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William, Let me make a suggestion regarding FM mode (now using FW1.42); 1) I have to constantly switch between manual tuning (to tune) and preset mode (to in/decrement preset) in order set preset stations. Can the PgUP/PgDown on the extended RC be assigned to in/decrement the the preset key value? These seem to be without function, hence 'free' to assign... and it would save a considerable number of key-strokes.. 2) Can the number of presets be increased to at least 10/12 ? Only 6 stations seems to be rather low for a crowded FM band..... Normally I disconnect the unit at night, but last night I just switched it of. So now I noticed the following. This morning the alarm sunddenly sounded, without being set.... I checked the alarm settings, and indeed nothing shows up (not set)... Is this perhaps a known bug?? Hans

The 6 preset idea Is taken from car radios. Indeed some have fm1/fm2 to give 12 presets. I will check how to improve this. In 1.43 the antenna question when entering fm radio can be disabled in settigs. The alarm is known and there are fixes and other solutions in 1.43 including an alarm info screen that shows alarm 1 and 2 but also the setting of the alarm values in the real time clock hardware.

William,

Let me make a suggestion regarding FM mode (now using FW1.42);
1) I have to constantly switch between manual tuning (to tune) and preset mode (to in/decrement preset) in order set preset stations.
Can the PgUP/PgDown on the extended RC be assigned to in/decrement the the preset key value? These seem to be without function, hence 'free' to assign... and it would save a considerable number of key-strokes..
2) Can the number of presets be increased to at least 10/12 ? Only 6 stations seems to be rather low for a crowded FM band.....

Normally I disconnect the unit at night, but last night I just switched it of. So now I noticed the following.
This morning the alarm sunddenly sounded, without being set.... I checked the alarm settings, and indeed nothing shows up (not set)...
Is this perhaps a known bug??

Hans

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Quote: Feature request: Is there any change you will add a last.fm or Spotify app in a future version? To integrate Spotify libspotify is needed. This is not available for the MIPS platform yet. Last.fm: applied for a developer account now digging through the documents. 1.43 already has been extended with TuneIn (formerly RadioTime) and Icecast Yellow Pages

Thanks for the time you spend on figuring this out. Sad that Spotify does not publish the source code as well.

I am so very happy with your firmware. I was about to return my player for its near uselessness until I stumbled upon your site.

Would implementing Tor with selectable exit nodes be a possibility? That would allow access to geo-restricted streams, such as BBC iPlayer (which would be next on my wish list).

Thanks again for the great work.

Very smooth, painless install of 1.42 on my Xoro HMT350.  You're doing a great job on this firmware, after 2 weeks it looks like we won't be going back to the original.

Noticed a small "bugette" with UPnP discovery: the  friendly name of one of our UPnP servers contained a "&" and consequently didn't appear in the list of UPnP servers.  I've removed the "&" and it's fine now but I'd like to put it back in again some time.

Cheers.

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Another one: clicking "NFS Network Settings" does not do anything - no text toggling, no sub-menu shown...

Should be fixed now.

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The sleep timer actions ("PowerOff" and "Go to night clock") are not ready for i18n as well.

Moved to the language files

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Any chance to translate AccuWeather terms like "Clear", "SSE", "Rising" and add a °C/°F (degree) sign after the two temperatures?

Yes, but it is not there in 1.43 yet. The texts are actually provided by Accuweather via XML files. So I first need to collect all possible texts.
 

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William: tip for possible next version:  fs_fwrec automaticaly removed from SD card after the upgrade?, now i had to remove the card after the reboot and remove the file(s) manual.

Added to the new loader that gets installed with 1.43
Note that this means that the upgrade to 1.43 will not remove fs_fwrec yet because that is still done over the old loader.

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On the whole the new firmware like a lot, but there are some observations (device Mediabox 135): 1. Russian characters are not displayed in hours and in the files on the SD card. 2. The alarm does not include the off device. 3. Do not turn off playback FM in timer mode "to go to the clock screen". 4. Not shows the hours when unplugging the Internet radio in timer mode "to go to the clock screen". 5. If you removed the volume of the radio, an alarm will turn on the device without a sound. Thank you!

1. fixed in 1.43
2. Not sure what you mean.
    The sleep timer has two options, when the countdown reaches zero it can power off the device or it can go the the night clock.
    The Alarm will work if you have the device on the clock screen..
    The Alarm will work if you turned off the device (it will wake up)
    Note that the Alarm is improved in 1.43. there is now an Alarm info screen that shows the settings.
3. Fixed in 1.43
4. Should also be fixed in 1.43
5. The Alarm 1 and Alarm 2 volume level can be set individually. To set the alarm volume you will get a screen just like to set the brightness. So even when you turn the volume off, the alarm will still make some noise.. (unless you set the alarm volume level to 0.. )

 

 

 

 

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Feature request: Is there any change you will add a last.fm or Spotify app in a future version?

To integrate Spotify libspotify is needed. This is not available for the MIPS platform yet.
Last.fm: applied for a developer account now digging through the documents.

1.43 already has been extended with TuneIn (formerly RadioTime) and Icecast Yellow Pages

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On my device it has a very annoying bug: Alarm 1 cannot be turned off: It says Alarm1 [on]. When I press ok, it says: deactivating ... but right afterwards it still says Alarm1 [on] - and indeed it will ring on the set time and there is nothing I can do to stop it. BTW: pressing ok again and again will alternate through deactivating ... activating etc, but the result is always: Alarm1 [on] and never off.

