Master TiVo

[MadTxn]

Here's my ultimate wish. Have one TiVo I designate as the "Master TiVo" (or Big Cheese or Grand Poobah, whatever), and others designated as "Workers". I put all of my Season Passes and Wishlists on the master. It records when it can, and when there is a conflict, it farms the recording out to the other TiVo(s). Each "worker" TiVo can report a status: Idle, or Recording when pinged. This way, you never have to play back and forth with your shows when they conflict. Does that make sense?

[dirtypacman]

Yes it makes perfect sense and has been discussed many times over here.

What you should do is make this same suggestion right here:
http://research.tivo.com/suggestions/


And hopefully some day we can all get our wish.

[ding]

anyone know of any hack to make this happen?

[john1980]

anyone know of any hack to make this happen?
There are a number of conflict resolution hacks. If you are running the latest version (http://Thomson.Tivo.googlepages.com/TivoWebPlus) of TWP on your units then it also includes a Conflict Resolver. Currently all of the hacks I have seen only work well with a second TiVo, but I might have a third one arriving in a few weeks so I may get around to adding a few smarts to the resolvers so that they can handle a "family" of TiVo's (as well as only display conflicts if they are not currently being recorded on one of the other TiVo's).

[MadTxn]

Well, I have regular old Series 2 TiVos, and from what I'm seeing, TivoWebPlus isn't easily installed on those.

[megazone]

This is generally called 'cooperative scheduling' in discussions around here, if you want to see the past discussions.