Commando 14.7 DM500 Release

[PaphosAL]

Sorry it was so long in coming, but we hope it was worth the wait. As always, FTA only and contains no softcams nor keys.

What's new?

• Set My Location makeover- much easier and more intuitive now. DO THAT FIRST!
• Some new GUI Themes to try, including the Classic neutrino from dBox2
• Selectable default Audio- English ~ NAR ~ AC3
• RT-EPG load via the GUI is now 'clean' with no annoying popups
• Reboot plugin dropped (Reboot available in Timer 'Types' instead)
• If AutoBouquets is on a Timer, box is woken up if in Standby Mode
• yWeb is now 100% English, and the virtual Remote is back!
• Two DM500 remotes to try on your Android device (see the new yWeb doc)
• A new option to have all the +1 channels (bar Movies) in their own Bouquet
• A new Digital Radio bouquet, to avoid issues going to Radio Mode with 'Others' OFF
• Fix for the vanilla "ITV" names- we've given you back your ITV regionals!
• New set of solid ITV picons for ITV, ITV2, ITV3, ITV4 channels, including +1
• Main Menu has a new Utilities Menu, including Online Updates. Check it out!
• Heavily updated help docs covering SML, AutoBouquets, GetEPG, RT-EPG
• New help docs for Bouquet Customizing and yWeb. All in /var/etc/info and the rar pack

The Icing on the Cake

GetEPG Autogen no longer just logs any unmapped channels it finds. It now automatically calls GetEPG AddNew to zap to that channel and scan for it's EPG ID with dvbsnoop. It can tell the differerence between a new channel and one that's been renamed, and edits the user mapfile accordingly, on the fly!

If it's a renamed channel, it edits the existing line. For a new channel, it appends a new data line to the end of the correct bouquet section. Plus it's all reported in detail in a logfile in the /var/log folder, and a summary at the end of the usermap. See the docs for full details.

Package contents:

• The image, with bang up to date services and bouquets (as at Sun 27 Jan 2013)
• A special lib file needed by mgcamd and evocamd users only
• Ein Kabel-Deutschland paket f?r unsere Deutschen freunde mit Kabel
• A rar pack containing all 8 help documents (also readable from /var/etc/info in TuxCom)

ENJOY! PaphosAL ~ Renwich ~ LraiZer ~ Satsearching

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UPDATE: Wednesday 23rd October 2013 - based on our newbuild of 21st October for the latest online root update, we thought we might as well add a fully updated image.

This is FTA and child-friendly, with today's services and bouquets for the London area. Of course, at startup, you'll be prompted to go to the Set My Location menu to tell C14.7 where you are in the UK or ROI. (after which, run AutoBouquets to apply those settings). Users in London (or not on 28.2E) can ignore that bit, and you won't get nagged by SML after subsequent reboots.

The latest maps for GetEPG and RT-EPG have been done as well, and Ronan's "Sky HD" is set as the default GUI theme. Please backup any vital stuff from your existing image before flashing this one!

Cheers! TC

[teds]

brilliant image lads
big thanks to all the team
for all your hard work
hope i aint missed anyone out
TEDS.
PaphosAL ~ Renwich ~ LraiZer ~ Satsearching

[PaphosAL]

Cor blimey! 3 days after release, 26 downloads (at this point of time) and virtually no feedback whatsover here on D-K...

This suggests that this image is either very good indeed, or dead the opposite!

[titchmc]

image is working great no complaints from me thanks for all the hard work put in much appreciated

[smirnoff_rules]

great image lads up and running in minutes ,.. A1 image , a must for any dm500

[lfc84]

the info.rar looks very useful - i will take a more in depth look in the next week or so when i get time

one question - i have set my region to be scotland. but, is it possible for me to see rte one in the bouquet somewhere? its not in regional.

[mickb82]

Hi,

Can anyone recomend the best settings for successful recording. I have been trying different settings over the last few days, the recordings seem to record and are on my network drive but im unable to play them, they wont load in VLC or my LG Blu-Ray player and on my Dreambox when I try to play the file there is a popup box flashing buffering but the file never loads.

My current settings are:

Directory Permissions- 755
Ringbuffer Size- 2 MB
Maximum File size (MB)- 2048
Write Synchronous (O_SYNC)- off
Write Synchronous (fdatasync)- off
Record VideoText- off
Record Subtitles- off

I record to a usb drive connected to my router. This is setup details for the router are:

Type- CIFS
Local Directory /mnt/cf
Mount On Starup- Yes
Mount Options- rw,soft,udp
Mount options- nlock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192

The USb drive is formatted in NTFS format.

I had this problem on 14.6 as well, the update has made no difference.

Any help would be appreciated and also could someone tell me what write synchronous (O_SYNC) & (fastdata), ringbuffer and the network mount options mean please.

Thanks

Mick

[mtv1]

i've tried it today for the first time commando

i was impressed with the setup epg ..

the one only thing is that you can't scan for channels as lfc84 reported

and had to manually input the magic no download section for a noob would be a nightmare ..

overall do i'll give it 8/10 great effort

[bannthemman]

thanks very much for all your hard work.... how do i add softcam to this image.... this stuff is all new to me so dont flame me please..


