3 Jan 2005
TiVo Scripts
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I’ve had a 30hr Philips TiVo for over 2 years now and it has completely changed the way that I watch television. Below are a couple of fun and interesting TiVo links.
- TiVo – offical company website
- TiVo News – Tivo-related news weblog
- Tivo Underground Forum – great place to pick up TiVo Hacking Tips
- TiVo Web Project – a webserver which can run on the TiVo
- Tivo Hacking FAQ
- Weaknees: Tivo upgrades
- PPPD Over the Serial Cable – enable telneting to your TiVo
Using the TiVo webserver installed on my TiVo, I pull a copy of the To Do and Now Showing lists to my linux server every 30 minutes.
Here’s the scripts (for use with TiVoWeb 1.9.4). Put them in your TiVoWeb modules subdirectory and restart TiVoWeb. They should show up on your main menu.
Next, I have a cron job that runs a php script hourly and pulls the data from the TiVoWeb website and saves it in a local file (ex. grab_current.php). Then, the php template of my website opens those files and shows the information.
Just for the record, I make no promises with these modules. Don’t blame me if they fry your TiVo. Proceed at your own risk.
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I am getting this error message when trying to access the Parseable Current:
INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
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action_includecurrent '/' ''
expected integer but got "931962 286225:12847:00000:86400:0:931962 tyDb"
while executing
"db $db openid $fsid"
("uplevel" body line 2)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {
set stationday [db $db openid $fsid]
set showings [dbobj $stationday get Showing]
foreach showing $showings {
..."
(procedure "::action_includecurrent" line 39)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--
This is what happens when I try to access Parseable Now Showing:
INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
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action_includenowshowing '/' ''
can't read "nowshowingdir": no such variable
while executing
"ForeachMfsFileTrans fsid name type $nowshowingdir "" 15 {
set rec [db $db openid $fsid]
print_nsrow $chan $rec
}"
(procedure "::action_includenowshowing" line 6)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--
I am using TivoWebPlus v1.0. Season Pass and To Do List seem to be working OK.
T | 6 Mar 2005