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Posted: **Tue May 22, 2012 4:35 pm**

pyTivo is a way to send vidoes, music, and movies to a series 2, series 3,and HD tivo that doesnt support DLNA. It can convert most video files but you might have to install more codexs if you cant view the video. If you have a new tivo use this http://www.amahi.org/apps/dlna its easier.

First install the prerequisites. Install the RPM Fusion apps in the hda control panel. Im unsure if you need them but they cant hurt you to install.
This is all i had to install i use the express-CD.

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yum -y install ffmpeg
yum -y install ffmpeg-libs
yum -y install python-imaging
yum -y install git-core

Now that you HDA is preped the next step is get the pyTivo program.

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cd /usr/share
git clone git://github.com/wmcbrine/pytivo.git

We now need to convert the config file

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cd /usr/share/pytivo
$ cp pyTivo.conf.dist pyTivo.conf

We need to configure pyTivo

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vi /usr/share/pytivo/pyTivo.conf

Here is how my config file looks like

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[Server]
port = 9032
ffmpeg = /usr/bin/ffmpeg

[Movies]
type = video
path = /var/hda/files/movies

[Music]
type = music
path = /var/hda/files/music

[Pictures]
type = photo
path = /var/hda/files/pictures

[_tivo_SD]
height = 1080
video_fps = 29.97
width = 1920
optres = true

[_tivo_HD]
height = 1080
optres = true
width = 1920
video_fps = 29.97

We have the program download now we need to run it

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python /usr/share/pytivo/pyTivo.py

if it runs ok now we can create the daemon

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vi /etc/init.d/pytivo

copy this into the daemon we are creating

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#!/bin/bash
#
# pyTivo Startup script for the pyTivo Pylons app
#
# chkconfig: - 90 15
# description: pyTivo is a Pylons-based web application.

# Source Red Hat function library.
. /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions

# chkconfig: 2345 99 05
# description: pyTivo server

### INIT INFO
# Provides: pytivo
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-description: pyTivo server
# Description: Start and stop the pyTivo server.
### END INIT INFO

RETVAL=0


start() {
echo -n ""Starting pyTivo: ""
pgrep -f pyTivo.py
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo ""pyTivo already running: Exiting"" && exit 1

# this call actually starts pyTivo.
python /usr/share/pytivo/pyTivo.py > /dev/null 2>&1 &
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo -n ""done""
echo
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
echo -n ""Stopping pyTivo: ""
pkill -f pyTivo.py
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo -n ""done""
echo
return $RETVAL
}
# See how we were called.
case ""$1"" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
sleep 1
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo ""Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}""
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL

run the daemon

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service pytivo start

we make some changes to pytivo from a web browser

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hda:9032

To make the html config a web app just create a new web app as pytivo
in the /var/hda/web-apps/pytivo/html/
make new index.html with this

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<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="refresh" content="1;url=http://hda:9032"></head>
</html>

If you have issue you can check the pyTivo website http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/PyTivo
Also i dont know how to make the daemon auto start on bootup if anyone knows please let me know Thanks.

Posted: **Sat May 26, 2012 11:04 pm**

Would be great if you could add this to the wiki. Forums is not the best place for tutorials. Also to make the init script run on boot, as root user do:

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chkconfig pytivo on

Posted: **Sat Jun 09, 2012 1:50 pm**

Worked fine except I had to do a chmod u+x /etc/init.d/pytivo.

I would get a permission denied when I tried to start or stop the service.

Posted: **Fri Jul 13, 2012 8:36 pm**

I used the below link to install pytivo on Ubuntu 12.04

http://edsalisbury.net/how-to-set-up-a- ... ntu-linux/

I'm still working on the auto startup...

Posted: **Sun Jul 15, 2012 1:03 pm**

Has this been added to the wiki? If not, could you please do so? We are starting to accumulate tutorials for Ubuntu now.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Ubuntu_Tutorials

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 9:58 am**

Has this been added to the wiki? If not, could you please do so? We are starting to accumulate tutorials for Ubuntu now.

http://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Ubuntu_Tutorials

I will update to Ubuntu. It's more straight forward for me. Also if i get the makers permission how do i make a app for amahi. Is there a guide to get me start some where

Posted: **Tue Jul 24, 2012 11:14 am**

You will need to email support to become an app contributor. It is not a good idea to do git in an app for Amahi though. It will cause the script to time out. Recommend you tarball them and download from a location such as Dropbox.

Posted: **Thu Jul 25, 2013 9:33 pm**

Updated info for Ubuntu 12.04

/etc/init.d/pytivo

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#!/bin/bash
# chkconfig: 2345 99 05
# description: pyTivo server

### INIT INFO
# Provides: pytivo
# Required-Start: $network
# Required-Stop: $network
# Default-Start: 2 3 4 5
# Default-Stop: 0 1 6
# Short-description: pyTivo server
# Description: Start and stop the pyTivo server.
### END INIT INFO

RETVAL=0


start() {
echo -n "Starting pyTivo: "
pgrep -f pyTivo.py
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo "pyTivo already running: Exiting" && exit 1

# this call actually starts pyTivo.
python /usr/share/pyTivo/pyTivo.py > /dev/null 2>&1 &
RETVAL=$?
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo -n "done"
echo
return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
echo -n "Stopping pyTivo: "
pkill -f pyTivo.py
RETVAL=$?
echo
[ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && echo -n "done"
echo
return $RETVAL
}

# See how we were called.
case "$1" in
start)
start
;;
stop)
stop
;;
restart|reload)
stop
sleep 1
start
RETVAL=$?
;;
*)
echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart}"
exit 1
esac
exit $RETVAL

from the cli run:

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update-rc.d pytivo defaults

Posted: **Fri Jul 26, 2013 5:14 am**

Has this guidance be documented in the wiki? If not, could someone please add it? We would greatly appreciate it

Posted: **Fri Jul 26, 2013 11:49 am**

I registered for a wiki account, but I still cannot edit.

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