{"id":1151,"date":"2013-05-27T11:33:39","date_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:33:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1151"},"modified":"2013-05-27T11:33:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T16:33:39","slug":"watching-tivo-on-a-linux-box","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=1151","title":{"rendered":"Watching TiVo on a Linux Box"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have a show on my old Series 2 TiVo that I want to watch on a Linux machine.  The TiVo Desktop software only runs on Windows.  I downloaded it (TiVoDesktop2.8.3.exe and tivo-desktop-patch-setup.exe) to my tivo folder on the NAS.  Next, I started a Windows XP session on VirtualBox.  In Windows Explorer, I entered the NAS&#8217;s address (\\\\ds411p2) in the address bar and logged in.  From there, I could get to the tivo folder.  I ran TiVoDesktop2.8.3.exe and set up the software, then ran the patch.<br \/>\nTiVo Desktop cannot find my DVR, though the DVR is accessible via its IP address.<\/p>\n<p>As a sanity check, I rebooted into a native copy of Vista.  TiVo desktop ran just fine.  This doesn&#8217;t satisfy the requirements of the title of this post, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=776\">Galleon<\/a> should.  Isn&#8217;t it funny that I disabled it only this week?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have a show on my old Series 2 TiVo that I want to watch on a Linux machine. The TiVo Desktop software only runs on Windows. I downloaded it (TiVoDesktop2.8.3.exe and tivo-desktop-patch-setup.exe) to my tivo folder on the NAS. Next, I started a Windows XP session on VirtualBox. In Windows Explorer, I entered the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1151"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1153,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1151\/revisions\/1153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}