Two homes, two Tivos one tivoserver?

[duoart]

Suppose I bought a second tivo to keep at at my vacation home. I'm not expecting to run multiroom viewing across the internet, but I'd like to be able to access my music and pictures from my PC at the main house.

Could it set this up securely? I'm let to believe it would work. I see that the tivo server has a access tab on tivo server properties. How to I add a remote tivo to this list?

[windracer]

Your PC would need to be available on the internet, so you'd need to set up some port forwarding on your router, but one you had that you could point your second TiVo at that public IP (which would be forwarded to TiVo Desktop running on your PC).

[duoart]

Your PC would need to be available on the internet, so you'd need to set up some port forwarding on your router, but one you had that you could point your second TiVo at that public IP (which would be forwarded to TiVo Desktop running on your PC).

Understood. But what do I need to do on the TivoServer side? I don't see how to add the Tivo unit to the access tab page. I certainly don't want to open it up to all Tivo units out there.

This sort of makes me wonder about the media access key thing. Do I only have one per account or is there a different key for each tivo unit I own?

[classicsat]

Run Galleon.

[windracer]

Understood. But what do I need to do on the TivoServer side? I don't see how to add the Tivo unit to the access tab page. I certainly don't want to open it up to all Tivo units out there.
I'm not sure, but you might have to "open it up." I've never tried this myself.

This sort of makes me wonder about the media access key thing. Do I only have one per account or is there a different key for each tivo unit I own?
You've got MAK for your entire account. All the TiVos on that account share the same MAK.

Galleon is an excellent replacement for TiVo Desktop, but I think you'd still have the same issues getting it to work over the internet (port forwarding, etc.).

[duoart]

I've tried galleon. I found it to be an absolute pig. It brings my main system (pentium 4 1.4Ghz 768MB RAM WinXP) to it's knees. I shudder to think what it would do to my smaller machine that has all my photos.

[windracer]

Sorry to hear that. I love Galleon, which runs just fine on my Celeron-based laptop running Mandrake Linux.

[JS2003]

Slingbox.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1759,1833043,00.asp

[greg_burns]

And there is Orb as well. You would be able to view your shows, pictures and music on your vacation home's PC at least. (And its free!)

http://www.orb.com/dvreverywhere/download.html

[JS2003]

Have you used Orb? It sounds pretty cool...

[greg_burns]

Have you used Orb? It sounds pretty cool...

Not a whole lot, but yes and it is. You can see your Now Playing List across the interent and actaully pull shows straight off your Tivo. Best part is you don't have to deal with port forwarding, etc. Downside is your home PC has to be running.

[JS2003]

Thanks, I'll have to check it out.

[coletown]

Not a whole lot, but yes and it is. You can see your Now Playing List across the interent and actaully pull shows straight off your Tivo. Best part is you don't have to deal with port forwarding, etc. Downside is your home PC has to be running.
Do you know if Orb/DVR Everywhere allows playback from a) all content stored locally an ANY TiVo on your network, b) only content from one Tivo, or c) only content that was transfered to a (running) netorked PC using TiVoToGo and resides at the time of playback in the designated TiVoToGo file directory (e.g. My Videos)? I'm asking because I'm very interested in SlingBox and am wondering if Orb/DVR Everywhere will essentially do eveyting SlingBox does, including streaming live and recorded TV of the TiVo box itself. Thanks.

[greg_burns]

Do you know if Orb/DVR Everywhere allows playback from a) all content stored locally an ANY TiVo on your network, b) only content from one Tivo, or c) only content that was transfered to a (running) netorked PC using TiVoToGo and resides at the time of playback in the designated TiVoToGo file directory (e.g. My Videos)? I'm asking because I'm very interested in SlingBox and am wondering if Orb/DVR Everywhere will essentially do eveyting SlingBox does, including streaming live and recorded TV of the TiVo box itself. Thanks.

:D I just quoted you as an answer to your own question. I agree with what your saying here (http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?p=3865385&&#post3865385). For video across the internet, Slingbox is a much better solution (and reliable).

[bryan314]

Look at using http://www.hamachi.cc/ to link the two computers together. They then can be treated as if they are on the same lan.

[duoart]

I wish this thread had not been hijacked by those trying to enable Tivo to go remotely. That's not what I'm interested in doing. All I want is to access my photos and MP3's from two tivos (same MAK) but on different LANs.

I've looked at the list of port numbers on the support web site. Here's the list:

# TCP port 37
# TCP port 2190
# TCP port 4430
# TCP port 7287
# TCP port 7288
# TCP port 8000
# TCP ports 8080-8089
# UDP port 123
# UDP port 2190

I'm using a Linksys router. Do I need to forward all these ports to the PC running the TivoServer or just a subset?

Thanks!