Tuesday, September 7, 2004
Control Your TiVo Over The Web
Posted by Suhit Gupta in "ARTICLE" @ 09:00 AM
"After reading up on a post on Slashdot about turning your iPod into a Universal remote control I thought it would be cool if I could control my Tivo from the web. How did I jump to that idea? Well, the iPod hack recorded the IR signals from a remote (such as a Tivo remote) as sound files. You then played them back and the Griffin device converted the audio signal to IR signals. I had already experimented with Quicktime Streaming server and knew how to broadcast a video source on the web. So now with the ability to simulate my remote, I could both watch and control the Tivo."
This is one of those - W?BIC! ideas. :) But I can see how this might be useful where you can schedule something over the web on your TiVo if you forgot to do it earlier when you were actually in front of the device.
This is one of those - W?BIC! ideas. :) But I can see how this might be useful where you can schedule something over the web on your TiVo if you forgot to do it earlier when you were actually in front of the device.
