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Mar 27, 2005 | 12:04 am

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ScottC

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Originally Posted by SEA-Flyer

Could you give me more information on the specific requirements needed to get this to work?

I live in Tokyo and would like to be able to watch some TV shows from back home in the US. Installing a TiVo in my parents house and hooking it up to their broadband connection, and downloading shows to my desktop and/or laptop in Japan would be very nice. Would this work for me?

Thanks

It's actually very simple:

1) open ports 443 (ssl) and 80 (html) on the router and setup port forwarding to the IP of the TiVo

2) Go to: https://<tivo ip>/nowplaying/index.html

3) You will be prompted for a username and password, the user is tivo (lowercase) and the password is your media access key.

4) Through the webinterface you can simply download anything off the TiVo like any normal download. You will still need the TiVo desktop on the PC you are downloading onto and will have to enter the MAK just like on a normal PC.

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