(Deprecated) TiVoWebPlus 1.0

[tommyw]

Have htdig (the search engine on my Apache server) index your TivoWeb.

Every morning, just after 4am, htdig came along, found the "Quit" link on my TivoWeb, and promptly made it quit. Which is, I suppose, a good thing. Because otherwise, it could have attempted to download everything!

And now I know why I was being confused.

[billimek]

TiVo Model: Samsung S4040R (DTiVo)
TiVo software version: 3.1.1b
TiVoWebPlus version: v1.0-rc3
Method used to hack the TiVo: Sleeper's ISO (monte)

Error message (from TivoWebPlus output):

Filesystem assert: err || cb == 0 at fsactive.C line 470 in TwStatus FsActive::MappedRead(FsRunList*, long unsigned int, void*, long unsigned int)
Filesystem flagged as inconsistent!
Tmk Assertion Failure: err || cb == 0
TwStatus FsActive::MappedRead(FsRunList*, long unsigned int, void*, long unsigned int), line 470 (fsactive.C)
Tmk Fatal Error: Thread tivosh <10795> died due to signal -2
cea4c0 cfd604 cfcd00 cd270c bc7adc bc61e0 bc27e4 c23268 bfa548 c58428 c23268 bfa548 bc46d0 bc27e4 c23268 bfa548 c58dd4 c23268 bfa548 c58dd4 c23268 bfa548 c58dd4 c23268 bfa548 c00020 c23268 bfa548 c58dd4 c23268 bfa548 bfa1a0 bfcbf8 c43cc4 c69330 c6c9fc c4e948 c4ee94 c21f5c bf94a8 c23268 bfa548 c451d0 c489fc bc0a40 400778 d79090

This was followed by a reboot. When rebooting, I got a GSOD. Further investigation revealed that there was an MFS filesystem problem. Letting it run fsfix corrected the problem.

Steps we should take to duplicate your problem (i.e. which screen you're on and what button you're clicking):

I'm not 100% positive this was the cause of the problem but am posting here just in case anyone else has had the same issue. I was in the 'search' module and did a 'Title keyword' search for the string "football". Almost as soon as I submitted the search, TiVo rebooted (see above).

Did you test with any other versions or was this working on a previous version? if so, which version?:

I was able to reproduce the same probem with the stock TivoWeb that comes with Sleeper's ISO (i.e. doing a keyword search for football).
As soon as I got everything working again, I upgraded to the latest TivoWebPlus version (rc-4). I plan on attempting to reproduce the problem again tonight with this version.

Thanks,
Jeff

[David Bought]

Have htdig (the search engine on my Apache server) index your TivoWeb.

Every morning, just after 4am, htdig came along, found the "Quit" link on my TivoWeb, and promptly made it quit. Which is, I suppose, a good thing. Because otherwise, it could have attempted to download everything!

And now I know why I was being confused.

Use robots.txt to help htdig make sensible spidering decisions.

[tommyw]

Use robots.txt to help htdig make sensible spidering decisions.

Or, as I did, add an exclude command to the htdig configuration file to make it pass the TiVo completely.

[xiojason]

I'm not sure what specifically is causing this problem with View Upcoming Listings, but it does seem very reproducable on my unit, even after Full Reloads. I believe I saw this problem with rc3 as well.

TiVo Model: Philips DSR6000
TiVo Software Version: 3.1.0b-02-1-001
TiVoWebPlus Version: 1.0-rc4

User Interface > Channel Guide > Watch > ESPN > View Upcoming Listings > Tue 2/3 > Works OK!
User Interface > Channel Guide > Watch > SE7 (local) > View Upcoming Listings > Tue 2/3 > Works OK!

User Interface > Channel Guide > Watch > ESPN > View Upcoming Listings > Mon 2/2 (today) > Works OK!
User Interface > Channel Guide > Watch > SE7 (local) > View Upcoming Listings > Mon 2/2 (today) > This error:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_listings '/20462/1075680000' ''
no such object: {CONFLICT err=0x30019}
while executing
"dbobj $program get Series"
("foreach" body line 14)
invoked from within
"foreach showingfsid [lrange $showings $x [expr $x+19]] {
regexp {([0-9]*)/(.*)} $showingfsid junk showingobjid subobjid
set showing [d..."
("uplevel" body line 2)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"transaction {uplevel $body}"
(procedure "RetryTransaction" line 5)
invoked from within
"RetryTransaction {
foreach showingfsid [lrange $showings $x [expr $x+19]] {
regexp {([0-9]*)/(.*)} $showingfsid junk showingobjid subobj..."
(procedure "do_listingsrow" line 12)
invoked from within
"do_listingsrow $chan $fsid $startsecs $endsecs $stationid"
("uplevel" body line 2)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"ForeachMfsFile fsid name type "/Schedule" "$stationid:$day:" {
if {[catch [do_listingsrow $chan $fsid $startsecs $endsecs $stationid] error]} ..."
(procedure "::action_listings" line 99)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--

Followed by a partial program listing.

Different channel, different day, same error:
User Interface > Channel Guide > Watch > SE5 (local) > View Upcoming Listings > Tue 2/3 (tomorrow) > Same error.

[rbird]

From what I've heard, streaming does not work over 802.11b (10Mbps) wireless networks which leads me to believe that there is indeed quite a bit of overhead.

Interesting. It worked just fine over my 802.11b network. Of course this was a medium quality show, not best. But the overhead isn't the issue, at least.

