Control TiVo with Your iPhone via Telnet

Posted by Jody Mitoma on May 4, 2008 at 9:07 pm

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When TiVo worked with Crestron (the home automation company) to provide integration between your DVR and your wall control panels, they actually opened up a door for people to control your TV with just about any computer. All you have to do is telnet into your TiVo via port 31339 and type in some commands. It’s pretty basic now, but the telnet interface means you can easily rig up an iPhone remote app or do some kind of port forwarding to remotely control your TV from outside your home.

Check out the video below (link):

Keep reading to check out the list of commands.

Type IRCODE in caps, followed by any of these commands:

  • UP
  • DOWN
  • LEFT
  • RIGHT
  • SELECT
  • TIVO
  • LIVETV
  • THUMBSUP
  • THUMBSDOWN
  • CHANNELUP
  • CHANNELDOWN
  • RECORD
  • DISPLAY
  • DIRECTV
  • NUM0
  • NUM1
  • NUM2
  • NUM3
  • NUM4
  • NUM5
  • NUM6
  • NUM7
  • NUM8
  • NUM9
  • ENTER
  • CLEAR
  • PLAY
  • PAUSE
  • SLOW
  • FORWARD
  • REVERSE
  • STANDBY
  • NOWSHOWING
  • REPLAY
  • ADVANCE
  • DELIMITER
  • GUIDE

(Source: Gizmodo)



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3 Responses to “Control TiVo with Your iPhone via Telnet”

  1. Bigmcq77 said:

    May 4th, 2008 at 11:13 pm

    it would suck to type in the commands just to flip one channel up. Could someone make an app where you would just hit up on your screen and it would automatically send the code? Seems easier.

  2. Jody Mitoma said:

    May 4th, 2008 at 11:18 pm

    I do agree, this should be attempted. Although I am not sure if this is possible or not, but if it were possible, maybe we could get rid of that stupid time limit, too. :)

  3. Justin Morley said:

    May 9th, 2008 at 6:42 pm

    OMG IT’S THE iHOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#$!@#$#$!#@$# @RUMORMILL#$@#$%$#@

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