Got my TiVo - its just sitting there

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snowkiwi

160 posts

Master Geek
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#46498 7-Nov-2009 09:19

Brought it home last night after problems with Telecom store getting online. I had it there in my greedy little hands and they said no you can't take it home till we register it with telecom. So back at 8pm to Sylvia park I go - sorted - good.

But by this time its "Kid-free quality time " ie Don't even think about tutooing with that now!"

So it sat there, all night... looking at me.

All night I'm subconsciously doing the unthinkable for a weekend - "please rain tomorrow - please - just in the morning - I only need a bit of time - an hour tops - dont make me go outside and do all that fresh air stuff.

So its Saturday, sunny, I'm outside - making my garden nice, playing with the kids! ... its still there in the window , unopened - looking at me, Laughing!

"Believe nothing of what you hear and only half of what you see"-Edgar Allan Poe...and my Dad (Words I live by).
"Better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt"-Many...and my Dad (Words I should live by ;) )
If it ain't broke, fiddle with it ... till its broke! (Words I should really not live by)

JaredW

42 posts

Geek

#270805 7-Nov-2009 09:43

Oh man.... that's torture!!! Just get a 2nd TV and put 'Dora the Explorer' on REPEAT PLAY.

But... you'll need longer than an hour.... in a good way!

snowkiwi

160 posts

Master Geek
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#270989 8-Nov-2009 10:48

Managed to divert everyones attention at home for a while in the afternoon long enough to set it up.
Observations
1. I love the genie option on my laptop and iPhone. A bit clunky but gives the option to setup record while I'm out, from my phone, is great.
2. Setup the TiVo desktop on my laptop to get photos on TiVo .
3. Having trouble trying to set my laptop music up to play(Via TiVo desktop ) on my TiVo. Also can't see my recordings on TiVo desktop (so I can convert for iPhone. May be because "media access key" I used to setup laptop hasn't yet come through to TiVo. Will wait the
recommended 24hrs and try again.

3. After 2. I'll try to

TivoTimmy

23 posts

Geek

#271062 8-Nov-2009 19:36

snowkiwi: Having trouble trying to set my laptop music up to play(Via TiVo desktop ) on my TiVo. Also can't see my recordings on TiVo desktop

Try changing between Bonjour and Beacon (Services menu > Tivo Server Properties > Network). Worked for me.

snowkiwi

160 posts

Master Geek
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#271501 10-Nov-2009 07:52

TiVoTimmy - cheers. I went to try that and found to my impatient disbelief that the "media access key" I entered into desktop had finally appeared on my TiVo - about 24hrs like they said.
So tried it all out.
I set up an auto transfer of a series.
Manual transfered the news (TiVo recorded that by itself- a bit weird -especially after watching that Adam Green TiVo short horror film)
I'll try an iPhone program conversion next.

One interesting thing I found was I now have 2 Identical sets of photos on my TiVo off the laptop. They seem like 2 different programs pointing to the same files on my laptop.

Edit: I just tried disabling the "Preview photos 2.0" option in TiVo server properties in desktop and now the extra set of photos is gone. I'm enabling it again cause it's a nicer interface than TiVo's native and gives access to flickr.