Hi All
First, I really appreciate the customised firmware - clearly a lot of effort gone in to it. I wanted a way to back stuff up (decrypted) to my PC in case my HDR-fox T2 died and now I can.
Reason for the tweak: I access a share on my PC from the HDR. If the PC is shutdown while the HDR is on, browsing the top-level "My Video" folder then always takes a good 20 seconds before the HDR displays the folder, even after the PC has finished shutting down. It's the same whether on first pressing the media button on the remote or selecting "Upper Folder" from a sub-folder. Restarting the HDR resolves this delay but that of course is not always convenient ;-). I get the same delay browsing the "/My Video/[Shares] Do not delete!" folder.
The delay is because the share on my HDR is not unmounted by the standard script when the PC is shutdown - this seems to be because, although the mount command puts it at "/media/My Video/", it actually shows up in the "mount" listing at /mnt/hd2/My Video/. Also the first attempt to unmount sometimes fails because the device is "in use".
With my tweak, there are still delays while the PC is actually shutting down but then the share gets unmounted and everything is back to normal within another 10 or 20 secs.
I've not seen this delay mentioned in the forum but maybe I just didn't look hard enough. Maybe my setup is just a bit weird!
Anyway, I hope it's useful to someone
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A few notes (OK, several!):
First, I really appreciate the customised firmware - clearly a lot of effort gone in to it. I wanted a way to back stuff up (decrypted) to my PC in case my HDR-fox T2 died and now I can.
Reason for the tweak: I access a share on my PC from the HDR. If the PC is shutdown while the HDR is on, browsing the top-level "My Video" folder then always takes a good 20 seconds before the HDR displays the folder, even after the PC has finished shutting down. It's the same whether on first pressing the media button on the remote or selecting "Upper Folder" from a sub-folder. Restarting the HDR resolves this delay but that of course is not always convenient ;-). I get the same delay browsing the "/My Video/[Shares] Do not delete!" folder.
The delay is because the share on my HDR is not unmounted by the standard script when the PC is shutdown - this seems to be because, although the mount command puts it at "/media/My Video/", it actually shows up in the "mount" listing at /mnt/hd2/My Video/. Also the first attempt to unmount sometimes fails because the device is "in use".
With my tweak, there are still delays while the PC is actually shutting down but then the share gets unmounted and everything is back to normal within another 10 or 20 secs.
I've not seen this delay mentioned in the forum but maybe I just didn't look hard enough. Maybe my setup is just a bit weird!
Anyway, I hope it's useful to someone
.A few notes (OK, several!):
1. I'm a forum newbie so apologies if I've not done this in quite the right way.
2. I've probably gone a bit over the top as I was learning shell scripting and Linux at the same time. I'm more used to Visual Basic on Windows.
3. At 200 lines, it seemed a bit big for embedded code, hence the uploaded file – sorry if that's wrong.
4. The main changes have comments starting #####.
5. Also, I edited the script on Windows so I took the liberty of using tabs for all the indents etc. If you open it in Notepad on Windows, it copies and pastes into the File Editor of the CFW OK. Also I (very in-elegantly!) datestamped the log entries so I could see what was happening when more easily.
6. WebIF version: 1.2.3-5; Custom f/w version: 3.03 (build 2368); Humax Version: 1.03.12 (kernel HDR_CFW_3.03)
2. I've probably gone a bit over the top as I was learning shell scripting and Linux at the same time. I'm more used to Visual Basic on Windows.
3. At 200 lines, it seemed a bit big for embedded code, hence the uploaded file – sorry if that's wrong.
4. The main changes have comments starting #####.
5. Also, I edited the script on Windows so I took the liberty of using tabs for all the indents etc. If you open it in Notepad on Windows, it copies and pastes into the File Editor of the CFW OK. Also I (very in-elegantly!) datestamped the log entries so I could see what was happening when more easily.
6. WebIF version: 1.2.3-5; Custom f/w version: 3.03 (build 2368); Humax Version: 1.03.12 (kernel HDR_CFW_3.03)
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