Date in Guide

[Warg]

I have a DTV series 2 model SD-DVR40 that I have added a larger drive to. I have modified it with the Sleeper ISO just to get the backdoor capabilities.

I also have an older Mitsubishi HD sat receiver that I use for my primary, non-recorded viewing. (I need to get an HD tivo!)

I have two questions about how to hack the guide on the tivo to get more information like I get on the Mitsubishi.

Question 1:
The Mitsubishi shows the day/month/year in the info screen on the guide. The Tivo only shows the year. Not very informative when trying to figure out whats a rerun. Is there some way to get the guide on the Tivo to show the full date?

Question 2:
The Mitsubishi tags any program with a symbol, meaning I have set it to automatically tune to that program. Is there some way to get a symbol in the Tivo guide on programs that I have already set to record?

These are my two main complaints about the Tivo, otherwise I love it. I have searched for hours and hours without any success on these, any help will be greatly appreciated.

[sanderton]

Assuming by "Guide" you meen the Live TV overlay, neither of these is possible on an unhacked machine.

You could write a hack to insert the full Original Air Date as the first line of the description easily enough if it's that important to you.

[TheWickedPriest]

If you go into the entry for the program from the Now Playing list and press "Info", you'll (usually) get the full date.

As for figuring out what's a rerun, the Tivo can do that itself, albeit not with 100% accuracy. Just set your season pass to "First run only", instead of the default "Repeats & first run".

[Warg]

Assuming by "Guide" you meen the Live TV overlay, neither of these is possible on an unhacked machine.

You could write a hack to insert the full Original Air Date as the first line of the description easily enough if it's that important to you.

YES!! I would love to do that. Where do I go from here?

[Warg]

Assuming by "Guide" you meen the Live TV overlay, neither of these is possible on an unhacked machine.

You could write a hack to insert the full Original Air Date as the first line of the description easily enough if it's that important to you.

Just a small hint anybody?

[psxboy]

OK.. here's your hint:

In the MFS database, under Schedule/, each "station-day" is listed in the format:

channel-fsid:day:start-of-day(time):end-of-day(time):0(?):showing-base-fsid

Under each station-day entry, in the Showing field, is the record for each program scheduled for that station for that day. If you look at a Showing record, you'll get the date, start time, duration, etc. and a Program field that points to the record that contains the actual show data. If you look at that record, you'll see it contains the description as well as the OriginalAirDate.

So, you just need to write a script that goes into each Program record, reads the Original Air Date, converts it to a human-readable date (from "number of days since 01/01/1970") and prepends it to the Description data.

-psxboy