Commando 14.4 DM500S Release

Commando 14.4 Neutrino for DM500S

Sorry it's taken so long, but the team wanted it as perfect as possible, in terms of user-friendliness and help.

As always, this has been a labour of love from LraiZer, so you know that the main new additions are quality stuff!!!

WHAT'S NEW?

++ NeuXmlEpg now rebranded as Rytec online EPG and updated to LraiZer's very latest v1.6 as well. (This is to do with more reliability on Rytec EPG download sources). Please read the attached readme for more info and instructions.

++ Radio Times online EPG - This is default and assumes your DM500S is connected to the web. It's gobsmackingly awesome, in terms of speed and functionality. Loads in around 70 seconds, all sorts of options for loading it, and while it's loading, you have a totally normal and fast viewing experience, too! Check out the readme for full details, please!

++ New Commando EPG Wizard menu under the BLUE button (then BLUE again). User-friendly, dynamic and highly intelligent. This menu, and the scripts it calls, show LraiZer at his very best. Everything you could possibly need to know about the EPG options and configuring them is in there...

++ Cosmetic, but nice- more Channel Icons now included. Apart from the first dozen or so Channels, we've now added symlinks to cover the 4 dozen or so Regional Variations of BBC1, BBC2 , and ITV1, including the ITV1 +1 channels. This is easy to grow further on, just read further down in the previous release.

++ More Cosmetics- LraiZer has changed the coloured dot matrix Progress Bars to a much nicer vertical bar variety. Looks very cool...

++ New password: For Telnet access, you shouldn't be asked for a password, coz it already trusts you. But FTP access is a bit more suspicious... For FTP access, the user is root and the password is your first name, between 1 and 16 characters

-- Sad news. Swapfile support is removed, on account it will NOT work in Neutrino DM500S. It's only encoded for DM boxes that have block devices support, like internal / external HDD, which DM500S doesn't have. So it won't work on a mount. Win some, lose some, sorry...

Now sit back and enjoy up to 14 Days EPG for prime Movies, 8 Days EPG for BBC1, BBC2, ITV1, Channel 4, and Channel 5. Not to mention 7 Days EPG for mainline Sports, 3 Days EPG for prime Entertainment, 1 Day EPG for so-so stuff, and Now 'n Next EPG for the crap.

PLEASE read the readme files, which are also included in the image in /var/tuxbox/config - as these docs will give you a far greater insight into how it all works.

ENJOY!

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Commando 14.3 DM500S (March 2011)

+ The password is now

ukcvs.org


+ Big thanks to LraiZer for the following enhancements (except where stated otherwise)

+ Satellite Info option in the Infobar- On by default, can be toggled Off in Settings > OSD > Infobar

+ Neutrino-style Progress bars in the Infobar, or pretty Coolstream-style colored dot matrix bars
Default is coloured bars- toggle to the other style in Settings > OSD > Colors

+ A nice workover of the Boot Logo (thanks to Satsearching)

+ Partition Map changed to take 128kb from var and give this to SquashFS root
(But don't worry- we still have a record-breaking 4.0MB writeable var partition!!)

+ The new SquashFS root size is 2,883,584 bytes (0x2C0000 hex) and we have 68kb free in there, for
future development.

+ Channel Icons active, and one for BBC2 included for starters. If you'd like more, then see Humforce's
post: http://www.ukcvs.org/Forums/41972-post75.html The icons live in /var/etc/icons and must be
named EXACTLY the same as the corresponding TV channel, else they won't work.

+ LraiZer's very latest neuxmlepg version and Freesat-compatible epg mapping, with the latest Rytec
multiple random data download sources

+ Plus his bang-up-to-date services and bouquets

+ For mgcamd and evocamd users, the libcrypto file is now embedded in root

+ mkswap support in busybox added at Brandan's request

+ and version info for most popular Softcams is now automatically recognized in the Softcam menu. Oh,
and you don't need to bother to chmod 755 your cam, as the system does this for you!

ps- the top secret password for Telnet and FTP access is now ukcvs.org
Did we mention that already? Oh yeah, we did...

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Commando v14.2

Filenaming bug in CCcam support fixed

OSCcam support added and tested

Satsearching's new Keybinding Menu in Settings!! Visible by default now, this has the facility to remap the Volume Keys!!
important: If you decide to remap these keys, you MUST first disable the existing Subservices Up and Subservices Down Keys, by assigning both of these to Key = None

... Then set up your Volume -/+ keys as you want them, and finally the Subservices keys. You'll be using the L/R keys either side of the [OK] button, and the L/R keys either side of the [0] button, as per your own preferences. Mega-thanks to Satsearching for his brilliant work on this!

Another tidy-up in the locals, where we've changed menue to menu and canal to channel and stuff like that.

Big thanks to LraiZer for testing and reporting back on all our foul-ups, which have all been rectified for this new release.



