TiVo Reader - RSS Aggregator for TiVo

Okay, so my boss has gotten my brain churning on a new project, something that isn't work related (wahoo!). As you can see from the title of this post, I'm going to attempt to make a TiVo Reader, aka - a RSS Aggregator for TiVo.

Here are my problems, though - I have about 20 days left on my free HMO trial (I think) and I cannot directly interact with the TiVo without hacking.

My plans are to create a Windows service/UI front end that will (on a timely manner) read RSS feeds and create images (probably using GDI+) to store them to the file system so the TiVo desktop server can pick them up and you can read them on your TiVo.

My boss already has a working implementation of this, however he's using Linux, some random scripts, and its just not that easy. I wanted an easy way of doing this that anyone already running the TiVo desktop software can work with.

What do you guys think? Can it be done in 20 days (so I can actually use it)? Would people want this?

PS - I've also had thoughts on using POP3 to connect to NewsGator's POP edition to download my posts, maybe a future item?

3 Comments

  • Michael, I have checked out JavaHMO, and personally - I hate Java. So, I'm not even going to look at the source code to see if I could implement it like this.



    I've started working on the parsing engine for a single feed, and so far its going good. I'm thinking I'll start with that and maybe extend it to web based retrieval if I have time left on my free trial :)

  • Your time, your energy, your call :)



    Hopefully if you get something working in time you'll release it, it'd would be nice to trivially track a few feeds on the TiVo.

  • I haven't recently, though I'll probably pick it up now since HMO is free!

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