Hacking & Manipulating Multiple Bell TV Receivers

Hacking & Manipulating Multiple Bell TV Receivers - Hotel & PVR systems!

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2 ай бұрын

Hacking various models of Bell ExpressVU Receivers including a Commercial Hotel Receiver. The PVR Hard Drive Receiver and the Commercial Hotel Receiver both yielded some really interesting results & a big surprises! It's true that old decommissioned receivers can still be made to work.

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@Will-kp1iv 2 ай бұрын

in the UK the old Sky boxes used to let you buy (I think up to 5) PPVs without confirmation from the Sky servers, so you could connect a 9V battery to the phone line on the box and it would think there was a line connected but the service is down. You could then just take the box to a car boot sale and buy another box from a car boot and do the same thing again. It would charge your account if you connected that box to a phone line again though.

@John-ot1lx 2 ай бұрын

Wondered why they used to sell sky boxes for next to nothing on the car boots years ago

@Will-kp1iv 2 ай бұрын

@@John-ot1lx I think its just because they were so common and given out for free with the subscription. On top of that Sky let you keep it if you ended your subscription because you had to look at their TV guide and see what you were missing (basically an AD)

@carlospulpo4205 2 ай бұрын

There was a hotel chain I stayed at frequently for work. I took apart the remote control on one visit to look for extra buttons and found a couple. These are buttons on the PCB traces but not connected to a rubber part since they use the same PCB for the "master remote". I was able to put a put a dime or use the rubber button pad to press the "hidden" button and enter the admin menu and this allowed me to access PPV streams on other channels. I bought a learning IR remote with me next time and "learned" the admin button so I no longer had to take the remote apart to get free TV.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

That's actually a really cool idea and a great hack. Obviously the hotel has a special remote with all of the buttons they use internally. But it makes sense that all the remotes would use the same PCB and can be exploited the way you discovered.

@ChrisPeacock24 3 күн бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 The HDD hard or you were🤣🤣🤣🤣

@lovedfriend2020 2 ай бұрын

That hard drive was a lot harder, LOL. That was funny!

@vasilivladivostok1136 26 күн бұрын

Holy shit, 2400? The BBS era. That was such a fun time as a SYSOP.

@user-kp6pj3hy6f 2 ай бұрын

I have been watching for a while I find your content very interesting and I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

You are very welcome

@christopherleubner6633 2 ай бұрын

Dial up modem sounds havent heard that for years 😂

@Therealpro2 20 күн бұрын

pure nostalgia

@bakedveal2624 2 ай бұрын

Dude. I was too young to remember. But this was my grandpas wheelhouse. I do remember that thumbnail vividly too.

@allenrussell6135 2 ай бұрын

The good old days of hacking dss, echo and bell expressview. Our way was reprogramming or emulating the smart card. Then there were fta receivers you could program to receive dishnetwork or bell express. You could increase the ppv spending limit and then wipe them off the card. On some of the dvr systems we could upgrade hard drives after cloning some of the original data. There were freeware tools for this. As a total side note if you ever corrupt the firmware in tje receiver you can build a jtag for a few bucks and rewrite it OR you can ground out one if TSOP chip pine during boot up abd the receiver will download and repair itself. I forget which pin off hand. You can take a dishnet, do the tsop ground while pointing at bell and it magically becomes a bell receiver now.

@MIW_Renegade 2 ай бұрын

I remember this lol, and that hard drive that was “interesting” 🤣

@WillPhoneman 2 ай бұрын

I just found your videos, and really enjoy them, you are into some of the same obscure stuff I'm into! I liked the stuff on the old school satellite hacking, I remember going on those sites and reading about the latest stuff, and wishing I could afford the equipment to do it, as I was in my teens. I always wondered if hotels had receivers for each room, or for each channel, cool to see one! I'd like to see a video on your phone setup, I collect old telephones, and have a similar Western Electric "shoebox" KSU I haven't set up yet.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

I'm going to do a video on my classic 1A2key Western Electric system that I restored. It's fully functional and I have it working with 5 CO lines that I supply to it using VoIP adapters. Each line has it's own PTSN DID. Stay tuned !

@WillPhoneman 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 Can't wait to see it!

@MikeyMack303 Ай бұрын

Nice work. You just got a new subscriber!

@peterfairlie2296 Ай бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@ikkuranus 2 ай бұрын

The previous owner definitely was a man of culture who liked the "science channel" :) Back in the day you could order a bunch of PPV on directv on the month before you cancelled service and simply leave the phone disconnected and you would never get charged for them. This was before they stopped letting customers own the receivers.

