SOLOVOX decoders: edit the channel lists with the DB Tool

If you want to edit the channel lists from the decoder produced by SOLOVOX, such as SOLOVOX V6S, then using the DB Tool is obviously a good method.

The DB Tool, it is a tool developed by Sunplus, which can import and export SDX, Excel, Bin and H file, also can edit the data and data structure, and upgrade the bin file to flash.

Before you do this, please make sure you have exported and saved the channel list form your SOLOVOX decoder. Also, you need a computer running on Windows 2000 or later.

Edit the channel list by using the DB Tool

• Please transfer the channel list file db.bin you exported to your computer
• Please download the DB Tool from the download page
• Extract the DB Tool file you downloaded, you will get some files, such as the executable file DB Tool.exe, the series number file sn.txt and more
• Double click on DB Tool.exe from the extracted fold to run the DB Tool, you will are in the Please register this product screen
• Please open sn.txt file which contains the username and serial number from the extracted fold, please enter the username and series number
• You will see the information that says Register Succeeded! The current product is licensed as Standard edition after registering
• You are now in the main screen of the DB Tool
• Select the DVB-S2 HDSTB option, this is a very important setting
• Click on Open icon at the top-left corner to open the open file window and go to the folder you put the channel list file the db.bin, and select the Bin Files (*.bin) as file type
• Open your channel list file db.bin you transferred
• Here you can edit your channel list data as desired, then you can save the edited channel list file, make sure that you have selected the Bin Files (*.bin) as file type as Save as type, of course, don’t forget the file name

About editing channel list file

• You can Delete the channel you don’t want, and the channel can be also moved by using Move to button
• The name of the channel can be changed by modifying Service Name
• You can edit favorite by modifying Service Type
• You can edit 8 favorites (Favorite 1, Favorite 2, Favorite 3, Favorite 4, Favorite 5, Favorite 6, Favorite 7, Favorite 8) in the DB Tool, these 8 favorites are corresponding to different sorts of Favorites of your SOLOVOX box device
• When editing 8 favorites, please make sure the Service Type you modified is correct. On this, it includes two other cases, one is for HD channel, another is for the common channel. And if is HD channel, the Service Type should be 268566529 for Favorite 1, 268566530 for Favorite 2, 268566532 for Favorite 3, 268566536 for Favorite 4, 268566544 for Favorite 5, 268566560 for Favorite 6, 268566592 for Favorite 7, 268566656 for Favorite 8, if it is common channel, the Service Type should be 16385 for Favorite 1, 16386 for Favorite 2, 16388 for Favorite 3, 16392 for Favorite 4, 16400 for Favorite 5, 16416 for Favorite 6, 16448 for Favorite 7, 16512 for Favorite 8