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[dfdream]

All,


I have enabled parental control on my VU+ and selected channels to block in Dreambox Edit.

All is fine.

Just wondering if there is any way to actually hide the channels when the lock is on.

This is for 2 reasons 1: when you are flicking through channels you can see the adult channels on the list and it doesnt look the best when others see it.

Also when you are doing a channel hop and you get a locked channel you get the password entry screen.

Also whats the function of the blacklist and the whitelist.



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[Quinten]

I too would like to skip it when channel hopping (no need to hide it).

Blacklist = only channels in the blacklist need a pin, the rest is open
Whitelist = only channels in the whitelist can be seen without pin, the rest is blocked (until pin entered)

[dfdream]

Thanks for that.

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[dfdream]

All,

Did anyone have any luck with this.

when you are flicking through channels you can see the adult channels on the list and it doesnt look the best when others all the channels listed with 100% babes, Northern Birds, Asian Sluts etc in the channels list.

Having them locked is fine but not seeing them at all is preferable until the parental lock is disabled as when zapping you have to deal with the password popup even though you are only zapping.

Is this the way it works on all images.


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[WanWizard]

All E1 images have the option to hide locked channels, I don't think E2 has this option. I agree, quite annoying if you have kids around...

[dfdream]

Is it an openPLI thing or an Enigma2 thing.

Do all images have this issue.

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[WanWizard]

Yes, unless one of the other development teams has made such a feature (I'm not aware of that).

Unfortunately, they violate the open sources rules by keeping the modifications to themselfs, so even if they did, there is no way for us to get the source...

[dfdream]

Thanks Wan Wizard.

Is it worth emailing VUPLUS on http://vuplus.com/?page_id=9 .


How is enigma2 managed.

Is the original version in VU+ a modded version of Enigma2 to suit their hardware.
Then is openpli a modded version of original enigma2 with openpli tweaks and updates from openpli and VU+.

Im trying to see where features are added. (Enigma, VU+ or OpenPLi.)

There are a few bits in Enigma1 that were good (this being one) and who decided to leave them out Enigma2 team, VU+ or openPLI.

BTW - Its a sign of a good combination of VU+, Enigma2 and OpenPLi when we are not talking about major stability and reliability issues but on cosmetic issues.

Well Done to all.

[WanWizard]

Currently, we still use the mainstream Enigma2, as managed by the Dream Multimedia team. We have decided not to fork (as we did with Enigma1) as long as the code is not stable, to avoid merging nightmares. This also means that for the moment we are reluctant to make major changes to the code, for the same reason.

So, it's the "original" version that runs on all boxes, we just apply patches to it for the PLi specifics.

To answer your question, changes need to be pushed to the original developers (but they hardly accept any third-party changes), or applied to an OpenPLi image thru a patch in our git repository. Until we're ready to fork, after which we can directly modify the code to our liking.

If you have any changes, please provide them in the form of a diff, we will be happy to include them after a quality check...

[dfdream]

Excellent reply.

Its good to see how it all comes together.

So VU+ official changes that pli uses are per say patches applied to original enigma2 through the software update..

How does that work for items supported on say DM 8000 that are not on the VU+ (the LCD from what I read is different).

Are different pli "patches" applied to different boxes but still enigma2.

[hemertje]

we use box specific patches, which are used during the automatic builds

so the dm8k patches are only for the dm8k box, vu patches for the vu box etc...

[hemertje]

Having them locked is fine but not seeing them at all is preferable until the parental lock is disabled as when zapping you have to deal with the password popup even though you are only zapping.

Is this the way it works on all images.


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ONLY for the E1 boxes as stated before

[WanWizard]

Yes.

But I agree with dfdream that this is a much needed (and often requested, even back in the 7025 days) feature for E2! I know you don't have nosy kids, but my 10 year old is quite curious.

And with the 'hide' feature, we also need the menu option to enter the lock code. Now, E2 prompts for the parental lock code when you zap to a channel that is locked. Which is no longer possible when it is hidden...

[hemertje]

maybe the VU team can help us out