems. I just don't have time to understand all the ins and outs of libCEC, or write proper general purpose code. After all controlling my tivo box via CEC is only worth so much, and I do actually have a life, so I am afraid hacking this together was as good as it was going to get.

But I suspect it will still be useful to one or two ther people out there, so up it goes. This assumes you are using osmc stable release currently a version later than November , which contains libcec separation.

Other versions may require edits for other versions of libcec. Sometimes if you reboot the pi, the virign box no longer provides a telly signal.

It provides the menu items just no picture. Putting the virgin box into standby and out returns life to normality. I assume this is a problem wrt to some hdcp yuck handshake issue. Note the assumption is that you will be leaving the pi always-on.

If you are worried about the minsicule half a watt the pi consumes destroying the planet, then you wouldn't be running a virgin tivo There may be ways around this, but it is not on my task list.

Again, on the reboot of the Pi, I used to notice it turn the receiver off when it shouldn't after the first selection of Kodi.

Turning the receiver on manually fixes this permanently until the next pi reboot. I could never see why this was it was dependent on libCEC version. I haven't had this for years so it seems it all fixed itself with a libCEC update somehow. Even if it is an issue, a once in a moon button press is probably not beyond even the most lethargic couch potato.

Neither of these issues have been continuing issues for me since I upgraded to a V6 box. Add the Pulse eight box into the hdmi line from the virgin box to wherever it goes to TV, receiver whatever. Ensure ssh is enabled it is by default - default username osmc, password osmc. Cd back out. Make another directory e.

Now you will need to go into your router and find the IP address for the virgin box. You should make sure it is on an allocated IP address so that it doesn't change. Hard edit the IP address for the virgin box in main.

Hard edit what you want your virgin box to be labelled as in main. Physical address Disable the one corresponding to the Pulse Eight box how do you know which? I used trial and error, but it is probably the one with a long firmware version. You might want to to ensure you have done a system upgrade first, but this is not entirely necessary. All being well that should kick off the virgintivocec service.