Welcome!

GRHS Technologies · #1 December 15th, 2006, 11:38 AM

Welcome TiVo enthusiasts!

The TiVo plug-in for HomeSeer is a new plug-in that allows you to control your HomeSeer devices and trigger HomeSeer events using your TiVO Series 2 or TiVO Series 3 with the Home Media Option.

The plug-in automatically installs the Java Runtime required for the application and when HomeSeer is started, it starts the TiVo app server and registers the application on your local network. Even if you have multiple TiVo boxes, the application will appear under "Music, Photos, & More" on all of them.

We hope you enjoy it and please give us your feedback here.

GRHS Technologies

dhanford · #2 December 15th, 2006, 12:05 PM

Screenshots?

Thanks,
Dave

GRHS Technologies · #3 December 15th, 2006, 04:49 PM

OK, this will probably take a few posts because of size limitations, but let me see what I can do....

The quality is not that good because I do not have any good capture hardware, so this was using a camera and in some cases a cheap capture board. It will look much better on your TV. ;-)

Update: I re-did the screen shots using a TiVo emulator, so they are much clearer now.

GRHS Technologies · #4 December 15th, 2006, 04:50 PM

Group 2

completelyhis · #5 December 16th, 2006, 02:14 AM

Wow...this looks great! Can you provide info on what Tivo units this is compatible with? would it be compatible with some DirecTV Tivo units?

dale · #6 December 16th, 2006, 06:43 AM

I installed this yesterday and was very impressed. Even my wife thought it was cool. That is a good thing!

GRHS Technologies · #7 December 16th, 2006, 07:32 AM

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Originally Posted by completelyhis

Wow...this looks great! Can you provide info on what Tivo units this is compatible with? would it be compatible with some DirecTV Tivo units?

Thank you!
Unfortunately, the TiVo box has to have the Home Media option for this to work, and apparently that is not available on DirecTV TiVos:
http://forums.tivo.com/pe/action/for...ostID=10199597

The way the answer was stated though makes it seem like it might be coming in the future.

Gogs · #8 December 16th, 2006, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by GRHS Technologies

Welcome TiVo enthusiasts!

Erm, sorry to interrupt, but, being from the other side of our pond, and, excuse the American expression:

What the hell is TiVo

completelyhis · #9 December 16th, 2006, 01:38 PM

TiVo was the original DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The series two has a lot of home network/media server options. www.tivo.com

Gogs · #10 December 16th, 2006, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by completelyhis

TiVo was the original DVR (Digital Video Recorder). The series two has a lot of home network/media server options. www.tivo.com

Thank you for the answer and the link.

It looks an intersting sight,

completelyhis · #11 December 16th, 2006, 02:02 PM

Don't know if they have any TiVo devices that support PAL, though.

jon00 · #12 December 16th, 2006, 07:08 PM

Tivo was in the UK from around 1999 to 2004. It was a loss maker for Tivo so they stopped production for the UK market. I believe they still support existing equipment. Sky+ was one of its rivals so was doomed to fail.

UK Tivo FAQ http://www.tivofaq.co.uk/

GRHS Technologies · #13 December 21st, 2006, 01:50 PM

Blinder,

I will be happy to address these:
1. Sounds like the problem I discovered yesterday - this was developed with a later release of HomeSeer - you have to have at least version 2.1.122 to use it, preferrably something later - what version do you have?
2. This sound like a bug - does it work for 2nd and subsequent entries?
3. Great
4a. The UI capabilities are fairly limited and we chose to truncate device names rather than to wrap them around as wrapping would take up a lot of space on the screen - are you still able to tell which device it is?
4b. Sounds like the author of the plug-in for the HAI thermostat did not provide a device option to change the temperature. Can you confirm that? The TiVo interface supports a device having control options of device values (drop down lists), buttons, or the regular status commands of on/off/dim, etc. If the HAI thermostat plug-in has or can create a device with temperature setting change features on it, then it can be controlled with this, otherwise I can only suggest creating events that raise and lower the set temperature and perhaps those on your favorites screen will work well for you.

Thank you - let me know about that question I had and I will look into the potential bug issue.

tenholde · #14 December 22nd, 2006, 06:46 PM

I am very interested in trying the TIVO plugin. I'm already running the TIVO server on one machine in order to share MP3s and photos.

