TiVo Home Media Engine (HME) SDK Info Writing Your First TiVo Application with Eclipse There's a great article on TiVoCommunity on how to use the Eclipse IDE to write your first "Hello World" application.  Check out this Flash demo (screen video) that shows how to get it working.  This assumes that you've already obtained Eclipse and the HME SDK and unzipped them on your system.      Flash demo: Getting Started with Eclipse and the TiVo HME SDK (Note: there's a little green navigation bar at the bottom to pause, play, and jump around in the video.  Also, Windows XP Service Pack 2 users may get a 'blocked content' error when loading the page; simply click the Info Bar where the warning is displayed; select 'Allow Blocked Content' and the video will load and play.) Extensive Tutorial: A Real Application from Scratch As I've started my first application, the "Traffic Cam Viewer," I've documented how I did it.  It's broken up into chunks of about an hour each, so you can progress through it over a few days if you want.  If you're a new TiVo application developer, this might be helpful to you.      TiVo Application Tutorial: the Traffic Cam Viewer Application      TiVo HME Developer Info and How-Tos HME SDK Overview TiVo has released an SDK for writing your own apps hosted on your TiVo box. The app runs on your PC, and can communicate with the TiVo. So far, the set of features you have on the TiVo are limited (drawing views to the TiVo, receiving events and keystrokes from the TiVo) but they're going to expand the SDK in future releases. There are some sample apps you can run. Basically, you run the apps on your PC (laptop might be more convenient for some) and TiVo "discovers" them via multicast. (You have to unlock this feature first; the demo tells you how.) Works only on Series 2 with 7.1.x w/network.      Official TiVo HME SDK Site      Try the sample applications yourself      See screenshots of some sample applications      Screenshot of the development environment      Downloads page for HME, Bananas   Create a Nice UI Using Bananas Before you do a whole lot of GUI work for your application, be sure you check out Bananas.  From the readme: "Bananas is a TiVo-style user interface toolkit built on top of the HME SDK. Bananas makes it easy to create great looking applications that match the TiVo DVR look and feel. You should be familiar with HME before attempting to build applications using Bananas."   Screenshot from the 'Bananas' sample application You can download Bananas from the official Bananas Download Page. How to Run the Bananas Sample App in the Simulator Using Eclipse It's really easy to bring up the Bananas sample app in the simulator.  If you've already viewed the other video showing how to run the other HME sample apps (top of this page), this will look familiar.  In this example, I've got the HME SDK in C:\tivo\hme_sdk_ea1.1, and the Bananas toolkit in C:\tivo\bananas_ea1 .  Watch this short video to see how to do it:      Flash demo: Running the Bananas Sample App in the Simulator via Eclipse    (3 min.) See the README.html that comes with the Bananas toolkit for a bunch more information (here's a copy).   Existing Applications The SDK home page has a list of some of them.  Links to some apps I've found so far:      TrafficCam Viewer (mine!)      NetFlix RSS Reader (mine!)      PC Remote Control application      Poker app      Island Book App      Netflix queue thread      Google Maps on your TiVo      HMEMail (mail client)      Stock quote      Jukebox (for music collection)      Stock quote      iSee iTunes      Multiplayer poker      Galleon (media server - extensive, see the screenshots) Other Links of Note      HME Developer Corner - TiVoCommunity      How to get the 'Now Playing' listings from the internal web page