Great work on version 1.4

not exactly sure how you activate all the extra options that the ops system has

A good idea for next version is to be abel to integrate spotify.com as an add on station...

It has the now details on the main page, the forecast shows 7 days including today.
So it has current and today.

I do not receive any data indicating afternoon/night etc.
I do have some extra data coming in on the forecast, like Rain, UV, windspeed..
and on the "now" I also have visibility, UV, humidity, presure state.
I will try to make some changes.

I will send out some text files before the release. Expect them soon.

W.

Quote: Too bad each day does not have more than 24 hours ~W. You guys never sleep in Zuid-Limburg? gr. H.

toevallig heerlen?

Nope. No release date yet.
I am taking some time to improve stability. Doing various tests with situations fo a dead link, internet connection or server to make sure there is no crashing.
Keep an eye on the first post in the thread to know what is changed/added/fixed.
 
Anyway, it will be available when it is ready.
Perhaps next week but if I am not happy about the test results it will take more time.

As its MPlayer we can do lots of things. However, there are some limitations. We are not running a modified version that makes use of the dual core hardware. flv does play however, if the resolution is too high calculations are not fast enough to keep up. But there is lots of space for improvements.
Too bad each day does not have more than 24 hours

I will see what I can do with the icons. This should not be too much work to implement.
The new release has some changes to how the player and main application interact. This should hopefully solve a lot of issues.

~W.

• navigation would be helped if there were icons on folders (and possibly on other file types as well, like simply music or videos or unknown).
• when playing a video as a music file (play/pause button), if there is an error, it's impossible to go back. We can call the meteo/twitter/... screens with red button, but to play an other file the machine needs to be rebooted. The only error I remember was "Streaming error", but it happenend in another case as well.
• finally, flv files cannot be played, while the original firmware can (so at least arnova websites says, i didn't try). I'm rencoding all youtube files I wan't to play (wasn't able to get mediatomb transcoding to work, but anyway). Is it possible to add flv codecs? Are you using mplayer as videoplayer ?

Thanks again for your work

Hi, please upload the file here, I will put it in the right section. (Download failed)
As for your other files, I created datasheet and manual&more sections and am filling them with files I collected and that were uploaded..
Your dropbear files are added to the firmware (see first post) and can be activated through the settings screen.

~W.

Hi, I will check that. It should change the volume.

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Thats correct. I did not program this functionality. There is however the red button that will bring you to the news/weather/clock/stocks based on the number of times you press the red button.. I think the submenu button is better for this as this button is available on all remote control models.

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There is no special magic and it did not hack your wifi access
It is just because there is a special area in your device where this data is stored. Both the original and mine use the same wifi driver and connected files.. So it re-used your old Wifi settings

You can, while playing the radio, see the clock by pressing the "clock"button on your remotecontrol; exit clock by pressing "exit" .

Gr. Henk

Ok, tested the rollover, indeed [LEFT] does not work, [UP] does work though so for the time being you can scroll to the end of the list quickly. 

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Play/Pause works and does play all songs if you are inside a directory. Not when you are on a directory name.
Klausis wants to be able to play from a selected entry and not always from the first entry. So playing all songs while in a directory makes sense.

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Ok, so the [OK] (center) button playing one song should be changed to play all songs within a directory. 
Then what do we assign to the [Play/Pause] button? the same function? or just play one song and pause when already playing..?
I can imagine people want to play single songs that they pick manually..

Also, do we keep the direction/ok pad the same on both the device and remote or do we make them different? (can be done too)
so the OK on top of the device can have a different meaning than the OK on the remote. I fear this will confuse people but I toss it in the group anyway.

I have no problem at all with such changes. But lets get things clear and understood so that we are all on the same page about it. I dont want to end up in endless changes.

• in the directory browser, the > (right arrow) key jumps one "page" at a time. If rollover is enabled in the settings and you are on the last page of the list, it jumps to the first page.
  However, the < (left arrow) key jumps back one page, but ignores the rollover setting, i.e. it does not jump from the first page to the last page. Can you please fix this behavior as rollover proves very useful with large lists?
• selecting a directory and pressing Play/Pause button on the remote causes an infinite loop (busy indicator) until you press exit. How about playing all songs of the directory in order (ignoring sub-directories) instead?
• pressing the center button on the device in Media Player mode has the same effect as pressing Play/Pause on the remote (it pauses/continues the current playback). To easily use the directory browser without the remote, I would favor the center button to act like the Play/Pause button in directory browser mode as well, i.e. instead of just playing the selected song, play the whole directory from this song onward (as klausi suggested).

