Share Your TiVo Activities With The World
For those of you out there with a TiVo (I’m not one of them — yet) and a Wordpress Blog you can now share what your TiVo is currently doing on your blog with this Wordpress Plugin. It will allow you to put a TiVo Status Button on your blog (presumably in the sidebar) which will query your TiVo approximately every 15 minutes and display an icon showing what your TiVo is doing (if anything). The status image also has a popup tooltip that shows more detail — what show is being recorded, show description, etc.
The TiVoStatus Plugin talks to your TiVo using TiVo Web Project Software, so this also needs to be installed and setup for the plugin to work.
When I first saw this plugin I thought, this is another one of those stupid blog plugins that shows people what I’m watching or listening to — who cares! But maybe there is some use for this plugin. If I want to check the status of my TiVo — make sure it’s up and running and recording what it should be recording — this is a quick and easy way to do it. Of course there are other ways that will give more information, but this is simple.
Now I think I might have to hack together something similar for my ReplayTV …
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