TiVo + AJAX hacks

PVRblog is featuring some new TiVo hacks that provide an alternate interface to your TiVo using a web interface with AJAX. Unfortunately, they depend on having a TiVo with HME capability (OS 7.1) which I don’t have, so I haven’t tried them. 

http://www.pvrblog.com/pvr/2005/04/tivo_ajax.html

8 Responses to “TiVo + AJAX hacks”

  1. Eric says:

    I’ve used the enhanced Now Playing. It’s pretty neat, but not much more than a toy, since you can’t actually control your Tivo though it.

  2. Alex says:

    I’ve used the enhanced Now Playing. It’s pretty neat, but not much more than a toy, since you can’t actually control your Tivo though it.

    I tried to use the enhanced Now playing page however; I could not seem to get it to work. I edited the file and loaded it in IE…. Wonder what I am doing wrong?

  3. rT says:

    This if for Firefox only (IE doesn’t recognize XHTML). Also make sure when you save the edited file the extension remains .xhtml.

  4. Alex says:

    This if for Firefox only (IE doesn’t recognize XHTML). Also make sure when you save the edited file the extension remains .xhtml.

    Thanks for that tip. I must have missed it. I’ll give it another try with FireFox.

  5. [...] So why do I think it’s on a rebound? First there is AJAX – an amazing acrynom that is spreading like wildfire. What’s amazing about AJAX? The thing that is most amazing is that it’s nothing new. But it took Google to show people how to actually use it – JavaScript, a little server-side scripting, and the HTTPObject. Now there are AJAX hacks poping up everywhere. [...]

  6. ChronoFish says:

    Ahhhh….. Another great use for AJAX. Where would we be if Google hadn’t been so damn creative with the HTTPObject?

    -CF

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  8. jefaroo says:

    I am having the following Error.

    XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
    Location: file:///C:/Documents%20and%20Settings/Jeff/My%20Documents/nowplaying.xhtml
    Line Number 567, Column 55: :<xsl:if test=”$min 0

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