Yes to all, and I do hear the voice prompt.  After all is said and done, it still goes back to that default blue clock saying press to connect to network.

Zurk, Could you please take out a few of those mp3's that you have in your file?  They are alone like 90 MEGs!  Its slow enough downloading from sourceforge - and I have cable. (150kb p/sec , 200 if lucky Is standard)

Then I end up deleting them anyway when I first extract the file.  I mean one or two is ok, but what you have is way overkill.

But Otherwise I Enjoy the firmware.

Thanks.

Last edited by bbsux (2012-05-06 13:58:35)

download v14.0 and find out. some stuff works, some doesnt. the new offline music infrastructure is now default on all versions of the offline firmware from here on out.
you can still switch back to pandora and the old chumby online infrastructure with one click though.

chumby music infrastructure = stuff that chumby.com provides.
a good way to see the difference is to go to NY times podcasts on the new firmware using the on-board default offline music infrastructure.
then click the link to turn the chumby.com infrastructure on, switch to some other music, switch to NY times podcasts again (to remove caching effects) and see the difference.

@zurk- a couple of questions. About editing music sources in v14-15, your readme notes:

"You can customize the music by editing the folder : lighty/html/chumcast/list
and create the corresponding xshow file with a list of your music. This will modify the blueocty radio"

I don't know what an xshow file is. Will this create itself? And does this just specifically refer to modifying Blue Octy?

Also, the readme says

"type the following command on the chumby after you edit music on there directly : sync"

Does this mean only if you modify the files inside the Chumby directly, as opposed to on the USB stick in the computer? I'm not sure where or when to type that command.

Another area, I know the architecture changed, but it seems like the wording for the widgets in the profile is largely the same as before. I'm hoping I can cut & paste the main parts of my customized profile parts from v10 into the newer versions. You answered me recently that there are differences in the listing of the parameters for widgets in C1 and C8. I've realized since the original online firmware the widget listing on the C1 list "user" but the C8 list "user type" and more info. Do you know if this line necessary and/or harmless? If I paste a C1 widget description with "user" into the C8 will it be a problem? I'm just realizing I may have to get a separate set of profiles with that info for my C8. I'm 'guessing' the swf size line needs to be in there for the C8 too, even though most of yours are left at 320 rather than 800 and seem to work fine. For some reason, I'm having trouble finding these parameters when I ssh into my C8, profiles seem the same as the C1. I know I'll just have to do trial and error for my own favorite widgets.

One other thought: since you've made the firmwares for the C1 and C8 so much more similar now, do you think you might want to combine the C1 and C8 Forum topics into a new "Zurk's offline firmware" topic all in one. It seems like you're fielding the same duplicate questions in each topic. Maybe also put up the link directly to your readme so that hopefully people look at that first, to see what version you're on and what you've done. Seems like a number of people ask for features you already did on a recent update.

Thanks again for your amazing effort and super-fast paced progress.

Last edited by bobsz (2012-05-09 00:04:32)

Zurk,

Just getting up to speed on things. Looks like you've done an amazing job with this offline firmware. Will download and test as soon as I get some free time.

Question: Does your firmware separate apps into channels? Or do I need to dl all the apps I want to keep from my different channels and keep them in one directory locally?

Thanks!

awesome, thanks!

Hi Zurk.  First of all: thanks for all the work you put into offline chumbies, especially all the different versions.

I downloaded installed the chumby 3.5 version.  It booted fine, once I reformatted the usb fob as FAT32 (just a suggestion: you might want to make this clearer in the README by not just saying 'blank usb thumbdrive' in the README; I had to cruise the forums to figure this out).

However, I could never get my Chumby Classic to associate with my access point properly, it the message was about not finding an IP address.

Is there something different about the Chumby Classics' drivers that would cause this?  I know the most probably answer is "user error", but I tried many times; I'm pretty sure it wasn't all mistyping the password...

Thanks again for doing the work of prepping the boot images.

I renamed "autoreboot.on" and now it is up and running in "networkless mode"... Does your "offline" firmware only remove ties to chumby.com, but still requires network to function?  If so, this isn't obvious in the "howto" documentation.  In fact step 4 in your first post of this thread says "select SKIP when you reach the network setup."

Maybe a note about "offline" being "off chumby network" and/or setup instructions for both "network" and "networkless" modes.

Now, I've made progress.  I have a set of weather and clocks widgets I can live with, if I had to, and so my Chumbies will work.

However, I'd like the set of profiles I'm used to and the clocks I like.  My first problem is that I can find my profile, but I can't wget it.

I can copy and paste a user id and chumy id that works, but when I do a wget, I get a message not found error.

Setting up the offline software and getting profiles from and to the infocast has been easy using WinSCP. It can be found here

http://winscp.net/eng/index.php

A lot faster to find the info than just using putty.

I have all 3.5" Infocasts.

Read all the info that comes with Zurk's offline software. The profiles are on the chumby.com servers. So are the widgets.
You will need to download your profile and your widgets then add them to the offline software.

Hope this helps.

Last edited by infocastme (2012-05-19 16:38:44)