Access to TiVo over the internet

[paulcahill]

Hi all,

Could anyone give me some guidance as to how I access my TiVo on the internet from a location outside my home please? I work away from home for 4 months of the year and would like to be able to access the TiVo at home to record things on an ad hoc basis. I'm sure this is doable but have no idea how I get into my home network remotely. I use a mac and an orange livebox. I know my TiVo's MAC address and internet address but am not sure what other information I need.

Sorry to be such dumb head, any help would be appreciated.

Regards, Paul

[ewilts]

You can schedule recordings at the TiVo web site. Go to http://www3.tivo.com/tivo-tco/index.do and you're off to the races.

[steveroe]

You can schedule recordings at the TiVo web site. Go to http://www3.tivo.com/tivo-tco/index.do and you're off to the races.

If only it were simple for us UK Series 1 owners...

I haven't done it, so I'll leave someone else to give the details, but in summary:

Install a cachecard
Install TivoWeb
Configure port forwarding on your router
Sign up to a dynamic ip address dns provider

[BaggieBoy]

I haven't done it, so I'll leave someone else to give the details, but in summary:

Install a cachecard
Install TivoWeb
Configure port forwarding on your router
Sign up to a dynamic ip address dns provider

I've done it and that is about all there is to it.

[Fred Smith]

Steve has covered most of it, I have done it twice, these rest is here:

http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/tivo/tivoweb.html

Note the link to Tivoweb 1.94 no linger works so use this one instead for the download:

http://www.tivocentral.co.uk/hacks/tivoweb.html

Thanks to one of our forum members for that.

Orenosp is no longer free, so you might want to skip that step.

[Pete77]

The Tivoweb Wikipedia page at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tivoweb is also rather handy as is www.planetbuilders.org/tivo/tivo_upgrade_diary.html and www.mfslive.org for those using larger more recent SATA hard drives.

[johala_reewi]

If only it were simple for us UK Series 1 owners...
...
Sign up to a dynamic ip address dns provider

If your ISP offers a static IP address, get one of those.
Saves messing with ever changing IP addresses.

[Pete77]

If your ISP offers a static IP address, get one of those.

Saves messing with ever changing IP addresses.

Most of the big boys like Sky, TalkTalk, Tiscali, BT etc however don't give you a static IP address either at all or without paying extra.

Small niche ISPs like www.newnet.co.uk, www.idnet.co.uk and Entanet resellers like www.adsl24.co.uk and www.vivaciti.co.uk all give you one as standard but are more expensive, especially if you live on a larger telephone exchange where the big boys can offer their cheaper LLU subscription rates.

Plusnet I believe still provides a static IP address free of charge on request but now has an 18 month minimum contract period. www.newnew.co.uk, www.idnet.co.uk and Entanet resellers all only have a one month contract....

[Trinitron]

Or you could get Tivo to do the work of checking your IP address for you - here's something I prepared earlier, as someone once said.

Not entirely suitable for Tivo hacker newcomers I admit, as you need to add some utilities (wget, grep and sed) and cron to make it work. If you don't know what they are then just search around and you will find lots of advice from persons more knowledgeable than me.

[AMc]

Interesting...I have a similar script that relies on some other utilities to find it's own IP address. The author (ciper) put in a count to force an update after x runs - which seems to have fallen foul of Dyndns fair use policy and has deleted my domain.
I've just amended the script to remove the force - I'll see how it goes.

Details over at the other place in forum/showthread.php?t=51840