I simply do not want to be forced to use the remote to play a full album/directory...

to be honest, my last telnet use is in the days before the WWW proper,

forgot how to do it. feel free to give me short intructions, and i'll see if

my memory comes back.

and, william, the double spacing on posts here came back too.

not my day, today.   greetings     - heinz -

anything i could do right now? try the beta version? get the old 1.4 out and
try to re-install it? how (fs_fwrec)? anything else? these units (2 of them) are
brandnew, so i dont think both have a manufacturers fault - on the other side,
i can send them back if they REALLY dont work.

greetings     - heinz -

PS: have actually twice now tried resetting (w fs_fwrec), result the same. and
it is, for sure, something purely internal, because NO file play, not podcasts,
no shoutcast, and EVEN NO LOCAL MP3 FILE form the SD card. the MEDIA
PLAYER simply does not exist.

also, it for sure is not a mechanical/technical/electronics fault, because it WAS working with the original FW.

(Last Edited by heinz57g on March 27, 2012, 6:05 am)
(Last Edited by heinz57g on March 27, 2012, 7:17 am)

The application passes the stream URL to MPlayer. (the audio/video player)
MPlayer then tries to connect to this stream URL and when that fails, I report it as not being able to connect to "the server".

I know that there were some issues with internal memory. This should not be the case with the 1.4 version though.
I have it running fine on the Xenta, old and new Envivo's. These three represent the three main PCB's that are used in the devices.

If there is an issue we should be able to locate and fix it..
I will come with some debugging stuff in the next release, a new loader as well and a way to reinstall the recovery mode

While playing, you can press the repeat button to activate the shuffle mode. This will randomize the playing order.
Is this what you mean or do you want something else?

So at 23.50 when i've wanted to quit the clock display using the RETURN button, the clock has freezed. Only a long press of the POWER button on the device has been able to defreeze my Xoro. After reboot, i've hear internet radio until 03.00. I'"ve leave radio to return to the clock nigth mode screen. The Alarm1 icon was ON. This morning at 07.29: no alarm again. I've deactivated alarm1 and i'll activate it again during next night after midnight and i'll see what happend.

Hello Erik,

It has nothing to do with the day change, it is using the linux timestamp value for calculations. Nothing wrong there.
Of course there were some other problems. Like the various alarm routines were incorrectly mixing a variable.
Also the clock did not properly reactive itself after getting activated the first day. So the second day in most cases did not work at all.
Furthermore there was a problem with the (internal) routine that activated the alarm, like when it needed to activate alarm1 it then waited for alarm2 to get triggered. So the alarm was actually set and working at a device level.. but the routine that checked it was not looking for the right alarm.
Anyway, fixing things now.. first post keeps track of the changes in the upcoming version.

Will take care fo that
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Currently not available. It is planned but at the moment priority goes to clock stuff and player core.

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Ok, there are some issues with the radar images. Not sure where they come from at the moment but will look into it.

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|Can you explain this? We have podcast, vodcast and various applications under the submenu button. All these do offer some kind of on demand.
Or do you mean something else?

Hello, Thanks for your tests.
Great summary. I will fix it as soon as possible.

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Yeah. stupid typo. Fixed already.

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Ok, will make it like that.
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Ok, you will get that as well.

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The home button moves to the beginning of lists. Of course not when playing. I will make it go to the clock.
If you have any other suggestions about the buttons they are welcome. I dont have a Xoro remote.

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A question: where can i program alarm volume ? at the moment, the volume is largely to high

I will add this as well.

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I will mail them to you. Thanks in advance

Exactly like me!

I trashed my old Alarm clock for this device and came late at work due to alarm mostly not working (sound / Radio or local file)

I thought this nice firmware would save me but unfortunately no...... Hope to see the alarm working one day

Bug report: when you set the alarm time, the alarm goes from activated to OFF.

Device: HMT 350 TYP:RM002  501-0

Ok, testing it as I type..
- Go to Alarm1, set alarm tone (radio does not work, so choose one of the preinstalled sounds) I picked the birds.. 
- Go to the time settings, set 19.06  
- Turn alarm 1 on..
Go to clock mode and wait for 19.06 (you will see Alarm 1 icon is highlited when it is active..)

exactly 19.06 the clock stops (I know.. it should continue.. but thats was caused by the routine that waits for your button press..)
and the birds start to sing..
Ok.. the basics of the alarm clock seem to work here.

