What is it with me and hard drive crashes lately? First the drive in my Linux server dies, then this past Sunday the stock 250gb drive in my TiVo Series3 went bad. The crash first manifested when the TiVo froze with a pinkish tinted picture on the TV. This has happened occasionally in the past, [...]
Archive of posts filed under the tivo category.
Getting the most out of your TiVo
[ I try to keep this post updated and current, so check back often! -windracer ] A TiVo is much more than just a souped up digital VCR. What separates TiVo from your cable company’s generic DVR (other than the awesome features of TiVo service itself) is the wide range of (mostly free) applications you [...]
179 hours of HD goodness
Who needs to buy a brand new TiVo HD XL to get 1TB of recording capacity? After adding the Western Digital eSATA 1TB MyDVR Expander to my Series3 my recording capacity jumped from 32 HD hours (303 SD hours) to 179 HD hours (or 1,561 SD hours) … 1.3 terrabytes! Just like the 500gb Expander [...]
Presidential TiVo?
Does Barack Obama have a TiVo on Air Force One? This article seems to imply that, when talking about the president’s TV viewing habits: For less R-rated fare, he tunes into “Hannah Montana” or “SpongeBob SquarePants” in the White House with his daughters. Aides said he would have watched Monday night’s NCAA championship on TiVo [...]
April Fool’s Day
Google’s annual April Fool’s day joke was pretty creative: AutoPilot to automatically respond to your e-mail messages. There was also PC World’s article about the new TiVo that can record shows before they air (the TiVo SuperAdvance) that I thought was cute. Other than that, I really didn’t see a lot of other tom-foolery. However, [...]
Galleon 2.5.5 is out
The new version of Galleon has been officially released. Here are the release notes (items in bold are my own personal contributions): added java parameter to favor IPv4 (should eliminate the need for disabling IPv6 on linux installs) added runlevel 2 to linux Makefile (for distros that use update-rc.d) fixed Movies app so it works [...]
Minor fixes for Galleon’s ToGo app
It’s been a while since I last posted but I’ve been sick for the last week with a really bad chest cold. I actually stayed home from work on Wednesday (taking the rare, for me, sick day), slept pretty much the entire day and still really didn’t feel any better. I’ve still got the cough, [...]
1TB of storage at home, nice!
Shortly after the new year began, I started converting all of my DVDs (and even some old VHS tapes!) into MP4 format with the goal being immediate access to my entire video library on any TiVo in the house using tools like pyTivo or streambaby. About two weeks into the project it became readily apparent [...]
Stream, Baby, Stream
Over the past few months I’ve dabbled with tivostream to send MP4-encoded video to my HD TiVo boxes, but usually I rely upon pyTivo to watch my video library. Tonight, kearygriffin over on the TiVo Community Forum announced streambaby (Stream, Baby, Stream) which builds on and extends what moyekj started with tivostream. As with its [...]
Home theater re-org
I started out 2009 by re-organizing my home theater media cabinet. Several years back I used to have a UPS in the cabinet to protect the various components and keep the TiVo running in case of the occasional power fluctuation (which can happen a lot during the summer months here in Florida). That UPS eventually [...]
