The virtual remote news just keeps on coming… TiVo went ahead and updated their free iPad companion app yesterday. In addition the various bug fixes, better support for multiple DVRs, and background functionality, one user reports a noteworthy upgrade notice:
This app currently requires a TiVo Premier Series 4 DVR. Support for RCN and Suddenlink Premier Boxes, along with limited support for TiVo Series 3/TiVo HD DVRs, is coming soon.
At launch, and as currently designed, the iPad app only supports new TiVo Premiere hardware. Although TiVo has alluded to supporting additional mobile OSes, like Android, we haven’t heard anything in regards to support for previous generation DVR hardware, like the Series 3 and TiVo HD.
Who knows if enabling support for “legacy” DVRs was part of the original plan or is related to customer feedback – TiVo has indeed taken some lumps on Twitter, the forums, and even their blog. Regardless, it’s nice to see this functionality on the roadmap. Now all we need to know is when… and what limitations?
(Thanks to Josh, Rob, and Steve for helping track down the visual evidence!)
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Knowing my luck by the time I decide to buy an iPad just for this app and the occasion program I run with a web interface, TiVo will release support built into TiVo Desktop. Either that or TiVocommunity will make enough progress for these features to be added to things like PyTiVo and KMTTG.
TiVo Speak Lesson #13:
"Coming Soon" = 1st quarter of n + (?>7 years)
Used in a sentence:
"... limited support for TiVo Series 3/TiVo HD DVRs, is coming in the 1st quarter of 2018"
"Either that or TiVocommunity will make enough progress for these features to be added to things like PyTiVo and KMTTG."
I really think it's in TiVo's best interests to open-source the stuff and make it easy for folks to build 3rd party tools, both commercial and freeware.
It's part of the value of TiVo's platform for the hardcore, who tend to be a platform's best evangelists...