Hi, the alarm should turn off. When you get the message about deactivated it is off. The "Alarm1 [on] is incorrectly displayed.
Anyway, 1.43 has an info screen that shows the exact status of the two alarms and the real time clock hardware. This shows you the exact date and time the alarm will go off.

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One other thing I noticed: Not every time, but quite often, when entering myfavorites -> Internet radio, I can use the arrow to go up and down, but trying to select a station jumps back to position 1 of the list. At that point all I can do is go up and down. Exit etc and even turning the device off via remote control do not work any more at that point. Just to make sure, nothing went wrong during flashing, I flashed the device again. However, it still behaves the same.

No need to reflash. I have not experienced the problem you describe but will take a look at the code and see if there is anything that can go wrong.. if so, I will put extra checks.

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Because of these two things I would like to do one of the following a.) if you have a pre 1.43 Version to test: can you provide it for me - I am more than willing to test b.) if this is not the case: is it save to revert back to Version 1.41 and leave loader V2 installed?

Wait for 1.43, the aim is to have it in the next few days.

 

 

 

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Would it be possible to add a graphic equaliser to future software updates? I find the units lack bass response even when used with a good amplifier. If an equaliser involves too much work how about a "Bass Boost" function?

I am checking into this.
So far I have no solution.
Mplayer equalizer fnctionality is too slow. Sound is more silent than playing  
Also the OSS kernel driver behind the mixer does not support Bass/Treble.

The Xoro has an equalizer but I do not hear a difference and other than changing button text (normal/pop/jazz/bass) I do not see any code being triggered when I debugged the Xoro software.
Is there anyone here who has experiences with the Xoro equalizer?
(or other suggestions are also very welcome)

~William

 

(Last Edited by penbex on July 4, 2012, 4:31 pm)

Hi,
first of all: thanks a lot for all the great work you do. Your firmware is a huge improvement to the one delivered.

I installed FW 1.42 - which went nicely.

On my device it has a very annoying bug: Alarm 1 cannot be turned off: It says Alarm1 [on]. When I press ok, it says: deactivating ... but right afterwards it still says Alarm1 [on] - and indeed it will ring on the set time and there is nothing I can do to stop it. BTW: pressing ok again and again will alternate through deactivating ... activating etc, but the result is always: Alarm1 [on] and never off.

One other thing I noticed:
Not every time, but quite often, when entering myfavorites -> Internet radio, I can use the arrow to go up and down, but trying to select a station jumps back to position 1 of the list. At that point all I can do is go up and down. Exit etc and even turning the device off via remote control do not work any more at that point.

Just to make sure, nothing went wrong during flashing, I flashed the device again. However, it still behaves the same.

Because of these two things I would like to do one of the following
a.) if you have a pre 1.43 Version to test: can you provide it for me - I am more than willing to test
b.) if this is not the case: is it save to revert back to Version 1.41 and leave loader V2 installed?

details about my device:
auvisio iptv 2335
Firmware 1.86
Modell KMP510.4.0 PX-8595
Type: RM003

William,

Would it be possible to add a graphic equaliser to future software updates?
I find the units lack bass response even when used with a good amplifier.
If an equaliser involves too much work how about a "Bass Boost" function?

Installed the new version and it works perfectly.

Many thanks for the good work AGAIN !!

1 spelling mistake found.  during the upgrade in the new loader V2.0 it does tell you the option of two files.

1 should be with the .upd     ext, which is NOT the case at this moment     Cosmetic only as any user will push the OK button  anyway

 

Xenta KMP510.  Installed 1.41 with loader 2 a week or so ago all worked OK. 

Downloaded 1.42 to an SD card and the update seemed to go OK.  The radio reported that the update was OK and it was rebooting but on reboot the display cycles around the icons (as normal) and then stops on the Internet Radio icon.  The SD CARD still contains fs_fwrec but it does not trigger the recovery.  I tried rebooting without the SD card also tried power up whilst and hold down the outer buttons but the display just hangs on Xenta. 

Are there any more options or is it time to get a new radio

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1. Is it possible to add such a feature?: When you select Media Player > SD card, show the "Resume playback from the last position? Yes/ No". This function is useful for listening to audio books. Or add bookmarks.

Yes, technically it should be possible. I do not know yet how. I will look into it.

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2. Is it possible to eliminate the absence of synchronization of audio and video playback movies with SD-card?

We use MPlayer. In theory all features of MPlayer can be used.
We do have a limitation on CPU speed though. So some video types simply cost too much calculation power to get audio and video synchronized properly.
I will check what we can do.

~William

2. Is it possible to eliminate the absence of synchronization of audio and video playback movies with SD-card?
Thank you.

(Last Edited by lev64 on June 29, 2012, 9:14 am)

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Feature request: Is there any change you will add a last.fm or Spotify app in a future version?

No problem to add it if I can find out how to connect/login/browse etc.
Live365 and Radiotime are sorted out and just need to be wired in.

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Can I help you with the i18n of the code by identifying and isolating string constants that need to be translated via the language files?

Not using i18n. I just use the language files which are plain text files. These are loaded into an array which is used throughout the program code.
Any string you have that is not yet in there is welcome. I know there are still a few that have to be converted from hardcoded to the text files.

(Last Edited by penbex on June 27, 2012, 7:09 pm)

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As with update to 1.41 3 weeks ago, on saturday too, i've been wake up by alarm sunday morning at 7.29... problem: alarm is Monday-Friday programmed (and ON in settings before upgrade) but it seems that when flashing to a new firmware, it compute alarm for the next day even if it's not a programmed day.

