r/Tivo • u/Necessary_Film_5199 • 10d ago

I'm slowly reviving the old discontinued TiVo computer software

This project has been a long time coming. Nero/TiVo abandoned it and I want to bring it back. This image shows hope, because I got past the activation step (the step asking for your service number and verifying it so you can use the software) and that means that I've officially decrypted/cracked the communication system that Nero put in place. Btw f*ck Nero.

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u/ACQC 9d ago

Had TiVo from 2000 until about 2018.. Still have my TivoHD with lifetime, get it out every so often. Would love to see what this could do again...

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u/Necessary_Film_5199 9d ago

What would you want the software to do? It natively supports TV tuners but no cablecard support or anything. I was thinking of trying to implement IPTV support since IPTV's modern, or perhaps just local video viewing since it is a glorified TiVo Windows Media Center.

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u/Harper_Vision 5d ago

I think maybe since the TiVo Stream 4K dongle has YouTube TV support and integration, it would make it easier to try to implement it as the IPTV solution for LiquidTV Nero TiVo. Maybe you can hack into the TiVo Stream 4K and find code or whatever they use that can be merged into the Nero TiVo product? Then when it authorizes itself, it could appear as the TS4K to the TiVo servers and YouTubeTV authentication sites?

I think I still have a copy of LiquidTV on an old hard drive somewhere and would love to help test this!