Adding the New Channels

It's now time to create the actual channels. Make sure you know your new source number, as shown how on the previous page!

Make sure you know what channel number each channel is on. You can safely ignore any channels you are not actually interested in or don't receive.

You are going to create a spreadsheet like this.

Change the source number to your source number, and the Channel Number to your channel numbers for your channels.

Call Signs should not have spaces in. They should be ideally less than 10 characters.

Channel Names can be longer. Note column I and K. I contains a space followed by a quote. K a quote followed by a space. Colums C E G all contain a space.

The TiVo number you choose. Usually, people use numbers in the 7300000 range. DON'T repeat numbers. Ideally, have a link between the TiVo number and the Channel Number.

Repeat for all the channels you are interested in.

Save your spreadsheet.

Copy all the Tivosh lines to your clipboard and into notepad or similar. It will look something like this:

tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl             7300101         1         CANALFIRST     "    Canal First    "     1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl             7300102         2         CANALCOMDY     "    Canal Comedy    "     1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl             7300103         3         CANALDRAMA     "    Canal Drama    "     1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl             7300104         4         CANALHITS     "    Canal Hits    "     1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl             7300105         5         CANALACTN     "    Canal Action    "     1209911/14

 Note all the extra tabs! Get rid of the tabs, but NOT the spaces. It will then look like this:

tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl 7300101 1 CANALFIRST "Canal First" 1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl 7300102 2 CANALCOMDY "Canal Comedy" 1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl 7300103 3 CANALDRAMA "Canal Drama" 1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl 7300104 4 CANALHITS "Canal Hits" 1209911/14
tivosh add-whole-channel.tcl 7300105 5 CANALACTN "Canal Action" 1209911/14

Telnet to your TiVo and change to the /var/hack/guide directory again.

Copy the lines to your telnet session one line at a time. You can paste multiple lines, but NEVER more than about 10, otherwise you will lock up your TiVo!

You've now manually added new channels to your TiVo.

Type

tivosh timezoneadjust.tcl

tivosh fixup25.tcl
touch /var/timestamp

reboot

If you don't do this, when you reboot you will still be in guided setup. It also gets the time zone set in the right way.

Test Set Top Box Control

You should now be at a "standard" TiVo welcome page.

Go to "Messages and Setup" and change the set top box control to Pace 20000. Test Fast Medium and Slow and see which works best for you.

Go to Live TV and change channels, make sure your TiVo can control your set top box.

Congrats! You've got the next stage of your Swedish TiVo under way!

 In the next step, we're going to prepare the data for the final push!