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      [tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates

      So far just ITV3+1 and ITVBe+1. ITV2+1 hours were reduced. ITV4+1 was already vestigial. See https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/itv-makes-surprise-freeview-change/. The financial imperative here is that ITV's Freeview slots come from a mux owned by an ITV company. The limited ad revenue available from...
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      [tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates

      As I understand, there's some small excuse. Together on Freeview is like a charity shop on the high street: it picks up channel slots that paying channels aren't using. The June setup packed more paying channels in, leaving a smidgeonette of after hours Freeview time for Together on another...
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      Developers' corner

      According to the features.h some builds break if __GLIBC__ isn't set (which that define forces) even if the interfaces expected from glibc are present. Apparently git isn't one. I agree that MIPS may well be wordier than x86, but there's clearly some config difference between the CF repo gcc...
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      Developers' corner

      On-box build succeeded with these settings in a config.mak: CC = gcc CFLAGS = -std=c99 # override defective library module LDFLAGS = -l :sigset.o prefix = /mod NO_ICONV = 1 NO_IPV6 = 1 NO_PERL = 1 NO_TCLTK = 1 NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS = 1 INSTALL_STRIP = -s NO_GETTEXT = 1 NO_EXPAT =...
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      Developers' corner

      In general, checkinstall.
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      Developers' corner

      I suppose the build parameters weren't uploaded by the original dev (it was only 2020)? The top SO answer suggests that the problem is too much history. Although it didn't suggest this specific solution, I tried ignoring stuff from before 2.25: humax# git clone --shallow-since 2020-01-01...
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      Developers' corner

      Yes, there are (at least) 2 packages, but unlike the CF python the Perls don't come with a standard library that has wide functionality. So useful Perl packages need external modules: because Perl is pretty much a text processor with pretensions these modules are often written in some more...
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      Developers' corner

      I assume that running (eg) git add ... invokes /mod/libexec/git-core/git-add ... and the processing uses args[0] to control which subcommand is being run. Here's an equivalent Ubuntu git installation (2.43): $ ls -l $(which git) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4105020 Nov 22 19:16 /usr/bin/git $ ls -l...
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      Developers' corner

      On another topic: # git add -i fatal: 'add--interactive' appears to be a git command, but we were not able to execute it. Maybe git-add--interactive is broken? It would be better if "we" were able to execute it. But apparently it's a Perl script, and needs some Git module that won't be...
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      Developers' corner

      Presumably you can spawn an ir command?
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      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      These days you can make console output appear like this using triple backquotes on a line before and after the console or code text (Markdown), equivalent to the like this BB code tag, where I also used the single Markdown backquote to enclose the in-line example, to which the BB code...
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      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      Generally it works without intervention. Forcing reconnection using the on-screen UI may sometimes be necessary: presumably, parameters set with iwpriv... sit in some driver data store that survives reconnections. Also, the hacks that are supposed to restore the last connection even after an...
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      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      The current version of the wifi-helper package tries to fix all the driver parameters to avoid manual intervention but I believe it isn't guaranteed to be used, at least initially, because the Humax blob may succeed in making the connection first.
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      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      The driver settings file is in /etc/ which is RO storage. You can't directly modify this file, unlike files in the RO filesystem, like /etc/resolv.conf, that were configured as links to RW storage (eg /var/lib/humaxtv) when the firmware was created. As I explained in the old post about this...
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      Power Off Timer in Standby = boot to Half-Awake (and stay there)

      My idea, if it was one, was that we could intercept any Standby command while running and turn it into a one-off PowerOff timer set to as close to now as possible, whereas a Standby command when not running would proceed as normal.
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      Freshly formatted disk and fixdisk finds things to grumble about

      The Humax binary that does the on-screen disk format calls functions from /usr/lib/libext2fs.so.2 (actually .2.4), so they basically implemented their own mke2fs. One can imagine how horlickingly well that went: well enough not to block shipping, but no better. The same library is invoked...
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      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      If what you showed above worked before, then save this #!/bin/sh cd /mod/webif patch -p1 < /mod/tmp/webif-matthew-combined.patch to a file in /mod, make it executable as you showed and then run it when necessary. With the GNU patch you can wrap in the cd and also ask for backups of any changed...
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      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      So Style-only changes can be added to /mod/webif/html/css/EXTRA.css, which won't be updated. But if the affected page, either its structure or its styles, is significantly modified in a new version the EXTRA styles may become ineffective or actually degrade the display. Really skilled...
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      Documentation Wiki

      The ancient thread is pinned. I thought it was a likely, if not the canonical, place for a suggested correction to the Wiki, for which
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      Documentation Wiki

      Search for 'wiki' in the linked post. Apparently, the forum has a bug-like feature where it uses the text from the entire page to summarise the link instead of the text of the linked post.
    1. D

      [tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates

      So far just ITV3+1 and ITVBe+1. ITV2+1 hours were reduced. ITV4+1 was already vestigial. See https://rxtvinfo.com/2023/itv-makes-surprise-freeview-change/. The financial imperative here is that ITV's Freeview slots come from a mux owned by an ITV company. The limited ad revenue available from...
    2. D