Nice job on finding and listing these issues
The alarm issue is resolved. The upcoming version has a new Alarm info screen where all alarm settings can be reviewed.
It displays if alarm1 or 2 is on/off at what time, how often etc. It also lists the current state of the real time clock hardware.
So you can see the exact date and time the alarm will go off.

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As allready said by someone else, clicking "NFS Network Settings" does not do anything - no text toggling, no sub-menu shown...

Will look into this.

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The sleep timer actions "Go to night clock" doesn't work on my Xoro. Worst it freeze the device on a screen display not Player, not Clock, something like "favorites radios list" but not entierely displayed with an orange bar on the middle of the screen. Only very very very very long press on the device power button can shutdown the device. I've done the test from the player screen and from the clock screen for the same result.

There were some issues with the sleep timer and going to night clock. I will check it again.

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In settings it's impossible to choose volume level for alarm (radio or sounds). Using up / down button on device or remote to choose an alarm then use ENTER/OK, the device play a sound and then up / down allready change to previous / next choice and do not change volume.

Yeah, this is tricky to set properly. I have changed it so that you can see the volume level.

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- the need to push 5 times (with delay betwin each push) the s-menu button to go from internet radio player to clock screen, is not really nice mainly in the dark before going to sleep. May be the ability to choose the order the apps launched with s-menu button could be an alternative way (or better choosing ONE action (the one choosen betwin stocks, tweeter, weather, news and clock) for this button in settings) - on other side when radio alarm is fired, the need to push 3 times STOP button to go back to the clock is, in my opinion, to much. One press should be enough.

Indeed, thats not the right way.

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- for thoose like me using glasses for near vision, the hour of the next alarm with his alarm number are too small for being seen. So may be, you can mixed this idea with my suggestion of using colors (for this text or the the alarm icon or why not this two ) ? with mnemonic colors: white (all colours) = all days yellow (nearest of white) = all days minus Sunday (Monday - Saturday) green (nearest of yellow) = all days minus week end (Monday - Friday) blue (nearest of green) = Only 2 days (Saturday - Sunday) red (nearest of blue) = One shot (next day only) gray (near of black = no color) = disabled (only to use for icons not for text of course)

I can also just increase the font so that the next alarm and sleeptimer countdown are the same size as the date.
Changing the color of the icon is not easy to do. But I can do your color suggestion on the text.  

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- to go from clock to internet radio, i need use: RETURN + FAV + DOWN + ENTER ---> this 3 ones should be well replaced by INTERNET RADIO button no ?

Good idea.

 

Feature request: Is there any change you will add a last.fm or Spotify app in a future version?

Can I help you with the i18n of the code by identifying and isolating string constants that need to be translated via the language files?

Hello William,

first of all: nice job one more time.


Updated from 1.41 to 1.42 last saturday morning.

As with update to 1.41 3 weeks ago, on saturday too, i've been wake up by alarm sunday morning at 7.29... problem: alarm is Monday-Friday programmed (and ON in settings before upgrade) but it seems that when flashing to a new firmware, it compute alarm for the next day even if it's not a programmed day.

As allready said by someone else, clicking "NFS Network Settings" does not do anything - no text toggling, no sub-menu shown...

The sleep timer actions "Go to night clock" doesn't work on my Xoro.
Worst it freeze the device on a screen display not Player, not Clock, something like "favorites radios list" but not entierely displayed with an orange bar on the middle of the screen. Only very very very very long press on the device power button can shutdown the device.
I've done the test from the player screen and from the clock screen for the same result.

In settings it's impossible to choose volume level for alarm (radio or sounds).
Using up / down button on device or remote to choose an alarm then use ENTER/OK, the device play a sound and then up / down allready change to previous / next choice and do not change volume.


Not bugs but some ergonomic's regrets and improvment suggestions:

- the need to push 5 times (with delay betwin each push) the s-menu button to go from internet radio player to clock screen, is not really nice mainly in the dark before going to sleep. May be the ability to choose the order the apps launched with s-menu button could be an alternative way (or better choosing ONE action (the one choosen betwin stocks, tweeter, weather, news and clock) for this button in settings)

- on other side when radio alarm is fired, the need to push 3 times STOP button to go back to the clock is, in my opinion, to much. One press should be enough.

- for thoose like me using glasses for near vision, the hour of the next alarm with his alarm number are too small for being seen. So may be, you can mixed this idea with my suggestion of using colors (for this text or the the alarm icon or why not this two ) ?
with mnemonic colors:
white (all colours) = all days
yellow (nearest of white) = all days minus Sunday (Monday - Saturday)
green (nearest of yellow) = all days minus week end (Monday - Friday)
blue (nearest of green) = Only 2 days (Saturday - Sunday)
red (nearest of blue) = One shot (next day only)
gray (near of black = no color) = disabled (only to use for icons not for text of course)

- to go from clock to internet radio, i need use:
RETURN +
FAV + DOWN + ENTER ---> this 3 ones should be well replaced by INTERNET RADIO button no ?

regards
Eric (leviking)

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Here maybe a little bug?!  By selecting settings/autopower_off_sleeptimer/sleeptimer_action: Night_Clock, Arnova is switching to night_clock (brightness has to be adjusted before!) but the unit is not switching off, radio is not getting silent and is not switching off!

Yes,
It works if you have the player screen. If you moved to news/weather/twitter/stocks/clock mode.. then it does not turn off the sound.
Fixing it now.

 

 

William,

well done.

Two issues:

- Vodcast leaves scrambled screen after Video is finished.
- Would it be possible to download the latest Vodcast not the last played one when starting up with "play last video"? Example: "Tagesschau in 100 Minuten". The latest news would be the interesting one, not the last one watched...

