The New TiVo Web Site

online.tivo.com?

Yes, it is pretty good. I just wish the guide was more flexible in its scrolling.

The guide is not accurate compared to what the box sees.

 

Unusable!!!:
Problem Playing Show
We are unable to detect your TiVo streaming device from this location. If you are currently away from home, streaming video may not be available at this time.

 

I get the same error when using TiVo Online, even though it streams fine to my iPad.

 

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No issues here when using chrome

 

Are you at home on your LAN or somewhere else? Right now it's an in-home thing only. I figure out of home use will come, after all it's not any different than out of home use on a smartphone or tablet.

When I try TiVo Online at home, in Safari, it says it can not detect my Roamio on the network. I rebooted the Roamio, still the same problem.

I tried Chrome, because I don't run the Adobe Flash Player in Safari. Chrome returned the same error.

 

I can't get the recorded shows to play on my desktop... am I missing something?

 

I also cannot stream recorded video from my Roamio Plus to my PC.

The online.tivo.com website recognizes my login, displays what's recorded on my device, offers me the "Watch" icon option on shows, and then presents this error message after I click it: "Problem Playing Show - We are unable to detect your TiVo streaming device from this location. If you are currently away from home, streaming video may not be available at this time."

I am at home on my home network, have the latest version of Flash installed, and am trying to stream unprotected recordings. Any suggestions? FYI I'm using Firefox. Thanks.

 

It works for me but is not all that useful. I have an iPad and can more easily walk around watching with that. More importantly, I can use an iPad away from home whereas the PC version doesn't allow that.

I also have a slingbox which gives me 100% flexibility to watch anywhere and to stream shows to a real TV via a Roku. What is taking TiVo so long to get anywhere near that?

If this new PC version worked away from home one could plug a laptop into the TV and watch on a big screen away from home. But nooooo, TiVo still doesn't readily allow that. Imagine that watching television on a television is still considered too advanced for the TiVo app.

 

Yeah, I get that. But the fact that Slingbox can work around it shows it's a distinction without a difference. Yes, TiVo's hands are tied but why is that? It's like the fact that movies that are rated R are unavailable for kids in the movie theater but then are available every other possible way to watch. Who are we kidding with these half-measures?

I don't mean to rant but watching the TiVo app on a real TV would be very useful to me. Slingbox's interface with TiVo is not as streamlined as using the TiVo app directly (obviously). I spend a decent amount of time away from home base that this is something I could really use. Not another way to watch from home where I already have TV's everywhere hooked up to TiVo devices.

 

The copy protection isn't the main issue I'm addressing - it only prevents me from watching HBO/Cinemax channels as a FIOS customer.

I'm talking about the additional ability to watch on an actual television screen while away from home. TiVo doesn't allow that while Slingbox does - either by connecting a laptop to a TV or streaming from an iPad/Android device to a Roku.

 

What's the good in that?

So this new site is just another answer to a question no body asked...

TiVo you are going the way of fast food restaurants, getting too much on the menu.
Stick to being a DVR service; leave the other (crap) to those that can make it all work!

 

Wow...the new website is nice......so much better than the old one, and appears to be responsive (the old one was so slow when trying to setup recordings, manage the box, etc)

 

I just found that the online site will stream to my laptop (Windows 7) if I use Internet Explorer but not Firefox. Any ideas/is this a known bug?

 

Just tried it on Firefox 38.0.5 and it worked no problem. I am using Win8.1 x64 on this desktop though. Will try my Win7x64 laptop a little later and see if that works as well, if no one else does earlier.