@Ghost_Swe 2 ай бұрын

Zero hacking but cool video thanks!

@Shadoweee 2 ай бұрын

Hey Peter - could You do a tutorial for cheap/free satelite calling? Loving the videos :)

@kennethbrandon1418 2 ай бұрын

Hate to ask… but did u try changing the channel on the front of the unit instead of the flipper ?

@amoconote181 2 ай бұрын

where do you ger your gear?

@RickTheGeek 2 ай бұрын

Hey what voip ata adaptors do you use? I have a t1 card in my PBX computer feeding an adtran channel bank here

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

sipura spa-2100

@jimgoggin5973 2 ай бұрын

Impressive

@OnTheRocks71 2 ай бұрын

lmao that the previous owner left all his porn on the HD

@LazloNQ 2 ай бұрын

Would it work if you dialed *67 ahead of the tv box so it would come up as a private number on their end? At least you might be able to try several more calls before all hope was lost.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

They're not going by caller ID to know who's calling. The modem is a data link and the first thing transmitted is the receivers serial number... This is how they knew I was calling back again and hung up on me.

@Rosetown951 2 ай бұрын

Are you sure it hung up on you because you were blocked? I would suspect it could still be flakey dialup over voip.

@TryItAgainTomorrow 2 ай бұрын

Curious... does the 30 day trick work for Dish or DTV?

@allenrussell6135 2 ай бұрын

It used to. I'm not positive about current receivers . If there still using a phone line then it should work Generally what the companies do is set a spending limit on your account that's factored by how long you're a customer and your buying history. After a month or you hit the spending limit the receiver stops working until you plug the phone line In. When you make a purchase it writes that purchase to the card. On older cards you could wipe them off and change your spending limit. You could buy tons of ppv with the phone line unplugged and either replace the receiver (with card) or call and say it's not reading the card (error would be insert smart card or similar). They used to send replacement cards at no cost. They would ask for the old card back but if you never returned it, nothing happened. Keep in mind it's been some years since I hacked there systems.

@gusterbrown 2 ай бұрын

Quick question i know bell is the same as dish but is there a directv equivalent in canada?

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

There is another satellite provider in Canada to Bell known as Shaw Direct. I wouldn't call Shaw an equivalent to DirecTV but they are a competitor to Bell in the same space.

@gusterbrown 4 күн бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 OK Thanks

@jessetolliver 2 ай бұрын

If memory serves me correctly there was a guy who went by the name Fat Bastard who came up with a way to extract the recordings from the hard drive to a PC. But that was many many years ago, so I may have the name wrong.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

I remember that Fat Bastard hack!

@user-fb5uz3zc2t 2 ай бұрын

I'm watching the hollywood suite right now

@coondogtheman 2 ай бұрын

I'm surprised that it let you watch the recorded shows. Usually you would have to be subscribed to that channel tier to be able to get that channel. (e.g. History) I'm curious if you can extract the videos off that hard drive but they are likely keyed and encrypted.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

As long as the receiver has a satellite signal you can then access what's on the hard drive. The data on the hard drive is encrypted as I did try to look at it on another Linux computer. I could mount the drive and see the file structure but the recordings were not readable.

@coondogtheman 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 I figured that the drive wasnt going to be readable on windows but odd that you can read the file structure but not the show video files themselves in Linux. They really dont want you to get at those. They want you to pay to watch only and if you record you use their equipment, their rules, watch only. What is really a shame is that non TV set top box DVRs like for security cameras are also encrypted as well as the ones with DVD recorders. It's likely a copy protection reason so people don't use it to copy videos. Or maybe its optimization. I wish TV providers allowed you to pick channels you will actually watch but they don't.

@coondogtheman 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 Could you see the files just not play them back because of of unknown video codec or couldn't see them at all? I hear that the unencrypted video files are something playable in VLC media player on a PC. .mts files I believe.

@chadlimestall9201 2 ай бұрын

woah!

@TVJAY 2 ай бұрын

What do you use for ATAs? What VOIP service do you use?

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

sipura spa-2100 VoIP (dot) MS

@1993MAZDAMIATA 2 ай бұрын

Peter if you are married your wife is putting up with a lot haha. As a guy I think the security tv on the counter is awesome. But I think most girls would not like it. Keep up the good videos!

