Tivo media player component

Feature Requests
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Would a TIVO media player component be possible?

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If you can somehow control it using a Python module then yes! :smile_cat:
There’s no “good” Python module for controlling my Sky box yet so I set up another project that lets me control it using the command line, then just set up a few scripts to run shell commands. :cat:

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Here is someone who wrote a simple command line remote control. Cool thing he included the Python code. Not very difficult to implement. Needs to be wrapped in a component. Might need a few helper functions if you want to send multiple keys.

https://charliemeyer.net/2012/12/04/remote-control-of-a-tivo-from-the-linux-command-line/

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I too am interested in this. Has anyone accomplished this yet? I don’t understand python code well enough to wrap what you’ve wrote into a component.

Thanks

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I’m starting on this now. I’ll have code up soon for the basics!

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Just curious if there’s any update to this project

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I put together some basic code at: https://github.com/groupwhere/homeassistant-tivo.

This loads into my setup but doesn’t do much yet. Several commands are there such as channel up/down, teleport, etc. It connects to the Tivo and should be able to perform those commands. But I am not sure how to get that to connect to the UI for those functions.

By the way, charliemeyer’s site was helpful, but it also attempts to serve a coin miner, so be careful.

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I found Py code here https://github.com/wmcbrine/tivoremote
Is it possible to implement this into HA

9

Thanks for the code! Gonna test it out and see how it goes. Hopefully I can work on the code a little too, but python’s syntax still so different for me :slight_smile:

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By the way, my code linked above does actually do stuff now, e.g. channel up/down with zap2it program info, etc.

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Looks like I’m having trouble just getting the component going lol.

File "/config/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 345, in media_content_id
    return self._current["status"]
KeyError: 'status'

I just set it up before going to bed last night and I’m at work now so haven’t really been able to dig in to it.

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Please submit an issue at github. Any other errors before or after that? What model Tivo?

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no surprise here, but it eventually started working (after idk how long to be honest). I know the DVR (Bolt) was on, but maybe it was busy recording? anyway sorry for the delay, didn’t get to dig in much today.

here’s a screen shot

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edit: seeing socket errors and other errors trying to call any media function. I’ll submit an issue.

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Hi! I get this error then trying to setup My TiVo pĂĄ Hass.

Error while setting up platform tivo
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/srv/homeassistant/homeassistant_venv/lib/python3.6/site-packages/homeassistant/helpers/entity_platform.py", line 129, in _async_setup_platform
        SLOW_SETUP_MAX_WAIT, loop=hass.loop)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/tasks.py", line 352, in wait_for
        return fut.result()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/asyncio/futures.py", line 244, in result
        raise self._exception
      File "/usr/local/lib/python3.6/concurrent/futures/thread.py", line 55, in run
        result = self.fn(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
      File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 108, in setup_platform
        tivos.append(TivoDevice(*host))
      File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 160, in __init__
        self.get_status()
      File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 180, in get_status
        data = self.send_code('','')
      File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 229, in send_code
        self.connect(self._host, self._port)
      File "/home/homeassistant/.homeassistant/custom_components/media_player/tivo.py", line 168, in connect
        self.sock.connect((host, port))
    socket.timeout: timed out
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can you show me your config section for this device?

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- platform: tivo
  host: ##local ip###
  name: Tivo
  port: 31339
  device: 0
  debug: 1
#    zapuser: your_zaptoit_email_login
#    zappass: !secret zap2it_pass
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I assume that ##local ip### actually has an ip address instead. Are you able to connect using telnet to the device from the machine running home assistant?

telnet ip.ad.dr.ess 31339

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Yes in host field the local ip for TIVO is written.

No it get
telnet: command not found
when i write this string over ssl
$ telnet 192.168.1.30 31339

Should i install someting?

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You’ll have to install telnet via apt-get install telnet or yum install telnet if on centos/rh/fedora.

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Now I can ssh a telnet line but i get this error
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection timed out

On my TIVO there is to ip one local ip and one broadcast ip. Should i use the local ip?