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Put your Tivo's "Now Playing" list on your desktop!
For those of you with vserver running on your Tivo and vstream running on your Mac, here's a short script I've written that -- when used with GeekTool -- allows you to put the "Now Playing" list from your TiVo on to your desktop.
The script uses the vstream client to gather the list of programs from your "Now Playing" list, sorts them, and then groups them together ala Tivo's "folders" feature. The output is formatted so that single programs are shown on one line with the program name, episode title, and record date. Shows with multiple episodes are shown on two lines: the first line contains the name of the program and the total number of episodes, and the second line contains the episode name and date and time of the last episode recorded. In order to use this program, you need to have vserver running on your (hacked) Tivo and you must also have the "vstream-client" executable located on your Macintosh in /usr/local/bin. You'll also need to alter the following code and change the IP address so that it matches the IP address of your Tivo. Here's the code. You can cut and past this directly into GeekTool.
I would recommend you set a 360-second refresh interval, so that the list only updates once an hour.
Cheers!
Put your Tivo's "Now Playing" list on your desktop!
Ack! The code is getting munged by the forum.
A cut-and-pastable version of this hint is available at http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/showthread.php?t=263533 or http://www.dealdatabase.com/forum/showthread.php?t=45518
(This forum keeps stripping out the backslashes from the code, despite my use of
Put your Tivo's "Now Playing" list on your desktop!
gotta use square brackets, as per the warning at the top of the reply box:
I didn't use all the code, as it makes for a WIDE page. The other forums have a good solution for that, maybe we can get it here someday.
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