TiVo-related stuff
John has released Galleon 2.5.4. Here’s what’s new, from the release notes: Fix ToGo looping bug on null recording date (1811137) Added user-selectable range for local radar image (100, 300, 600 miles) in Weather app auto-subdirectory publishing for GoBack, avoids the need to do it yourself and also avoids bugs in TiVo folder navigation in …
Or it just might try to kill you. Just in time for Halloween. 😉
TiVo and Nero today announced LiquidTV, a package that brings the TiVo experience to your Windows-based PC available on October 15. There are plenty of great blog articles covering this new product, like Megazone’s over on Gizmo Lovers. It looks pretty slick … it’s basically the TiVo interface on your PC, something (some) people have …
So last night my RMA replacement for my failed WD Expander arrived. I opened the box and found … an internal 500gb SATA drive, just the bare drive. So I called up Western Digital and spoke with a support rep. I explained that I had opened an RMA for my external MyDVR Expander and received …
Last month I added a small enhancement to Galleon’s weather app that allowed for a user-selectable range for the radar image (instead of using the default 600-mile one). I published my source code changes and the new jar file here on my blog. Now earlier this month, jtkohl released Galleon 2.5.3 which contained a fix …
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Last night I found my TiVo HD just showing a black screen and it was unresponsive to the remote. No big deal, I rebooted it and it came back up fine. Then I tried to play an HD recording and it spontaneously rebooted. This time it got stuck in a reboot loop. So I let …
The way my home theater is set up, all of the components (receiver, TiVo, DVD recorder, Wii, etc.) are hidden in a cabinet. When we first moved in, I would leave the cabinet doors open so that the IR signals from the remote control could reach the components. This was unsightly though, so eventually I …
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150 hours of HD-recording goodness … today TiVo unveiled its new TiVo HD XL. From the outside it looks just like the TiVo HD, but this baby sports a 1TB (that’s 1 terrabyte, or 1,000 gigabytes) “green” hard drive, THX certification (like my now-discontinued Series3 box), and comes with the backlit Glo remote … all …
The 9.4 software release for the TiVo Series3 and HD boxes included the ability to stream YouTube videos in H.264 format and the community quickly started re-engineering the feature. pyTiVo developer wmcbrine was the first one to get a basic stream working in his HME for Python framework. Now, TiVo Community user moyekj has released …
Last month after fixing a problem in Galleon’s weather application it was pointed out to me that my fix displayed the 100-mile radar map whereas originally Galleon had shown the 600-mile map. Well, I decided to take a crack at coming up with a solution for that as well. This gave me an opportunity to …
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