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The Original PLi® Garnet suite includes the following components:

2.6.9 kernel
2.6.9-dream-s8 kernel for the DM7020
Enigma CVS 19-12-2006
1.1.0 Head.ko
Front Processor version 1.06 for DM7000
Front Processor version 1.01 for DM7020
Squashfs 2.2-r2 with LZMA-compression for the DM5xx(x) and DM70x0 boxes
Tuxtxt v1.99
Web Interface: 5.9.7-Expert - PLi edition


Use the download url's below to be sure to download our original PLi® images.

The Original PLi® Garnet suite contains the following images:

PLi®-Garnet-DM500-20061228-2164.img
PLi®-Garnet-DM56x0-20061228-2164.img
PLi®-Garnet-DM7000-20061228-2164.img
PLi®-Garnet-DM7020-20061228-2164.nfi



See below for whats New, Fixed & Features


Flashing general:
- When you press the Arrow UP during booting, a FlashErase will follow, as everybody knows from the DM7000.
When you install a newer image, the backup function is still executed.
Do only a flasherase without backup when you request it explicitly!


=== IMPORTANT Flashing DM500 Howto ===
When you upgrade from a DM500 MaxVAR image (modified partition layout) to a PLi Garnet DM500 (standard partition layout)
You NEED to flash your box with a serial cable to do the upgrade
Flashing with root.cramfs or with FlashWizard will fail!

The reason is the smaller filesize of the MaxVar root partition:

o DreamBOX jffs2 on a DM500 MaxVAR: 0x00600000-0x007c0000
o DreamBOX jffs2 on a DM500 Standard: 0x00500000-0x007c0000

A MaxVAR image uses a smaller root partition then a standard image, that's why /VAR is bigger. So if you want to flash a standard image into the running MaxVAR image it won't fit in the smaller partition! To get rid of this MaxVAR sized partition you need to flash it with a serial (RS-232) cable.


TV-System Wizard:
- Replaced by A/V System Settings screen
o This allows setup of your tv-system AND colorformat etc... right after Flashing
o Allow TuxTXT/MultiEPG position setting from wizard. When switching between PAL/NTCS, default position settings are stored
- Show position and size in TuxTXT/MultiEPG position screen


Enigma:
- Better volume scaling
- MP3/Ogg/Flac added:
o Fix playing VBR MP3 files!
o Support Ogg/Vorbis files
o Support FLAC files
- OSD MP3/Ogg/Flac info:
o Show vorbiscomments and id3 tags in OSD using 3 lines of the OSD fileInfoBar
o Show mp3 version+mono/stereo, samplefrequency, bitrate info using the vidformat, fq_val and sr_val skin variables
- Updated to latest libmad and libid3tag
- Event info from http streams is shown in OSD fileInfoBar
- Allow skip forward/backward
- Support 12-hour clock mode
- Improved error checking and reporting for harddisk setup
- Cleanup/Revised cardinfo script. It now also works for CCcam 1.3
- Nicer work environment in Telnet sessions: color prompt and a few usefull alias commands
- Added timer offset setting to Extra Systemsettings Menu (equals to settings allready available in WebIf)
- Upgrade IPtables to version 1.3.5
- IPtables TCP module added
- Confirmation added for "Rebuild movie list"
- Nano Editor added to DM7000 image
- In FileMode Left/Right will zap back/forward to the markers in your recordings
- Last Scanned userbouquet is now really last scanned, it will be erased as soon as you find a new service
- Allow jumping to begin characters of service names, when adding services to a bouquet, or while being in bouquet editmode
- From TransponderEdit screen allow direct jump to Manual Scan screen (usefull for Feedhunters)
- Make clear 0000 is not a valid pin for Parental Lock of setup lock. Only a textual change will do!
- North America AC3 pid fix, THX to DSM
- Make stereo the default audio mode
- Only show the LCD Shot feature only on hardware with a LCD
- Translated a large part of Enigma texts to Dutch and Frysk (except for the Dream HELP-menu)
- Many internal changes and fixes


DM500/56x0:
- CCcam updated to v1.3.1
- A bootlogo for the DM500
- The "Blue button" adds a switch event, when you are in one of the EPG viewers (just like in DM70x0)
- Fixed the missing 'Record DVR' in DM500, "green button" from a EPG viewer now creates a DVR timer event, instead of a switch
- Fix for MultiView EPG (MV) so that it doesn't crash Enigma


Mounting:
- Fix CIFS mounts in PLi SetupNetwork, called from rcS
- Support hostname resolving in busybox for CIFS/SMBFS mounts
- Make SetupNetwork in Enigma tree a bit more foolproof
- Added possibility to put Swap on CompactFlash card
- Changed the way (auto)mounting is being used.
o There were two ways, now there is only one!
o The one already used by the WebIf (using mount.conf) is now also being used by SetupNetwork and Enigma
- OSD mount manger: added a button to remove a Mount entry.


