TiVo : TiVo Commander Android App

[BenMcr]

It seems that the TiVo Commander app has disappeared from the Market :/

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by jackassuk56

i cant find the app in the android market can someone email it to me really want it

It seems to have been removed from the market, not sure when or why though.

[Doz007]

I'd say they probably had a stern letter/call from the TiVo legal team & were forced to pull the app.

I'd be happily proven wrong though

[Stephen]

Don't think that would be the case. It's not like there is an official app yet for android or anything.

[rank1]

Originally Posted by Buzzman

This is the app you need to set remote recordings. Works very well.

https://market.android.com/details?i...nmedia.tvguide

Excellent, cheers!

[Joedm45]

Shame its been pulled, it is a great app.

Just had a search for TiVo on the market and this came up

https://market.android.com/details?i...MucmNYZnJlZSJd

Wonder if it will work with VM TiVo, not at home at the moment so can't test it

[scaseman]

Seems to work O.K. Shame about Tivo Commander becaues it's great for adding recordings while watching TV as it does it in the background

[zekeisaszekedoes]

Try this.

Download the apk either direct to your phone or via computer and download via USB or something like that. Get it now before TiVo try and erase that, too, spoilsports that they are.

[zekeisaszekedoes]

After some hours of tweaking and general annoyance I have managed to get TiVo Commander to control the TiVo from anywhere. Not just on WLANs, but via 3G too!

The tough part was setting up a working PPTP VPN (required; won't work any other way) using my router with DD-WRT firmware. When that's done entering the details in an Android device is pretty easy.

Now it's done I can schedule shows and manage the hard drive remotely with far more control than is possible using the VM TV Guide webapp thing. It's not quite as fast as using it across the LAN, but considering how many hops it has to perform to get from 3G to my home network it's still impressive!

[zekeisaszekedoes]

After more testing it doesn't seem quite as successful as I had hoped. I'm loathe to crosspost between forums, but here's something I wrote over at VM Community:

Originally Posted by Zeke

Now I've found that the TiVo Commander app will work across 3G or WiFi networks that aren't on the LAN the VPN is on. However the functionality of the app is severely impaired: it doesn't appear to schedule recordings and series links correctly or at all as it would if it were directly on the LAN. Sometimes it seems to parse several requests at once, things I've tried earlier via the app but seemed to fail at the time.

This might be related to a speed issue the VPN appears to have. When streaming video from my NAS PC via FTP outside the LAN the buffering is efficient enough to prevent dropouts assuming the file size isn't too large to overwhelm the 3Mb/s upload speed of my broadband. However, the exact same videos are terrible when played via SMB over VPN, almost as if VPN has a bitrate overhead impacting performance. These tests were performed on my laptop but the VPN itself seems really unstable on my phone too, and doesn't appear to stay connected even when the notification bar hasn't informed me of a disconnect.

Probably completely the wrong place to post all of this, but being new to VPN I could use some hints here.

[Dazza124]

Can anyone help?

Downloaded tha App.set tivo up and the app works really well.
impressed and works quickly. Used ethernet IP address
However after a while the app cannot connect. I have checked the IP address and the tivo ethernet ip address keeps changing. once i change on the app all works ok again.
i dont understand where i am going wrong.

[scaseman]

My IP address changes usually when I reboot my router as I sometimes have different devices attached as I have 4 cabled devices and 4 using Wifi available not always all connected at the same time so its probably not you.

[karma mechanic]

Originally Posted by Dazza124

Can anyone help?

Downloaded tha App.set tivo up and the app works really well.
impressed and works quickly. Used ethernet IP address
However after a while the app cannot connect. I have checked the IP address and the tivo ethernet ip address keeps changing. once i change on the app all works ok again.
i dont understand where i am going wrong.

On your router it should be possible to 'fix' the IP address used by the Tivo. On mine it is in the 'DHCP reservations' list - the router will always allocate the same IP address to the Tivo even after a disconnection.

[Dazza124]

Originally Posted by scaseman

My IP address changes usually when I reboot my router as I sometimes have different devices attached as I have 4 cabled devices and 4 using Wifi available not always all connected at the same time so its probably not you.

my router hasnt rebooted.the IP address (the last two numbers) on the tivo seems to change.

---------- Post added at 15:12 ---------- Previous post was at 15:06 ----------

Originally Posted by karma mechanic

On your router it should be possible to 'fix' the IP address used by the Tivo. On mine it is in the 'DHCP reservations' list - the router will always allocate the same IP address to the Tivo even after a disconnection.

the ip address i use on the tivo is the etherent ip address. this is the one that changes.
my router is in another location so i use a wireless bridge/ethernet converter.

[kgollop]

Originally Posted by karma mechanic

On your router it should be possible to 'fix' the IP address used by the Tivo. On mine it is in the 'DHCP reservations' list - the router will always allocate the same IP address to the Tivo even after a disconnection.

Yes I've done the same, added DHCP reservations for both TIVO's on the Superhub and it's been fine.