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serynI am a god.
I got my TiVo to display the output of the digital cable box.
Comcast ships its digital cable boxes DVR-crippled, but there is a software setup toggle that fixes it. In the Motorola DCT2000 cable box's setup menu (which is hard enough to find) there is an option for "RF Bypass". It is factory set to "off". Change it to "on", then power cycle the cable box and the TiVo and repeat the TiVo Guided Setup. Suddenly the TiVo can display non-menu video.
The jury is still out on whether the TiVo will be able to change channels via serial cable, but Magic 8 Ball says "All Signs Point To Yes!" Or rather, the internet suggests that the only digital cable boxes where the serial cable tends to work are the DCT2000s.
I am really irritated that it took that much work. (I cannot even indicate how amazingly lucky I was to stumble upon exactly the search phrase that led me to the one dude on the TiVo forums who had exactly my equipment and exactly my issue. His resolution was "it was the fault of the cable box, I had to do a coax bypass"... so I had to Google for that which took some astounding luck as well.)
This has been a real hassle and I was extremely frustrated until I hit upon the magic solution.
I got my TiVo to display the output of the digital cable box.
Comcast ships its digital cable boxes DVR-crippled, but there is a software setup toggle that fixes it. In the Motorola DCT2000 cable box's setup menu (which is hard enough to find) there is an option for "RF Bypass". It is factory set to "off". Change it to "on", then power cycle the cable box and the TiVo and repeat the TiVo Guided Setup. Suddenly the TiVo can display non-menu video.
The jury is still out on whether the TiVo will be able to change channels via serial cable, but Magic 8 Ball says "All Signs Point To Yes!" Or rather, the internet suggests that the only digital cable boxes where the serial cable tends to work are the DCT2000s.
I am really irritated that it took that much work. (I cannot even indicate how amazingly lucky I was to stumble upon exactly the search phrase that led me to the one dude on the TiVo forums who had exactly my equipment and exactly my issue. His resolution was "it was the fault of the cable box, I had to do a coax bypass"... so I had to Google for that which took some astounding luck as well.)
This has been a real hassle and I was extremely frustrated until I hit upon the magic solution.
