Backup utility  12/05/2010

For instructions, please refer to Tutorial 6.

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Fire Distribution Filesystem and Bootloader available 11/05/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.05.11

Enigma2:

• Ticket #436: Fixed bug: Automatic scan doesn’t work with 23.5E and 0.8W.
• Ticket #437: Fixed bug: Automatic scan in Astra 19.2 doesn’t work with DVB-C in slot 0 and DVB-S2 AVL2108 in slot 1.
• Ticket #236: Fixed bug: Missed services when scanning in Astra 19.2.
• Ticket #354: Fixed bug: Crash in automatic scan when it changes from terrestrial to satellite and DVB-T tuner is in slot 0 and DVB-S2 tuner is in slot 1.
• Ticket #350: Fixed bug: Crash when pressing yellow button in Menu -> Information -> Transponder in Transponder.py.
• Ticket #392: Fixed bug: First seconds in some FTA HD channels cause instability.
• Ticket #394: Fixed bug: Motor/USALS sometimes doesn’t work properly.
• Ticket #321: Fixed bug: Factory reset doesn’t return to original settings.
• Ticket #396: Fixed bug: PVR: Seldomly, starting a recording freezes e2 and gives a lot of frame dropping and no audio.
• Ticket #146: Fixed bug: e2 does not keep trying to lock when the antenna is not connected.
• Ticket #384: Fixed bug: Backup plugin doesn’t work properly.
• Ticket #348: Fixed bug: Enigma2 start-up failed at boot.
• Ticket #390: Fixed bug: More than two USB devices are properly mounted and handled.
• Ticket #284: Fixed bug: wifi: DHCP client doesn’t get an IP address if the wire is connected after e2 starts.
• Ticket #382: Enhancement: Generic performance optimization.

Filesystem:

• Ticket #448: Enhancement: SSH server (dropbear) is now compiled with scp support. If properly configured, dropbear can substitute telnet and ftp.
• Ticket #381: Enhancement: The front-panel LCD always displays an image from bootloader to applications producing a more consistent and smoother start-up experience.

Update package (this .tbz file):

• Ticket #428: Fixed bug: Update procedure starts with only one USB pendrive.

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 03/05/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.05.03

Bootloader:

• Ticket #379: Fixed bug: Remove the version displayed in the front-panel LCD.

Enigma2:

• Ticket #406: Fixed bug: HDD is not always recognized when attached.
• Ticket #435: Fixed bug: Crash when doing a Backup from the respective menu.
• Ticket #441: Fixed bug: Crash when choosing YPbPr in AV settings.
• Ticket #429: Fixed bug: e2 consumes a lot of CPU under certain circumstances.
• Ticket #430: Fixed bug: When recording in stand-by and turning on, the live ts was not displayed.

Filesystem:

• Ticket #439: Enhancement: Reduce the write and file-locking traffic in the filesystem improving the access time.
• Enhancement: Boot time reduced by 3 seconds.

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 19/03/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.03.19

Drivers:

• Ticket #411: ci: Fixed bug: Problem with conax cam menu

Enigma2:

• Ticket #405: Fixed bug: HDD stand-by does not work with sdparm. Note that the USB HDD must be connected to the decoder before turning it on. A menu appears in Menu->System->Setup->Harddisk->Harddisk Setup that allows to set when the HDD should enter stand-by mode. Some USB HDD do not support the internal commands issued by sdparm. However, most of the HDD produced during the last couple of years support them.
• Ticket #420: Fixed bug: The NIT table doesn’t have the correct info with some terrestrial channel causing that some freqs be skipped when scanning  in automatic mode.
• Ticket #419: Fixed bug: When the DiseqC system detachs/attachs the LNB sat cable, the tuner doesn’t lock again.
• Ticket #409: Fixed bug: Crash if we fail to open/read the file /proc/bus/nim_sockets.
• Ticket #421: Fixed bug: Crash when detaching USB HardDisk from receiver.
• Ticket #408: Fixed bug: Autoswitch scart
• Ticket #424: Fixed bug: Error when recording from standby with cam.
• Ticket #423: Enhancement: Management of removable devices with enigma2 with Hotplug functionality.
• Ticket #410: Enhancement: Add DVB-T freqs for Copenhagen(Denmark).

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 01/03/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.03.01

Kernel:

• Ticket #395: Fixed bug: i2c bus conflict.
• Ticket #398: Fixed bug: When the LAN cable is connected to the receiver, it doesn’t do the autonegotiation.