You do not need to go to the clock screen. You can also turn off the device. It will wake up buy itself and start the alarm sound..

Huh, it is not working?

Thats odd.. left button should display the europe version and another left should display the dutch images.

and then you hope that the clouds are not above your hometown..

UPnP tested with a router + drive connected to it:
- No action taken up front, USB drive inserted in a router (Linksys WAG320N). the result is: It does not show up.
- Then in the Router configuration menu, storage, mediaserver, enable the routers mediaserver service
  select UPnP on LL1.4 firmware it shows an entry "MyWAG320N_Media" which can be browsed without problems.

The above is indeed how things should work with UPnP/DLNA. The device has to announce itself as a "mediaserver" to the network.
If it does not do this  it will not be listed and you can not browse it.


It might be possible to add support for Router devices that do not have a mediaserver service included.
If you have a router and a drive connected to it that does not get detected then please list some details, like router brand and model.
That way I can dig for some information and try to solve it.

>>> You mean it saw the devices or it saw content on the devices? >>>

For me the windows media player is a very strange "black box",
but I need it for a working uPnP connection.
After using the media library I find a copy of my mp3 files (path "CDs") on my XP PC under
"Gemeinsame Dokumente" -> "Gemeinsame Musik" -> "CDs" -> CDs with title1.mp3 etc.

The (only and same) way uPnP works on my (original firmware) Arnova, Xoro and Albrecht/Lookee:
After clicking on "uPnP" it shows an entry with the name of my XP PC (Home-xxx: user: ), then
the following entries are:

"Home-xxx: user:" -> "Musik" -> "Ordner" -> "Dokumente und Einstellungen" -> "All users" ->
"Dokumente" -> "Eigene Musik" -> "CDs" -> CDs/Titel

The Envivo with Vs. 1.4 works different from the other devices and different from time to time:
If the device is switched on before the media player was started it shows nothing.

If switched on after the media player was started one time it showed the first entry "Home-xxx: user:" 
as the other devices. But after clicking on it the entry disapeared.

The best result so far was shown only once: After the entry "Home-xxx: user:" and clicking on it
"Musik" was shown as next entry as on the other devices. But after clicking on "Musik" the Envivo
froze completely and it was no longer possible to use the remote control.
The only way to switch it off was the "off" button of the device, that still worked.

I have no idea at all what the reason for these strange behaviours might be and whether it´s possible
to fix it. Maybe you have an idea, William, Thanks a lot.

Hi, right now all UPnP devices are seen internally by the UPnP routine. However, I only list the media player devices.
This was a choice when I wrote the code. On my network there are 3 routers and a UPnP printer.
Since there would never be anything useful to play from these I just trash these devices.
For the printer I am pretty sure this is true. For the routers I forgot that some of them have USB ports. One of mine has and I will check if I can get this working.
For the PC I only tested a windows XP machine with twonky.. this worked.. I will test Win7.

>EDIT: I checked it again a few minutes ago and there were ENTRIES now for the first time!!! (I don´t know at all what the difference was to all the trials before!).
You mean it saw the devices or it saw content on the devices?

Anyway, the idea is to fix the UPnP issues as soon as possible.
However, some UPnP devices are a real pain in the ass. Other projects (like UPnP support on the XBox) struggle with the same issues.
The killer bug is present on all official firmwares. This includes thre Albrecht and Lookee models.
This was the reason why I have removed the patched versions.
My code has no relation to the official code. The similarity to the menu of the Albrecht is because I ripped their icons and liked the menu style more than the firmware that was on the Envivo.

If you have any ideas about improvents or graphics that are better feel welcome to contribute.
Also if people have a nice background image for the mediaplayer they are more than welcome..

[quote]On hold/Planned for a future update:
Level 1: (Most important)
UPnP: add router and PC devices[/quote]

Does this mean that it is possible to play "win xp win mediaplayer mp3 titles" via uPnP after this update or is there another reason that it doesn´t work on my device at the moment with 1.4?

And the "killer bug": Is it on the Albrecht DR 800 as well?

