The family wanted to watch one of their TiVo’ed programs but it turns out the box has lost its mind. It wasn’t seeing any signal and consequently recorded nothing (nothing meaning several programs of zero length). Rebooting it resolved the issue: it sees its channels again.
So who’s got, I say, hoosgot a way to reboot the beast programmatically? I know there’s a linux heart beating in there but I don’t have the time or patience to hack it and start messing with its innards. Is there anyway to send a signal to it? Or better, a way to have to tell me when the signal goes away?