PaphosAL
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3rd Commando 14.7 online update 04 April 2013 >>> MENU > Utilities > online update
and another root.img update! This is for allocating our new default ukcvs picon to any channels that don't have their own logo in the Infobar (about 600 of 'em?). Only a cosmetic tweak, but a good learning curve on modding the binary code to get it working, pinching a concept found in E1 gay Enigma, LOL!
We now have over 90 new or updated Picons thanks to our new Logo Meister- Ronan!
Also picon-related, where GetEPG Autogen finds an unmapped channel and the channel is identified as "renamed" (rather than "new"), we now check to see if a picon exists for the original channel name. If it does, we rename it to match the new channel and give details in the GetEPG_change.log file! This was no mean feat to script, when you consider that the old channel name in rdmap.dat and bouquets.xml might be "Massive R&B" while it's corresponding picon filename is "Massive R&B.raw" - think about it...
By special request, we have also added user custom support for the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages, by planting symlinks in root out to /var so those guys can have a bash at translating our default English or Deutsch into their own lingos for the menus. Good luck, fellas!
Bug fixes: "True Ent+1" now tied to it's parent in radiotimes.scan (thanks, napster!). In C14.7 release, an NTP time-sync call was made during boot that failed, causing a 10 sec timeout between the bootlogo appearing and the gun-cock sound. This was caused by no dns server being ready. So we disabled the NTP request in the first online update, making boot time 10 seconds faster. We now have NTP working properly in boot, good news for oscam users we are led to believe...
And PaphosAL has had to write a 100 lines "I must test my modded scripts FULLY before implementing them in online updates!" His DOS2LINUX masking used a * wildcard for ALL files in /var/tuxbox/plugins effectively nuking the 11 .so binaries in there, doh... Thanks to Wullboy and Napster for alerting us to this stupidity. Issue now fixed and DOS2LINUX tool is now safe to use again. This update replaces the files in that folder that may have suffered collateral damage..
And thanks again to Ronan, we now have proper picons for the BBC1 and BBC provinces! This is why the latest online update has been delayed a day or so, while we checked out the picons situation, and decided to make a clean sweep of it all, so that all the dead wood in the picons folder is nuked! Latest count is 52 picon symlinks, and 311 dedicated solid picons, making 363 in all, wooo!
WARNING! As always- If you've only recently flashed the 27 Jan release C14.7 and haven't yet carried out an online update from MENU > Utilities then the first time you do so, it will all be over in seconds! You MUST delete the /var/etc/version file and then repeat the update process, and the FULL update will then work correctly, and WILL continue to do so in future, trust us!
Cheers- Team Commando @ ukcvs
and another root.img update! This is for allocating our new default ukcvs picon to any channels that don't have their own logo in the Infobar (about 600 of 'em?). Only a cosmetic tweak, but a good learning curve on modding the binary code to get it working, pinching a concept found in E1 gay Enigma, LOL!
We now have over 90 new or updated Picons thanks to our new Logo Meister- Ronan!
Also picon-related, where GetEPG Autogen finds an unmapped channel and the channel is identified as "renamed" (rather than "new"), we now check to see if a picon exists for the original channel name. If it does, we rename it to match the new channel and give details in the GetEPG_change.log file! This was no mean feat to script, when you consider that the old channel name in rdmap.dat and bouquets.xml might be "Massive R&B" while it's corresponding picon filename is "Massive R&B.raw" - think about it...
By special request, we have also added user custom support for the Czech, Hungarian and Slovak languages, by planting symlinks in root out to /var so those guys can have a bash at translating our default English or Deutsch into their own lingos for the menus. Good luck, fellas!
Bug fixes: "True Ent+1" now tied to it's parent in radiotimes.scan (thanks, napster!). In C14.7 release, an NTP time-sync call was made during boot that failed, causing a 10 sec timeout between the bootlogo appearing and the gun-cock sound. This was caused by no dns server being ready. So we disabled the NTP request in the first online update, making boot time 10 seconds faster. We now have NTP working properly in boot, good news for oscam users we are led to believe...
And PaphosAL has had to write a 100 lines "I must test my modded scripts FULLY before implementing them in online updates!" His DOS2LINUX masking used a * wildcard for ALL files in /var/tuxbox/plugins effectively nuking the 11 .so binaries in there, doh... Thanks to Wullboy and Napster for alerting us to this stupidity. Issue now fixed and DOS2LINUX tool is now safe to use again. This update replaces the files in that folder that may have suffered collateral damage..
And thanks again to Ronan, we now have proper picons for the BBC1 and BBC provinces! This is why the latest online update has been delayed a day or so, while we checked out the picons situation, and decided to make a clean sweep of it all, so that all the dead wood in the picons folder is nuked! Latest count is 52 picon symlinks, and 311 dedicated solid picons, making 363 in all, wooo!
WARNING! As always- If you've only recently flashed the 27 Jan release C14.7 and haven't yet carried out an online update from MENU > Utilities then the first time you do so, it will all be over in seconds! You MUST delete the /var/etc/version file and then repeat the update process, and the FULL update will then work correctly, and WILL continue to do so in future, trust us!
Cheers- Team Commando @ ukcvs
