Will this firmware also work with the original Chumby? If not, does anyone know if one is available somewhere else?

OK. I could give it a go when I have time, but I'm not sure about the best approach. I found the offline HOWTO v1.1 in the firmware download, is this a good starting point?

I have my chumby classic working ok in an on-line fashion without reliance on chumby.com (*.chumby.com is redirected to localhost) - you could try using that as a starting point - it has worked ok for me during the last chumby server outages. More info here:
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=41664#p41664

We can start a separate thread for chumby classic efforts if you like. I'm happy to help.

As of March this year. I'm not sure if the CP has been updated since then. The zip contains controlpanel: 2.8.84 - let's take this to another thread. You start one & I'll follow.

yup.
switch off before removal/insertion of the usb stick though.

Last edited by zurk (2012-04-23 10:25:17)

Can someone explain to me what the Template files are in the widgets xml's, and are the Template files needed in Zurk's offline software? I noticed some apps don't have template files at all, so I know they're fine. Of course, the ones with 'http' download fine with wget. But now I've seen some apps that have template files listed in my profiles, but there's really no address, ie-

template href="/xml/configs/31FFE808-37F9-11DD-9269-001B24F07D28"/

I've tried various pasting in the beginnings of the other template files addresses, to make it like a URL. But that doesn't work, I just get a short XML statement with "access denied." So I'm wondering if I need them at all, or if those particular apps will run without them. Thanks.

Hey Zurk, seems like my Chumby One is skipping the USB drive and immediately booting and downloading the server control panel. I can't seem to make it stick to the USB- have tried every possible combination of power off/reboot and reinserting drive. (The drive is formatted as FAT32, all unzipped to root)

Any ideas?

One quick thought, do you have to force a chmod a+x on debugchumby ?

This is great, thank you for making this available.

So, I went ahead with testing it out on the USB stick to iron out any issues.  It's working beautifully.  So I'm trying to use the instructions in goingnative.txt to make it permanent.  I'm having a bit of difficulty with:
"cp -ir all the files keeping the directory structure intact one directory at a time (careful!)." 

For one, nuts, I don't have enough space.  I've removed most of the provided widgets, the music files, and the photo files, but I still don't have enough space on my chumby.  I must have put something large on it at some time, but I can't find it (still looking).

In the meantime, can you help me verify what *exactly* I need to move to the chumby itself? 
These are the files in the .zip:
java/
music/
nano/   
proxy/               
psp/     
TalkingChumby/     
www/
autoreboot.txt   
FAQ.txt     
goingnative.txt 
offline-howto v1.1.txt
readme.txt
zurkoffline.txt
controlpanel.swf 
changelog
debugchumby         
debugchumbyearly                                             
~ ~ ~

So, I presume I need to move, at least, the directories to /, right?  So I "cp -ir /mnt/usb/proxy /", for example.

Am I merging psp/ with the existing /psp or am I replacing it?  (same for www/ and /www).

Do I need the java/ directory?  Doesn't chumby already have java interpretation? 

I think I can get away with skipping TalkingChumby/ and music/ since I am planning on only using a widget I downloaded and Pandora--and the alarm clocks.  Right?  Is there anything else I can eliminate since I won't need the various provided widgets?

Is there anything large that's already on the chumby that I can safely delete, since all I want is the non-chumby-server version with one specific widget/alarms/Pandora?  (I've been backing up everything as I go along, of course.)

I have nano already; does this setup rely on it being in /nano on the chumby?

I'm assuming I don't need any of the .txt files on the chumby itself.

Do I need to put that controlpanel.swf somewhere?  Where?  I presume not just in /, right?  The file doesn't specify.

Thank you zurk!

Thanks for getting back to me! 

Hmm, I have a version 9.  Should I start all over with version 10 if version 9 is working?

Okay, so looking it over, if I don't want to use the weather, photoframe, voice, etc widgets, all I really need to make this permanent are the following:

Merge these with existing directories:
psp/
www/

Copy this to /:
controlpanel.swf 

Copy and rename these:
debugchumby  (/psp/rfs1/userhook2)
debugchumbyearly (/psp/rfs1/userhook1) (BY THE WAY the goingnative.txt I have does not mention this file)

I should delete something from www/cgi-bin.  Is that speak and speak.pl?

And ...I'm sorry, what do I need to do with /psp/zwapi.sh?   Actually, I looked at it and I'm not sure what I'd need it for.  Can I just disable whatever would try to use it?  (I'm quite boring, I'm sure, but all I want is this: http://www.chumby.com/guide/widget/Omniclock%20BETA)

Is the rest correct?

Thanks!

When the Chumby servers go dark, will most of the default music sources (Pandora, IHRadio, sleep sounds, etc) go down too?

Well, nuts.  I followed the steps I outlined above, and moved the files off the usb stick, and rebooted...and got "Downloading control panel."  Drat.  I'll wait and try again with version 11 once you've got it.  I appreciate all the help so far, and hey, it does work well with the usb stick.

Hey, is there any way to mount and read the chumby's own filesystem while running this software off a usb stick?  Sometimes I'd like to be able to check files that are on it (see exactly what I had in my .profile, for example).