Foxsat-HDR - New/Updated Package Download

[David500]

Default Authority updated

Update your package list in the usual way for the package(s) listed in the "Package Management", "Upgrades" tab.

Remember to reboot the Foxsat-HDR after updating your package list to pick up the updated Default Authority data.

Channel updates:
202 Sky News

 

[David500]

Default Authority updated

Update your package list in the usual way for the package(s) listed in the "Package Management", "Upgrades" tab.

Remember to reboot the Foxsat-HDR after updating your package list to pick up the updated Default Authority data.

Channel updates:
163 Court TV

 

[David500]

Default Authority & Channel Icons v1.73 Updated

Update your package list in the usual way for the package(s) listed in the "Package Management", "Upgrades" tab.

Remember to reboot the Foxsat-HDR after updating your package list to pick up the updated Default Authority data.

Channel Icon updates:
Ch119 ITV Quiz HD
Ch805 Gemporia
Ch144 TLC HD
Ch150 TLC+1

 

[Rodders53]

Channel Icon updates:
Ch119 ITV Quiz HD
Ch805 Gemporia
Ch144 TLC HD
Ch150 TLC+1

@David500 After upgrading to channel-icons v 1.73 and rebooting, on my -HDR these are all still 'missing'/the default satellite icon.
Despite a few more reboots (not tried a hard mains reboot yet). Am I doing something wrong?

PS Also missing an icon, for me, is 713 BBC RnG�aid (not that it bothers me much, if at all).

 

[David500]

@Rodders53 Sorry about the missing Channel Icons. I will build a new channel icon package.
As for Ch713 BBC RnG�aid this was raised when the BBC changed the icon & name. @adrianf36 posted a full explanation, which I can't find. But it's do with the font used in WebIf doesn't include the special character used in the station name. Adrian decided that adding a new font to the WebIf and the testing involved wasn't worth it for the low number of people still using the CFW.

 

[David500]

Channel Icons v1.74 Updated

Update your package list in the usual way for the package(s) listed in the "Package Management", "Upgrades" tab.

Remember to reboot the Foxsat-HDR after updating your package list to pick up the updated Default Authority data.

Channel Icon updates:
Ch119 ITV Quiz HD
Ch805 Gemporia
Ch144 TLC HD
Ch150 TLC+1

 

[prpr]

BBC Radio nan Gàidheal

I don't quite get what an icon has got to do with Webif fonts.

I didn't do anything clever with this on the T2.

 

[David500]

Because the icon file name has to match the channel name.

 

[prpr]

Well I know that, but I still don't see the connection. In any case "a grave" is a very common character available in loads of old common code pages. Are we saying the Foxsat doesn't use UTF-8 though?
(And it seems like I got it wrong for the T2 as the file's just got Gaid rather than Gàid in the name. Nobody in Scotland has ever said anything though.
It was correct all along, as according to my information it's just a normal "a" on Freeview. I don't see why you can't have an icon with one spelling and a link with another though, which is what I'll do on the T2, just in case.)

 

[adrianf36]

Just for the record ...

It's not about fonts, but about character encoding and the correct interpretation thereof. On the Foxsat, channel 713 is "BBC RnGàid". In the channel data that the WebIf has available to it (/dev/mtd6), the channel name appears as follows:



In this data, the "à" is represented as a double-byte character 0xC161. At first glance, this would appear to be ISO/IEC 6937 encoding (which would make sense, as that's the default for DVB-S SI tables).

Way back when the Foxsat CF development was being done, there were no station names with accented characters. All appearances, at the time, were that the channel names in the mtd6 data were ASCII encoded. There was no evidence to the contrary. Now we know that this is not the case of course, and for both the channel name and channel icon display, for this one particular channel, the WebIf does not function in a way which would be considered "correct" (the channel image is defaulted and the name is not displayed correctly).

Is it worth fixing though? Probably not. The WebIf still works, it's just not "right" for this one channel. And considering the ever dwindling user base, would the effort be justified? Probably not.

Would I like to fix it? I'd love to have the time - but I don't at the moment. I also don't have an operational and/or up-to-date Foxsat since we've moved to a house without a dish - which would make developing and testing a fix somewhat awkward.

Thanks to @David500 today for providing me with the information from an up-to-date system so that I could investigate.