TiVo HME Applications
Here are all the TiVo HME Applications that I know of. I plan on updating this post on a regular basis. Let me know if I this list doesn’t include a HME app that you think should be on this list.
- TiVo NetFlix RSS Reader: If you are a NetFlix user, you probably have wanted to be able to take a look at your NetFlix account directly from your TV. This application allows you to do just that. NetFlix provides a lot of your account information in “RSS” format, which can easily be translated into screen you can view from your TiVo.
- TiVo TrafficCam Viewer: Many areas of the country now have road cameras or traffic cameras covering their most problematic traffic areas. This application is designed to let you choose and save a list of the cameras you’re interested in, and quickly view them from your TiVo before you leave for work.
- Audiofaucet: Whether your music is organized in iTunes or in a folder somewhere on your hard drive, AudioFaucet is ready to serve it up to your TiVo!
- Galleon.tv: Galleon is a free open source media server for the TiVo® DVR which allows you to enjoy many kinds of content and interactive applications right on your TV. The server runs on your home computer and organizes your media collection so that they can be viewed on your home network. Galleon also brings Internet content and applications to your TV.
- Flickr viewer: Displays Flickr pictures on your TiVo.
- Music Monkey: Music Monkey is a music quiz game for one or two players.
- TiVo Bloglines: Allows the user to login to their Bloglines account and read feeds through their Tivo.
- TiVo Movie Rental Plugin: A TiVo plugin to manage your online movie rental queue. Blockbuster Online is currently supported. It uses HME to provide the TiVo interface and can either run standalone or as a plugin to Galleon.
- Apps.tv: apps.tv provides a directory of HME applications which you can run on your TiVo DVR. apps.tv currently offers 15 TiVo HME Applications.
- HME Satellite Radio: This uses the Tivo (TM) SDK HME capability to allow you to control/view/PLAY your Xm Satellite Radio (TM) XMPCR or XM Direct (with proper cable) from your Tivo. It also has the ability to control/view/play Xm Radio Online from your Tivo.
- HmeYme: Control your Yahoo Music Engine from your Tivo. It uses the Tivo (TM) SDK HME capability along with YmeSocket (a Yahoo Music Engine plugin which allows you to control it via socket commands) to allow you to control/view/play whatever is in My Music or ALL of Yahoo Unlimited
- Stock Viewer For TiVo: This application provides an easy way to keep an eye on your stocks, mutual funds, and market indices, all from your TiVo! The application comes with a little configuration utility that will let you enter one or more lists of ticker symbols (along with an optional number of shares, if you also want to track dollar value). Once your lists are entered, you can view your lists, updated regularly, from your TiVo.
- Homeseer Plugin: This plug-in allows TiVo® DVRs to control their HomeSeer devices and trigger HomeSeer events.
- tivo-www: This is a sample TiVO HME application for viewing web pages on your TV. The current goal is to allow browsing of specific web pages rather than the web in general. This is for a number of reasons including, TV’s resolution, lack of a Java wrapper for firefox that renders into a lightweight peer and the obvious one of, well, if I want to surf the web at large I’ll boot my laptop.
- Remote Control: The Remote Control application enables you to control your computer from your TiVo. It displays your computer screen and lets you pan around the screen and type in a variety of keys using the TiVo remote.
- ApcupsdHME: Apcupsd monitoring agent for use with TiVo DVRs supporting the Home Media Engine (HME). ApcupsdHME is similar in concept to the multimon CGI scripts, only it displays UPS information on your TV via the TiVo HME instead of a web browser.
- eBay on TiVo: This sample application is a case study for bidding functionality from a TiVo Box using the TiVo Home Media Engine (HME) and the eBay Java SDK. It provides search functionality for the categories Books, DVDs, Music and Video Games on eBay. All BuyItNow items matching the query entered in the search will get displayed. The user can browse through the list and see the details for each item. If the user wants to buy the item displayed, he or she can do this by using the remote control. This can be a great way for an Affiliate to complete this application, make sure its gets distributed to the TiVo system, and turn bids through it into money.
- TiVoSlimserverClient: TivoSlimserverClient is a software application that turns your network-enabled Tivo Series2 DVR into a streaming audio client for SlimServer.
- TiVoSlideshow: TivoSlideshow is an application for showing a series of images accompanied by music, intended for use on the Tivo DVR (Series 2 or higher).
- TiVo RSS Reader: TiVo RSS Reader is a simple, general-purpose RSS reader.
April 2nd, 2007 at 6:40 pm |
This is a nice list, but all these HME will remain only for hacker-types until TiVo makes it easier to discover and “install” them directly from the TiVo itself.
You’d like that by now, TiVo would have certified some of these apps, and offered them to me right on my TiVo. No, we’re still looking at the same 3 games and 3 lame Yahoo apps.
April 8th, 2007 at 7:25 am |
andy, HME apps by definition require a host computer, so asking for them to ‘discover and “install” them directly from the TiVo itself’ will never happen.
OTOH, that host computer doesn’t need to be your own. The apps.tv site just requires adding 209.97.196.52 to your list of servers, then suddenly you have their content.
Editor: the Music Monkey description should be changed from the “how it works” content on their homepage to the real description (”Music Monkey is a music quiz game for one or two players.”) from their documentation page, to prevent people thinking it’s a remote control app. No, I don’t know why they don’t put the “real” description on their homepage either.
April 14th, 2007 at 8:34 pm |
Well, there’s one that you have to pay for — MoodLogic. I bought it a few years back. The company is in business but hasn’t done so much as a bugfix in years. Still, it works pretty well overall. People rate various aspects of tunes and it tries to string tunes together that will work with each other.
September 9th, 2007 at 10:28 pm |
[...] I’m happy to hear that there are developers out there who are still interested in developing TiVo HME applications. In my opinion, HME is one of the most important features that distinguish TiVo from other DVR [...]
October 11th, 2007 at 6:12 am |
[...] release will spark some new interest in HME and maybe just maybe we’ll start to see some new TiVo HME applications. 10/2/2007 - Experimental HME SDK 1.4.1 [...]
November 8th, 2007 at 6:57 pm |
It would be nice if more sites would follow in the footsteps of http://www.apps.tv and http://www.playteevee.com by offering webspace for people who want to run HME apps on their TiVos. It sure would be easier than setting up a server for the TiVo at home.
November 20th, 2007 at 10:57 pm |
[...] great to see that John continues to work on Galleon. In my opinion, Galleon is the best TiVo HME application out there. Go ahead and download your copy of Galleon if you haven’t [...]
November 21st, 2007 at 10:34 am |
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December 15th, 2007 at 3:19 pm |
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January 14th, 2008 at 3:02 am |
[...] I don’t mean publicizing HME to developers, or even letting users know it is there. I mean making it easy for developers to let users know about their applications! Too many TiVo owners don’t even know about sites like Apps.tv or PlayTeeVee.com. Or major HME applications like Galleon or AudioFaucet. Let alone a lot of the smaller applications that are available. [...]
July 15th, 2008 at 6:59 am |
[...] Applications like Galleon and AudioFaucet added great new capabilities to TiVo. (TiVoBlog has a list of some of the HME apps still available.) But then TiVo stopped supporting the public SDK and never delivered promised [...]