tivo-network-remote

Control your Virgin Media Tivo box using this Node.js web application.

Pre-requisites

• Node.js must be installed on the machine that will run the web application - https://nodejs.org
• A Tivo box, with network access enabled (see below), that's on a network visible to the web application.

Tivo Setup

See this Virgin Media article

Application Setup and Configuration

• Clone this repository
• Install required node modules (run this from the local repo directory)

npm install express net serve-favicon

Run

As a process

• Start the web application (run this from your local repo directory)

node tivo-network-remote.js

• Point your browser at http://localhost:10001

As a Service

I'm using PM2 (http://pm2.keymetrics.io/) to run the web application as a service.

See the getting started guide (http://pm2.keymetrics.io/docs/usage/quick-start/)

• Start with pm2 start tivo-network-remote.js --name remote -i 1
• Make sure the web application is working ok
• Save the configuration with pm2 save so that the application is automatically started after a reboot

Additional Information

Info on Tivo's network protocol: https://www.tivo.com/assets/images/abouttivo/resources/downloads/brochures/TiVo_TCP_Network_Remote_Control_Protocol.pdf