Scheduling Tivo over the net

[razza]

Thanks for the reply Darren!
I'm assuming your router would have to support the dynamic IP account as Peter mentioned in his first post?
Also can you expand on step 2 a little more? The user name and pass, is that of your dynamic IP account or one that you make up to access tivoweb? And are you referring to the tivoweb that comes with the oztivo image or tivoweb plus?
Also where is this config file you are referring too?

[Darren King]

I'm assuming your router would have to support the dynamic IP account as Peter mentioned in his first post?

It can, or you can download the small client program that synchronises your dynamic IP to point to your no-ip account. I find that dynamic IP's don't change that often if your modem is always connected so you should only have to re-sync now and then.

Also can you expand on step 2 a little more? The user name and pass, is that of your dynamic IP account or one that you make up to access tivoweb?

Your TiVoWEB config. You do not need to enter your dynamic IP password to do this.

And are you referring to the tivoweb that comes with the oztivo image or tivoweb plus? Also where is this config file you are referring too?

TiVoWEB, the one on the image. However I do not think the file is much different on TiVoWeb Plus. All the settings are located in the file tivoweb.cfg which should be in the TiVoWEB directory on the TiVo.

[Darren King]

More info lifted from this site: http://www.steveconrad.co.uk/tivo/airnet2.html

Using your FTP program, connect to Tivo and navigate to /var/hack/tivoweb-tcl. Inside this file you should see a file called tivoweb.cfg. Download this back to your PC.

You need to edit this file. I would strongly suggest using a good text editor such as ultra-edit so as not to disrupt the linefeed characters that can happen if you use Notepad. Under no circumstances use a word processor on this file !

If you look at the file, you'll see something like the following:

UserName =
Password =
Port = 80
Prefix =
Theme =
DescriptionHover = 1
MulitDelete = 1

Here you can add a userid and password to access Tivoweb.

UserName = fred
Password = itsn0thard

If you want Tivoweb to run off a non-standard port, you can change the following line:

Port = 200

Changing the port number means you have to type http://192.168.1.200:200 in your browsers address box.

You might also like to give your address a prefix by changing the prefix value.

Prefix = tivo

This has the effect of requiring you to enter http://192.168.1.200:200/tivo/ in your browser to access tivoweb.

You can change the appearence of your Tivoweb by downloading a customised 'skin' and placing the resulting file (normally a CSS file) inside the /var/hack/tivoweb-tcl folder. You can then specify Tivoweb to use this skin when it starts up by placing the name of the skin on the Theme line of the tivoweb.cfg file. e.g.

Theme = redbook

Once complete, save the file and FTP it back to Tivo, replacing the original file.

You'll need to restart Tivoweb - the quickest method is just to restart Tivo itself. Ensure you're not already recording something important before you restart it!

You don't have to FTP the config file. You can use JOE ir VI text editor on the TiVo to do it locally via a bash prompt if you like.

[razza]

answers all my questions, will have to test it out tonight when I get home. Cheers Darren.

[JustinD]

Thanks for the reply Darren!
I'm assuming your router would have to support the dynamic IP account as Peter mentioned in his first post?

Just an FYI - my Linksys WRT54G router has the dynamic IP client built-in. I am sure some of the other manufacturers probably have this also although my old D-link 624 didn't.

[Darren King]

I am sure some of the other manufacturers probably have this also

Yes. Billion 7402VGP does too.

[razza]

Thanks guys I have followed all the instructions and its working perfectly! cheers.

[Darren King]

Good stuff! Enjoy

[daggo]

Or you could leave a PC on in your network and use VNC to control it thru a SSH tunnel.

[catdog]

A bit late now since you already have it working, but I compiled the no-ip client to run on the tivo itself and it has been working great since last year. It means you can use a router which doesn't have dynamic IP support, and you do not need a PC running.
http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/pub/Upl...o-build0.1.zip

No-ip can also be configured to do a "port 80 redirect" to another port, so once configured (in this case to port 199) you just enter:
http://yourname.no-ip.com/
instead of:
http://yourname.no-ip.com:199/