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[hemertje]

A new Enigma1 PLi® Dreambox release is available for download.

The Original Enigma1 PLi® Jade Final suite contains the following images:

* PLi®-Jade-DM500
* PLi®-Jade-DM500-MaxVar
* PLi®-Jade-DM500-Old-Framebuffer
* PLi®-Jade-DM500-MaxVar-Old-Framebuffer
[Old-Framebuffer: only needed if you have a greenish OSD when using the normal DM500 software, if in doubt use the standard DM500 software]
* PLi®-Jade-DM500Plus
* PLi®-Jade-DM56x0
* PLi®-Jade-DM600
* PLi®-Jade-DM7000
* PLi®-Jade-DM7020


See below for what's new & fixed since the initial PLi® Jade RC release



Highlights:
- Satellite.xml split in Ka, Ku, C, S, L band
- Remote control behaviour reverted to pre-Jade
* (Some remotes suffered from very bad reception in the Jade RC)
- North America scan fix by Updatelee
- CDK Flashtool: support flashing between standard partition layout and 'MaxVar' partition layout!
* ('Var' partition is erased when the layout changes)
- Rotor improvement for the OpenEmbedded (OE) boxes


Enigma1:
- CVS Repository June 29th 2008
- PLi® Repository September 29th 2008
- CDK Flashtool: support flashing between standard partition layout and 'MaxVar' partition layout
* ('Var' partition is erased when the layout changes)
- Enigma Movieplayer fixed by ims
- Default sleeptimer now 30 minutes
- Insert and delete character support for DM500 remotes (Red and Green)
* Now Red (delete) en Green (insert) can be used.
* For all other boxes Vol+/Vol- and Red/Green can be used - it does not care...
- Remote control behaviour restored to pre-Jade
- Fixed 'DM7000 style' remote control for DM500
* (Added the ability to use the DM600, 7000, 7020 large remote on your DM500, DM56x0)
- Show serviceselector again with TV/RADIO key, but only if the mode already was TV resp. RADIO.
* Toggling TV/RADIO doesn't bring up the service selector
- Timeshift delay input value limited to 999 instead of 60 seconds
- Timeshift / recording support for DM500+ (settings equal to DM600)
- Rotor improvement for the OpenEmbedded (OE) boxes
* (Smooth start and faster rotating at 18 V, motor stop detection improved)


Plugins:
- Bitrate plugin fixes for NTSC


PPanel:
- Channelsetting reload in PPanel fixed


EPG Features:
- Use audio key for searchEPG in EPG channel


OSD Features:
- OSD transparancy setting in smaller steps for DM500+ and DM600 (5 instead of 25)


Web Interface Fixes:
- Some info in WebIf missing for IE fixed by ims


Network:
- Enable network and DHCP as default in case the Enigma config is not copied from /Var_init
* May fix some move /Var to network issues
- Do NOT add manually created mounts to the Enigma mount.conf
* It can cause double mounts if such a mount was already done in /Var/etc/init


Highlights DM500 MaxVar:
We've created 1Mb extra /Var space for you...
The removed items are now available via the PLi® downloads at the Software Management

We rebuilt the internal Flash tool completely!
So now you can flash back and forward between the standard PLi DM500 images and the PLi DM500-MaxVar images without using the serial cable!!!

We advise you to use the 'root.cramfs' method for this!
See the url below on how to Flash your DM500 via the 'root.cramfs' method:

See our DM500 Installation Wiki...

Moved to Software Management downloads:
- MV EPG plugin, Mediapli_8 skin, CCcam SoftCam, Cables/Terrestrial.xml, Translations, Games, traceroute, nslookup, IPtables, Netfilter drivers


Further:
- Thanks to Updatelee for North America scan fix

Thanks to the PLi testers for several fixes and features


Support:
- Online update support (IPKG feed) for OpenEmbedded boxes
* (DM500Plus/DM600/DM7020)
- Global satellites.xml updated September 29th 2008
* (DVB-S: FEC = Automatic; DVB-S2: FEC = Normal; DVB-S2 can't handle auto-FEC)
- Satellites.xml split in Ka, Ku, C, S, L band

See our PLi® Wiki...


Further, our Pli member Jonc created a Wikipedia Tool and PDA WYSIWYG Desktop Application for the PLi Dreambox images

If this DM500 version proves all OK, he will put the other Wikipedia Tools and PDA WebIf version online for the DM56x0, DM500+, DM600, DM7000, DM7020 and the limited E2 wiki.



So please report your feedback back at the forum...


Many low level changes fixes and other updates...

Detailed info, Wiki, FAQ's, HowTo's, TechNotes and information about this and the previous PLi® releases can be found on the PLi® Website:

http://www.pli-images.org

[th_gates9345]

Great job pli team, congratulations.

It would be nice if you could select other than default "record and playing" location for timeshift recordings. For instance:
Hdd or landisk (spinning devices) for movies; usb or cf (or any other non-spinning device) for timeshift. Is there a way to achieve this by editing some config file? Thanks.

[dAF2000]

Great job pli team, congratulations.

It would be nice if you could select other than default "record and playing" location for timeshift recordings. For instance:
Hdd or landisk (spinning devices) for movies; usb or cf (or any other non-spinning device) for timeshift. Is there a way to achieve this by editing some config file? Thanks.

