How do you do this with an ordinary consumer grade broadband router, AND without altering the TiVo??azitnay said:...The way around this is to forward some other port to port 80 on your TiVo.
Username "tivo", password is your media access key. You can browse your entire TiVo's recorded content and download it as well.98softail said:If I try to log into my TiVo at port 443, the browser asks for a user name and password. How do I find out what it is?
Also, what can I do by browsing this page? Is it just informational, or can I download files from it?
Thanks
Yeah, port forwarding is pretty simple; I do it all of the time.azitnay said:No TiVo altering necessary; a TiVo running 7.x is already running a webserver on ports 80 and 443. You just need to forward the ports from the router, which every router I've ever seen can do (though I'm sure there's an exception). As to how do to it on your "ordinary consumer grade broadband router", they're all very different; just go to the web interface (usually http://192.168.1.1/ or http://192.168.0.1/) and take it from there.Drew
So, how do you do this?? I know it's possible if you "proxy" the TiVo with another PC and map the ports and services accordingly, but I DON'T see how you can do this with an ordinary broadband router.azitnay said:Of course, your ISP may block port 80 inbound (Verizon DSL does). The way around this is to forward some other port to port 80 on your TiVo.
Some have it built-in (such as the airport, to use a popular example) and some can do it with alternative firmware(such as the wrt54g, another popular one) and some have no alternative firmware nor native methods of handling it. It all really depends on the manufacturer.Fixer said:Yeah, port forwarding is pretty simple; I do it all of the time.However, because some ISPs block port 80, you were talking about changing the actual listen port of the TiVo's HTTP daemon, within the confines of the port forwarding feature of the router.
So, how do you do this?? I know it's possible if you "proxy" the TiVo with another PC and map the ports and services accordingly, but I DON'T see how you can do this with an ordinary broadband router.
Thanks for the info gonzo; that's exactly what I was looking for!! I've noticed that D-Link routers can also do port redirection via their "Virtual Server" settings. Unfortunately, my Netgear WGR614v4, and my old Linksys BEFSR41, don't have this feature. Oh well, I don't access my TiVo over the 'net anyway.gonzotek said:
Looking at the manual for your particular router (found at http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20&grid=5), you'll most likely need set up the following two forwards:Fl_Gulfer said:I have the Linksys BEFSR41 and it has port forwarding, I have 2 Tivos a 240 and a 540 that can't access the internet, I want to try port forward and don't know what to enter on the port lines ____ to ____ and the IP address do I use my PC IP or the TIVO IP ?
1. If left-clicking isn't bringing up a Save As dialog box, you can right-click and select Save Target As (IE) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save the .tivo file to disk.treyj said:Wow! How did I miss finding out about this whole web server thing on TiVo??? A few questions:
1. When I click download, it brings up media player, can I actually just download the file to view later?
2. Are there any other goodies available besides what's showing?
3. Where can I find out more about this TiVo web server thing?
Thanks a lot!
Thanks, Drew! For some reason, the right-click trick doesn't work (I am using IE). Does it work for you? Also regarding searching, what exactly is this capability called (i.e. what should I search for)?azitnay said:1. If left-clicking isn't bringing up a Save As dialog box, you can right-click and select Save Target As (IE) or Save Link As (Firefox) to save the .tivo file to disk.
2. The only other "goodie" I know of is an XML interface to the Now Playing data, which TiVo Desktop uses. It can be more useful than the HTML interface if you want to do some scripting to cache your Now Playing list on a webserver somewhere and create your own custom front-end to all this (something I've thought about doing in the past, but never bothered to do -- the built-in one is good enough for me).
3. It's unsupported, so you won't find out any more from TiVo, but I'm sure there's plenty of information on this board, if you search.
Drew
Do I CheckMark both the TCP and UDP boxes? I don't know what I did, If anything, but now my other PC can't connect to the internet. I connected my bedroom TIVO directly to my RCA Cable modem and it worked great, so It has to be this piece of junk router. I been trying to get these Tivo's to work through the internet for over a week, and it just isn't going to happen I guess. I attached the Forward Page of my router.azitnay said:Looking at the manual for your particular router (found at http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=20&grid=5), you'll most likely need set up the following two forwards:
80 to 80, check TCP, enter your TiVo's IP address, and check enable
443 to 443, check TCP, enter your TiVo's IP address, and check enable
I believe the ___ to ___ specifies the port range (so you can easily forward a whole block of ports), but in this case we just need 80 and 443, no ranges.
It looks like you may be out of luck if your ISP blocks ports 80 or 443, or you want to forward separate external ports to multiple TiVos. As gonzotek said, apparently not all routers support port redirection. I wasn't aware of that.
Drew
TCP should be all you need for the TiVo's purpose.Fl_Gulfer said:Do I CheckMark both the TCP and UDP boxes? I don't know what I did, If anything, but now my other PC can't connect to the internet. I connected my bedroom TIVO directly to my RCA Cable modem and it worked great, so It has to be this piece of junk router. I been trying to get these Tivo's to work through the internet for over a week, and it just isn't going to happen I guess. I attached the Forward Page of my router.