tivo-remote

Control your TiVo DVR over the network

tivo-remote is a Node.js library that allows you to control your TiVo DVR over your local network. It's especially useful for integrating into a home automation system.

Getting Started

tivo-remote is distributed through NPM:

npm install tivo-remote
 
# or, if you prefer: 
yarn add tivo-remote

Examples

tivo-remote provides both discovery and control capabilities. To monitor the local network for TiVo devices, try something like this:

import TiVoDiscovery from 'tivo-remote';
 
TiVoDiscovery
    .on('founddevice', (device) => {
        console.log(`Found a device: ${device.name} (${device.ip})`);
    })
    .on('lostdevice', (device) => {
        console.log(`Lost a device: ${device.name} (${device.ip})`);
    })
    .discover();

Once you have a device object, you have a number of control commands at your disposal:

API

TeleportDestination

Type: ("TIVO" | "LIVETV" | "GUIDE" | "NOWPLAYING")

TiVoRemote

Extends EventEmitter

Parameters

• service {name: string, txtRecord: {TSN: string}, addresses: Array<string>, port: number}

sendIrcode

Send an IR code to the DVR. The list of supported codes is very long; For details, see Ircode

Parameters

• code Ircode

sendKeyboardCode

Send a key code to the DVR. The list of supported codes is very long; For details, see KeyboardCode

Parameters

• code KeyboardCode

teleport

"Teleport" to a given location in the DVR UI.

Parameters

• destination TeleportDestination

setChannel

Tune the DVR to the given channel. If the forced flag is set, the DVR will be tuned even if a recording is in progress (canceling the recording).

Parameters

• channel string
• forced boolean? (optional, default false)

deinit

Once you're finished with the device object, call deinit() to close the underlying network connection.

name

The name of this device.

Returns string

id

The unique ID of this device.

Returns string

ip

The IP address of this device.

Returns string

Migration

1.0 -> 2.0

The difference between 1.0 and 2.0 shouldn't be noticeable to most users, even though it is technically an API break. Version 1.0 exposed a module compiled with Babel such that it was necessary to use

const TiVoDiscovery = require('tivo-remote').default

if the including project was not also compiled with Babel. Version 2.0 resolves this so both import and require work as their respective users expect.

Compatibility

tivo-remote is built to support Node.js version 6.0 or higher.

Contributing

Contributions are of course always welcome. If you find problems, please report them in the Issue Tracker. If you've made an improvement, open a pull request.

Getting set up for development is very easy:

git clone <your fork>
cd tivo-remote
yarn

And the development workflow is likewise straightforward:

# make a change to the src/ file, then... 
yarn build
node dist/example.js
 
# or if you want to clean up all the leftover build products: 
yarn run clean

License

MIT © Zach Bean. See LICENSE for more detail.