Telling TiVo's Apart!

...or buy one of those tivo remotes which have a switch on them the flip between tivos:



Look at Number 26 .. DVR switch.

It seems my list of menu items seems to have gone from the archive:

From Eric:
Whilst I was floundering about trying to get delmanual.tcl to work, I found a post by Cyril referring to dbget and dbset. The thread he linked to was unavailable, but I tracked down the info needed to change text on the TiVo!

Warning!!
I don't know how dangerous this technique is.
Make sure you have a backup just in case.

With that caveat, here's what to do.

Download dbget.tcl & dbset.tcl from
http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/tivo/tridge/

Telnet into TiVo and make it READ/WRITE

FTP the files to /tvbin

Back in the telnet window cd /tvbin

chmod 755 both files.

tivosh

dumpobj /SwSystem/ACTIVE
This will write about a dozen lines to the command window. Look for Resource Group = 9163/-1 9164/-1 9165/-1 and so on about 50 times (your numbers will be different).
Make a note of the second value, in my case 9164/-1.

Remember to substitute your four figure number for 9164 for the rest of these commands.
<Optional Step>
dumpobj -depth 2 9164
This will dump all the text strings for the tivo menus to the command window.
Not so useful in itself as you can only see the last 60-odd (there are 678 and it takes about 30 seconds to write to screen), but if someone knows how to point it to a file from within tivosh, could be handy.
</Optional Step>

dumpobj 9164/18 will produce
{
Id = (131095)
String = {Tivo Central}
}

dbget.tcl 9164/18 String will produce
{Tivo Central}

dbget.tcl 9164/17 String will produce
{Now Playing}

dbget.tcl 9164/134 String will produce
{Manual: %s}

I have two TiVos so I've used this command
dbset.tcl 9164/18 String {Tivo Two} to change TiVo Central to TiVo Two
and
dbset.tcl 9164/17 String {Tivo Two Programmes} to change Now Playing to TiVo Two Programmes

exit to exit tivosh.

Fire up TiVoWeb.
Go into Resource Editor
Choose the last option Update Resources
Then reboot your TiVo.

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I will try and find out where I put the list -on an old hard drive somewhere!