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

No Wife, Just lots of Girlfriends

@1993MAZDAMIATA 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 Haha. Sometimes that’s the life to live!

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

@@1993MAZDAMIATA I had a 1993 Mazda MX3 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_MX-3

@1993MAZDAMIATA 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 Sweet! Those were rare

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

@@1993MAZDAMIATA I bought it new in 93 and sold it in 2000. It was a nice first car but has only 88 HP engine. Sold it for a Toyota Celica with 190 HP.

@untitled_person1941 2 ай бұрын

guy takes 1 hour to jailbreak an old tv receiver just to watch something that takes 5 minutes to find on xvideos

@zadeep9184 Ай бұрын

I have PTSD from splitters , I was the satellite guy to the family and when the temp is 40c , I had to "Fix the tv "

@Shadoweee 2 ай бұрын

How does cable length impact the signal quality? About to install sat setup for homelab and thinking about the route for cable - the one that wouldn't obstruct the view would have to be about 60 feet.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

60 feet of RG6 will work just fine

@Shadoweee 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296Awesome, thanks!

@JimWatt 2 ай бұрын

The drive from a LNB or a switch is at quite a high level so 60ft is not a problem but use good quality co-ax

@Shadoweee 2 ай бұрын

@@JimWattWould it also be true for DVB-T?

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

Sure, if you have an off-air tuner.

@stevegregori709 23 күн бұрын

Did you pull the box keys ?? Recall them Grey boxes 1000, 3500, 4500 neded the F040 to dump the tsop eprom way back in the glory days, rewrite Charlie to Puke or vice versa

@doctoribanez 2 ай бұрын

I got a new receiver butt stuff happened when i hooked it up.

@doctoribanez 2 ай бұрын

If i received something with the wires cut off i would assume it's stolen. Lol

@Sundance_the_Rapper Ай бұрын

the FCC has some fundamentals in regards to it being a human right to have interconnectivity, so I wonder if that's where that stems from

@halenmartini6705 2 ай бұрын

what kind of ATA do you have? i use the good old cisco SPA2102 for dialup

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

SPA2100

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bLN0ZbaenrmdiaM.html

@halenmartini6705 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 very cool! do you make any specific changes to the config to optimize it for use with dialup? it’s somewhat hit or miss on my ATA even with a local dialin server and from my understanding the 2100 and 2102 don’t work all that differently. i do remember having to change the RTP packet size and disable echo cancellation to make things more reliable

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

• Network jitter buffer: very high • Jitter buffer adjustment: disable • Call Waiting: no • 3 Way Calling: no • Echo Canceller: no • Silence suppression: no • Preferred Codec: G711a • Use pref. codec only: yes

@halenmartini6705 2 ай бұрын

@@peterfairlie2296 thanks!!

@timburns2374 2 ай бұрын

Seems like a lot of effort to get a couple of bad tv channels. I used to the fta back in the day and it takes a bit of skill to aim an antenna

@magnitudematrix2653 2 ай бұрын

Power shelling or injection with modems has been around since 1996. I fixed it. You can't power shell anymore.😊

@southboundsuarez9832 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for that dickweed!

@and_I_am_Life_the_fixer_of_all Ай бұрын

how illegal is hacking satellites and tv receivers?

@petertrevena804 2 ай бұрын

XXXX 😊🙏

@licha11 14 күн бұрын

literally dexter

@garrettgiuffre7298 2 ай бұрын

100 sure an American sent this to you

@garrettgiuffre7298 2 ай бұрын

You've got mail

@ajengrany4645 Ай бұрын

POLICE IS COMING 💀💀💀

@BestSpatula 11 күн бұрын

My cat hated it

@you166mhz 2 ай бұрын

remember Webtv ? ... can you hack it ? ....

@garrettgiuffre7298 2 ай бұрын

Wait so you can just literally plug it in to a satellite and get free channels. Weird the channels that are actually coming through

@hexxe 2 ай бұрын

Bell don't like this

@midixiewrecked7011 2 ай бұрын

Guy uhboot uh-boat uhboot uh-boat guy guy boot

@sexyflanders123 2 ай бұрын

Need the name of that video on the Venus channel looked very educational!

@roboto420 2 ай бұрын

indeed

@Seattle_Drummer 2 ай бұрын

dude, Looking at caps can not determine if they are "OK" come on now.

@peterfairlie2296 2 ай бұрын

I'm looking for bulging and leaking capacitors which is a clear indication they are bad.