{"id":11,"date":"2005-12-29T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rynosoft.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/?p=11"},"modified":"2008-04-30T16:16:01","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T23:16:01","slug":"saga-of-the-new-tivo-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rynosoft.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/saga-of-the-new-tivo-part-ii","title":{"rendered":"Saga of the New Tivo, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"

Previously<\/a>: : “I wish I had Tivo in the bedroom!”<\/p>\n

I slept in on the day of Tina’s birthday (November 10) and arose shortly after she left for art class. After getting ready for work, I opened the box with the new DirecTV Tivo (DTivo) and prepared for installation.<\/p>\n

When we first had DirecTV (DTV) installed, they installed our DTivo in the living room (although everybody in the house calls it the “Big TV Room”), a single receiver in the bedroom and a small dish on the north side of the roof. The dish has four coaxial outputs with two going to the DTivo, one going back to the bedroom and one capped.<\/p>\n

Thus, my initial plan was simply to replace the receiver with the new DTivo and let the DTivo run on just one satellite channel for awhile until I could run another coax cable from one end of the house to the other. I thought it would be just a matter of unplugging the receiver, plugging in the DTivo and going through the activation process. Well, it started out that easy.<\/p>\n

I swapped the DTivo for the receiver and placed the DTivo where her VCR used to be in order to make it as unobtrusive as possible. I would return the VCR upon her request later. I called in to DTV and had them activate the DTivo and verified that all was working well. I even setup a couple of “Season Passes” for her before putting the old receiver in the box and putting the box back where it had been, seemingly making it all look unchanged. Then I departed for work secure in the knowledge that I had delivered another fabulous birthday gift to my lovely and deserving wife.<\/p>\n

Next<\/a>: “But what about when you join the reversed circuit to a “normal” circuit via a coaxial cable connection to the satellite dish?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, it started out that easy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[256,466,272,36,34],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tales","tag-birthday","tag-directv","tag-gifts","tag-tina","tag-tivo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t