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Guest · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 12:59 pm Post subject: Tivo protocol issues

I'm in the process of writing a Tivo Server in C for my Infrant NAS box. It needs to be very lean which is the reason why it's in C. Well anyway I've hit a small snag that maybe you have experience with. I have the beacon working correctly but I can't seem to get Tivo to show my server. Tivo sends me a GET request like

GET /TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=%2F HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: TmkHttpRequest/1.0
TiVo_TCD_ID: 649XXXXXXXXXXXX
TiVo_SW_VER: 9.1a-01-2

and I send it back a XML feed like so

HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Server: HttpServer
Connection: Closed
Content-Length: 792

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<TivoContainer>
<Details>
<Title> theknopps.com</Title>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-server</ContentType>
<SourceFormat>x-container/folder</SourceFormat>
<TotalItems>1</TotalItems>
</Details>
<Item>
<Details>
<Title>Tdawg Movies</Title>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-videos</ContentType>
<SourceFormat>x-container/folder</SourceFormat>
<LastChangeDate>0x0</LastChangeDate>
</Details>
<Links>
<Content>
<Url>http://192.168.0.110:8081/TiVoConnect?Command=QueryContainer&Container=Tdawg%20Movies </Url>
<ContentType>x-container/tivo-videos</ContentType>
</Content>
</Links>
</Item>
<ItemStart>0</ItemStart>
<ItemCount>1</ItemCount>
</TivoContainer>

However Tivo seems to not like my feed or something because it doesn't show my share on the Tivo screen and it also kepts sending me that same request over and over again. I'm not exactly sure what's wrong. I wrote my own Http mini server for this and that seems to be working fine. I was wondering if you had this same issue during your development.

I've sent that same GET message to my other Tivo's and Galleon and Tivo Desktop and I can't see anything any different then what I'm sending back it and what they are sending me. I've also looked at the Tivo Protocol at developer.tivo.com.

If you have any suggestion, please let me know.

ryanrk · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

This is my post, not sure why it posted as guest.

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 444

Assuming this is an accurate representation of the program's output:

1. It's "Connection: close", not "Closed".
2. It's "TiVoContainer", not "TivoContainer". Case counts.

ryanrk · Joined: 14 Jan 2008 Posts: 14

I didn't think XML was case sensitive.

I think this worked. I have to check it when I get home though but I'm not getting requests over and over again as i was getting before.

wmcbrine · Joined: 04 Jan 2008 Posts: 444