Comments on: How to Copy Videos from a Series 3 TiVo to Ubuntu Linux

By: Eric Werner

Eric Werner — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:24:26 +0000

Thanks, Ed. I came up with a hack solution, where the program_id is appended to the output detailing the episode being skipped. Specifically, line 133 is now:

print “Skipping $program_title – $program_id.\n”;

Maybe not the most elegant, but it works for now.

Next, I need to figure out a way to keep the script from downloading new episodes twice. I’m guessing it’s keying on the way the show will be in it’s own directory, as well as the “HD Recording” directory. If you’ve got thoughts on that one, I’m all ears.

I can not tell you how much I love this script, too. This is some really good stuff.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 23:50:04 +0000

Eric, I ran into this issue as well – I will post an updated version of the script that outputs program_ids into the file to make it easy to figure out which ones to delete.

By: john

john — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 18:03:38 +0000

Your script probably works, but I needed to generate pytivo metadata files for only a partial list of shows on my tivo. You already did all the heavy lifting so I was able to quickly and successfully modify it for what I needed. Thanks!

Later I’ll figure out how to combine it with zenity to be a functional alternative to the venerable tytools program. Your research and programming style will make it easy.

By: Eric Werner

Eric Werner — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:28:28 +0000

Love this script, works perfectly, but I have one question. I need to re-download a couple of shows because I ran out of disk space (ooops, who would have EVER thought so many 4+ GB files would take up that much space…), but I can’t figure out which program_ids I need to remove from the .tivo_programs file to keep the script from skipping those episodes.

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:04:09 +0000

Good catch — I don’t use that path personally, and changed it at the last minute to post. Didn’t think about the no-globbing thing. Fixed, and Thanks!

By: BugMaster Flash

BugMaster Flash — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 05:56:55 +0000

You have a bug in your script.
Perl’s open() does not do globbing so ~/.tivo_programs is an invalid filename.

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