Apple Matters’ Devanshu Mehta walks through how easy it is to connect your Tivo to your Mac. A couple of Mac software mentioned make it much easier. To start off with you must have the following:
You have a stand-alone Tivo Series 2.
Your Tivo is on the same home network (wired or wireless) as the rest of your home computers.
You have a Mac with OS 10.4 or higher.