Re: TiVo as a security Camera Recorder - a guide

["PatrickLidstone" <patrick@xxxxxxx>]

> Two things would concern me about this:
> 1. To be of any use legally, I thought CCTV recordings had to show
the date
> and time?

IANAL so I don't know about this...

> 2. If you could get tivo to display said date and time, they would
be
> incorrect and thus wouldn't the recordings would still be useless
as
> evidence?

xAP OSD for TiVO plus xAP Clock will provide a timestamp from an 
external time source (somewhere on network) on the screen. The big 
question is: does TIVO record the OSD display info by default or can 
it be persuaded to?

Similarly, TiVO web provides a full function remote control. 
Providing xAP enabled transport controls for the TiVO should be 
relatively easy -- then you could trigger recording based on any 
appropriate xAP event (Comfort event, IR, X10 whatever)

Patrick





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