Technology Issue

[purpzey]

Hey all,
I got a TiVo and just got a Terk LeapFrog remote extender. Plan was/is to have TiVo in my bedroom and in the living room. I have a cable in the mail so I will be able to connect them no problem etc.

My problem is this. My TiVo is sitting atop my cable box...I can get the Terk to control the TiVo, but if I change the TV channel in my bedroom it changes in the living room. That is to say, the cablebox is reacting to the LeapFrog as well as the TiVo.

Although I have an email in to Terk, I suspect there may be someone here who might know the answer faster and actually know it as opposed to reading it out of a book. :help:

Anyway info you got would be awesome,
--purp

[Oculus Infernus]

If you're using a cable box, then that's what is supposed to happen. Your TiVo uses what's called a cable mouse to change the channels on your cable box, otherwise your channels wouldn't change at all. So when you change the channels with the TiVo, it changes the channels based on the device you've pointed the cable mouse to, in this case your cable box. If it didn't do that it wouldn't change channels at all. You can't have it not change the channels in the living room if that's what it's hooked up to. There is no solution to your problem I'm afraid. I'd do you up a diagram to explain it but you can't post images in this section of the forums. But basically it's like this.

Television----\
Cable
\
Cable Mouse
\
TiVo
\
Remote control

The signal goes from your remote to the TiVo, which sends that signal to the cable mouse that is placed in front of the IR sensor on your cable box which changes the channels and the signal passes to your television.

You can't really use the TiVo in two rooms at the same time like that I'm afraid. I own 3 TiVo's and have 3 cable boxes, if there was an easy way around it, belive me I'd use it.

If it's a series 2 TiVo you CAN network it with either another TiVo or with your computer via either a wired Ethernet connection of wireless 802.11b network adapter. You could then transmit what's stored on one TiVo to the other or to your computer, but it's a slow process.