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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

Where the heck did it go?

I wasn't able to download/save anything for a few days thanks to a computer snafu.  During that time I saw a post on here about soeone who'd created a bit of java? code to download and convert your profile and all your widgets. 

I still can't get the profile working correctly with the latest version...and I Can. Not. Find. that post about the little program.  Where is it?  (I didn't hallucinate it, did I?  I am SURE I saw it!)

Thanks!

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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

galadriel wrote:

Where the heck did it go?

I wasn't able to download/save anything for a few days thanks to a computer snafu.  During that time I saw a post on here about soeone who'd created a bit of java? code to download and convert your profile and all your widgets. 

I still can't get the profile working correctly with the latest version...and I Can. Not. Find. that post about the little program.  Where is it?  (I didn't hallucinate it, did I?  I am SURE I saw it!)

Thanks!

Are you referring to this?  http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=42766#p42766

  • Registered: 2011-02-10
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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

Haaaaa, yes, I didn't imagine it! 

Thanks a ton smile

  • Registered: 2009-11-26
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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

Perhaps this has been answered in detail elsewhere, but I can't seem to find it, so my apologies if this is redundant:

I used the tool to download my profiles and offline mode runs them quite well.  However, I'm not sure how to clean up (remove) the profile that zurk put on there to start with.  I deleted profile0, profile1, and profile2 (which all came with his download) and renamed my profiles 0-2.  When I boot up in offline firmware mode, the channel list still includes the zurkian extra channels, but I can't select any of them (selecting them loads one of my profiles).  How do I get the zurkian channels removed from the channel list?

Also, I'm running this off of a USB drive, and I noticed that the metal end of the drive runs very hot after pulling it back out of the Chumby.  Is this normal?

Last edited by Obnates (2012-06-24 13:11:45)

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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

It sounds like you're talking about a C1 with v18. Honestly, I never bothered removing zurk's channels, just removed some widgets from the "offline firmware" channel. I figured I'd never track down all the appropriate swfs, thumbnails, etc, so I just left his stuff alone.

Did you fix the "headers" at the beginning of each new profile to refer to your new channels? The latest version I fully customized was v15, which had 2 zurk channels. So each profile needs to start out with an ID like this-

<profiles>
      <profile unaccepted="0" name="offline-mode" id="0" />
      <profile unaccepted="0" name="Squeezebox" id="1" />
<profile unaccepted="0" name="Basic Widgets" id="2" />
<profile unaccepted="0" name="New Apps" id="3" />
<profile unaccepted="0" name="Relaxation" id="4" />
    </profiles>

I know the offline firmware is touchy about the profiles being named in order, but it sounds like you've done that right. So, until I try to set up the firmware without zurk's channels, I'm afraid I can't help much. If I try it, I'll re-post back. I've had some problems with zurkware not recognizing the widget sub-folders (thumbnails,etc) but then my channels didn't work at all. I just mixed them all up into www again and edited the profiles. It was kind of the opposite of what's happening to you.

The longest I've used offline mode is about 3 days straight. I've noted the USBs run hot, but not so hot I was concerned. I don't know if that might be related to the other problem, or just the particular USB.

Zurk doesn't post here any more. Unfortunately, I'm not sure if he's even posting on his own forum, but you might want to give that a try. At least it has more details about changes in v18 than here:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/zurk/forums/forum/12064

Hopefully, another forum member here will have a better answer. Please let us know if you discover anything.

Last edited by bobsz (2012-06-24 18:03:39)

  • Registered: 2009-11-26
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Re: Zurk's Chumby One Offline Firmware (chumby1/infocast3.5/classic only!)

Thanks for responding, bobsz. 

It looks like I'm doing everything right except one thing:  I can't seem to find the place where the channels/profiles appear in the Change Channel menu.  That is, my profiles run offline like they should, and the deleted zurkian channels won't, but they still show up in the list when I go to switch channels. 

I just posted this over on the sourceforge forum, so we'll see if zurk or anyone else responds.