Regards,
Heiko

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Firmware 1.42 has been released

Good idea.. now is an option in the FM settings screen..

Every time you turn the FM-radio shows "connect the antenna." Is it possible to remove it?

Thanks again, worked a treat. I had no idea that was a scale volume menu, it was set at 00 (loud). I thought it was an initial volume setting when entering play mode.

Go to settings, player setiings and set the volume preset.. This will make it possible to go really soft or really loud..

Just one more thing Penbex. On the Otek 510 unit, the very first notch of volume in your firmware is way too loud for quiet listening. Is this a software scaling issue or is it the hardware? Reducing the sensitivity at the low end of volume would be really benefical.

Cheers

Thanks Penbex, appreciate the reply. Awesome work you are doing, very grateful indeed.

Hi, to use myfavorites in the most easy way, go to settings and select your user name from the massive list. This only needs to be done once. Then use the myfavorites button to go to your favorites directly. The little bar top,left on the taskbar is the volume indicator. The alarm on/off bug is known. To get the most out of the remote.. Go to settings and set the remote control to extended.. Recovery mode files have not been released yet.. They will be later..

Hi,

Carried over from the 1.41 thread as requested:

***Hi,

Having major issues with new firmware 1.42. Just installed the loader v2 and firmware on a brand new OTEK IPTV510 KMP510 with original V1.7 firmware.

Loader then Firmware went in fine, but some of the menus go in circles, and when the "Internet Radio" is clicked, it comes up on the left with "16 entries" and the list is the same as in the settings screen (Network options etc). Same thing is happening on the "Internet TV", "Shoutcast", "Podcast", "Vodcast". Can't seem to get to any content, just dead menus coming up identical to the settings menu.

Also, I can't seem to enter "Myfavourites user account" and some of the options just do nothing in various menus.

Wifi connection is definately up and ok.

Something very wrong with this. Any assistance would be great, as cannot use the unit now. *******************


Ok, so after about 15 reboots, a mix of hot and cold, the firmware appears to be working fairly normally now. I can access radio, tv, weather etc. WIFI was up/available the whole time during testing, and I left it for 20+ minutes between each reboot to pull any server data it needed to. It just kind of sprang into life right at the end and began working correctly.

Noticed a couple of bugs during the testing worth sharing:

- Internet radio > my favourites brings up a massive list of users and favourites, whereas it should jump to my username fav's? The my favourites icon on home screen jumps correctly. I have selected my username in the settings menu.
- Internet TV > my favourites: as above
- Podcast > My favourites: as above
- Vodcast > My favurites: as above
- Playing internet radio, click Sub menu on the extended remote and page with a list (cnn etc) comes up ok, click submenu again and unit goes back to radio but hangs on the blue progress spinner, remote useless, reboot required.
- LOADER: installing recovery mode fails, it asks for files on the SD card and cant find them. I put all the loader and firmware files on it, cannot find what it's looking for and falls over.
- Alarm 1 cannot be indicated to be off in the menu (known I think )

And question, what is the progress type bar at the very top left of the screen for? It seems to change every so often. Sorry buy I can't find any feature docs on the firmware.

Thanks for this project, really appreciate it and will donate when I can

Regards,
6J6A.

I mean we have an menu in settings "Date and Time".  Click on it brings an new menu with four points: Internet-time synchronize now; synchronize Internet yes/no; set date and time manuel and timezone.

I click date and time manuel and get only "Set Time:"

In that window i became four lines; first is Title text "Set Time:"; next is the actual time; next is an row with ten diggits and next with tree points as OK and an point to format hours and minutes and last to Delete some diggit!

I click OK after some correction and be back! I never see an window to adjust the date and thats the point i mean.

(ok, i can take dropbear and set the date we make it in all linux systems but thats not the point)

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ok, the Alarm Info is an great Idea 

(Last Edited by rst001 on June 24, 2012, 9:20 pm)

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On the whole the new firmware like a lot, but there are some observations (device Mediabox 135): 1. Russian characters are not displayed in hours and in the files on the SD card. 2. The alarm does not include the off device. 3. Do not turn off playback FM in timer mode "to go to the clock screen". 4. Not shows the hours when unplugging the Internet radio in timer mode "to go to the clock screen". 5. If you removed the volume of the radio, an alarm will turn on the device without a sound. Thank you!

Thanks for your remarks. I will check them and fix the issues.
On the top of my list is improve the firmnware for the Russian language.

 

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I would like to MyFavorites add stations button FAV, both in the official firmware, and not only on the site.

Yes, this is on my "todo list" I am working on it but it was not finished yet.
The idea is that the you can use the FAV button on the device and that it adds the favorites on the server as well. So you can use both.
Organizing the favorite list is also something I have planned.

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And Screensaver "Clock" during playback

During playback you can press the "sub menu" button to switch between news/weather/twitter/clock/night clock
During playback you can also use the "clock" button to switch to the clock.
There is no automatic screensaver mode yet.

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Is it a bug or a feature ?  Alarm 1 i have set on seven at five workdays. It fires at Saturday, it fires up on Sunday. Alarm 2 is set on ten o clock on weekday. Its the same wen i changed Alarm 1 and 2.

Sounds like a bug. I will test this.

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In settings we can change time and nothing else so i have no way to test my settings. I think it would be nice to set the date (for testing the one timeserver, what says my router about netdate/time and so on).

What do you mean exactly with that?
If you go to the clock screen it will tell you the current date, current day and current time.
If the Alarm is set it will show this via the icons. It will also tell you which of the alarms will be first to go off.