Hello William, great work and I think that you have spend many time to develop this new firmware. I had put it on my Xoro HMT 350 but went back to the original FW. The reasons are: For me the handling of the favorites is not acceptable. It was not possible to select and save my account in the setup and so I had to scroll through big list of all listenlive users everytime until I could use my favorites on the Xoro. The remote key for this function is also not operable. Since your server seems to have a very big load it is very slow from here (not my connection - VDSL). So it is very annoying to edit the favorites on the website. I am also missing some filters as genre and a preselection of initials. I do not know why the original favorite management of the HMT  has gone - but this is now a knockout criteria for me. I also stated that most of the stations - internet radio or tv were not reacheable through listenlive - so I went back to the ugly, but  for me more usable original FW.

I think it would be better to fix your issues than to go back to the original firmware. Main reason is the killer bug that corrupts flash memory in the original firmwares.
I have a new faster server mirroring the current one.. if all goes well it will kick in soon. That should solve the load issues.

I explained the favorites handling before, if you just do it on the device, favorites die after a while due to changing url's. The current solution keeps them up to date.
Also the favorites survive firmware updates and can be used on multiple devices. You are the only one who has an issue with not holding your account.
You know you have to set your MyFavorites account only once under the settings menu, right? This is then stored i nthe config file where also your other settings are stored.
You can even verify this setting via a telnet connection..
Anyway, what I am thinking of is a feedback option so that the FAV button would report your favorite to the server and add it to the list. I need to do some tests to see how well that would work.

If your favorite stations are not working, then you can update them yourself if you like. It is more likely that you tried an entry that does not play well on your device but is there for the Penbex or Audiotron brands, these have different requirements but have to be kept playing as well.. of course we try to get streams to run on all.
As for the original database.. I have a backup of that and everything in there is also in our database here..

Hi,

Iso radio is fixed, I will check the others when I have some more time. Kisskiss seems to have put some DRM on their stream.
In any way, the problem is not the device/mplayer not being able to play but the station changin the URL or stream type.

I can confirm problems with the alarm function. I tried it twice now (with playing last station). The first time the device just hung on a black screen, the second time the clock froze exactly one second before the alarm time... Would be great if this could be fixed soon, as I also want to use my Xoro primarily as an alarm clock Another thing: Is there a possibility to dim the screen even further in night mode? I tried it with the nightstand function yesterday and to me it is even too bright on the lowest setting. But I don´t know if more steps are possible. Thanks Quote: William, please look into the alarm function. As already reported by others; the last station play does not work, both the alarms randomly work or don't work. Yesterday only alarm1 sounded and today both alarms didn't sound. I use my Arnova (or I should rather say; I would like to use my Arnova) primarily as an alarm clock. So if the alarm function does not work, the device is rather useless for me. Thanks for all your work, really appreciate it.

I am already working on the clock.
For the brightness.. you can at any time use the pageup/down buttons to change the brightness.
You can also set the day time and night time brightness under display settings.
Higher than the maximum and lower than the minimum displayer there is, as far as I know, impossible.

~W

As there was no reaction so far concerning my uPnP problem, once again the question:

Is there any idea why my original Arnova, Xoro and Albrecht DR800 (Lookee - looking very similar to Vs. 1.4!  )
can communicate with my Win XP PC and its Windows media player without a problem via uPnP - but only my Envivo (thanks William for this device!) with Vs. 1.4 doesn´t show a single entry at all under uPnP?

EDIT: I checked it again a few minutes ago and there were ENTRIES now for the first time!!! (I don´t know at all what the difference was to all the trials before!).

As on the other devices I suddenly find my uPnP media player and it offers Musik, Video, Bilder and Wiedergabelisten as the other devices do but after clicking on "Musik" the Envivo with Vs. 1.4 freezes completely - no possibility to use the remote control any longer.

The only way to switch it off is to use the "off" button of the device - that still works!  

Hi, I changed your account, you can modify entries now.
There is no help file yet.

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Ok, noted. I will check the routines for this.

Hi, favorites are managed via this website.
Search and select any station you like and add it you your favorites.
On top of the page, go to the "user settings" tab and select Edit device details then make sure you have "Yes" after the question "Do you own a radio build by SkyTC (Envivo, Arnova, HMT350 etc.)?"
Once you have done that, on your Envivo go to [settings], [MyFavorites user account] and look for your user name.
That will make the link between the server and the Envivo.

Yes, there is a small disadvantage that you can not use the FAV button to add stations directly.
But there is also an advantage that stations that change on the server are automatically modified in your lists as well.
Also you can link multiple devices to one account.