I have the relevant portion of Lightn's original info.itcl where the reserved space is calcluated clipped and attached to this post. According to MuscleNerd, he found this information by disassembling TivoApp. I'm no TCL expert, but I was able to read through the if statements and figure out which applied to me, and it seems to match my system (4096MB reserved space, with currently 3807MB used according to the Info Page).

Hope this helps.

Bob

[TheWickedPriest]

Interesting. It worked just fine over my 802.11b network.

Works for me, too -- with a wired connection from the DirecTivo to the router, and wireless to my laptop.

I only get about a third the nominal 10 Mbps rate, but that seems to be plenty.

[sublime]

HDVR2
3.1.U5 Monte Sleepers ISO
TivoWebPlus v1.0rc4

This did not happen with my pegasus driver installed. Everything worked fine. I just recently tried to upgrade to USB2.0 using the ax8817x.o module. The network came up and seems a bit faster. Clicking Now Showing causes this error:

INTERNAL SERVER ERROR
--cut here--
action_nowshowing '' ''
can't read "cache_ns_rec": no such variable
while executing
"lsearch $cache_ns_rec $fsid"
(procedure "print_nowshowingrow" line 64)
invoked from within
"print_nowshowingrow $chan $rec $nstype $rcount"
("uplevel" body line 4)
invoked from within
"uplevel $body"
invoked from within
"ForeachMfsFileTrans fsid name type $nowshowingdir "" 15 {
set rec [db $db openid $fsid]
if {$nstype == 6} {
print_nowshowingrow $chan $r..."
(procedure "::action_nowshowing" line 61)
invoked from within
"::action_$action $chan $part $env"
("eval" body line 1)
invoked from within
"eval {::action_$action $chan $part $env}"
--cut here--

[sublime]

I performed a Full Reload and the above error went away...
??

[gNOMEintheRedHa]

the sa records both dish network & c-band. (roll my own quide data for c-band wildfeeds / block uplinks + a util monitors the current channel & issues serial port commands to move the big dish & select between ird video sources). the channel(s) the info module was choking on weren't part of the regular sub. that said, these changes should still be usefull

Do you have additional Info I can get to make this work on my in-laws s2 sa tivo?

They have a 4DTV receiver and have missed several recordings because they were on the wron channel when the Tivo kicked off.

Any info will be appreciated,
gNOMEintheRedHat

[rc3105]

sorry, don't have any specs on 4d recievers

[tommyw]

Hiya. I'm trying to write a module to provide a download facility directly from the now showing page. Not a streaming download (via the TyShow plugin for WMP), just a straightforward ordinary download. It's essentially the same functionality as the mfs_stream module, but with a lot less work (about 25 lines of code, and doesn't require a separate server process constantly runninng).

And I've run into a problem:

A URL which finishes with an extension (such as "enterprise.ty") gets caught by the content handling section of the session procedure. So to avoid this, I have to leave the extension off, and this causes a certain (but not unmanagable) amount of confusion in the browser.

On the other hand, if I register a content handler, that doesn't get passed the path. This means that http://tivo/garbage/ExpireSoon-256.8.png gets treated the same as http://tivo/img/ExpireSoon-256.8.png. So I have to embed the FSid into the leaf name, such as "1296897.ty" rather than "1296897/Faking It Changed My Life.ty"

It's possible, but may not be desirable, to change the content handler to pass unrecognised extensions on to the action handler, rather than raising a HTTP error. It's also possible, but again, may not be desirable to fix the problem with the path in the content handler (backwards compatibility).

I wouldn't recommend holding up the final release for this however. (And even if somebody does point out the cunning trick I've missed for downloading files, the general problem still applies.) But it'd be quite nice to be able to fix.

[Throg]

Hiya. I'm trying to write a module to provide a download facility directly from the now showing page. Not a streaming download (via the TyShow plugin for WMP), just a straightforward ordinary download. It's essentially the same functionality as the mfs_stream module, but with a lot less work (about 25 lines of code, and doesn't require a separate server process constantly runninng).

And I've run into a problem:

A URL which finishes with an extension (such as "enterprise.ty") gets caught by the content handling section of the session procedure. So to avoid this, I have to leave the extension off, and this causes a certain (but not unmanagable) amount of confusion in the browser.

On the other hand, if I register a content handler, that doesn't get passed the path. This means that http://tivo/garbage/ExpireSoon-256.8.png gets treated the same as http://tivo/img/ExpireSoon-256.8.png. So I have to embed the FSid into the leaf name, such as "1296897.ty" rather than "1296897/Faking It Changed My Life.ty"

It's possible, but may not be desirable, to change the content handler to pass unrecognised extensions on to the action handler, rather than raising a HTTP error. It's also possible, but again, may not be desirable to fix the problem with the path in the content handler (backwards compatibility).

I wouldn't recommend holding up the final release for this however. (And even if somebody does point out the cunning trick I've missed for downloading files, the general problem still applies.) But it'd be quite nice to be able to fix.

I use the view link to download instead of streaming. The way I managed this was to delete the .ty file association in the registry.

[tommyw]

I use the view link to download instead of streaming. The way I managed this was to delete the .ty file association in the registry.

Doesn't that just mean you get to download the .asx file? Or have I missed something completely?

[Throg]

Doesn't that just mean you get to download the .asx file? Or have I missed something completely?

I'm going to PM you because I feel that we're getting off topic.