TiVo Blog Mailbag: pyTiVo & Slingbox

Here’s a roundup of some of the help requests I’ve received over the past couple of days.  Let me know if you have a question or if you need help with something.  As always, you can contact me via this site or via Twitter.

Adam wrote:

i recently got a mac mini and was looking for a [...]

pyTiVoX Version 1.0 (Mac pyTiVo)

Unless you follow me on Twitter, you may not know that version 1.0 of pyTiVoX is now available for you to download.  For those of you who may have missed it, pyTiVoX is a Mac only application which makes installing and configuring pyTiVo rather trivial.  In fact, this application essentially renders my Mac pyTiVo install [...]

pyTiVoX (pyTiVo On The Mac With Ease)

Earlier today, I stumbled upon a new program for my Mac which pretty much makes my pyTiVo install guide obsolete.  The program is called pyTiVoX and it allows you to run pyTiVo on a Mac without having to go through all the hoops that I outlined in my install guide.

I’ve got it up and running [...]

How To Install pyTiVo On A Mac

I finally got around to installing pyTiVo on my MacBook Pro (running Leopard 10.5.5).  Unlike the Windows install, installing pyTiVo on a Mac isn’t all that easy.  The instructions on pyTiVo’s website were very helpful however, I thought I would publish the following instructions since I think they’re a more complete.  If I ever get [...]

Installing pyTiVo (Review To Follow)

I just finished installing pyTiVo on my Windows XP virtual machine (using VMware Fusion).  For those of you who don’t know, here’s a brief description of pyTiVo taken from the software’s official website:

pyTivo is both an HMO and GoBack server. Similar to TiVo Desktop pyTivo loads many standard video compression codecs and outputs mpeg2 video [...]