Build a MythTV Frontend to Tivo

If you’ve been looking for a way to share your Tivo around the house then you might want to follow this project to build a MythTV Frontend.

The primary goal of this project is to have a device that I can connect to my TV in my bedroom to view content stored and recorded elsewhere in our house. The main goals are to be able to:

• Watch Programmes Recorded By My TiVo
• Watch MPEG Files Stored On My File Server
• Listen To Music Stored On My File Server
• View Images Stored On My File Server
• Watch DVDs

I'm going to do this by building a Linux based system running on an ASUS Pundit device and using MythTV Frontend software to achieve the above.

Note that this is a bit different from most MythTV Frontends in one important respect: I won't be using any MythTV Backend to record programmes, all my recordings are beind done by my TiVo device and the MythTV Frontend is being used to view those.

Basically you build yourself a nice little home theater PC and load MythTV on it , pull your recorded TV shows from your Tivo using the Myth2Tivo plugin and everything else like photos and movies off a file server.

Pretty slick if you can get through installing and setting MythTV up properly. Anyone got a fool proof method of installing MythTV on a new linux machine?