      [tunefix-update] Automated Freeview channel updates

      As I understand, there's some small excuse. Together on Freeview is like a charity shop on the high street: it picks up channel slots that paying channels aren't using. The June setup packed more paying channels in, leaving a smidgeonette of after hours Freeview time for Together on another...
    3. D

      Developers' corner

      According to the features.h some builds break if __GLIBC__ isn't set (which that define forces) even if the interfaces expected from glibc are present. Apparently git isn't one. I agree that MIPS may well be wordier than x86, but there's clearly some config difference between the CF repo gcc...
    4. D

      Developers' corner

      On-box build succeeded with these settings in a config.mak: CC = gcc CFLAGS = -std=c99 # override defective library module LDFLAGS = -l :sigset.o prefix = /mod NO_ICONV = 1 NO_IPV6 = 1 NO_PERL = 1 NO_TCLTK = 1 NO_CROSS_DIRECTORY_HARDLINKS = 1 INSTALL_STRIP = -s NO_GETTEXT = 1 NO_EXPAT =...
    5. D

      Developers' corner

      In general, checkinstall.
    6. D

      Developers' corner

      I suppose the build parameters weren't uploaded by the original dev (it was only 2020)? The top SO answer suggests that the problem is too much history. Although it didn't suggest this specific solution, I tried ignoring stuff from before 2.25: humax# git clone --shallow-since 2020-01-01...
    7. D

      Developers' corner

      Yes, there are (at least) 2 packages, but unlike the CF python the Perls don't come with a standard library that has wide functionality. So useful Perl packages need external modules: because Perl is pretty much a text processor with pretensions these modules are often written in some more...
    8. D

      Developers' corner

      I assume that running (eg) git add ... invokes /mod/libexec/git-core/git-add ... and the processing uses args[0] to control which subcommand is being run. Here's an equivalent Ubuntu git installation (2.43): $ ls -l $(which git) -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 4105020 Nov 22 19:16 /usr/bin/git $ ls -l...
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      Developers' corner

      On another topic: # git add -i fatal: 'add--interactive' appears to be a git command, but we were not able to execute it. Maybe git-add--interactive is broken? It would be better if "we" were able to execute it. But apparently it's a Perl script, and needs some Git module that won't be...
    10. D

      Developers' corner

      Presumably you can spawn an ir command?
    11. D

      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      These days you can make console output appear like this using triple backquotes on a line before and after the console or code text (Markdown), equivalent to the like this BB code tag, where I also used the single Markdown backquote to enclose the in-line example, to which the BB code...
    12. D

      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      Generally it works without intervention. Forcing reconnection using the on-screen UI may sometimes be necessary: presumably, parameters set with iwpriv... sit in some driver data store that survives reconnections. Also, the hacks that are supposed to restore the last connection even after an...
    13. D

      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      The current version of the wifi-helper package tries to fix all the driver parameters to avoid manual intervention but I believe it isn't guaranteed to be used, at least initially, because the Humax blob may succeed in making the connection first.
    14. D

      Correcting the Wi-Fi Channel Range

      The driver settings file is in /etc/ which is RO storage. You can't directly modify this file, unlike files in the RO filesystem, like /etc/resolv.conf, that were configured as links to RW storage (eg /var/lib/humaxtv) when the firmware was created. As I explained in the old post about this...
    15. D

      Power Off Timer in Standby = boot to Half-Awake (and stay there)

      My idea, if it was one, was that we could intercept any Standby command while running and turn it into a one-off PowerOff timer set to as close to now as possible, whereas a Standby command when not running would proceed as normal.
    16. D

      Freshly formatted disk and fixdisk finds things to grumble about

      The Humax binary that does the on-screen disk format calls functions from /usr/lib/libext2fs.so.2 (actually .2.4), so they basically implemented their own mke2fs. One can imagine how horlickingly well that went: well enough not to block shipping, but no better. The same library is invoked...
    17. D

      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      If what you showed above worked before, then save this #!/bin/sh cd /mod/webif patch -p1 < /mod/tmp/webif-matthew-combined.patch to a file in /mod, make it executable as you showed and then run it when necessary. With the GNU patch you can wrap in the cd and also ask for backups of any changed...
    18. D

      Linux/Bash(?) help please

      So Style-only changes can be added to /mod/webif/html/css/EXTRA.css, which won't be updated. But if the affected page, either its structure or its styles, is significantly modified in a new version the EXTRA styles may become ineffective or actually degrade the display. Really skilled...
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      Documentation Wiki

      The ancient thread is pinned. I thought it was a likely, if not the canonical, place for a suggested correction to the Wiki, for which
    20. D

      Documentation Wiki

      Search for 'wiki' in the linked post. Apparently, the forum has a bug-like feature where it uses the text from the entire page to summarise the link instead of the text of the linked post.
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