PLi Image Setup:
- Added harddisk used percentage bar
- PLi Image Setup locking
- Layout much nicer now
- Fixed Digiturk and Arena audio in Language Setup
- Picon enable/disable added
- Tools Menu removed, is Backup/Restore menu now
- Added 12-hour clock support
- Storage directory for SQLite and Enigma EPG/Private EPG can be choosen
- Switch to show SNR values in dB
- Switch to show seconds OSD clock (if your skin has enough space for it)
- Switch to disable showing EPG events in webif zap menus to speedup webif startup
- Define number of service to view in MultiEPG
- Checkbox to select if EPG data should be shown in WebIf channellists
o (if you dont need the EPG info the WebIf is loaded much faster)
- All Services to Run are started without a reboot
- Support for Inadyn
- Commercial skip times (forward and backward) can be altered in PLi setup
- Added Frysk language


PPanel:
- FTP downloads added
- Scramble URLs fixed for all downloads
- PPanel recovery also in case of parse errors
- Added Writing to Enigma config
- Added a way to send webcommands
- Added a way to hide PPanels while running
- Packages can be installed without removing the old version first
- Added Download check for all downloads from internet
- Possibility to edit the registry via a PPanel
- Added PLiKey PPanel, with this PPanel you can assign a plugin to the HELP-button on your remote control
- Fix crash in <media> variable if picture or another file can not be downloaded
- See the PPanel Tutorial in the image for all details!


Software Management:
- Packages can be installed without removing the old version first
- More clear installer messages
- Inadyn plugin added, source THX to aalex77, rewritten to PLi® style
- Serveral bug fixes


EPG:
- Channel EPG can be opened by MENU-key while in PiG EPG
- Storage directory for SQLite and Enigma EPG/Private EPG can be choosen. You can move the storage on the fly, it's possible to see the following messages
o "This directory is suitable for storage"
o "This directory has not enough space" (you will need 20MB for SQLite, 50MB for MemStore)
o "This directory does not exist"

Note:
o Reboot your box before enabling SQL-lite
o The Enigma EPG storage directory is only used when rebooting or shutting down your box, this EPG data will be read after starting up your box again
- Update MV: changes of v3.5.1b -> v3.5.2 merged into our sources
- Dish Now/Next fixed in the skin
- Several Dish EEPG fixes


MultiEPG:
- Timebar is now aligned on 30 minute intervals
- Updated icons
- Optionally show channel icons.
o Borrowed icon images and /var/tuxbox/config/mv/icons.esml from MV!
- Use PiG space for Infobox if PiG doesn't work on your box
- Number of Infochannels can be set via EPG Settings in PLi Setup
- Fontsize can be set via EPG Settings in the PLi Setup
- Don't open PiG when in Radiomode
- Don't open PiG when we have No Services
- Don't open PiG on DM500 and DM56x0 boxes
- Replace top help line with hint to use HELP-key. Also extende help text a bit


SqLite storage:
- Improved the EPG viewer response


OSD/Skin:
- Garnet Radio & MP3 Backgrounds & Bootlogo's
- eNumber element can now center contents vertically using skin property 'vcenter', or (for plugins) the widget property flagVCenter
- Added File date to fileinfo in status bar
- Also show fileinfo for pictures
- Show filesizes in kB if the file is less than 10MB
- Show RDS in fileInfoBar when in Radio mode
- Renaming MP3, FLAC and Ogg/Vorbis files is allowed
- Added per channel progress bar in zapView
o As an extra bonus, EPG info is updated when scrolling through the zaplist
- Cosmetics for EPG descriptions in zapView: remove parenthesis and use separate color (epg.time.background)
- Strings in eTextPara are clipped to the space that is definded for them (This is probably a bug in Enigma and Enigma2)
- Improved helpwindow scrolling
- Made alpha setting in 32-bit more more granular
- PLicons in skin using skin variable 'plicon' added.
o Use it as <eLabel position ="0:34" name="plicon"/>
o Borrowed icon images and /var/tuxbox/config/mv/icons.esml from MV!
o Note: using plicons is NOT a must for skin developpers...
- Timer list: Repeating timer weekdays: show alternating * for non-programmed days
- Increase alpha range in 32-bit mode a bit
- Updates to default.esml to adapt to 12-hour clock
- Only show motor settings when motor is enabled in Satellite Configuration


Picviewer:
- Scale down JPEG images to max twice screen resolution when loading the image.
o This should solve Enigma crashes when viewing large JPEG images!
o People should not try to view such large images in other formats...
- Moved scale/noscale function from 'ok' button to 'help' button. Leaving it on 'OK' seems to unscale images directly...


