MrBalky Heavy Industries

The other night my friend Bob mentioned somebody had set up a Twitter account for their TiVo. After thinking about it for a second I said something like “that’s almost trivial”.

Naturally I had to see if it really was trivial, which in fact it turned out to be. @mrbalkytivo is busier than I am.

Put tweetTivo.php someplace to be called by cron.

class_tivo_xml.php is not written by me and is required. Google it up. Figuring out how to get the XML info from the TiVo is left as an exercise for the reader.

The script will tweet about any new recording that starts, including TiVo suggestions, which are not always reflective of my taste, but then again, neither are many of MrsBalky’s choices. I thought about enhancing the script to skip suggestions, but grew bored and drifted away.