An excellent question, indeed.
The simple answer is that the TiVo Desktop software does not allow you to provide
an IP address or hostname to find your TiVo with; instead, it sends a beacon from a
computer for the TiVo to find??”which does not work well because thousands of other
TiVos will also find the beacon. The more complicated answer is that you can connect
to your TiVo over the Internet using the TiVo Desktop to download or share files,
but doing so requires a variety of not-so-simple software and some hacking inside
the TiVo computer, as described in the book TiVo Hacks by Raffi Krikorian (O??™Reilly
Media, 2003) and in dozens of techie blogs.
Step 3: Reconfigure Firewall Settings for TiVo Desktop
You need to reconfigure your Internet firewall settings to allow the following ports
access between your computers and TiVo so that the TiVo Desktop server or web
browser can communicate with your TiVo on your local network. The web browser
Figure 24-4
Configure your router??™s
firewall to allow access
to TiVo??™s secure web
page on LAN port 443.
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needs only TCP port 443, while the full TiVo Desktop software requires several network
port connections, as follows:
TCP port 37
TCP port 2190
TCP port 4430
TCP port 7287
TCP port 7288
TCP port 8000
TCP ports 8080??“8089
UDP port 123
UDP port 443
UDP port 2190
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