Getting Programming Guide Data into TiVo Series 2 Units?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday November 12, 2002 @12:47PM from the features-people-want dept.

An Anonymous Coward asks: "The new (Series2) TiVos have been substantially hardened from prior versions, but, it looks like it might be easier to get foreign program schedules into the TiVo than ever before. The newest units support APG, Advanced Program Guide (tm). This is a program guide being sent via the satellite broadcasts to DirectTV receivers. I'm trying to determine if this is a standard (by a different name) and the precise interactions necessary to submit this data to the TiVo. Basically, I want to emulate a satellite receiver sufficiently enough to submit new programming guide data to the TiVo. What I need to do this are sample data streams from a DirecTV satellite receiver to a TiVo, or similar device. Once this is done and working it will be possible to supply any Series 2 TiVo with program guide data for any region in the world (if such a schedule can be obtained). Note that this should not require breaking TiVo's subscription model."

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If you're serious about Tivo programs... by Stubtify · 2002-11-12 13:53 · Score: 5, Informative

Then you either know about or live on the tivo community forums. They provide tons of information on everything from setup to hacking the boxes. If you haven't seen them they're at: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-vb/ The Underground board espically has had some gems come from it, inculding programs which show who's calling your home phone on the tivo screen via Caller ID so you don't have to get up from the couch. Seems that your ideas might fit in there somewhere. This following thread covers almost all tivo programs I believe: http://www.tivocommunity.com/tivo-v b/showthread.php?s=abb0e5aece302c7a40e1ba302554e60 b&threadid=78635 and of course last week on slashdot they discussed this: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/11/01/232 9254&mode=thread&tid=129 which also talks about tivo Series 2 units. Might have to wait till they finish the distributed computing effort as that backdoor code might help in some way to your cause. It seems like slashdot is averaging almost one tivo related story a week, are there really that many people on here with Tivo's?