Commando 14.6 DM500 Release

[PaphosAL]

Commando 14.6 DM500 Release is finally here!

What's new?

A library of readme docs explaining all the below, and much more
but sadly, nobody ever reads them. We've made it as easy as possible, with all docs linux formatted for comfortable local viewing on your telly with Tuxbox Commander from the Blue button, so go on- have a browse, please, yes? The docs folder is the default right pane in TuxCom, just arrow Up or Down to hilite the doc, then press OK to view it. Or read via FTP in the /var/etc/info folder.

Set My Location 2-3-1
set your location in three easy steps. Yes, we've taken care of our cousins over there on the Emerald Isle too! If you're in the London region, which is default for the stream channels, you can skip this one, coz 14.6 is London out of the tin. Please see the readme for more info

AutoBouquets
if this doesn't sway users away from DMUK or FlipFlop bouquets and services, then we give up! 12 minutes spent (which can be automated on a daily Plugin Timer while you're fast asleep) and everything is bang up to date and 100% accurate, pulled down directly from the 28.2E stream! See the readme please, as this is highly customizable as well.

GetEPG (or) RT-EPG 'smart' Plugin
whether you're running in the default GetEPG mode, or have switched to online Radio Times EPG, you'll now see a Plugin for it under Blue > 4 - meaning you can do a manual EPG load with just two button presses! Or maybe set up a daily Plugin Timer to autoload EPG each day? The docs cover this in more detail...

GetEPG and RT-EPG eazier customizing
has been expanded upon since C14.5, with new user-friendly menus in the EPG & Autobouquets Wizard under the blue button. This subject has it's own readme too.

GetEPG find EPG ID
this uses dvbsnoop to quickly find the stream EPG ID tag for any new channels that AutoBouquets has found, but has not seen in the mapfile. So you can easily add it in to your user rdmap.dat file to grab stream EPG for it / them. Read the GetEPG doc for full destructions please.

International TimeZone Menu
default TimeZone is of course set for UK / Eire, but for our overseas users, we have a new TimeZone Menu for you! You'll find it in Settings > OSD and iif you remember to Save your TZ selection on the way back out, it is applied instantly! No reboot- no restart neutrino! More inf in the General doc.

Astra 28.2E 'All Channels' bouquet option- A-Z sorted!
LraiZer slipped this one in at the 11th hour, but it was worth delaying release for a day to pop it in at the last minute. See the tail end of the General doc for more insight please.


Any other changes?

Plugins
with the necessary inclusion of the rather phat dvbsnoop binay in root, we've evicted all the Games and TuxCom / TuxTxt Plugins from SquahFS root, and relocated them to the /var/tuxbox/plugins folder. Users can now decide for themselves which ones they want to keep. See the General doc.

Main and Service Menus
some subtle re-ordering here, in order to protect AutoBouquets from being fubarred by unwitting user Personalization. We needed to ensure that certain items could ONLY ever be on the 1 or 2 buttons.

Personalize Menus
the eagle eyed amongst you might notice that certain items have been disabled in here. It's either because it doesn't apply to DM500 (like Shutdown and LCD) or again, for protecting AutoBouquets...

Bouquet ordering
some of our sophisticated pikey members up North felt that the stream order for Doumentaries in P7 was too far down the list. We can't argue with these folks (or they'll nick all our lead flashing and exposed copper pipe). So we've hoisted it into P3 to pacify them. But you can get AutoBouquets to genearte any Bouquet order you like, if you just read it's doc...

Bug Fixes from C14.5?

Three that we can think of. Want to know what they are? Second from last section in the General doc, LOL!

As usual, we owe a giant debt of gratitude to LraiZer for his relentless work on making a great image even better! ENJOY!

Cheers- AL, Renny, LraiZer and Satsearching

[crisdo98]

Perfect.. messed up my image last night so went hunting for 14.4 and came across this beauty.

What's the best program to flash it with as I've not done it for about a year?

Thanks

[PaphosAL]

Perfect.. messed up my image last night so went hunting for 14.4 and came across this beauty.

What's the best program to flash it with as I've not done it for about a year?

Thanks

Depends what you have on the moment, m8. If it's C14.5 or C14.4 or earler. then just unrar the image and FTP it to /tmp and then go into te Service > Blue menu to reflash.

But first, backup your cam(s) and any other vital stuff from /var/bin or /var/bin/emu and /var/etc to PC for replication into the new image, please, won't you? And then when it all works. BACK UP your image to PC via the the same Service menu, then FTP from /tmp to PC...

If you have E1 Enigma on there, then for some strange reason, you can't do Backup/Flash through the menus like you can with Commando. DCC or Dreambox Edit will be your friend here, in this case. Also google for LraiZer's ViewVar tool, to extract this sort of stuff out of an existing backup.img 7.75MB file in Windoze

Cheers- AL

[phat1]

Hi hope you can help I'm having trouble getting the image on my dm500s,After i flash erase,I click on flash browse to the image and just before it says uploading file to box it says Found no valid jffs2 in image, flash-erase not supported.fter about 8 minsit gives a error message ,Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong?