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Page up/down are used to control the screen brightness.
If you look for something to be able to do faster scrolling through the lists, then use left/right to advance pages. Also you can activate list rotation to go to the last entry when you are on the first..
furthermore the home button takes you to the first entry of the lists.

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When you are inside a directory, you can press the play button the play all listed files.  you can press the repeat button to turn on/off the shuffle function.

My guess is that you highlight the name of a directory and then press play.
Don't do that, just go into the directory, then press play.

Yeah, I know, I know.. this should be handled differently... will take care of it.

~W.

Check what is displayed under "network status" ?
Here it should list your access point ssid, mac and encryption type.
Did you try to remove the accesspoint list under "manage access point list" ?

• Samba shares are still blank (using Ubuntu 11.10, Samba version 2:3.5.11 as the host) - I can see the shares on all other machines attached to the network (Win, Linux & Android). Please let me know if there's any more diagnostic info you need - this is the big issue for me!
  
• Mediaplayer - cannot play a directory of .ogg (tries to play each in turn, but error, then exit flashes up for every track).
  
• Mediaplayer - MP3 tracks in a directory are shown in random order - can they be sorted alphabetically?). ogg seems to be in the correct order.
  
• Mediaplayer - tags are not displayed (showing "n/a") -  Album/Track not showing on mp3, no tags at all displayed from ogg. all my mp3s are tagged with ID3v2.4.
  
• Top "power" button doesn't turn the machine off whilst playing.
  

Hallo,

es gibt einen kleine Fehler in der Software.

Wenn der "Wecker" die "letzte Radiostation" abspielen soll, kommt kein Ton  und die Uhr bleib auf der Weckzeit stehen.

Anschließend crashed die software und das Gerät muß neu gestartet werden.

Ansonsten eine gute Softwareentwicklung, weiter so.

Gruß Wolpers

Probably only by opening up the device. But with what I have seen during the last few days it is better to claim warranty because in most cases it is related to the killerbug.
The killerbug is within the official firmware and it creates bad blocks within the flash memory..

Model: KMP51x

Type: 1 - JZ4755 - SD

Board Ver:  Kmp811 VO.1

The Wifi part is controlled by standard Atheros wifi drivers. There has not been any change or update on them. So that can not be the issue.
There have been some changes to the way the wifi is connecting (mainly minor cleanups) but no major changes between 1.3a and 1.4.
The system freezing would suggest that the software crashes. I do not see why this would happen unless there is some strange setting that goes bad.

But.. there is one thing new.. not related to the Wifi but it is related to having a connection or not.. Thats the UPnP..
Since a working network connection will trigger UPnP to get active.
Indeed this takes a bit of time like Loek writes. So that could make sense.

Loek/Martin, can you tell me if you have UPnP devices on your network and what kind..?
Perhaps use "Windows UPnP Browser". http://code.google.com/p/wupnpbrowser/downloads/list
First let it detect all devices. Then click on each device and note the "Device Type"  (this should look like: "urn:schemas-upnp-org:device:MediaServer:1" ) and send that here or via email.
If this is the problem then we should get a quick fix that allows deactivation of UPnP.

~W.

Hi William

I always updated my device Envivo 1119 with your updates; I never had any problems ..

but now with the 1.4 I have a problem

I installed the 1.4 via the SD card

Everything is working for 2 minutes, after that the screen and device freezes, the only option is to restart the device

the remote or buttons aren't reacting

I tried a lot of things in the settings, but I can't fix the problem

Perhaps there is something wrong with my Network settings ????

do you have an idea ??

thank you

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Quote: I feel silly to ask, but where can I find the alarm sound selection? The only thing silly is not to ask a question Go into [Settings], [Alarm], [Alarm 1] (or 2..) The choose [Alarm 1 Tone setup] You will see a number of options.. press the [OK] button to select and hear the sound as a test..

Thank you I checked the alarm settings and the only options I do have are:

Alarm on/off, Time and Type (working days etc.), there is no sound option. What could have gone wrong that I don't have this option?

Hi,

Auto play at startup works fine on my Arnova regarding Radio. Would it be possible to extend this feature to TV?

Regards,
Heiko

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Yes, that worked fine, I shall now look at the new possibilities,

Thanx

Hello, as you might understand I have been pretty busy with the last firmware release and spend less time on correcting the database.
Main idea behind our setup is that users can add and fix entries themselves. So that you don't have to rely on others.
Anyway, I hope to have some more time available now to make some changes to the website, server and database.
90elf -Das Fussballradio is working now...