Commando v14

Now with Usals and Rytec 2 day EPG

compiled from the UKCVS svn which includes fixes to the following

Scan Defaults to 28.2e, if you select another Sat it will save that as the last sat
Compatible driver for clones and Genuine DM500's

This image does not include any Cable support as cable is dead, but does fully support most of the normal Satellite requirements

as usual NO CAMS, KEYS, ROMS ,


all us neutrino users need now is for LraiZer to tweak the binary so it recognizes 256c png Picons).


With Thanks to LraiZer, Renwich, Satsearching, Scruff.

and to the Tuxbox boys for the work they have put into porting Neutrino to this fun box, (shame they seem to not continue development, or answer questions anymore)


New in Commando v14:

USALS (GOTO XX) diseqc support- thanks to Lraizer and Satsearching
Rytec 2 Day XML EPG - thanks to Lraizer
FastZap On-Off control in Driver/Boot Options
New head.ko Driver - thanks to LraiZer (support for alternative user driver to be loaded from /var/driver)
Softcam Status in softcam menu- again thanks to LraiZer
New boot logo - thanks to Satsearching
And, by popular demand, a retro blast from the past (2007 C9) is back. See if you notice it...
Top-secret Password is still commando
As usual- FTA Only - no keys nor cams. It's a rulez thing



AutoFS (CIFS mount tested) - Streaming - Tuxbox Commander - yWeb I/F - Lemmings - Pacman - Solitaire - Tetris - Vierg (Connect 4) - boot logo - Rytec 2 Day EPG with shellexec GUI - all this and more in C14!!

Despite the old Git's fetish with Free Space, we've enriched the new image with all these features, but have STILL maintained our world-beating 4.125MB megaMaxVar writeable JFFS2 var partition. So a typical user-customized C14 will provide something in the region of 3.3MB of Free Space!!

Anyone wishing to edit the SquashFS root partition with LraiZer's excellent Squazma Tools be warned: Your edited root must NOT exceed 2.752,512 bytes (0x2A0000h) in size!!

[chrisvaldez]

Thanks again guys! In terms of build, speed and stability Commando 14.4 can't be beaten!

[chrisvaldez]

Hmm, the update doesn't seem to work!

Still shows 'channel not available'....


Tried unzipping it also. Any other ideas? I now have 5+1 on my channel list but not the normal one!

[wullboy]

http://satellites-xml.eu/

download a new satellite.xml file from here m8, then ftp it to var/etc, restart your box, then do a scan for services, that should bring in channel 5 for you......

[chrisvaldez]

All good, I went into the 'BskyB' bouquet and added it manually into 'Entertainment'. Cheers for the help though!

[renwich]

Originally Posted by LraiZer

i was talking about TuxTxt plugin. we cant add TuxTxt plugin ourselves unless it was compiled into commando build.

so that we can use the 888 subtitle services, can you ask team commando for their next release to consider removing their "--disable-tuxtxt" compile command and only disable the internal tuxtxt instead "--disable-internal-tuxtxt", thanks.

this is the current configure

./configure --with-boxtype=dreambox --with-boxmodel=dm500 --with-archivedir=/home/user/tuxbox/Archive --prefix=/home/user/tuxbox/com14.4/root --with-cvsdir=/home/user/tuxbox/com14.4/ukcvs/trunk --enable-kernel26 --with-defaultlocale=english --with-filesystems="cifs,nfs" --enable-automount --enable-freesatepg --enable-dreambox-serial-console --with-customizationsdir=/home/user/tuxbox/private/mods/custom --disable-tuxcom --disable-pictureviewer

[PaphosAL]

Originally Posted by chrisvaldez

Thanks again guys! In terms of build, speed and stability Commando 14.4 can't be beaten!

You forgot to mention the world-beating 4.0MB /var partition size as graphically illustrated here in this thread:

http://www.ukcvs.org/Forums/45911-post41.html

Cheers- AL

[PaphosAL]

Originally Posted by renwich

this is the current configure

./configure --with-boxtype=dreambox --with-boxmodel=dm500 --with-archivedir=/home/user/tuxbox/Archive --prefix=/home/user/tuxbox/com14.4/root --with-cvsdir=/home/user/tuxbox/com14.4/ukcvs/trunk --enable-kernel26 --with-defaultlocale=english --with-filesystems="cifs,nfs" --enable-automount --enable-freesatepg --enable-dreambox-serial-console --with-customizationsdir=/home/user/tuxbox/private/mods/custom --disable-tuxcom --disable-pictureviewer

OK, Renny- for the next build (whenever), would you try adding Laz's recommending --disable-internal-tuxtxt option please? This should leave the tuxtxt plugin intact, and may shave a useful lump off the size of the neutrino binary.

Prior, we've been removing the tuxtxt stuff from root at the cut 'n shut stage. Although the tuxtxt libfile libtuxtxt.so.0 had to stay in, else it was non-bootable. (Probably because internal tuxtxt was enabled as well).