Web Interface:
- Fixed Timer Edit in case of "strange" characters in description
- Allow minute based timer edits when editting a timer event (was per 5 minutes)
- Allow combined Screen+OSD shot
- Screen/OSD shots are shown in full native size (no resizing anymore)
- Fixes for OSD/LCD shots on PDA's
- Show which channel is being recorded in the WebIf
- Only show motor settings when motor is enabled in Satellite Configuration
- Fixed menuitem mouseover css
- Added Recording Indicator
- Fixed IE7 detection, Ticker & Web-X-TV
- Added Minifinder - adapt SNR bar-width for dB
- Fixed Aspect Ratio for a screenshot (without OSD)
- WebIf mount: added server name again in table and give it a seperate column


FTP:
- First see if /var/etc/vsftpd.conf exist, if not use /etc/vsftpd.conf
o This way the user can override the config by placing a config file in /var/etc as requested
- Vsftp version 2.0.5, solving the 2GB limit
- Fix FTP server problem when downloading from CIFS mounted shares


Softcams:
- Bugfix for stopping Newcamd
- Updated Gb*x script for faster zapping

Thanks.
Do you think put the ecm info and on info bar?
cheers

if you want an ECM Christmas tree flashing in you skin
you can also use the cryptinfo plugin and make it stickie under your HELP button via the PLiKey PPanel

i know that, i see only push ok button then on osd or when i channell changing, i see on osd.

Hello!

Thank you for your new image!
I have some questions,

where I can place my own satellites.xml? Just after flashing, there is no satellites.xml file...

Can I place it to /var_flash/etc?

What's the diffference between /var /var_flash and /var_init directories?

Thank you once again! Great work!!

satellites.xml should go in /var/etc

/var_init is the basic filling of /var after a flash or factory reset It is part of the read-only part so you canot change things there.

/var_flash is the read/write var part that is in flash memory. When you do not move /var to USB, CF or HDD for example you run with var in flash. so /var_flash and /var are really the same. But if you did move var to a different place or run this image in multiboot, you still have access to the var in flash. This is for example used when you update your network setting (ip address) which will be written to flash when enigma exits.

Thank you for fast answer, Mirakels!

Please, answer another question,

why the web interface in Rotor section always shows that "GotoX active", but I never use this feature (it is unchecked on screen menu)

I want to set up the position numbers for each sat location via web interface... Is it possible?

P.S. I feel this image much much better then Gemini I used before ;-) thanks!

Please tell me why you don`t use te GotoX function?
Its much easyer when you do.

Yes, but "Goto X" function is not supported by my motor controller

Maybe you got the wrong satelite xml, try the one in the attachmend, and put it in /var/etc/ mayby jou must rename it to sat-default.xml

Grtz rongogo

dj wrote:
why the web interface in Rotor section always shows that "GotoX active", but I never use this feature (it is unchecked on screen menu)

I want to set up the position numbers for each sat location via web interface... Is it possible?

Well, you really spotted a bug here. I veriefied this behaviour. It is a problem within enigma.
I;ll put it on the fixlist for H

I'm not sure If you will be able to set sat loctions in this page. It looks like it shows you the list of sats and
goto the specific sat of your choosing...

The only so called bug in the web side I see is with the OSD / Screen dumps when you are watching an NTSC programme.

1. If you do an OSD dump it is perfect no matter what OSD you put to screen like this example


2. If you do a screendump it shows a cropped image
http://www.jsat.tv/pics/screenshot.bmp

3. If you do a combined screendump and OSD it is a cropped image again

If you try this in PAL it is fine works 100%. It does not seem to matter how I have the video settings set. For instance PAL or NTSC or Multinorm.

Not a major and something I can live with as everyone else can I suspect.

Thanks for such a great image chaps.

Revision 2191 is online for the DM500 due to newer dreamdriver for the DM500

PLi®-Garnet-DM500-20061228-2191.img

OK will test it now and get back to you shortly



-- Now in 2007 - not a lot of change in this patch

1. OSD in NTSC not too good but put in PAL doing a onthefly NTSC->PAL conversion it works OK
2. Bank screenshot OK
3. OSD and screen shot the OSD is moved to the right of the screen dump
http://www.jsat.tv/pics/screenshot.bmp


Thanks for the patch - I can live with this as there are other tools that will do this for me.

Just noticed another one on the engima web interface - again a minor issue;

I assume the developers have set a fixed chr$ size for the EPG display as is shown here in this image;

http://www.jsat.tv/pics/epg1.jpg

What it should say is as per this screen shot;


Guess this does not happen much to worry about.

PS: Love the new EPG with the .png's in it ...

Hello Jonc,

If you are referring to the character size in the lower field..... You can change this.
When watching tv, press the blue button and go to PLi image setup > EPG settings
Here you can change the character size and allso the amount of EPG channels

Magic

jonc wrote:
The only so called bug in the web side I see is with the OSD / Screen dumps when you are watching an NTSC programme.

Have a close you at your screendump again and notice the stream resolution. It says 480x480. However, the OSD is ALWYS 720x576 (or 480 in NTSC).
Screen+OSD dump takes the screendump and blends the OSD on top of it. So if the stream has a smaller resolution the OSD is cropped. It was
a choice we had to make to not make the screendump changes overly complex at this time.

I have seen the same croppings on PAL channels that have low strean resolutions. It has nothing to do with NTCS per se.

Thanks..Very Good..

PLi®-Garnet-DM500-20061228-2164.img is it can use on DM500-C (CABLE RECEIVER ) ????

Any pli img for DM500-C (CABLE RECEIVER ) ????

thank !