[gricks]

I have multiple XBMC's on my network sharing files, and I want to share back to them, They all show up as XBMC: Media Server

I have looked all over and can't find a way to change this name. Does anyone know if it is possible, and if so, where I make the change?

Thanks!

[jdawg1983]

Hey matey,

Sorry if it you've found another way of doing it, but I had this quite recently and the easiest way I found of doing it was to use a hexeditor (ghex) and find the following:

XBMC Media Center <---- Refers to Model Name
1.0
XBMC Media Center - Media Server <-----Model Description
http://www.xbmc.org/
Team XBMC
http://www.xbmc.org/

Change whatever you want, I suggest you change only the model name and description to keep the developers happy!

YOU MUST KEEP THE LENGTH OF THE STRING THE SAME DO NOT INSERT CHARACTERS REPLACE THEM ONLY OTHERWISE YOUR BINARY IS USELESS

This way you wont need to fart about compiling after changing the source code - of which the file that you would need to edit is upnp.cpp if your interested.

You will want to make a backup copy and another copy for you to tinker with of the original binary and you will need to "sudo cp" the tinkered file over the original. Once done has presto you have you newly name media server.

I hope in a future release the Devs add some way of modifying this through config files instead.

[mkortstiege]

I've added the ability to set a custom device name via GUI a week ago Commit @ https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/1e9d...2caecf3ae7

[Martijn]

I've added the ability to set a custom device name via GUI a week ago Commit @ https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/1e9d...2caecf3ae7

Note that this is only for pre-Eden. Not for Dharma 10.1.
So people wont get confused if they can't find it.