TiVo Tips & Undocumented Features Thread
RealDipStick
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I thought it would be useful to have a place to collect useful generally unknown features which users might have discovered.
My contribution is: You can step frame-by-frame through a recording by pausing, then each press of the Fast-Forward button will step to the next frame. Pressing the Rewind button while paused will step backwards several frames, presumably to the preceding MPEG GOP (Group Of Pictures), from there you can forward step to any frame in the group, so you can always get to any particular frame if required. I haven't seen this documented so hope it's useful to some of you.
Now if someone can tell me how to make TiVo remember my "Show Channels" setting without it going back to "All Channels" after a while, then I would be grateful.
My contribution is: You can step frame-by-frame through a recording by pausing, then each press of the Fast-Forward button will step to the next frame. Pressing the Rewind button while paused will step backwards several frames, presumably to the preceding MPEG GOP (Group Of Pictures), from there you can forward step to any frame in the group, so you can always get to any particular frame if required. I haven't seen this documented so hope it's useful to some of you.
Now if someone can tell me how to make TiVo remember my "Show Channels" setting without it going back to "All Channels" after a while, then I would be grateful.
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Home 1 : Manage series links
Home 2 : Planned recordings
Home 3 : Wishlists
Home 4 : Search all TV
Home 5 : Browse all TV
Home 6 : Recording Hiccups
Thanks Carl. I never knew that!:)
I use the 2nd and 3rd of these a lot but prefer an alternate to the first:
My Shows;-)
When tidying up and deleting a number of recordings, I used to go into the required My Shows folder, select the first one I wanted to delete, press clear, and then wait a few seconds for the display to be updated and the recording removed from it, then repeat this process for each recording I wanted to delete. I've just discovered that I don't have to wait for each one to be deleted, if I want to delete say five consecutive recordings I can select the first, then quickly press clear five times, and the five recording will all be queued up and all be deleted by the time the screen updates after a few seconds.
Hardly a life changing discovery, but every little helps.
plug one in and the TiVo will use it.
F keys like F1-F12 all do a function F11 used to bring the old skool SD style main menu up. not sure it sill does?
basic keymapping:
0-9 = 0-9
qwerty = qwerty
Arrow keys = dpad on remote
enter = ok
backspace = back
delete = clear
using one of these to type is far quicker than the remote.
Did not know this, could you post what the F-keys do?
i'll try it out tonight and post in.
but yes any usb keyboard even wireless ones do work. I think bluetooth ones work (the official USA peanut keyboard remote uses bluetooth) but not sure if it works on ours, someone said it does.
EDIT: here we go
Enter = Select
Esc = Clear (danger!)
F1 = TiVo / Home
F2 = LiveTV
F3 = Guide
F4 = CLEAR (danger!) / Delete
F5 = Thumbs Up
F6 = Thumbs Down
F7 = Channel Up
F8 = Channel Down
F9 = Record
F10 = Info
F11 = SD main menu
F12 = Nothing
it is widely documented (not sure if its been blocked now) that using the ethernet port you can send commands to the box to change channels, emulate keypresses.
with a bit of programming skill one could write an app to control the box.
essentially you could use an external app like XMBC/KODI to control the box providing you had a HDMI capture card capable of HDCP.... you could bypass that
If you want to clear the whole folder, you can press clear from the main my shows screen and it clears everything in the folder.
Thought it did! did you have to set anything up to get it to pair?
I bought one several years ago and the USB pairer came with it
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within the netflix app under settings there is an option to test netflix servers.
there are three servers, look at each scenario below to see the outcome:
All three servers pass and you see three green ticks - Netflix is operating normally
One of the servers fail - Netflix is operating ok but some content might be unavaliable
all servers fail - Netflix is down OR your TiVo's network connection is down
Whilst watching a movie, press info on your remote. A small text will appear top left of the screen, indicating the resolution the film is in. this is crucial because:
if it says anything other than 720/1080 when watching a HD film then either check your subscription level, you need to be on the higher one to receive HD. If you are then reboot the box. Also do a speed test on your VM broadband to see if your broadband is ok. remember if the speed isn't upto it netflix will drop down so you don't face buffering.
Also remember, netflix on Tivo DOES output full HD at 1080p. Enable 1080p on your box if your TV supports it.
as you choose a HD film your TV will for a split second loose TV input as the TiVo switches between 1080i/720p to 1080p. Verify by pressing info, followed by your TV's info. the TiVo should report 1080p, and so should your TV.
Not what he meant. Of course these things come with a receiver
1: You need to wait for up to a minute for the quality of the film to settle down. When you start playing a 1080HD film it will display a low quality SD stream while it buffers up. So if you get SD quality reported at first then it is not a fault.
2: The TiVo broadband is NOT your broadband - TiVo uses its own and one can have a fault which the other does not. A speedtest on you own broadband will not really help find issues for a low quality Netflix service.
I think you'll find it uses the same connection, and it's off the same cable so if a fault occurs in the area it will affect both lines.
yes it can find a fault because if you find that your area is overutilized, then of course the tivo built in connection will also suffer. it's on the same line but internally on a separate vlan for QOS and other services.. When a friend of mine had an issue both services were affected. I think I read somewhere that it's docsis 2 not 3, so that's why the internal tivo connection can only go to 20 meg.
The buffering I'll agree with but never noticed it myself mind.
Most of the time when we have lost network connection on TiVo or broadband - the other has continued to work.
Each remote is assigned to a different TiVo - so you can have two (maybe more) TiVo active in the same room.
The newer remotes have a 'search' button which takes you straight to the text entry field.
it can be very local sometimes.
I should point out that this is just informed speculation on my part, as this is what happened when Sky Arts 2 was removed from the EPG.
No, by order of the BBC Trust, they had to keep it in the EPG after closure to signpost viewers to the new online service.
The BBC3 HD listing was removed today, but will remain in existence off the EPG until 4/10/16 to enable customers to view any BBC3 HD content.
BBC3 SD now links to the online stream (TiVo customers only).
The downside to this (if you like this feature like myself) is that it doesn't skip back a little to take into account that the recording will have gone a bit further by the time you've realised that you've reached the desired point in the recording and the device has processed your command.
Keeping the button used to skip forward 30 seconds pressed down makes it jump to almost the end of the recording