If you go to "Synchronize Internet Time Now" it will take the time from the Internet and display "The system time has been synchronized".
What I can change is that when you do the synchronisation, that it tells you the time it received. Would that help?

What I also can do is, in the Alarm screen.. you now can choose between Alarm 1 and Alarm 2 to change the settings
I can add a third option, "Alarm Info" which will display a screen with the date and time alarm 1 and 2 are set to (if set) and which one the system will handle first. Would that help?

~W. 

I would like to MyFavorites add stations button FAV, both in the official firmware, and not only on the site. And Screensaver "Clock" during playback
(Last Edited by lev64 on June 24, 2012, 4:11 pm)

Due to the update from 1.41 to 1.42 some previous setting had to be set again, like user for the favorites, type of remote controller, timezone... and you have to go through the list.  Now it works very nice! Sleep timer setting  is also much nicer, I can go directly while listening to the radio. Thanks a lot William!!! Great work! I'll  send you a little donation 2. time now and hope to find some friends to follow me...  You really deserve it!  

Alarm is  indeed a tricky feature: As said above, the english text of Alarm 1 [Set] does not change, whether this Alarm is set or not. You can only see by the pop up show (Alarm activated/Alarm deactivated) how the status is. My wife already hates the device because the alarm started to go off on sunday, despite beeing turned of.
Can the alarm function be disabled at all?

Is it a bug or a feature ? 

Alarm 1 i have set on seven at five workdays. It fires at Saturday, it fires up on Sunday. Alarm 2 is set on ten o clock on weekday. Its the same wen i changed Alarm 1 and 2.

In settings we can change time and nothing else so i have no way to test my settings. I think it would be nice to set the date (for testing the one timeserver, what says my router about netdate/time and so on).

(Last Edited by rst001 on June 24, 2012, 1:44 pm)

Another one: clicking "NFS Network Settings" does not do anything - no text toggling, no sub-menu shown...

The sleep timer actions ("PowerOff" and "Go to night clock") are not ready for i18n as well.

Any chance to translate AccuWeather terms like "Clear", "SSE", "Rising" and add a °C/°F (degree) sign after the two temperatures?

I agree.. and indeed there are still some texts that are hardcoded that need to be available in the language file. Will work on that.
Also found the alarm1 toggle bug.. luckily it does function.. just the displayed text is wrong.

Me too!
I mean, I also updated successfully and I support the automatic fs_rec file deletion as well.

When playing around with the menus to improve the German language file, I encountered a small bug:
If you toggle alarm 1 on/off, it correctly shows the message "Alarm 1 activated" or "Alarm 1 deactivated", but the settings text is always "Alarm 1 [Yes]" (or the corresponding translation). The text does not toggle from "[Yes]" to "[No]" or vice versa.

BTW: I found no string in the language file for the "Alarm 1 activated" or "Alarm 1 deactivated" messages...

If you enter the settings menu (the icon to reach it is correctly titled "Einstellungen" in German), the icon is displayed, but the title is "Settings" (not translated). I cannot find any way to adjust this in the language file.

Successfully upgraded to version 1.42. William thanks!

William: tip for possible next version:  fs_fwrec automaticaly removed from SD card after the upgrade?, now i had to remove the card after the reboot and remove the file(s) manual.

Changelog:

v1.42 - dated: 22 june 2012
Fixed: Improved UPnP device detection.
Fixed: When you set an Alarm sound you will see a list of preloaded sounds, the last entry is FM Radio and the entry before that is incorrectly displaying "Weekend (Sat-Sun)".
This is actually the setting for the last played music stream.
Fixed: When you select the Dutch language the MyFavorites screen does not display the right tes. Will be solved as soon as possible.
Fixed: When playing from a local or network dream and not using the repeat function, at the end of the playlist the player loops while it should just terminate.
Fixed: recording was possible in MyFavorites: Internet TV & Vodcast. This caused problems. No longer possible to select recording here.
Fixed: When going from playing music to the clock screen the sleeptimer could not be set.
Fixed: Activate UPnP on startup setting could be activated but did not survive reboots..
Fixed: Turning off the alarm did not really turn off an already set alarm in the real time clock hardware.
Changed: Restore Factory defaults. Now has 3 questions, clear device settings, clear wifi settings and clear cache memory. Answering yes on any of the first two questions will result in a reboot.
Changed: Some texts were either too large or too small.
Changed: when UPnP is not activated on startup, it is only active during the Mediaplayer session (to make sure network traffic and memory use is low).
Changed: List of stock market symbols was static, now it is loaded from the server.
Changed: Language data was static, now it is loaded from the server.
Changed: moved the taskbar from the bottom to the top of the screen in Main screen and More Apps screen.
Changed: recorded file names changed to contain "ddmm-hhmm_station name".
Added: Device "OK"/Center button can now set the sleep timer during clock display mode too.
Added: Taskbar to media player device selection screen
Added: Minimum cache size (mplayer '-cache-min' option) can now be set in the settings screen 
Added: Our devices have the Wifi module run in power saving mode. It is now possible to switch between power saving and max. performance.
            Note that also power consumption increases so this might not be a good idea when using batteries.  
            Also note that if your Wifi is working fine, you should not really change the setting.
Added: Additional languages. Translations and fixes can be added afterwards.

