OpenPLi Wiki: ImageGarnet

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

See below for whats New, Fixed & Features

Flashing general:
- When you press the Arrow UP during booting, a Flash Erase 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 Max VAR 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 Flash Wizard will fail!

The reason is the smaller filesize of the Max Var root partition:

o Dream BOX jffs2 on a DM500 Max VAR: 0x00600000-0x007c0000
o Dream BOX jffs2 on a DM500 Standard: 0x00500000-0x007c0000

A Max VAR 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 Max VAR image it won't fit in the smaller partition! To get rid of this Max VAR 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 Tux TXT/Multi EPG position setting from wizard. When switching between PAL/NTCS, default position settings are stored

- Show position and size in Tux TXT/Multi EPG 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, sample frequency, 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 hard disk setup
- Cleanup/Revised cardinfo script. It now also works for CCcam 1.3
- Nicer work environment in Telnet sessions: color prompt and a few useful alias commands
- Added timer offset setting to Extra System settings Menu (equals to settings already 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 user bouquet 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 Transponder Edit screen allow direct jump to Manual Scan screen (usefull for Feed hunters)
- 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 Setup Network and Enigma

- OSD mount manger: added a button to remove a Mount entry.

PLi Image Setup:
- Added hard disk 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 chosen
- 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 start up
- Define number of service to view in MultiEPG
- Check box to select if EPG data should be shown in WebIf channel lists

o (if you don't 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 web commands
- 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 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 chosen. 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 Info box if PiG doesn't work on your box
- Number of Info channels can be set via EPG Settings in PLi Setup
- Font size can be set via EPG Settings in the PLi Setup
- Don't open PiG when in Radio mode
- 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 extended 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 file info for pictures
- Show file sizes 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 defined for them (This is probably a bug in Enigma and Enigma2)
- Improved help window scrolling
- Made alpha setting in 32-bit more more granular
- PLicons in skin using skin variable 'plicon' added.

o Use it as
o Borrowed icon images and /var/tuxbox/config/mv/icons.esml from MV!
o Note: using plicons is NOT a must for skin developers...

- 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 un-scale images directly...

Web Interface:
- Fixed Timer Edit in case of "strange" characters in description
- Allow minute based timer edits when editing 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 mouse over css
- Added Recording Indicator
- Fixed IE7 detection, Ticker & Web-X-TV
- Added Mini finder - adapt SNR bar-width for dB
- Fixed Aspect Ratio for a screen shot (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

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