This project involves tweaking your home router/firewall to pass requests for access
to your TiVo from the Internet to the internal web pages of your TiVo.
Step 1: Verify Access to Your
TiVo DVR Built-In Web Page
In this step you will verify you can access the web server and file selections built into
your TiVo DVR.
Begin with the IP address assigned to your TiVo DVR in Project 8. Type the
IP address, preceded by https:// into your web browser??™s address bar
https://your TiVo's IP address
If your TiVo??™s internal web page is active??”and it probably is if you use the
TiVo Desktop??”you first encounter a server certificate error or warning message,
shown in Figure 24-1. You need to accept the certificate, either permanently
or temporarily, to gain further access.
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In the browser pop-up that appears type in tivo as the user name and the
password, which is the Media Access Key of your TiVo unit.
Click OK and you??™ll find yourself at a web page listing your Now Playing
list, as shown in Figure 24-2.
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Figure 24-1
The TiVo internal web
pages are not a typical
Internet site but the
security certificate can
be trusted.
Figure 24-2
TiVo??™s built-in Now
Playing list web page
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Select a folder in the Links column to the right and you??™ll see all of the recordings
for one of your shows, as shown in the example in Figure 24-3.
Select a download link to the right and you??™ll be able to save a .
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