{"id":52,"date":"2006-02-24T15:24:45","date_gmt":"2006-02-24T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.89.31.222\/~wkblogco\/?p=52"},"modified":"2008-04-11T15:48:34","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T21:48:34","slug":"tivo-vonage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/tivo\/2006\/02\/tivo-vonage\/","title":{"rendered":"TiVo + Vonage = ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; so you&#8217;re hi-tech and you&#8217;ve dumped your landline for Vonage or some other VoIP. And now your TiVo doesn&#8217;t dial-in. You&#8217;ve got a bunch of options to get back on track. Figure out which model classification you have below and we&#8217;ll tell you what to do. Believe it or not, all TiVo DVRs have a serial port (even though it looks like a headphone jack) and this makes for some possibilities.<\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/56k_modem.jpg\" alt=\"56k_modem.jpg\" width=\"120\" height=\"85\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wkblog.com\/serial_to_stereo.jpg\" alt=\"serial_to_stereo.jpg\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>Series 1 TiVos (Philips DSR6000 and HDR series, Sony SVR-2000 and SAT T-60, Hughes GXCEBOT):<\/strong> These units are the original. If they work, keep them going. We sell an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/modem.php\">external modem kit for your TiVo<\/a> that will work with Vonage and most other VoIP providers. It&#8217;s easy to install, quick to setup, and just plain-old works.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series 2 Standalone TiVos and DVD TiVos:<\/strong> If you&#8217;ve got one of these, and you&#8217;ve got VoIP, then you just need a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/tivo_parts_bin2.php#misc2\">network adapter<\/a> and you can get your TiVo on the net and you won&#8217;t need a phone line. Just go into Messages and Setup and tell your TiVo how to connect after you hook up the hardware.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Series 2 DirecTV TiVos (including HD):<\/strong> Two options here. Easiest is: don&#8217;t dial it in at all. If you&#8217;ve already set up the unit, it doesn&#8217;t need to dial-in anymore. It&#8217;ll complain that you haven&#8217;t dialed it in in XX days (mine is finally over 400!) but you just have to click Select once per day, max, and it&#8217;s gone. You can&#8217;t purchase PayPerView from the unit, but you can still purchase it by phone or on the internet and this TiVo will see the show. Don&#8217;t worry about the guide data running out &#8211; that comes from the satellite dish on these units. But if you want to get rid of the warning message (nag screen) and\/or be able to do PayPerView, you can use our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/modem.php\">external modem kit.<\/a> If you have one of these units, you&#8217;ll need the $11 cable also since one didn&#8217;t come with your unit originally.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t set up your <strong>Series 2 DirecTV TiVo<\/strong> yet, then you have two options. You can go to a friend&#8217;s house (even one without DirecTV) and get through the two setup phone calls there. If you do that, first get the unit through the beginning of setup with a satellite dish connected; then call DirecTV and have them activate the card. After that you can do the dial-ins without the satellite dish connected if you need to. The other option is, yet again, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weaknees.com\/modem.php\">WeaKnees external TiVo modem kit<\/a>. This will get you through initial setup, and the later dial-ins.<\/p>\n<p>One final note: at least one VoIP provider doesn&#8217;t support modems at all, so we recommend that you avoid them: Packet8.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK &#8211; so you&#8217;re hi-tech and you&#8217;ve dumped your landline for Vonage or some other VoIP. And now your TiVo doesn&#8217;t dial-in. You&#8217;ve got a bunch of options to get back on track. Figure out which model classification you have below and we&#8217;ll tell you what to do. 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