Thank you in advance

[PaphosAL]

thanks very much for all your hard work.... how do i add softcam to this image.... this stuff is all new to me so dont flame me please..


Thank you in advance

Read the Softcams section of the Hints and Tips.txt doc

[PaphosAL]

the info.rar looks very useful - i will take a more in depth look in the next week or so when i get time

one question - i have set my region to be scotland. but, is it possible for me to see rte one in the bouquet somewhere? its not in regional.

By default, Rupert doesn't want us in UK to see the Irish channels in his bouquets. Which is a bit unkind, given all the Continental and African / Asian channels he does let us see.

Strictly speaking, the Irish channels wouldn't belong in the "Regional" bouquet in any case, as the Republic of Ireland is not a region in the UK, but a different country completely! So let's add the four Irish channels to the very top of the "International" bouquet where they belong (and where BSkyB should really have them, too!).

Simply append these lines to your /var/tuxbox/config/local.scan file:

add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "RTE One"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "RTE TWO"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "TV3"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "3e"

Your mods will take effect after your next run of AutoBouquets

Cheers- AL

[lfc84]

Simply append these lines to your /var/tuxbox/config/local.scan file:

add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "RTE One"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "RTE TWO"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "TV3"
add_above "1" "B4U Movies" "3e"

Your mods will take effect after your next run of AutoBouquets

Cheers- AL

If I create a bouquet named "Irish" and allocated the 4 channels into it, what would the effect be on the autobouquets that run on a timer?

Would it stop the bouquets being up to date? And will the new bouqiet named "Irish" disapear after autobouquets run ? Or if I use your suggestion of using the International bouquet would they channels be removed from the International bouquet after runnign autobouquet ?

[mickb82]

Hi,

Can anyone recomend the best settings for successful recording. I have been trying different settings over the last few days, the recordings seem to record and are on my network drive but im unable to play them, they wont load in VLC or my LG Blu-Ray player and on my Dreambox when I try to play the file there is a popup box flashing buffering but the file never loads.

My current settings are:

Directory Permissions- 755
Ringbuffer Size- 2 MB
Maximum File size (MB)- 2048
Write Synchronous (O_SYNC)- off
Write Synchronous (fdatasync)- off
Record VideoText- off
Record Subtitles- off

I record to a usb drive connected to my router. This is setup details for the router are:

Type- CIFS
Local Directory /mnt/cf
Mount On Starup- Yes
Mount Options- rw,soft,udp
Mount options- nlock,rsize=8192,wsize=8192

The USb drive is formatted in NTFS format.

I had this problem on 14.6 as well, the update has made no difference.

Any help would be appreciated and also could someone tell me what write synchronous (O_SYNC) & (fastdata), ringbuffer and the network mount options mean please.

Thanks

Mick

I have tried a few different settings and I think the problem is something to do with audio. I scheduled a Sky 1 program to record today and it played fine but it recorded the NAR audio so there was no sound. I also recorded a film from Sky Movies and that just flashed buffering like I mentioned in my previous post. I think the problem is with the multiple audio streams on some channels.

Does anyone know how to fix this or change some settings to disable all audio tracks except the standard audio stream?

Thanks

Mick

[PaphosAL]

If I create a bouquet named "Irish" and allocated the 4 channels into it, what would the effect be on the autobouquets that run on a timer?

Your new "Irish" bouquet will vanish! Read the AutoBouquets doc please!

Would it stop the bouquets being up to date? And will the new bouqiet named "Irish" disapear after autobouquets run ? Or if I use your suggestion of using the International bouquet would they channels be removed from the International bouquet after runnign autobouquet ?


AutoBouquets reads in the local.scan file each and every time it runs. So those 4 new channels will always be at the top of "International" bouquet.

But you can if you wish add them to the top of the "Regional" bouquet by using the first channel name that appears in there as your target marker, instead of "B4U Movies". In theory, as you set Scotland in SML, that first channel will be "BBC 1 Wales" ??? But correct me if I'm wrong.


Adding NEW bouquets to AutoBouquets is not for the faint-hearted, as I discovered when adding the new "Plus 1hr Channels" bouquet option... Steer clear!


Cheers- AL

[PaphosAL]

I have tried a few different settings and I think the problem is something to do with audio. I scheduled a Sky 1 program to record today and it played fine but it recorded the NAR audio so there was no sound. I also recorded a film from Sky Movies and that just flashed buffering like I mentioned in my previous post. I think the problem is with the multiple audio streams on some channels.

Does anyone know how to fix this or change some settings to disable all audio tracks except the standard audio stream?

Thanks

Mick

YES! The easiest way to sort this issue is to run the AutoBouquets NOW! plugin as a daily Timer at a time in the morning that suits you. After it's done it's work, an auto-Reboot occurs. Which invokes OUR audio.pid library and not the jumbled NAR . AC3 crap that Rupert shoves down the stream on a normal scan.

Audio = English (not NAR or AC3) is the default setting for c14.7 and is a NEW feature.

Cheers- AL