v1.41 - dated: 7 june 2012
Improved overal stability.
Added: If a stream stops due to an empty cache it will restart up to 3 times. (can be turned off in "volume and player settings")
             Note that this feature works perfect in some cases, in other cases it might just fail 3 times in a row.
Added: Video is now automatically scaled to full screen. (can be turned off in "volume and player settings")
Changed: News page font changed from 10p to 12p
Changed: Twitter page shows 5 tweets per page, was 7
Changed: Twitter page font changed from 10p to 12p
Added: Latest Movie Trailers from a well-known source
Added: some additional system information that is needed for recovery modes.
Added: When the alarm is set to the last player url, it is stored seperately. This means you can set Alarm1 to the last played station, then tune to a new station, set Alarm 2 to that one and then listen to a different station with the sleep timer. This solves the problem of going to sleep with one station and waking up with another.
Added: Sleep timer countdown is displayed on the clock screen.
Added: first alarm to get triggered and the time it is triggered is displayed on the clock screen.
Changed: Audio/Media player has a new graphics layout and some on screen buttons (previous/next/play/pause/record/stop/shuffle/repeat).
Added: shuffle and repeat are controlled with the repeat button, just press multiple times to turn options on/off
Added: additional XML support increasing compatibility with several entended XML documents.
Added: additional code page support for XML data
Added: NBC streams to the More Apps button (previously known as sub menu).
Added: Weather now also shows visibility, humidity, air pressure and UV index
Fixed: SSID with spaces now fully supported.
Fixed: sleep timer.
Fixed: Alarm 1 and 2 and several issues surrounding it. Press back/exit button to deactivate alarm, ok/up/down to snooze. 
Fixed: Alarm can now wake you up with internet radio station sound. Selection is limited to the last played station for now, to not delay the release much longer this will be extended at a later date.
Fixed: Wifi (re)connection bug failed to reinitialize.
Fixed: Wifi AP list now also shows the currently connected AP
Fixed: Wifi AP list incorrectly displayed open networks as Encrypted () without encryption type.
Fixed: list rotation bug.
Fixed: manual entry of stock symbol now works again.
Fixed: NFS server activation/deactivation.
Fixed: FTP server activation/deactivation.
Fixed: Memory leak in the application switching code.
Fixed: crash on missing image.
Fixed: issue with second DNS address.
Fixed: controlling the settings screen with the device buttons was not always working.
Fixed: not being able to play video from UPnP devices.
Fixed: when multiple files were being played in some cases the wrong title was displayed.
Added: Directories can now be sorted alphabetical or on file type (using the fav button during directory listing)
Added: loading of compressed Internet data
Added: WEP key encryption now supports all 4 keys which can be entered in decimal or hexadecimal. WEP is not recommended though since it is not secure.
Added: Now a mail symbol gets displayed on the taskbar when a new firmware is available.
Added: Alarm can now also start the FM Radio.
Added: MediaPlayer now also displays images and plays a slideshow.
Added: MediaPlayer now also can display images from UPnP and Samba network devices.
Added: MediaPlayer listings now have icons to indicate audio/video/image/directory.
Added: Sleep timer now has a selection to power down or to go to the clock screen.
Added: Podcasts from the server are now correctly listed on the device (also on older firmwares).
Added: Volume control with top buttons during clock display.
Added: UPnP activation at startup is now optional it can be (de)activated in the settings smenu. in normal cases it will be activated upon entering the media player.
Added: Dropbear/SSH support.
Added: Recorded radio streams now contain part of the station name in the file name (together with date and time of the recording).
Added: When an alarm sound is selected, the volume can be modified during the playback of the alarm sound selection and is stored together with the selected sound as wake up volume. For Internet radio and FM radio an alternative sound is played in order to control and properly set the volume.
Added: New weather radar images for all regions (Asia/Africa/Europe/South America/North America/Oceania)! (Meteovista) Region selection under settings or using up/down when watching the radar images.
Added: EQ/Red button now also switches to the clock while listening to music. (added for Xoro remote users).
Added: Auto play at startup can now do last played audio or video (selection under settings).
Changed: increased cache for Internet radio streaming.
Changed: [EQ/Red] button to switch between applications changed to [Sub menu] button.
Changed: now auto play at startup will only start if you are in the main menu when the Internet connection is established.
Changed: WPA/WPA2 password length increased to max. 63 characters under manual network settings.
Changed: Internet TV/Video Player mode now also correctly terminates on user request. This solves hanging url's.(Special watchdog implemented for both audio and video).
Changed: Mediaplayer: OK button now plays all files in a directory, Play button only plays the highlited entry.
Changed: Mediaplayer: Starts playing directories from the highlited entry.
Changed: The [home] button now brings you instantly back to the main menu.
Changed: Removed the Photoplayer as this is now included in the Mediaplayer.
Changed: Photoplayer button is replaced by a "More Apps" button that leads to the submenu.
Changed: Weather app has changed, some new data etc.
Changed: FM Radio: Device buttons up/down now control volume (consistant with playing radio/mp3's )