We can then work out the best way of presentingthe tuxtxt plugin- either as standard in root (space permitting), or as an eazy-install zip BOT user option running from /var

Cheers- AL

[josweet]

Suggestion

Could we standardize to the "DreamboxUK Services Database" bouquets set so that they match the Radio times EPG as im sure most people would use this to download & configure to their region the latest updates, then convert and FTP across.
Tbh, i dont use this image purely because of the above. The main reason being is that i keep all our boxes Bouquets updated remotely as some of the users are elderly and have no idea how to scan and would quickly forget if shown.
If i did use this image so that they could have a working EPG, my first remote update would put everything to pot, then they would moan...

Everyone i know runs Dm500's, DM800's and the odd VU+ so if all Bouqutes were the same layout, updating them would become a breeze

BTW> the commando image that we're running with your VPN plugin runs sweeeeeet. We had a VPN issue for a while, but this has now been fixed. Basically the log file got to big to quickly & kept crashing the box, quick change of a number in the config and voila..
Big thanks for knocking out quality images for a box which well deserves to be reserected. Alot of appreciation as always for all your hard work

[PaphosAL]

In reverse order, there's a setting I think in openvpn conf that turns logging on/off and increases/decreases it's verbosity. There might even be replace existing log / append to existing log (which sounds like your issue).

As regards bouquets, you have to accept that 99% of boxes come with gay enigma images, and that enigma services and bouquets are a totally different species to neutrino services and bouquets. Having said that, there are tools out there that convert from one to the other and vice versa.

Think back to Enigtino for dBox2, where cydine came up with a script that did exactly that!

As for "DreamboxUK Services Database" - I've never heard of this, m8. Would you care to enlighten us, please?

Cheers- AL

[LraiZer]

Originally Posted by PaphosAL

In reverse order, there's a setting I think in openvpn conf that turns logging on/off and increases/decreases it's verbosity. There might even be replace existing log / append to existing log (which sounds like your issue).

As regards bouquets, you have to accept that 99% of boxes come with gay enigma images, and that enigma services and bouquets are a totally different species to neutrino services and bouquets. Having said that, there are tools out there that convert from one to the other and vice versa.

Think back to Enigtino for dBox2, where cydine came up with a script that did exactly that!

As for "DreamboxUK Services Database" - I've never heard of this, m8. Would you care to enlighten us, please?

Cheers- AL

i dont think the database uses scan channel names for the ALL of the bouquets channel names so this would break any automapping script there is in commando image. you couldnt use its bouquet set for radio times mode because the plus1 channels need to be exactly one place below their partent channel for the radio times automapping to work. BUT the new epg planned for the next release does not require plus1 channels be below their parent channels so it could in theory use the correct BskyB channel ordered bouquets set and the new automapping script. this would only work with the database generated bouqets IF the new /var/tuxbox/config/rdmap.dat user config file also contained alias channels names that match the channel names in database as well as the scan channel names that are currently in the rdmap.dat file.

AL, to use the "DreamboxUK Services Database" you have to download the DreamboxUK Services Database Frontend v2.8.0 windows app from their www.dreamboxuk.com forum. you can only download the latest database for the app if you are registered on the forum and have set a database password in your user profile. ive try to use it once or twice in the past but never been able to use it as the app always crashes. just tried it again with latest app update and it still crashes.

it basically does exactly the same as the autobouqets script i started not long back for commando image where you can automatically generate a channel ordered bouqet set for 18.2e, but their app ONLY does this for engima adn not for neutrino.

i know the autobouquet script was not a finished plugin and was only a beta tester, but maybe you could drop the mybouquets.xml in next release so that at least users can autogenerate the same channel ordered bouquet as the database when they turn on the autoscan feature and then reboot their box?

[EDIT]
there is now an updated DreamboxUK Services Database app version 2.9.0 with an option to convert to "Commando" neutrino bouqets. will run a quick test this new option!
first time app hasnt crashed on me and i got a popup stating my commando bouquets were created successfully
also got a pop up to stating ive updated the database more than i have posted on forum, im only testing ffs.. LOL
will pop the bouquets on and see how this works with the NEW epg for next release and the new automapping script.

quite a few bugs!

ampersand bug:
channel and bouqets are using & instead of the required neutrino &

bogus tsid" bug:
<channel serviceID="1929" name="Created On 10/02/2012" tsid="07ff" onid="0002" tsid" sat="282"/>

missing less than sign on channels bug:
<Bouquet name="Entertainment" hidden="0" locked="0">
channel serviceID="1929" name="BBC 1 North West" tsid="07FF" onid="2" sat="282"/>

there is bogus space in front of quite a few names:
<channel serviceID="2760" name=" ITV1 Granada" tsid="07FC" onid="2" sat="282"/>

have edited all these bugs manually and here is the fixed bouquet set.