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BonnieC1977
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities

Thank you for the response Bodhi... I will see where I can transfer my files too.

 

I visited the link to the post you suggested and I would love to know how I would go about automating the following command you suggest using to avoid problems in the future.

 

"- Do a remount so that the drive is safe to remove any time later (this can be automated in Mod FW 2.23)
    
    mount -o remount,rw,sync  /tmp/usbmounts/sdxx"

 

You're the greatest! :smileyhappy:

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bodhi78
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities

You're welcome, I'm glad I can help:smileyhappy: I have to think about this, as there are a few options.

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bodhi78
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

[ Edited ]

This instruction was based mostly from Dm's post. Thanks to Dm for getting all information regarding RSS feeds, and figured out how to set it up initially.

 

Here is a simple step-by-step instruction to help interested users set up personal RSS feeds in Mod FW 2.23.

 

 

1. At the FAT+ main menu, select Internet and go to Weather page, create a favorite. If in the US, use Zip code to let the FAT+ find your city. 

 

2. Telnet into the box and verify that the directory and the favorite was created

 

/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/map/myfavorites.rss

 

3. Copy the main menu (in this example, the menu is for US) to the same location where the weather map was saved:

 

cp /usr/local/bin/scripts/menu_US.rss /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/

 

4. Edit the file menu_US.rss using nano editor (you can also copy this file to a PC, edit it, then copy it back if desired):

 

- At the end of the menu_US.rss file, insert your new item between the "Empty item" ( this empty item ends at -->) and the end marker of the channel (</channel>). Note that each item starts with <item> and ends with </item>.

 

- In this example, I used the RSS URL for Nature, copied from metafeeds.com

 

<!--
<item>
<title>Empty item 8</title>
 
<link>http://</link>
<media:thumbnail url="image/blankicon.jpg"  />
 
</item>
-->
 
<item>
<title>PBS Nature</title>
<link>http://www.metafeeds.com/channel/nature.rss</link>
  <media:thumbnail>
   <script>
   state = getDrawingItemState();
      if (state == "focus"){
          "/usr/local/etc/rss/fav_focus.jpg";
   }
   else {
          "/usr/local/etc/rss/fav_unfocus.jpg";
   }
   </script>
  </media:thumbnail>
</item>
 
</channel>
</rss>

 

 

5. Create the directory to hold the thumbnails files for this new item:

 

mkdir /usr/local/etc/rss

 

6. At this point, the only remaining things needed are the 2 jpg thumbnail files: fav_focus.jpg, fav_unfocus.jpg. These 2 jpg files will be used in the FAT+ Internet menu so that the item appear in focus so that you can press OK and go into the RSS page. The item switches to unfocus when you navigate away to the others services in the Internet menu. 

 

The simple thing to do is to save these 2 jpg images inserted at the end this post and copy them to /usr/local/etc/rss/ and name the first one fav_focus.jpg, the second one fav_unfocus.jpg

 

7. On the FAT+, exit to the main menu, and navigate to the Internet menu (or power cycle the FAT+, should work either way). The new item should now appear at the end of the Internet menu. Have fun :-)

 

8. To add more feeds: 

 

- Go to metafeeds.com or other sites that people have found many Internet feeds and copy the URL (URL name should end with rss).

- Edit the menu_US.rss again to insert new item by cut/paste the last created item (PBS Nature) right after it.

- Modify the URL with the new feed URL, and title name.

 

At this point, you can use the same focus/unfocus JPG files, but that will be confusing because the 2 RSS feeds in the menu will look the same :-) So perhaps the best things to do is to find JPG thumbnails that you really like, make an identical copy, and use a picture editing tool (e.g. Picasa) and add the focus marker to the 1st thumbnail, and unfocus marker to the 2nd. Rename them to something like:  Science_focus.jpg, Science_unfocus.jpg (if the title name is Science). Copy them to /usr/local/etc/rss, and then edit the new item in  menu_US.rss to point to these 2 files.

 

Note that usually the RSS pages from the "feeds" site contain several video streams. Also certain streams will need new or updated SW library (e.g. rtmplib) to play, and the FAT+ does not have the SW. Some users have figured out how to add these SW to the FAT+ Mod FW 2.23 (I have to find that post and link it here).

