Skip to content

Tivo update

David Nunez
David Nunez
1 min read

Well, I woke up this morning and Tivo was still upset.

I actually modified my Tivo a long while ago, so I was convinced it wasn’t a problem with something I did.

This morning, I investigated some of the Tivo hacking sites and discovered that if you’ve done the Turbonet hack (i.e. switched your Tivo to ethernet) and you disconnect your Tivo for a long period of time, then there could be a problem with indexing of guide data… For example, you can’t search by title. (That precisely describes the symptoms I’m seeing).

The problem: Tivo will not index its raw guide data until it’s synchronized its internal clock with an external server. If it’s been a while since a daily call has completed, then this lack of synching is more obvious. Long story short: since Tivo is on my local network, it is also behind my firewall. It cannot make the call out to the clock server because the firewall is probably blocking that special port.

The solution: Apparently, If I redo the Guided Setup (which is the on-screen procedure you follow when you first install Tivo), then the clock gets accurately synched (in a different way than the daily call(?)) and indexing is forced to commence.

I went through the guided setup this morning and at the end, it told me it need 4-8 hours to complete indexing. This means that when I get home, Tivo should be back to health.

Hopefully.

journal

David Nunez Twitter

Dir of Technology at the MIT Museum • Writing about emerging tech's impact on your life • Speculative insights on the intersection of humanity and technology 🤖

Comments


Related Posts

FCC's Vote against Net Nuetrality is a disservice to museums

Yesterday, the FCC voted to repeal the 2015 Open Internet Order and dismantle the order’s strong net neutrality rules (New York Times summary of what happened). You have probably read about how this might impact broadband quality for things like streaming television or even basic websites via tiered access

FCC's Vote against Net Nuetrality is a disservice to museums

Requiem for Rhinos - behind the scenes video

Automatically Unshortening Links in Wordpress Posts

On this site, I have the Broken Links Checker Plugin chugging away in the background. He tirelessly checks and rechecks every link in every post to find URLs that no longer work; pages sometimes just disappear. In most cases, I’m able to use the Internet Archive Wayback Machine to

Automatically Unshortening Links in Wordpress Posts