It's not in the image (yet) and is not editable using a config file. But I already had made a "feature request" for that.

[th_gates9345]

Great job pli team, congratulations.

It would be nice if you could select other than default "record and playing" location for timeshift recordings. For instance:
Hdd or landisk (spinning devices) for movies; usb or cf (or any other non-spinning device) for timeshift. Is there a way to achieve this by editing some config file? Thanks.

It's not in the image (yet) and is not editable using a config file. But I already had made a "feature request" for that.

Thanks daf. I recall you took note for this feature. BTW, on gemini image timeshift always records on internal hdd wherever you place your movie recording, . In my case I send movies recording to my landisk and timeshift goes to my flash hdd module. I prefer to sacrifice this feature and stay with jade in order to get all others pli features.

[Demetris]

Thanks for the great release.
I issue ipkg update, ipkg upgrade and then reboot.
Problem:
In information still says older version of jade release and my menu letters are blur.
I mean nexr to the channel that says what is playing the information is like unreadable, is there a way to fix this?
Thanks

[pieterg]

the enigma revision should be 5622. We've had other reports that the information screen shows a wrong date, but that's only cosmetic, we'll fix that.

About the unreadable information, which skin do you use?
There might be a problem with certain fonts, because we updated freetype (which gives better render results, but broken fonts might suffer)

[Windy]

About the unreadable information, which skin do you use?
There might be a problem with certain fonts, because we updated freetype (which gives better render results, but broken fonts might suffer)

Unreadable information appears in all default MediaPLi skins.

[pieterg]

We cannot find what you mean, do you perhaps have a screenshot?

[Demetris]

Hi,
Text fonts look blur....
In the menu where tv channels are in and you select what channel to go into, next to the channel there is an information about the current film (the name of the movie)or whatever name the show is, that name(s) are blur so the fonts update you done somewhere went wrong.
I dont know if i flash the new release and i dont update from ssh there would be any difference but i dont have the moot to do it as my wife has a lot of time recordings running onto the dreambox and as a natural man i cannot bare the Moaning of women a lot I cann upload a screenshot but will be delayed 2, 3 days because of very tight schedule. So if a fix is not there i will have to post it
Thanks for the great support btw.

[hemertje]

please do post a screenshot when you have time

thx

[th_gates9345]

Hello,
Selecting Software management I noticed "Download latest menu" is missing, then trying to get Latest PLI News I got this message: "Could not execute script". I deleted /etc/software.xml then got this message: "Cannot open /var/etc/software.xml". I restart enigma and then reboot: same behaviour.
It looks like "software.xml" is not auto downloading. Any clue? Thanks.

[dAF2000]

Hello,
Selecting Software management I noticed "Download latest menu" ismissing, then trying to get Latest PLI News I got this message: "Couldnot execute script". I deleted /etc/software.xml then got thismessage: "Cannot open /var/etc/software.xml". I restart enigma andthen reboot: same behaviour.
It looks like "software.xml" is not auto downloading. Any clue? Thanks.

I think for some reason the image is messed-up or wrongly flashed.
Can you check in telnet if you have a /var/bin and /var/etc link?

[th_gates9345]

Hello,
Selecting Software management I noticed "Download latest menu" ismissing, then trying to get Latest PLI News I got this message: "Couldnot execute script". I deleted /etc/software.xml then got thismessage: "Cannot open /var/etc/software.xml". I restart enigma andthen reboot: same behaviour.
It looks like "software.xml" is not auto downloading. Any clue? Thanks.

I think for some reason the image is messed-up or wrongly flashed.
Can you check in telnet if you have a /var/bin and /var/etc link?

Yes they are.

[dAF2000]

It's almost impossible the software.xml doesn't work. There are several recoveries for that.
What do you see if you type "which ppanelrecovery.sh" in telnet?

[th_gates9345]

It's almost impossible the software.xml doesn't work. There are several recoveries for that.
What do you see if you type "which ppanelrecovery.sh" in telnet?

/usr/bin/ppanelrecovery.sh

[dAF2000]

Strange.. Do you have internet on your box anyway?
I don't have a solution for now, maybe you just want to reflash to be sure nothing else is wrong.

[th_gates9345]

Strange.. Do you have internet on your box anyway?
I don't have a solution for now, maybe you just want to reflash to be sure nothing else is wrong.

This issue used to happen with iolite also. Only way I got rid of it was sometimes rebooting, sometimes reflashing, must of the time get used to it.

[jonc]

Are you using multiboot? I used to have the same problem until I final flashed my 7020 with the Pli image on its own.

[th_gates9345]

Are you using multiboot? I used to have the same problem until I final flashed my 7020 with the Pli image on its own.

Yes I'm using PLI (and DSM and Gemini) on multiboot. Maybe PLI doesn't get along to well with flashwizard cause also I can't make PLI flashwizard's backup when PLI is the active image.

[scrappydoo]

thank you for this image. It seems (maybe my imagination) to be quicker in operation than previous jade. the epg (oztivo) now loads instantly whereas before it would draw top third of screen and then pause for 2-3 seconds. I also noticed in the previous jade that pressing OK during playback of a recorded file used to only work sporadically. now it seems to be working instantly..

thanks again. very nice image.