102 replies to this topic

[MastaG]

DcaMan, unfortunately you'll have to flash the image from the first post.

My images are using different repositories and it's not possible to upgrade.

 

Good luck

[DcaMan]

Thanks a lot for the feedback.
Is there a way to save my current settings and recover them?

Dcaman.

[WanWizard]

Use the standard autobackup functionality.

[sonci]

Thanks,

Has anybody noticed that Media player is broken now, It just freeze the Vu solo, so I have to reboot..

[littlesat]

Media player is not broken... A plugin mediastream or so breaks it

[jimmya3]

Isn't it possible to make a version for DM7080 ? i see you made also image for DM7020v2 and DM800se v2 ? 

[MastaG]

I think the dm7020v2 uses the exact same drivers as the v1, its just the image size that differs.
However I haven't tested them.
The dm800sev2 and dm500hdv2 are not booting since the bsp had its kernels patchlevel updated.
I have to compare the patches to the ones from the oe-a bsp I cant debug since I dont have such receiver.
That same goes for the 7080 and the 820.

I already have some nice changes queued up for the next release.
But I need to fix some critical things first.
I may or may not add support for those receivers depending on my free time.

[adri]

The DM7080HD needs different drivers, which can be downloaded from http://www.dreamboxupdate.com.

Some small changes are also required to enigma2, due to different names for tuner and demux devices.

If anyone is interested, all required changes are in https://github.com/openatv and https://github.com/oe-alliance.

Using this, it should be possible to make the required changes and build images for all the DMM receivers.

[DcaMan]

Use the standard autobackup functionality.

Thanks.
All went OK.
Is it safe to make soft updates?

[MastaG]

DcaMan,

 

Yes for now you can upgrade and install addons.

But once I release a new set of images I'm not sure whether the online upgrade will work.

Worst case scenario you'll just have to reflash the new version and restore your backup again

adri,

 

I'm aware of that, but it takes time to go trough all the changes OpenATV made to their enigma2 code to make the new Dreambox models compatible.

Personally I find their Enigma2 a mess with a shitload of hacks for a shitload of receivers.

Also many commit messages aren't really clear to me and since I don't have too much free time lately it's not on top of my list.

It would be nice if Dream Multimedia would just present a clean bsp-layer for PLi, like Zgemma Star did.

So the first thing for Dreambox receivers I'm going to do, is adding missing kernel patches to get the dm500hdv2 and dm800sev2 up and running again

Then I'll see if I can add the newer models without too much problems.

 

Currently I'm still working out the deadlock that sometimes happens in gstreamer on spark receivers when servicemp3 calls GST_STATE_NULL.

When I press CTRL + C in gst-launch's playbin it always stops playing and clears the framebuffer and goes to STATE_NULL

However when servicmp3 tries to do the same it sometimes freezes on the last frame with a spinner.

Still testing some things but I may need some help on this one.

Edited by MastaG, 29 February 2016 - 00:09.

[adri]

MastaG,

 

Thanks for your reply.

I didn't post to 'push' you into doing all the needed changes for DMM receivers.

I just wanted to give some information about the changes required and where to find them.

 

I agree with you, the OpenATV enigma2 code is sometimes a little difficult to read, due to all the embedded receiver depended code.

If more DMM receiver are supported in to the future, that would probably make a lot of users happy.

 

Adri.

[krisux]

what is the difference between openpli-enigma2-dm800.nfi and japhar/openpli-enigma2-dm800.nfi ?

[fairbird]

openpli-enigma2-dm800.nfi (Genuine Boxes)

japhar/openpli-enigma2-dm800.nfi (Clone Boxes - Sim japhar)

[WanWizard]

The first must be a clone image too, original OpenPLI images are named "OpenPLi-<version>-beta-<box>-YYYYMMDD.zip".

For the DM800 the last one is OpenPLi-2.1-beta-dm800-20140510.zip. The DM800 is an end-of-life box, support for it was dropped almost two years ago.

[MastaG]

Well I'm not going to promote clones.

But the DM800 image from the "pli" directory contains the original secondstage bootloader (ssl) version 84 and the latest original drivers.

So it only runs on the original DM800HD receiver, which is indeed not supported by DMM anymore.

 

EDIT:

Now that I think of it, not completely genuine I guess since I'm patching the drivers:

#!/bin/sh
if [ ! -e /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/patched ]
then
    for m in $(find /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra -name "*.ko")
    do
        echo "patching vermagic ${m}"
        sed -i 's/gcc-4\.[0-9]/gcc-4.9/g' $m
    done
    touch /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/patched
    depmod -a
    rm -f /dev/null
    mknod /dev/null c 1 3
    sync
fi
exit 0

I have to replace the vermagic string inside the .ko driver files to make them load on the kernel which is built with gcc 4.9.

And I believe that's not permitted

Edited by MastaG, 29 February 2016 - 16:02.

[gorski]

Well I'm not going to promote clones.

 

[hemertje]

Well I'm not going to promote clones.

Why are you building and hosting images for them?

[gorski]

'Cause he's not a Puritan, things are not exactly black and white, so really, it's the right thing to do and it's fun...

[MastaG]

Well, I'm still building for the old DM800HD since there are many people still using it.

And if you still have one lying around and a few hours to spend on a sunday, you should try out my gstreamer 1.7 build on it just for kicks.

You can see that even with it's non-fpu single core 300MHz soc, it still plays all of the m3u8 streams perfectly fine.

I like the fact that PLi and it's developers brought something to a device (long out of support) which it didn't have before.

 

Regarding clone receivers. I really don't want to talk about it or start a discussion.

It was a stupid mistake to use the official OpenPLi splash screen on my non-official builds and I'll refrain from using it again.

It was also a stupid mistake to place the japhar directory in the same url as the pli dir.

 

I guess all I want to say about it is that the japhar team were kindly enough to host the feed for all receivers and presented a nice list of public iptv streams for us to test with.

That's it.

[fankoosh]

@MastaG thanx for ur build but i cannot see any support for the rest of openpli supported box eg:zgemma , r u gona build new one for zgemma?