pyTivo Discussion Forum

JonMikelV · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 40

If I have pyTivo running on two different machines, my NPL seems to flip flop between showing one or the other, but not both. I've got each of them set up with a different port # but I noticed beacon.py line 84 says:
b.add_service('TiVoMediaServer:9032/http')

I found another hard coded 9032 in httpserver.py around line 128. Ditto for the versions in the plugins folders.

I'm not exactly sure what all the services stuff does yet, but do these 9032s actually affect what port is used or does "port = config.getPort()" in pyTivo.py actually control it?

Thanks.

Jon-Mikel

krkeegan · Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject:

Here is what you need:
http://pytivo.armooo.net/wiki/ConfigurepyTivo#guid

JonMikelV · Joined: 22 Feb 2008 Posts: 40

Thanks! Is there a reason it's a fixed # instead of random, or 6 chars of the start time in seconds, something that includes port #, or even last 6 of the IP?

I mean, I realize this is how the TiVo recognizes different devices but would there be a problem if the GUID changed with each startup of the service?

Thanks again!

Jon-Mikel

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 514

I can't see how it would be a problem, no. I proposed this back when armooo was still around, but nothing came of it, and I guess I kinda forgot about it.

There is a weird effect that you can see sometimes if you stop pyTivo and start it up with a different GUID while you're still in the Now Playing List: the whole list starts to flicker. However, you can stop it just by moving the highlight bar off of the pyTivo shares.

krkeegan · Posted: Wed Mar 05, 2008 11:46 pm Post subject:

I mean maybe the ideal solution would just be to have pyTivo generate a random six digit number and write it to the pyTivo.conf file if non exists.