Easier to use pyTivo - pyTivo Desktop

Interesting, thanks. I was thinking to transfer the recordings before the Bolt arrives, because the process might take quite a long time. With USB->Ethernet adapters, my slower Series2 transfers to the PC at around 3Mbps, the faster one is roughly 5Mbps, it seems. And the unit will remain active for 10 days after setting up the Bolt, so I have something of a time limit to work within.

So I figured I'd get started now, to at least have the recordings available on the PC, then later I could work out transferring them to the Bolt.

 

hmm... I'm running into issues. Transfers form the TiVo seem to work fine, but I set up a folder for TiVo recordings, music, and pictures but nothing is showing up on any f my boxes. With the old pyTiVo, I start it and a few seconds later I can see the folders on my TiVos. Does it take some time to show up or something?

 

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I restarted it a third time and this time the video folder showed up.

EDIT: But I can't transfer it to the TiVo. I see the folder and the shows on the TiVo., And it says it will transfer after whatever, but I don;t see where it's transferring.

It's working great using the PC and transferring from the TiVo to the PC.

EDIT: I see a show eventually transferred but it was several minutes after I initiated it.

 

Do you have ffmpeg.exe, either in the pytivo\bin folder or have pointed pyTivo to it?

 

It did eventually transfer content to the TiVo. But it was inconsistent when it did. And sometimes delayed for some reason. I shut off my PC that was running it last night and will try again tonight.

Assuming I don't have any more FiOS Cable Card issues tonight. The tech on the phone last night screwed up my cable card and I have to pick up a new one today. The previous night I had a tech that knew what they were doing, so the first cable card transferred without any major issues.

 

There are 300+ recordings saved to keep until I delete. Are they all needed? No, probably not, but many are shows my wife watches, so I don't get to simply decide what gets deleted, there is a committee involved Transferring them is the simplest approach to a smooth transition, at least for now.

Good info on Plex, thank you. And even without that, it seems like maybe I could share them from the PC, allowing streaming them that way. My preference would be to just copy them to the Bolt, so I don't have to keep a share running, but that's definitely an option, and it's also simpler to manage at the moment.

I have started trying kmttg, it appeared to easily allow selecting a bunch of recordings to queue for transfer to the PC, which is a useful place to start.

 

Something else I saw someone (don't remember who or what thread) suggest in a similar situation was to set the old S2's ( or whatever DVR's) on whichever TV that would be convenient on a different video input leaving all the programs archived on them, plug in power ( if you don't want to leave on all the time) and switch inputs whenever she wants to watch something.

 

That would make sense, but in fact, the opposite is true, in my experience.

 

It was true for pushes, but even that was mostly fixed, at least in the HDUI, especially if you added [<programId>] to the beginning of the description.

It was never really true for pulls when using the SDUI and fixed for the HDUI after programId was added to the pyTivo metadata.

 

Another benefit of just keeping the shows on the PC and allowing them to be streamed via Plex or pulled via pyTiVo/kmttg whenever someone wants to watch is you don't need to have nearly as much storage space on the TiVo itself. You mentioned that you have upgraded storage in your current S2s and 300+ programs saved as KUID. That space can be recovered by simply keeping that stuff on the PC.

 

Well, but you still need the storage somewhere. But a central repository can be a good thing (however, it's then an extra step).

 

It's a whole lot easier to add space to a computer.

 

And to backup such storage.

 

I don't backup but I'll only have a problem if I lose more than one disk at a time in my RAID.