v1.4 - dated: 05 march 2012
- Added: UPnP support
- Added: (Experimental!!)  Recording option on Internet Radio stations. In the radio list, press RED or EQ button to record.
- Added: Buienradar on the weather module. Radar images for Europe and Netherlands are available.
- Added: Alarm sound selection, choose from 9 pre-loaded sounds or use option 10: the last played radio station/audio sound file
- Added: Clock can now be displayed during audio playback
- Added: clock button can be used to toggle between normal and nighttime clock mode 
- Added: 'App' Button assigned to switch between News/Weather/Twitter and Stocks.  Extended remote: Red button / Simple remote: EQ button
- Added: 'App' button works while listening to music.
- Added: Analog clock. (Analog / Digital clock selection is made via the settings screen)
- Added: Auto play at startup (enable in settings to use it)
- Added: shortcut to Sleeptimer, use the [Stop] button any time in any menu (except when playing audio/video) to activate or change the sleep timer setting.
               Multiple presses cycle through the various sleep timer options.
- Added extra checks for broken streams to avoid long waits/hanging for +30 seconds
- Added better stream identification before giving a stream to MPlayer
- Added: Now reports errors when trying to play broken or inactive streams
- Added: MPlayer volume preset is now adjustable via the settings menu (this is the base volume of the player)
- Added: "last played video" to the Favorites menu
- Added: step forward/backward (15 seconds) through audio files
- Added: Sleep timer: 90 minutes setting
- Added: vsFTP, can be enabled/disabled via the settings screen
- Added: safe beta testing mechanism
- Added: Updates internal clock with NTP time upon entering the clock screens (if NTP synchronization is enabled in the settings screen)
- Added: Now shows an icon on the taskbar when the device is connected on main power / USB power
- Added: Volume and Wifi status are shown in most menu screens
- Added: Can now also remove a single access point from the list.
- Added: Center button (aka OK button) on top of the device can now be used to pause playback
- Added: Logitech Harmony support (read next line)
- Added: Support for the Penbex Remote Controls because it is supported by the Logitech.Harmony. So it is a replacement option for people that have no original remote.
              Also it supports more buttons than the standard remote that comes with the Xoro models.
              Program your Harmony as a Centrios KW 1315117. Once done, navigate with the device buttons to the settings screen, [remote control settings] and select [Remote Control model]
              the screen then waits for you to press the [Mute] button. Once you press mute it should detect the Penbex remote and map the buttons accordingly.
- Fixed: Samba: now able to browse Netgear ReadyNAS models.
- Fixed: Samba: now able to browse Windows 7 machines. Anonymous viewing of Win 7 shares was in most cases not possible. 
             Now Win 7 is correctly detected and username/password are aasked. Alternative is to change Win 7 settings for shares.
- Fixed: Sleeptime had a problem with the date change, should be fixed now.
- Fixed: Main device volume survives reboots (it is saved and restored when the device is turned off/on)
- Fixed: playing random tracks when in playlist mode
- Fixed: some small bugs
- Fixed: Clock now displays month and day in the correct language
- Fixed: Manual AccessPoint connection fixed, hidden SSID should work now too
- Fixed: "Restart last played Music link" in some cases stops responding to key input so it will play forever or until you unplug power..
- Fixed: After the night brightness fix not surviving a reboot the brightness and night brightness got tangled.
- Fixed: a bug that showed the SD card inserted icon incorrectly in some cases
- Fixed: Menu navigation remembers position in most menu screens when going back to a previous screen
- Fixed: Weather location selection was showing just the city, now shows city + country/state
- Changed: stock market now shows major stock market data (DJ/NYSE,SMI,AEX,CAC,DAX and more)
- Changed: Sleep timer volume will go down in steps in the last 3, 2 and 1 minute.
- Changed: Rearranged the Network Settings screen
- Changed: Improved network stability and detection
- Changed: Samba Server is now disabled by default. Can be enabled in the settings screen
- Changed: News module has been improved. better support for some RSS types, more feeds added as well
- Changed: Twitter module has been improved. following Twitter API now too
- Changed: Modified memory usage to improve behaviour
- Scrollover the top of the menu to the beginning of the list is an option now. It can be activated in the settings screen
- Changed: Moved the external media related buttons (USA Today, Revision3, Discovery HD, CNN etc etc.) to a sub menu. Sub menu can be reached with the menu button
- Changed: The text of the selected menu item is now printed in Yellow in the main and sub menu. So when the glass "selector" tile is not visible the text will help.

v1.3a - dated: 07 january 2012
- When network was set to "OFF" the system would crash. No longer possible.
- Fixed Static IP. 
- Fixed the screen refresh settings not updating the display correctly.
- Fixed asf streams not being recognized correctly (eg. N-TV stream now correctly identified and playing)

v1.3 - dated: 06 january 2012
- Added volume control for small remotes like used with Xoro. 
- Fixed top buttons.
- By slowing down the device key responses key repetition got broken. It is working again now. but needs a long press. Need more test results to fine tune.
- Fixed a cache bug on Podcast and Vodcast favorites.
- Can now play the last played stream/file. No matter if this was before a powerdown or just some minutes ago.
   You can find a new option under "my favorites" where you can select "Play last audio link" to play whatever radio/mp3 file you played last.
- FAV button goes directly to favorites screen
- Fixed the FM tuning scale.
- Fixed some stream types that refused to play.
- When updating from an older firmware version the sleeptimer 'icon' got activated but not the sleeptimer itself. Fixed.
- After deleting the access point list, wpa_supplicant still remembered the configuration requiring a reboot. Should be solved now.
- WPA2 had some bugs causing it to fail. Routers set to WPA and WPA/WPA2 mixed were working fine. Pure WPA2 was often failing.
  Completely rewrote the network routines. Open, WEP, WPA and WPA2 should work now.
  Routines now use low level socket functions.
- Static IP still failed to work due to some remembered settings. Fixed now.
- Fixed the Wifi Signal strength indicator. Now it gives the real signal strength.
- Twitter page now shows special characters correctly (like ÿüë etc.)
- Failsafe mode now more powerful
- In previous versions, the remote control buttons are used in a compatibility mode. This means only buttons that are on all remote controls are used.
  Now its possible to select the correct remote control type in the setup screen. No real selection is needed, just the [Mute] button has to be pressed.
 Since Mute is different on each model the program determines what type to use. The selection is stored so you only have to do it once. 
 During the selection, any button other than [Mute] will push the selection back to compatibility mode.
- Now that the remotes are identified, new button options have been introduced. In most cases [Home] will take you to the top of lists.
 [Clock] gets you to the day time clock mode. [Fav] to the favorites menu, [FM] to the FM screen, [Int Radio] and [Int. TV] to the Internet Radio/TV screens.
- Twitter and Weather data gets refreshed automatically if you activate screen refreshing in the settings screen.

