TivoBuddy - a program to automatically download and re-encode programs off of your tivos. Copyright (C) 2009 Jonathan S. Romero ([email protected])

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For lack of a better name I am calling this program TivoBuddy.

It is based on a series of examples I found online for downloading the show list on a tivo and converting it to HTML or plain text. I wrote a few additional utilities that scan for tivos on your network, store the show listing for each in a mysql database, and another one to convert them to mp4 using ffmpeg.

Required utilities: tivodecode ffmpeg with mp4 and mp2 support curl wget

Required Libraries avahi

In it's current form this program will not work. You should be able to hack it into something useful.

Files converter.py - you guessed it, handles the process of converting a tivo encrypted file into mp4 by calling ffmpeg. It gets the files to convert from a database. It is intended to be run in response to a cron job, so that it will encode your files in the background after you have selected the ones you want via a database table. The intention is that the database table is updated from a web page.

tivobuddy.py - this program calls code in findtivo.py, scans the network for a known list of tivos. Gets their current IP addresses, and downloads their show lists. It then populates a database table with all the shows and download URLs for said shows, so that converter.py can get to them easily.

findtivo.py - good example of how to find tivos using the avahi package. Most of this code is taken from examples online. I just put it together for use in finding tivos.