If I install the plugin on my HS box, I understand it will install another TIVO server on the HS box. Will running 2 TIVO servers on the network work? Will I be able to access music and photos from one TIVO server, and HS from another?

Ed t.

GRHS Technologies · #15 December 22nd, 2006, 07:36 PM

Hello,

I do not know the answer to that question. Our system will definitely appear as HomeSeer, so you will be able to tell the difference between it and the other applications because they are listed as "applications" not servers, but since they all use the same port number to appear to the TiVo boxes, and because I am not the Java programmer on this, I can't say for sure that it will work. On one of my test machines that I recently rolled back an older version of HomeSeer to test the version issue, I just installed the latest version of TiVo Desktop, so I should be able to again fire up HomeSeer and give you the answer - hopefully I can do this soon.

tenholde · #16 December 22nd, 2006, 09:52 PM

Thanks for your reply. I'll be anxious to hear what you find out.
Ed t.

AutomatedJim · #17 December 23rd, 2006, 12:51 AM

Do you have a trial period prior to committing to buying? 15 to 30 days would be sufficient. I'm still using HS 1.7 with the command line TiVo interface and want to make sure this is what I want before buying.

Jim

Blinder · #18 December 23rd, 2006, 02:22 AM

I was almost finished with my first response and the browser closed (I'm sure fat fingers)

1) Here is my startup screen: 12/22/2006 10:48:07 PM - Startup - HomeSeer version 2.1.162.0 Starting Now (DEBUG Build)

2) Works for everything except the first. I should try to delete and re-setup or at least play with it. The item shows up on the PC side, but not the Tivo.

4a) I can tell the device and I suspect that if I shorten the name, I will get the current temp.
4b) The Maestro plugin allows changing the temp and some access to the schedule, so I don't think it's a lack of capability on the Temp plugin. By the way, I really like the HAI thermostat and it has a great pricepoint.

Thanks for the help

Quote:

Originally Posted by GRHS Technologies

Blinder,

I will be happy to address these:
1. Sounds like the problem I discovered yesterday - this was developed with a later release of HomeSeer - you have to have at least version 2.1.122 to use it, preferrably something later - what version do you have?
2. This sound like a bug - does it work for 2nd and subsequent entries?
3. Great
4a. The UI capabilities are fairly limited and we chose to truncate device names rather than to wrap them around as wrapping would take up a lot of space on the screen - are you still able to tell which device it is?
4b. Sounds like the author of the plug-in for the HAI thermostat did not provide a device option to change the temperature. Can you confirm that? The TiVo interface supports a device having control options of device values (drop down lists), buttons, or the regular status commands of on/off/dim, etc. If the HAI thermostat plug-in has or can create a device with temperature setting change features on it, then it can be controlled with this, otherwise I can only suggest creating events that raise and lower the set temperature and perhaps those on your favorites screen will work well for you.

Thank you - let me know about that question I had and I will look into the potential bug issue.

billm · #19 April 12th, 2007, 06:53 AM

I just downloaded the trial to see what it is all about. the setup shows 29 days left in the trial. However tivo reports:
This plug-in is no longer licensed or your trial period has expired. Please contact Homeseer to activate this plug-in.
I downloaded the plug-in and installed it and nothing showed up on tivo.
I then downloaded the tivo desktop to the homeseer server computer and set up tivo to comunicate with the computer.
then tivo showed the homeseer on the menu but then get the license error.
is it because i installed the plugin before the tvio desktop software?
what do i do now?
Bill

GRHS Technologies · #20 April 12th, 2007, 09:51 AM

Bill,

The TiVO Desktop software is in no way needed for the plug-in to operate.

Have you restarted HomeSeer since activating the plug-in? When you activated the plug-in for the first time, it was not licensed, so the interface to the TiVO was not started, but then HomeSeer realized it was a trial and granted you a trial license -- but it was too late for the plug-in. So, I am thinking that if you restart HomeSeer, it may start working as this time you will have the trial license from the beginning.

If that does not get it to work, then I would check your firewall software as the most common startup problems seem to be anti-virus/spyware and firewall issues. Since the plug-in communicates with the TiVO box via the network, the firewall software is the first one to check.