Galleon/Tivo server

[coffee_lover]

+1.
Wow, this is a great idea. I hope Infrant implements it in a future release!

[schalliol]

Only mildly related here, but TiVoToGo is now for Mac. I don't know if there are other adjustments being made or not: http://www.tivo.com/4.9.4.1-2_mac.asp

[divinegeek]

Another vote here.

[MikeReedKS]

I too would pay extra for this feature. Count my vote for this feature request please.

[htpc_user]

I vote for this too. Is the only reason I keep my PC on 24/7.

[MikeReedKS]

I really believe that adding a TiVo server would increase NAS sales. Once the TiVo community saw a viable storage option, I am confident that sales into the TiVo owner market would be substantial. If you don't add it for the current users, add it for the solid business reason of expanding sales into a new and growing market. TiVo owners need an option like this and will gladly pay for it.

I personally have a computer set up to act as the TiVo server, pumping data between my three TiVo units and the NAS. The need for this computer to be on 24/7 and the inefficiency of passing the data through this PC instead of directly between the NAS and each TiVo makes adding this server directly to the NAS a logical option.

Is there any official word on this? A soft announcement that Infrant is thinking about adding a TiVo server, leaked to the TiVo community, might be a great way to float the idea and get a measure of consumer demand.

[schalliol]

I just bumped a similar thread, but this one is really a more complete thread. So...bump.

[dhalbrook]

I was talking about this with a nice person from Infrant at the last MacWorld, and basically the issue (as I understood it) was that there was no JRE (Java Runtime Environment) available for the OS/processor combination that the ReadyNAS uses. Until someone does that port, that means no Java apps, which means no Galleon unfortunately. Funny, because I thought there were JREs available for darn near every platform, but looks like this is the one unsupported combo. Perhaps Netgear has some more weight and can make this happen (through the JCP or otherwise).

[stujapa]

There may be a good reason that the JRE hasn't been ported to ReadyNAS.... It's huge, it'd overwhelm the box. By modern computer standards 128MB isn't much memory, but that's half of a stock NV+'s core memory?

Now, if someone were to, oh, convert Galleon to C/C++ and compile it natively for ReadyNAS... I would definitely pay extra for that.