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!!

[Satsearching]

Must be good, "sami noor" downloaded it 6 times so far.......

Please give AL, Laz and Renny some feedback guys.

[humforce]

everything is perfect here found no faults
radio times epg is wonderfull.

[wullieb25]

img seams almost perfect guys thanks very much

can't seam to connect by ftp what's the password?

and also when the rt epg has downloaded you can view what's on in the channel list but on infobar it says waiting for epg

[wiz569]

Originally Posted by wullieb25

img seams almost perfect guys thanks very much

can't seam to connect by ftp what's the password?

... For FTP access, the user is root and the password is your first name, between 1 and 16 characters

[PaphosAL]

Originally Posted by wullieb25

img seams almost perfect guys thanks very much

can't seam to connect by ftp what's the password?

and also when the rt epg has downloaded you can view what's on in the channel list but on infobar it says waiting for epg

Infobar EPG is from the stream (EIT) wullie. So it may take a moment or two to populate, m8. Also, during RT EPG loading, if you press the > button to bring up the Infobar, you'll see a progress info box telling you (how quickly!) the load is happening.

But during that short period, 1 minute or so, Now 'n Next EPG in the Infobar will show as 'EPG not available'.

Well, of course it isn't! It's stopped, while sectionsd is reloading, innit?

Cheers- AL

[Thau]

Hi,
i used the previous version of this image and want now try this one. But i have some questions... how can i change the timezone? I'm using this image in germany, because it is the best neutrino image für the dm500S.

[LraiZer]

Originally Posted by Thau

Hi,
i used the previous version of this image and want now try this one. But i have some questions... how can i change the timezone? I'm using this image in germany, because it is the best neutrino image für the dm500S.

you will need to change the TZ timezone setting by manual edit /var/etc/profile

# timezone, only applicable for middle europe
export TZ=GMT-0BST,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3

to

export TZ=CET-1CEST,M3.5.0/2,M10.5.0/3

[PaphosAL]

For anyone who has messed with their Bouquets and kinda lost control of what they were trying to do, here is an easy way to recover the situation back to release spec, rather than having to reflash and start from scratch again

Simply pop the attached update.zip file 'as is' into the /var/etc/ folder and then reboot the box. Simples.

There are reports of C14.4 users trying the (converted from Enigma) SgtFlipFlop services and bouquets, AND wondering why many of our latest Channel Icons in our add-on pack HERE aren't working...

It's because the icons must be named exactly as the channel names in services and bouquets. Ours are legitimate, as picked up on a regular Scan. FlipFlop has unfortunately made a rod for his own back, by deciding to rename many of the services.xml channels. I went down that road once, in my early dBox2 days. Never again. Trust me, it isn't worth it, unless you want to spend all day every day maintaining the setup...

Cheers- TC

[greenday216]

please if someone have some screenshot to the freesat epg in commando 14.4 image , i dont know if i must mound my pc hard drive ,to download the epg data !!!help me