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TivoWeb - Main Features?
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Posted by: caseman1

What are the main features of Tivoweb?

Can you watch your recorded programs from an internet browser?

Posted by: spankspank

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Originally posted by caseman1
What are the main features of Tivoweb?

Can you watch your recorded programs from an internet browser?

Tivoweb has many features, one being you can maintain your Tivo from a browser as if your were in front of it with the remote. Like when you're at work, or if someone else is watching a program.

Your second question raises a taboo topic that can't be discussed on this forum.

Posted by: notyou

Wha? Since when is the topic of remote viewing of your Tivo in an internet browser taboo?

A friend of a friend installed Windows Media Server (or whatever it's called). He then plugged his Tivo's video/audio output into the "in" jacks of his server.

He uses an web->IR controller (ick! I keep telling him to use TivoWeb's webremote, but he doesn't want to really hack it), and so he can watch his Tivo, streaming, over the Internet.

[Oh look, somebody on this board did the same thing.]

I don't think this is in violation of this board's policies.

[FYI, caseman1, what *is* prohibited is talk about "extracting" the shows straight off of your Tivo in pure digital form. My friend's friend is using a digital -> analog -> digital process.]

Posted by: notyou

Oh, and in answer to your original question. Here's what Tivoweb *can* do:

- Allow you to schedule recordings from a web interface.
- View Now Showing, To Do, Season Passes, etc. all in one browser window.
- If you set up your Tivo on the Internet, you can do this from anywhere on the Net. (A secure firewall/proxy setup is recommended.)

- Get info on your Tivo like uptime, kernel, disk usage.
- Emulate the Tivo's remote control from a web browser.
- Send yourself Tivo messages.

But the first one is really the killer app for me. :-}

Posted by: mrtickle

Here's a list I posted a while back in another thread. Took me a while to find it! :)

Things that you can't do normally:
* undelete recordings if the disc space hasn't been re-used

It's worth it just for that, and I could stop there, but also:
* edit synopsis/title etc of recordings
* view thumbs data
* add new channel logos for all the channels without logos in Now Playing
* Now Playing/ToDo/Season Pass list etc are presented with everything on one screen, far easier to scroll and see the full list than on the TiVo
* create and edit Tivo messages
* view disc space usage (free space)
* much better searching of programmes than on the tivo
* change the bitrates tivo uses for its recordings
* instant "save longers" rather than waiting 20 seconds each time on the TiVo.

with extra modules:
* search Advisory Codes (eg generate lists of all programmes with "Adult" rating)
* show conflicts for a series (as well as "will be recorded" icons in a View Upcoming list, see "can't be recorded because it'd clash" icons in the list as well)
* check guide data