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Access Tivo Recordings Using a Web Browser

I recently learned how to access Tivo recordings via a web browser. This makes up for the lack of the Tivo Desktop software program for Mac OS X. The steps are pretty straightforward:

  1. Determine the IP address of the Tivo DVR, or the Zero Configuration (Bonjour) networking name of the DVR (mine was dvr-dc88.local).
  2. Open a web browser with the URL https://[IP address]/, or https://[bonjour name]/. The URL I used was https://dvr-dc88.local/
  3. When prompted for a username and password, use 'tivo' as the username and your Media Access Key (obtained from Tivo's account management website) as the password.
  4. Download any video content offered via the web interface.
  5. Use MplayerOSX to play any of the Tivo videos.

Here's what the browser-based interface looks like:

Tivo Now Playing

Posted by Scott on December 30, 2005 11:11 PM |

Comments

Can you also schedule a new recording using this interface?

F.

Posted by: Fabian | December 10, 2006 12:41 PM

Unfortunately, no. It would be great if you could! But it's possible to schedule recordings through the Tivo & Yahoo! TV websites. With a broadband-connected Tivo, new scheduled recordings are detected within about 15 minutes.

Posted by: Scott | December 18, 2006 12:24 PM

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