Drivers:

• Ticket #397: Enhancement: Smartcard: Added support for 6mhz.
• Ticket #374: Fixed bug: DVB tuners: Two identical dvb-s2 tuners do not work.
• Ticket #358: Fixed bug: avl2108: Some times it doesn’t lock any more.

Enigma2:

• Ticket #401: Enhancement: New WebInterface for enigma2.
• Ticket #399: Enhancement: View channel in streaming with VLC and streamproxy. When watching a DBV-S/S2 channel in the TV, only a DVB-T channel can be streamed to the PC and viceversa. Notice that at the moment is not possible to watch the same channel in the TV and in the PC simultaneously. If a recording is taking place, it’s not possible to stream to the PC any channel from the tuner that it’s been used for recording.
• Ticket #404: Fixed bug: E2_LOADEPG: Reloading EPGCache doesn’t work.
• Ticket #403: Fixed bug: THe MessageBox when umounting a network mount remains active.
• Ticket #389: Fixed bug: Red key show “Instant record” menu.
• Ticket #400: Fixed bug: Disable power-on from standby with SenseWheel. It’s configurable.
• Ticket #375: Fixed bug: avl2108: It doesn’t lock anymore after stand-by.

Filesystem:

• Ticket #372: Enhancement: Add support for jpeg and png images as an alternative to the intro video. The image must be named startup.jpg or startup.png, it must be copied inside the directoy /usr/local/duolabs/ and the default intro video must be renamed to something different than startup.mp4
• Ticket #402: Enhancement: Added inetd that serves telnet and streamproxy connections.

Update package (this .tbz file):

• Ticket #380: Sometimes writing the NOR flash fails (using different approach).

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 12/02/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.02.11

Bootloader:

• Ticket #362: Fixed bug: Set ethernet to full duplex.

Kernel:

• Ticket #347: Fixed bug: Set default MAC speed to 100 Mbps.
• Ticket #369: Fixed bug: When only the WiFi module is connected, the kernel sets the speed of internal mac to 10Mbps

Initramfs:

• Ticket #370: Enhancement: Change the error images when the USB pendrive is not found. It contains a user friendly version.

Drivers:

• Ticket #336: Fixed bug: stmfb: No signal to TV is sent after turning it off and on again.
• Ticket #341: Fixed bug: PVR: Stop and Play from the same point of the movie doesn’t work (driver side).
• Ticket #342: Fixed bug: PVR: Pause during Timeshift (driver side).
• Ticket #344: Fixed bug: smartcard: problem when reading bytes.

Enigma2:

• Ticket #266: Fixed bug: PVR: Crash in Media Player when pressing ‘green’ button after ‘blue’ button (2x or 4x).
• Ticket #286: Fixed bug: PVR: Crash in Media Player when copying.
• Ticket #341: Fixed bug: PVR: Stop and Play from the same point of the movie doesn’t work (e2 side).
• Ticket #342: Fixed bug: PVR: Pause during Timeshift (e2 side).
• Ticket #364: Fixed bug: PVR: FF/RW do not work at speeds greater than 8x
• Ticket #366: Fixed bug: WiFi DHCP client problem.
• Ticket #356: Fixed bug: Fix terrestrial.xml for italian and german freqs after factory reset.
• Ticket #360: Enhancement: Add DVB-T freqs for Poland.
• Ticket #361: Enhancement: Add DVB-T freqs for Tallin(Estonia).

Filesystem:

• Ticket #367: Fixed bug: Reset WiFi module with ethernet adapter.
• Ticket #363: Enhancement: Remove unused temporary files from rootfs.
• Ticket #371: Enhancement: Optimize lircd performanc.

Update package (this .tbz file):

• Ticket #380: Sometimes writing the NOR flash fails

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 19/01/2010

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2010.01.19

Drivers:

• Ticket #344: Fixed bug: HD channel lock/watch fails with freqs 12015 and 12188 of 0.8W (Thor).
• Ticket #215: Fixed bug: Buffer overflow in DVB drivers with crash when CAM does not decrypt correctly.
• Ticket #349: Fixed bug: MPEG2 repeated frames problem causes flickering.