~W.

First: Thank you very much for your effort.

A simple, basic thing:

A lot of radio stations do not play on the device although the Stream URL in the database works fine.

Example: 90elf -DAS Fussballradio

The Device (Arnova KMP511 with your firmware 1.4) says: "Server connection failed, try again later."

Some other stations do work.

Best regards, Eleichstetten

Not strange at all.
UPNP devices announce themselves within a network.
Devices belong to a device group. I choose to support the mediaserver devices. Since those are the main ones we are interested in.
In general a router announces itself as an InternetGatewayDevice. I did not add support for that.
Maybe stupid from my side, but I forgot about USB sharing via routers and now that you mention it I remember that my router has a USB port as well.. (not that I ever use it though)
Besides Internetgateway device there are other device types as well which routers seem to use..
Also, I think the router will show up always if I allow it to even when there is no USB stick inserted.
On the other hand, the router probably should have followed the rules and also announced itself for its media serving feature.
I will look into it, do some tests and try to add it.

Congratultations, William,
great new version, which worked from the very beginning after installing!

[quote]It would be great if we can get some feedback from people that tried UPnP.

What I need is:
a) model/brand of the browsed UPnP device
b) if it worked
c) if it did not work: 
- it did not list the device at all  ..or..
- it did list the device but there were no contents (did it work with the original firmware?), (did you make media available at the server side?)[/quote]

uPnP seems to be the only thing that doesn´t work. I use Win XP with the Windows Media Player. After opening the media library (only mp3-songs in MyMusic) it works fine with the original Arnova, Xoro and Albrecht 800. There it is possible to go down to folders.

Vs. 1.4 doesn´t show an entry at all. I tried it with the Envivo switched on before and after the PC with its Media Player. It makes no difference.

Another question: Wasn´t it planned to make the clock usable as a screen saver while playing a radio station? Maybe I remember something wrong.

And a last question: I have two entries in the radio station favourites (don´t know how I managed that) which I cannot delete. They are shown in a strange way in the radios favourite list as well (/itemName) and - of course - cannot be played. Is it possible to delete these entries somehow?

Xanx again for the great work with Vs. 1.4!

Hi there,

strange: My two PC's are recognized by the Arnova with FW 1.4, but not the shared USB stick on my Fritz! Box 7170 to which my other devices (e.g. DNT IP-DIO) are able to connect to. Any hints?

Regards,
Heiko

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When I asked SkyTC's CEO friendly for the sources he kicked my .. and does not want to talk anymore.
He does not believe in open source also did not want to hear suggestions and did not want help with the firmware.
Also he does not allow firmware updates for existing devices.. unless there is something really bad or the customer complains AND a new deal is about to happen.. thats why 1.9.4 was released.

In short the reason why I created the ListenLive firmware version..

In the continuing story of FW1.4 feedback, some more remarks and/or suggestions :

-          Save ‘Last mode’ and Volume instead of just last (inter)net Radio/TV playback, so the unit kicks of where left behind.

-     When the unit was switched of trying to play a non-working internet station, it should not be saved as last station (as it does now) !!!

-          There is currently no possibility of changing FM volume on the unit itself (up/down now used for scanning). I would suggest to assign up/down keys on the unit consistantly to Volume up/down, and re-assign scanning to for example long-press left/right on the unit. That would also facilitate scanning in Preset mode.....

-          The setting screens only work with RC; I would suggest for settings to enable left/right up/down on the unit aswell

-          Unpn ‘sometimes’ correctly identies (my) Mediatomb server (after 1 or more retries) and then correctly shows menu contents

-          Upnp then (see above) plays audio files fine, but video files don't play (it tries to cache, fails and then returns to menu)

-         I would suggest to enable (extended) RC direct shortcut keys to Home menu, Internet Radio, Internet TV, FM, and Settings(!!) Especially settings would be extremely conveniant, in order to quickly change network/volume/screen/clock/alarm settings, and then return.

-    Recording works great! I would suggest to save a stream to a distinct (station identifyable?) sub-directory iso all in root, or include stream name to the filename. Artist/title naming (like streamripper does) would then be reduced to a nice future bonus....

If you start the device with an SDcard that holds a file with the name fs_fwrec and the device does not show the loader then it is very
likely that there is some other problem that prevents the kernel or the file system from getting loaded..
Fixing it is, unless there is a hardware failure, still possible. Mail me for details
Do you have warranty on the device that you want to claim?
~William