TiVo Butler is an application for tracking programs recorded by your TiVos on your home network. It can automatically download shows that you want to save on your computer.

Quick Start:
Before you can do anything useful with TiVo Butler, you need to setup a connection to at least one TiVo device. This is the first tab of the preferences. Due to a display bug, you may need to double-click the library view to update the name of your TiVo device after adding it. If you have used a previous beta version, you may have to delete the data store before using this new version. Go to your "Applications Support" folder and delete the "TiVo Butler" folder.

Licensing:
This application is freeware and licensed under the GPL.
I have no plans to ever charge for it, although I may setup a PayPal account for donations, if anyone wants to contribute to development. I have learned and accomplished a lot because of Free and Open Source Software and would like to give something back to the community.

Acknowledgments:
TiVo Butler uses two other open source components for decoding .tivo files and then converting them to MP4 files.
• For more information about tivodecode, please see http://tivodecode.sourceforge.net/
• For more informatoin about mencoder, please see http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html

Requirements:
• Mac OS X 10.5 or greater
• A Series 2 or Series 3 (including HD) TiVo connected to your network
• The IP and MAK (not MAC) for your TiVo (you can get the IP and the media access key via the settings on your TiVo)

Features:
• Track programs on multiple TiVo boxes
• Keep a history of the programs that were deleted
• Sort shows by series or by channel
• Create smart groups for program sets that you want to track
• Automatically download & convert shows via smart groups

To-Do List:
• More visible updating of the listing (ie: let the uesr know when things are changing)
• Enable the ability to restrict downloads to a certain time
• Downloading of extended details about a program
... and I'm open to suggestions!

Known Issues:
• The progress bar during a download only fills to about 80% (this may not ever be directly fixed)
• The predicate editor for the smart group preferences sometimes won't display
• The listing of TiVo devices and smart groups doesn't always update correctly, you can double-click anywhere in the the left pane to force an update for now.

Version History:

v1.0b3
Fixed - increased the size of the variable holding the program size so it can display larger than 2.0 GB
Fixed - crash on PPC if doing anything other than just downloading a tivo file
Fixed - help tips are now different between text boxes in the preferences
Fixed - work queue window now stays put when you show/hide the queue
Fixed - changes to helper tool arguments now will save every time
Fixed - large (over 2 GB) files should convert now
Fixed - read handle would be stuck listening for data if the task failed to launch due to a bad path
Fixed - correct download progress bar for large (over 2.0 GB) files
Fixed - convert progress bar isn't as jumpy as it used to be
Added - toolbar to the preferences box
Added - quick access to preferences from the main window via a new toolbar
Added - live searching in the main window
Added - document icons for *.tivo files
Changed - "Add to Selection" is now a tool bar item
Changed - expanded the work queue window to show all history

v1.0b2
Fixed - crash if the View menu was access while the main window was closed
Fixed - some major memory leaks (some minor ones remain)
Fixed - multiple Work Queue / Preferences windows could be opened (which was a minor memory leak as well)
Fixed - crash when canceling a run that was only downloading or decoding, but not converting
Fixed - programs with the same program ID would not all display (moved to using an internal ID from TiVo, hopefully this will work better)
Fixed - shows from a deleted player would still show up in the main library (the programs still exist, but they don't display)
Added - preference to prepend a capture date at the beginning of the filename to help avoid conflicts
Added - preferences for saving intermediate files used during the downloading / decoding and converting
Added - formatting for program duration and size
Added - status icons like what TiVo uses itself
Changed - some aspects of the main list view (column headers, now has alternating row colors)

v1.0b
First public release. Distributed with a logging application so people can send in bug reports with more data.