[iGame]

I flashed this, how do I install cccam now?

[Renwich]

Hi hope you can help I'm having trouble getting the image on my dm500s,After i flash erase,I click on flash browse to the image and just before it says uploading file to box it says Found no valid jffs2 in image, flash-erase not supported.fter about 8 minsit gives a error message ,Any ideas on what i'm doing wrong?

maybe a daft question but have you unzipped/unrared the downloaded file

[SatSearching]

Hi hope you can help I'm having trouble getting the image on my dm500s,After i flash erase

Maybe that is the problem, I just click on "Flash", I have never selected "Flash Erase"

[PaphosAL]

I flashed this, how do I install cccam now?

By reading the General Hints & Tips doc m8!!!

[phat1]

maybe a daft question but have you unzipped/unrared the downloaded file

Hi thanks for the reply, ya its unzipped,i've been looking on other threads and see its a common problem,I used a erase image and got the box back talking to me,but could not load any image i wanted still getting the same error,just back for a concert in Dublin last night so going to go at it for a bit now

[spudorange]

I popped this on but the dm500 but it kept locking.

I appreciate it's still in beta stage and am only "playing" with a spare box so no worries.

It's the epg (or lack of it) with the 500's generally so anything that improves that
is a godsend.

Have set the box aside and will "re play" tomorrow to see if it was just a one off.

Keep up the good work guys, it is massively appreciated.

[PaphosAL]

I popped this on but the dm500 but it kept locking.

I appreciate it's still in beta stage and am only "playing" with a spare box so no worries.

It's the epg (or lack of it) with the 500's generally so anything that improves that
is a godsend.

Have set the box aside and will "re play" tomorrow to see if it was just a one off.

Keep up the good work guys, it is massively appreciated.

It's NOT still in the beta stage at all, m8- the 14.6 general release last weekend is the full and finished release version. The only beta stuff at the moment are a few ideas and enhancements we're working on behind the scenes for a future 14.7 image...

You mention freezing on this box- all channels, including FTA? What tuner does the box have, Alps -S or a (crap) Philips tuner? BLUE > MENU > YELLOW > YELLOW > vol- left arrow will reveal the tuner type in the nim= item

Cheers- AL

[LraiZer]

I popped this on but the dm500 but it kept locking.

I appreciate it's still in beta stage and am only "playing" with a spare box so no worries.

It's the epg (or lack of it) with the 500's generally so anything that improves that
is a godsend.

Have set the box aside and will "re play" tomorrow to see if it was just a one off.

Keep up the good work guys, it is massively appreciated.

C14.6 has been tested as very stable under normal usage. the ONLY scenario that can be confirmed to lock up a box, is when users press the "ADD New Channel to GetEPG Autogen" button in GetEPG Utilities Menu multiple times in a single session. if you use this function only once or twice during a session when adding a new channels to the stream epg data file rdmap.dat then there shouldnt be any issues. But if you are testing this function by zapping to different channels and using this function to see what the EPG id is for each channel, then the required amount of memory and processing used for this function will overload your box resources and make your box freeze after about 3-5 attempts.

[spudorange]

Thanks

No not really doing that

happy to give it another try, have lots of time to "play" and happy to do so

thanks for feedback

C14.6 has been tested as very stable under normal usage. the ONLY scenario that can be confirmed to lock up a box, is when users press the "ADD New Channel to GetEPG Autogen" button in GetEPG Utilities Menu multiple times in a single session. if you use this function only once or twice during a session when adding a new channels to the stream epg data file rdmap.dat then there shouldnt be any issues. But if you are testing this function by zapping to different channels and using this function to see what the EPG id is for each channel, then the required amount of memory and processing used for this function will overload your box resources and make your box freeze after about 3-5 attempts.

[spudorange]

Sorry about that, the place I got it from said is was beta "Commando_14-6_dm500_Release"

Am using alp-s tuner it was happening on fta whilst trying to get midlands channels into bouquets, Have popped it back on and will continue to use it and advise if that's ok

It's NOT still in the beta stage at all, m8- the 14.6 general release last weekend is the full and finished release version. The only beta stuff at the moment are a few ideas and enhancements we're working on behind the scenes for a future 14.7 image...

You mention freezing on this box- all channels, including FTA? What tuner does the box have, Alps -S or a (crap) Philips tuner? BLUE > MENU > YELLOW > YELLOW > vol- left arrow will reveal the tuner type in the nim= item

Cheers- AL

[SatSearching]

Sorry about that, the place I got it from said is was beta "Commando_14-6_dm500_Release"

Download the one from this forum posted by AL as it will be a genuine one.

If you want to beta test, then best ask on the commando creators forum?

SS