 

9. To use existing RSS pack (Dm rsspack)

 

You can also copy some existing RSS menu (see Xlive menu from DM's rsspack mentioned in this post), and add the whole thing to your /usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/ directory. However, it's too big and barely fit inside the FAT+, so you will need an external USB drive location to store them. 

 

I prefer to add each feed as I find an interesting one, so it will take little space from the limited memory in the FAT+. Usually a feed menu will contain several video streams so it's not too bad. Besides, Internet RSS feeds might have been obsolete, and it's frustrating to have a whole screen of RSS feeds that don't work :-). 

 

10. Password protect your RSS feeds

 

If the Xlive menu is used, the menu should be password protected. There are certain feeds from metafeeds.com that are adult-oriented. To add password protected menu, again see Dm's post. In Dm's post, the Jumpstart menu script was modified to so that it requires a password to go into the page.

 

 

 

RSS instruction and thumbs:

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?x3rigcvic5785jw

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newuser21
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

Hello Bodhi,

 

I had to reinstall mod firware again and now i am messed up. I tried to intall binpack but i am getting some errors.

 

/ # /tmp/usbmounts/sda1/bin/optware-install.sh
mkdir: Cannot create directory `oleg-optware': File exists
Installing uclibc-opt (0.9.28-13) to root...
package uclibc-opt suggests installing ipkg-opt
Installing ipkg-opt (0.99.163-10) to root...
Configuring ipkg-opt
Configuring uclibc-opt
Updating /opt/etc/ld.so.cache
Successfully terminated.
Downloading http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages            .gz
wget: ipkg.nslu2-linux.org: Unknown host
An error ocurred, return value: 1.
Collected errors:
ipkg_download: ERROR: Command failed with return value 1: `wget    -q -P /opt/ip            kg-eUNFh3 http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages.g            z'

 

It's not downloading ipkg. I don't know what to do?

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bodhi78
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

Newuser,

 

Probably just a temporary outage. I've just checked this by entering the URL directly to the browser

 http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/Packages

 

and it was downloaded fine.

 

Please try again!

 

-bodhi 

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newuser21
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

Thanks ,i tried it again today and it worked.

 

 

Is there anyway i can disable power button on remote, so someone do not turn FAT+ off? Because my hard drive is connected to it and my all music files are there that is synced with itunes on my pc. I just want to disable it so noone can turn it off in my house. Is there anyway i can do  it except taking that red button out from my remote :smileytongue:

 

Thank you :smileyhappy:

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bodhi78
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction


newuser21 wrote:

Thanks ,i tried it again today and it worked.

 

 

Is there anyway i can disable power button on remote, so someone do not turn FAT+ off? Because my hard drive is connected to it and my all music files are there that is synced with itunes on my pc. I just want to disable it so noone can turn it off in my house. Is there anyway i can do  it except taking that red button out from my remote :smileytongue:

 

Thank you :smileyhappy:


Yes, you can, with irfake. One of our forum members has used irfake succesfully here. I did not have it in the binpack, though.

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newuser21
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

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Thank you for the info.
 
I will pass on it for now.

One more ques.

Is it possible to access FAT+ attached network storage outside home network? Without PC? I searched on google could not figure out. I have dd-wrt installed on my router. Thanks for your time.
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bodhi78
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction


newuser21 wrote:
Thank you for the info.
 
I will pass on it for now.

One more ques.

Is it possible to access FAT+ attached network storage outside home network? Without PC? I searched on google could not figure out. I have dd-wrt installed on my router. Thanks for your time.

No, currently it's not possible to access the FAT+ storage from outside home network. We will need extra sw packages to make that happen. With appropriate sw packages installed, and then open a port on the router that allows traffics to the FAT+, then you can access files away from home. However, to do this, you will need to use a USB drive for extra storage (since the FAT+ /usr/local/etc is now almost full so I don't think more can be squeezed in :-) 

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newuser21
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Re: Mod 2.23 Firmware - Manual Steps to install FAT+ Mod 2.23 with utilities - RSS Feeds instruction

Ok got it. Thank you :smileyhappy: