How To: Packing/Porting Plugins for UR Enigma.

CSB asked about methods for creating manual installers for plugins.

here's what i've discovered so far through trial and error

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"Packing a manual installer for plugin that uses .so/.cfg files."

as long as UR image contains the right files needed for the plugin to run it's very easy. "certain missing lib's can be added to /var/lib/ if you can find them", amanual installer is just a .tar.gz archive with the right dir structure to place files in UR image. it also keeps "chmod" settings from the linux system it was compressed on.

e.g
>/var/tuxbox/plugins/plugin.so
>/var/tuxbox/plugins/plugin.cfg

to pack these files into a manual installer, ftp into UR then create these dir's

/var/pack/var/tuxbox/plugins/

copy the .so/.cfg file into the new /plugins/ dir.

>/var/pack/tuxbox/plugins/plugin.so
>/var/pack/tuxbox/plugins/plugin.cfg

chmod 755 the .so if not set.

now telnet into UR and do

cd /var/pack/
tar -pczf plugin.tar.gz *

that has now created the installer with all files from /var/pack/ in..

>/var/pack/plugin.tar.gz

if the plugin uses different dir structure/layout just move/create whats need in /var/pack/ that is used as top level dir in installer.

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creating plugin from script/.sh file, just discovered this method from looking into question in other thread. seems you can make a script into a listed plugin, example i'll use is one i just created.

get script wanted as plugin, im using an ecm display script

save as .sh ECM.Info-UR.sh

then create .cfg of matching naming ECM.Info-UR.cfg

selecting plugin starts script of same name.


then make sure "type=3" this seems to allow scripts to be run, so far only been tested with ECM script.

put them both into
>/var/tuxbox/plugins/

and chmod 755 the .sh

and pack it into manual installer the same way as .so/.cfg plugins.

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probably otherways of doing all this but thought i might aswell post what i've found so far in one place, and possibly start some discussion/creation of more plugin installers ;P

hi tonedef m8

Thanks for sharing your efforts,but most plugins i found are in mipsel.ipk and those have to be put in usr/lib/enifma2/python/plugins/extension ?Some unpacked plugins went ok to put there ie dd subtitles.But since we have those in latest image it does not needed any more ,but i would like to have file browser plugin as tar.gz .did you try it?And does webinterface can be installed again?
Btw there is ecm.info allready in pli/ppanels.yellow button /ppanels then you get ecm info there.Or i use blackbox skin and it shows ecm.info in infobar


regards

belmando said:

usr/lib/enifma2/python/plugins/extension

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I think he's talking about Enigma 1 on 500/600

blokeinkent said:

I think he's talking about Enigma 1 on 500/600

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yepp i noticed that ,thanks