{"id":8379,"date":"2005-02-02T18:34:01","date_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streettech.dreamhosters.com\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2005-02-02T18:34:01","modified_gmt":"2005-02-02T18:34:01","slug":"tivo-home-media-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8379","title":{"rendered":"TiVo Home Media Engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" valign=\"top\" src=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/storypics\/hmeWeather2.jpg\">When I wrote my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0789731959\/streettech-20\/103-2413581-6418238\" target=\"new\">TiVo book<\/a> last year, I lamented the lack of cool third-party\/open source apps for Series 2 TiVos, relative to Series 1. Soon that will all change, thanks to the release of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tivohme.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"new\">TiVo Home Media Engine (HME)<\/a>, a software developer&#8217;s kit (SDK) for creating apps for networked S2 TiVos. <\/p>\n<p> This is a really smart move on TiVo&#8217;s part &#8212; opening up the TiVo platform to hackers for the creation of awesome apps that&#8217;ll help keep TiVo up and running in an increasingly competitive DVR marketplace. Unfortunately, you need the 7.1 TiVo OS on your TiVo, which most of us don&#8217;t have yet (they&#8217;re slowy upgrading the network). But after this happens, and with widespread distribution of the SDK, it&#8217;ll be fun to see all of the apps that people dream up. Already there&#8217;s a Weather app (see image), an RSS feeder, and a game (Skull and Bones). The latter sure beats the Tic-Tac-Toe game that comes with <a href=\"http:\/\/javahmo.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"new\">JavaHMO<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p> The industrious devils over at PVRBlog have created a Sourceforge-like <a href=\"http:\/\/hme.pvrblog.com\/\" target=\"new\">project page<\/a> to track development of HME apps, to discuss the SDK kit, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I wrote my TiVo book last year, I lamented the lack of cool third-party\/open source apps for Series 2 TiVos, relative to Series 1. Soon that will all change, thanks to the release of the TiVo Home Media Engine (HME), a software developer&#8217;s kit (SDK) for creating apps for networked S2 TiVos. This is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/streettech.com\/?p=8379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;TiVo Home Media Engine&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gadgetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streettech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}