v1.2a - dated: 25 december 2011
- Fixed the volume button. 
- When the sleep timer is used, the setting survived reboots. Fixed now.

v1.2 - dated: 25 december 2011
- Added failsafe mode! If for whatever reason the application crashes, there is a backup plan. This only works on the application.
  It does not protect against Linux failures etc. There is a real recovery mode for this but unfortunately not installed on all models.
  It can however be installed on working devices that do not have the recovery already!
  Special files to add the recovery mode will be released after further tests.
- Slowed down device key responses. 
- Added Samba username/password logins. Device first tries with guest login if that fails it will ask for username and password.
- Fixed a few small screen print issues.
- Fixed obtaining Gateway/Router address.

v1.1 - dated: 22 december 2011
Fixed (or at least they are supposed to be fixed):
- most connection problems should have been solved
  When you power up, there is a red "network" icon in the lower right hand corner. This means the network has not been setup yet.
  This red "network" icon will change to green when the network drivers and configuration has been loaded.
  If the network has been setup correctly, the green icon should change to a white signal strength indicator within a few seconds..
  At this point the connection is working properly. (the connection has been tested by a probe to a public server and there was a check for new firmware on the ListenLive server)
- Static IP now also works
- Network status has been modified and gives more details
- Top device buttons can be used in most of the menus/screens
- Under settings, setting "MyFavorites user account" will instantly clear the favorites cache.
- French language has been added
- Stocks are working
- MediaPlayer previous/next song works.
- Manual setting the time works. (and survives reboots) 
- NZ times should have been fixed.
- Clock brightness reset issue is fixed.
- OGG File support
- Flac file support
- FM Radio digits repositioned
- Auto Power Off / Sleeptimer added
- Deleting stored wifi networks
- Improved Samba
- Twitter account setting is now correctly saved
- FM Radio presets added.
  Now Radio has 2 operation modes, Tuning mode and Preset mode. Toggle mode with OK button.
  In preset mode use < and > to switch between the six on screen stored frequencies.
  In Tuning mode use ^and V for freq. up/down scanning, < and > for regular tuning up/down in .10 mhz steps. Press FAV to assign freq. to currently selected memory preset.
- The Alarm clock has been fixed. Alarm can be set once, every day, mon-fri, mon-sat and weekend only. OK/Directional pad activates snooze, exit/menu button deactivates the alarm.

v1.0 - dated 09: december 2011 -
Initial Revision

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Firmware 1.42 has been released
You can only load the 1.42 firmware from the Listenlive Loader Version 2.0 !!!
If you are using the original firmware or a Listenlive firmware older than 1.41 you have to update to the new loader first, then load the 1.42 firmware.

Status:  Preparing release files..

Changelist 1.43:
Added: "Connect antenna..." message when going to FM radio now can be disabled in the FM settings screen
Added: Alarm Info screen created that lists all details about the alarms, time/date/set/not net etc.
Added: Synchronize Internet time now displays the new time it got from the time server
Added: More Aps, CBS News feeds
Added: Icecast Yellow Pages radio station feeds
Added: TuneIn (previously known as RadioTime) browsing and playing of streams
Added: Calendar screen, app button on front page has the correct date as well.
            Calendar displays: year month day time on left hand side, right hand side has a month view with days of week and week numbers
Fixed: Alarm 1 now correctly displays ON/OFF
Fixed: Changed 18p font to include Cyrillic characters
Fixed: Media player now displays country specific characters correctly (ëöü etc. but also Russian-Cyrillic, Chinese etc.)
Fixed: NFS selection did not visually show if it was on or off.
Fixed: After leaving the player screen sometimes images were overlapping. Should be fixed now.
Fixed: in some cases the sleep timer would not shut of the sounds that were playing.
Added: Alarm Volume selection screen similar to the brightness selection screens
Added: Speaker icon to the taskbar
Added: Additional FM frequency checks to make sure the frequency is within the selected band
Added: Support for cover art (folder.jpg/gif/png)
Changed: moved more static text strings to the language files
Changed: first alarm time and sleep timer countdown font increased so that it is easier to read
Changed: Selection of Analog/Digital clock can now be set seperately for normal and night mode clock.

Reported Bugs (not yet fixed):
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Known Issues:
- TV-Out is not working properly, this will be addressed as soon as possible.
Unlike the official firmware, technically it is possible to drive an external screen with 720x573 or 720x482 resolution.
It will take some time to get it sorted out and pull the most out of the hardware.
- The devices are clocked at 378 Mhz. According to the Ingenic datasheet, the CPU can operate at 400 Mhz.
Overclocking should also work up to ~430 Mhz. So I will try to get the CPU a bit faster.

Planned for a future update:
Fix TVOut
Browse via Genre when browsing TV/Radio lists. (already supported on the firmware, needs a change at the server)
Previous/Next radio/tv station stream with left/right buttons while playing
Improve NFS support
Add a Screensaver.

(Last Edited by penbex on July 9, 2012, 9:56 am)