Enigma2:

• Ticket #330: Fixed bug: PVR: Play of TS files can be done only when the meta data files are present.
• Ticket #327: Fixed bug: Issues while scanning some DVB-T frequencies: Invalid frequencies were searched (reported in the forum).
• Ticket #122: Fixed bug: Nothing is found when doing a manual scan with Satellite 23.5E 11856 V DVB-S2 MPEG-4/HD 27500-5/6.
• Ticket #230: Fixed bug: Scan on 16E does not work.
• Ticket #287: Fixed bug: Freezes in some clear HD channels.
• Ticket #186: Fixed bug: No video is sent to display at boot-time without antenna and with cam.
• Ticket #315: Fixed bug: Added an option in AV/settings menu to set SPDIF audio through HDMI cable (support for Dolby) (reported in the forum).
• Ticket #314: Fixed bug: Teletext size configurable from file (reported in the forum).
• Ticket #346: Improvement: New high resolution picon images.
• Ticket #334: Improvement: Enable/Disable system logs from e2.
• Ticket #351: Improvement: Re-introduce the AGC in the banner info

Filesystem:

• Ticket #345: Fixed bug: Lircd is very sensitive: e2 skips several items when pressing a button once.
• Ticket #327: Fixed bug: Set “inversion” parameter to 0 (off) in the terrestrial.xml file for Italy (reported in the forum). Notice that not all areas were tested. Please report if you have locking issues.

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 31/12/2009

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2009.12.31

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Drivers:

• Fixed bug #329: HDMI and DVB-T have i2c bus problems when using an HDMI hub/switch and with some LCD/Plasma TVs (reported in the forum). Notice: If you have this problem follow this procedure:

1. Reset the QBoxHD to its factory settings: Menu -> Setup -> Factory Reset
2. Turn-off the QBoxHD
3. Move the DVB-T tuner from the inner-most slot named ‘Tuner 3′ to the outter-most slot named ‘Tuner 1′.
4. Turn-on the QBoxHD
5. If needed, configure the tuners: Menu -> Setup -> Service Searching -> Tuner configuration

• Fixed bug #286: Bursty audio
• Fixed bug #147: Crash in DVB drivers when changing channel.

Enigma2:

• Improvement: Faster Remote Control response.
• Fixed bug #318: Recording from stand-by doesn’t work (reported in the forum)
• Fixed bug #328: CAM doesn’t work when removing and inserting again
• Fixed bug #332: Crash when pressing the exit button very fast inside CAM menu
• Fixed bug #218: Crash when scanning freq 10775 in Hotbird
• Fixed bug #281: Crash in some clear HD channels
• Fixed bug #289: Crash on timeshift activation request
• Fixed bug #294: Crash in the CI menu
• Fixed bug #326: In some strange cases the DVB-C tuner is not recognized or have problems when configured by e2.
• Fixed bug #187: Channel visualization in the channel list does not work properly after scanning.
• Fixed bug #125: The menu button stops working after a while.
• Fixed bug #296: Recording: If a channel has more than one AC3 audio pids, only the used one is recorded
• FIxed bug #292: Crash with some messages from the CAM’s MMI

Filesystem:

• Improvement: Faster boot time. Reduced by 3s.
• Improvement: Updated frequencies in the terrestrial.xml file for Bavary (de).

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 17/12/2009

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2009.12.17

Enigma2:

• Improvement #261: Faster zapping!
• Improvement #260: Writing to the front-panel LCD is faster and consumes less resources.

Filesystem:

• Improvement: Updated the library that parses the MPEG TS
• Improvement: Updated frequencies in the terrestrial.xml file for Madrid (es)

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Fire Distribution Filesystem available 10/12/2009

Release “Fire Distribution Beta” 2009.12.10

Kernel:

• Improvement: Reduced message verbosity. If you want ‘normal’ output for logging,  type:

echo 7 > /proc/sys/kernel/printk

Drivers:

• Fixed bug: The DVB-T tuner in some frequencies in some areas in Italy do not lock. Notice that not all areas were tested. Please report if you have locking issues.
• Improvement: WiFi driver update to v.2.2.0.0

Enigma2:

• Fixed bug #323: Bug in wifi WEP encryption (reported in the forum)
• Fixed bug #185: Initial intro video freezes
• Fixed bug #217: USB HDD was not seen for recording/playing if it’s connected after enigma2 starts.
• Fixed bug #89: Some channel settings do not work.
• Fixed bug #219: Tuned failed and then the channel appears in the wrong channel list.

Filesystem:

• Improvement: Clean the /dev/dvb device directory at boot time, otherwise invalid/old device nodes can cause problems to applications.
• Improvement: Updated italian frequencies in the terrestrial.xml file that sets the right inversion value. Notice that not all areas were tested. Please report if you have locking issues.

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