pyTivo Discussion Forum

breezin · Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Posts: 8

Newb issue here. Please help if possible.

The only share that works is music. It does show up on Tivo on music and pictures.

This is the pyTivo.conf contents:

[TiVo Recordings]
type = Tivo Recordings
path = E:\My Documents\TiVo\Recordings

[_tivo_SD]

[Test Mpg]
type = MP4
path = E:\My Documents\My Videos\Miro\View-from-the-Blue

[Server]
beacon = 192.168.0.108
port = 9032
ffmpeg = E:\My Documents\TiVo\PyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe

[Hypercam]
type = Hypercam
path = E:\My Documents\My Videos\Hypercam

[_tivo_HD]

[My Pictures]
type = pictures
path = E:\JWP-Photos

[My Music]
type = music
path = E:\JWP-Music

I would sure appreciate any constructive suggestions on what to check. I have searched plugin issues and the plugin folder/subfolders and could not get any good clues.

Thanks!

Iluvatar · Joined: 29 Feb 2008 Posts: 335

The share types in your conf file are wrong. The only default types that exist are video, photo, music.

Change the share types to the following and see if that works:

breezin · Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Posts: 8

Thanks for that Iluvatar ! Do you know if there an equally simple fix for the playon plugin?

The playon plugin is not detected.

It is added to the plugins folder in the PyTivo Directory.

Here is the updated pyTivo.conf:

[TiVo Recordings]
type = video
path = E:\My Documents\TiVo\Recordings

[_tivo_SD]

[Test Mpg]
type = video
path = E:\My Documents\My Videos\Miro\View-from-the-Blue

[Server]
beacon = 192.168.0.108
port = 9032
ffmpeg = E:\My Documents\TiVo\PyTivo\bin\ffmpeg.exe

[Hypercam]
type = video
path = E:\My Documents\My Videos\Hypercam

[_tivo_HD]

[My Pictures]
type = photo
path = E:\JWP-Photos

[My Music]
type = music
path = E:\JWP-Music

[Internet TV - Playon]
type = playon
http://localhost:54479

Thanks if you have any ideas on this one!

dlfl · Joined: 05 Jan 2008 Posts: 345 Location: Near Dayton, Ohio

Your .conf entry for playon looks correct, but do you actually have the plugin code? (Is there a populated "playon" subfolder in your "plugins" folder?)

The common way to get pyTivo with the playon plugin is to use the jython pytivo installer, see this thread:
http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/forum/pytivo-for-jython-windows-installer-t1610.html
However, that will give you an old version of pyTivo. The other way, which I recommend, is to manually add the plugin code to your existing pyTivo installation. See this post in the linked thread for more detail:
http://pytivo.sourceforge.net/forum/post13612.html#13612

In addition to adding the django package to your Python installation, you have to enable mobile clients in your Playon settings -- and of course Playon must be running.

breezin · Joined: 29 Apr 2012 Posts: 8

Thank you dlfl for your reply.

I have installed django to my existing installation of python.

I also added the latest plugin playon.py to the plugins directory.

This is going on at the same time as a new installation and there is also another issue. None of the videos appear in the Now Playing List on the Tivo. Also, the music and photos appear inconsistently in the music and videos on the Tivo.

Thanks again for any ideas on these two issues.