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Generally speaking, such a tactic would be counterproductive on their part if they have any desire to retain and expand an enthusiast community. If anything, they should be rewarding you for your work to make their equipment more usable.

Many companies like TV guide services have provisions in their user agreements that prohibit "screen scraping" or other automated methods of capturing proprietary data and using it for unapproved commercial purposes. If other companies try to steal TiVo's commercial breakpoint data to use with other DVRs, surely TiVo could sue them, and the offending company would have to prove that their breakpoint data is independently derived. They might have to copyright it first, but lawsuits are a concept not unknown to TiVo.

Improving the experience for all TiVo users has been moyekj's mission for years, and TiVo has benefited greatly. If they want to prevent use of their breakpoint data for automatic removal of commercials from transferred programs, maybe they could make that a provision of the TiVo user agreement until they decide to port the feature to Roamio and/or Premiere.

I should hope that TiVo has people lurking here. They would be insane not to follow these discussions. And is it possible that they need to expose comskip data to RPC for their own purposes?

 

Maybe this was so the Minis could eventually take advantage of SkipMode when streaming content from a Bolt? If so, you'd think they'd have to put it back at some point ...

 

...perhaps encrypted, though...?

<sigh>

 

Absolutely, and Ira certainly alluded to moyekj's work as beneficial to the Tivo enthusiasts, and Tivo by extension. He even indicated Tivo should continue to provide for these 3rd party apps.

However, there's a limit to this to protect business interests. This is not the first time moyekj was working to reverse-engineer something, only to have Tivo pull the plug. The Opera browser and launching arbitrary URL's comes immediately to mind. IIRC, I think there are other RPC-related functions that were also obscured after moyekj disclosed he was investigating them in this forum.

 

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Too bad TiVo had to pull the plug on this, it looked promising.

 

thanks for that , but i cant access to ssl

 

I can't seem to see a way to get a list of programs from another tivo device (similar to My Shows=>Devices=>Other(Tivo)). This could be overcome by connecting to the other tivo...

More importantly, did anyone ever happen to figure out if uiNavigate can be used to play a recording from another Tivo (similar to the same way as described above)?

 

When playing a remote recording, whatsOn has an extra field specifying the remote tivo where content is located:

"remoteSourceBodyId": "tsn:846YYYYXXXXXXX"

Can't seem to figure out where that would go in uiNavigate to play it...

Code:

{
  "whatsOn": [
    {
      "collectionId": "tivo:cl.362463812",
      "contentId": "tivo:ct.387799182",
      "channelIdentifier": {
        "channelNumber": "9-1",
        "sourceType": "terrestrial",
        "stationId": "tivo:st.19939930",
        "type": "channelIdentifier"
      },
      "offerId": "tivo:of.ctd.19939930.9-1.terrestrial.2018-05-08-01-00-00.1800",
      "recordingId": "tivo:rc.1112679",
      "activeAudioStream": {
        "audioStreamFormat": "ac3",
        "audioStreamId": "tivo:aus.148",
        "language": "en",
        "type": "audioStream",
        "streamServiceMode": "completeMain"
      },
      "availableAudioStream": [
        {
          "audioStreamFormat": "ac3",
          "audioStreamId": "tivo:aus.148",
          "language": "en",
          "type": "audioStream",
          "streamServiceMode": "completeMain"
        },
        {
          "audioStreamFormat": "ac3",
          "audioStreamId": "tivo:aus.149",
          "language": "es",
          "type": "audioStream",
          "streamServiceMode": "visuallyImpaired"
        }
      ],
      "playbackType": "recording",
      "remoteSourceBodyId": "tsn:846YYYYXXXXXXX",
      "type": "whatsOn"
    }
  ],
  "type": "whatsOnList"
}

 

tried this:

Code:

{
  "remoteSourceBodyId": "tsn:846YYYYXXXXXXX",
  "type": "uiNavigate",
  "uri": "x-tivo:classicui:playback",
  "parameters": {
   "fUseTrioId": "true",
   "recordingId": "tivo:rc.1112679",
   "fHideBannerOnEnter": "true"
  }
}

and this:

Code:

{
  "type": "uiNavigate",
  "uri": "x-tivo:classicui:playback",
  "parameters": {
   "fUseTrioId": "true",
   "recordingId": "tivo:rc.1112679",
   "remoteSourceBodyId": "tsn:846YYYYXXXXXXX",
   "fHideBannerOnEnter": "true"
  }
}

no workie, anybody with other suggestions?

 

A blast from the past....

From KMTTG:
if (type.equals("Help")) {
// Query middlemind.tivo.com for syntax of a particular RPC command
// Expects RPC command name as "name" in json, such as "keyEventSend"
if (! json.has("levelOfDetail"))
json.put("levelOfDetail", "high");
req = RpcRequest("schemaElementGet", false, json);


Does this call still work? schemaElementGet

don't know if it's user error, but to my bolt keep getting a 500 error using KMTTG -> tried:
{"name": "uiNavigate"}
{"name": "keyEventSend"}

 

===========

error

2021_02_19_16:40:49 ERROR: RPC error response:
{
"code": "routingError",
"text": "PartnerId 3787 does not have access to operation schemaElementGet.",
"type": "error"
}

assume it's no longer offered as part of current authorization?

 

It stopped working quite a long time ago. Part of TiVo sabotage to prevent me any more discovery of RPC operations. That's when I really started losing interest in anything TiVo related.

 

@moyekj
Do you even still own tivo hardware? Thank you for all the work on KMTTG. Using it with some customization is about the only thing keeping me around.

 

I have no cable TV service or OTA, but I do keep 1 Roamio running just for purpose of running kmttg "Season Premieres" once a week or so for discovering any series premieres to add to YTTV. That's really the only kmttg RPC function I've used for last several years.