Moddable P05-IMS-Demo for BC16

[aasoror]

For BC16 owners, and those who likes to play with the BC18+ boxes.
SquashFS root image was unpacked and packed as a yaffs2 image (and config.xml modified properly).

As usual (with any firmware upgrade be it official or custom), please don't attempt unless you can recover serially. This isn't official and is not endorsed by PM in any way.

P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16)

/ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                96.4M     96.4M         0 100% /
/dev/mtdblock/2           8.0M      1.4M      6.6M  17% /usr/local/etc
/dev/rd/0                40.0k     40.0k         0 100% /mnt/rd

Custom Releases:

1. Drop all IMS contents and replace with the small organized ones from ACR, enjoy the space
P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16) Lite

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               133.9M     79.1M     54.8M  59% /
/dev/mtdblock/2          16.0M      5.8M     10.2M  37% /usr/local/etc

2. Squeeze everything in there, both IMS modules from PBO and ACR, metafeeds, xLive and RSS-Jukebox. No need for HDD to be installed. Remember to unmount /usr/local/bin/scripts if you have i prior metafeeds installation.
P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16) megapack
There is also more than enough space for infosite and optware .. etc

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               133.9M    121.3M     12.5M  91% /
/dev/mtdblock/2          16.0M      5.8M     10.2M  37% /usr/local/etc

3. Adds YouTube (HD), Shoutcase, xspf & m3u playlists to the megapack.
P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16) megapack YT Edition

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root               133.9M    120.7M     13.1M  90% /
/dev/mtdblock/2          18.0M      9.9M      8.1M  55% /usr/local/etc

4. Added ipkg-cl for optware installation on YT Edition, reworked directly structure for enable write access (without remount) to opt, unicgi and various IMS-Modules folders for a more smooth customizable experience (not to mention faster bootup too).
P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16) megapack YT Edition 4 Optware

~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                78.6M     72.9M      5.7M  93% /
/dev/mtdblock/2          69.0M     57.6M     11.4M  83% /usr/local/etc
/dev/rd/0                40.0k     40.0k         0 100% /mnt/rd

Release Notes:
Pre-installation setup: Its recommended to full erase your PBO prior to the firmware upgrade to do that follow "tourist" advice below.

Only after I downgrade it to P02, which went through the flashing process twice (i.e. reboot in between), and then re-flash with IMS YT firmware with 2 flashing processes solved the problem. Unlike my previous update, all the settings (including date/time/network) were all gone.

Metafeeds: go to metafeeds.com, create an account (note user name). telnet to the box and remount / as rw. Edit /usr/local/bin/scripts/menu.rss and replace the "username" in the "fav_username" inside the menu.rss with your metafeeds.com account name, or use the following sed command

# sed -i "s/fav_username/YourUserName/g" /usr/local/bin/scripts/menu.rss

RSS-Jukebox: To get this jukebox running get the TViXiE2Playon!HD (how to here). And the file you will want to edit to add your jukebox path to is in "/usr/local/bin/scripts/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss" or in "/usr/local/etc/dvdplayer/savedrss/scripts/Movie_Jukebox/Movie_Jukebox.rss", you will need to remount / as rw when you are editing it as well. For more info about configuring a network based jukebox read here.

PBO BT web interface (megapack YT Edition) : access "http://YOUR.PBO.IP/WebTorrentHome.html"

The mos YT experience : Having hard time making up the highlighted/selected video ? download the image pack from here into some place accessible to the PBO, then execute the following

cp /wherever/YTimages.tar /usr/local/etc/bin/image/
cd /usr/local/etc/bin/image
tar -xf YTimages.tar
rm YTimages.tar

Need more Asian feeds ? check tourist's post here.

Credits:
Metafeeds : vonck (POHD-forums)
xLive : Cap (Xtreamer-forums)
Jukebox : OoD (POHD-forums)
mos : FarVoice (O!Play-forums)
rssex : timduck (iconbit-forums)

Mods and edits where necessary : aasoror (PBO-forums)

Acknowledgments
Snappy46 (PBO-forums)

[billcat]

Tried installation and got this error:

Install Error! Please Reboot!

No space for yaffs2 image!

On reboot I got the red "No HDD Found" error. My hd is the modded Internal SDD adapter.

Rebooted with the official P05-IMS Beta Version install and that went smoothly.

[aasoror]

Tried installation and got this error:



On reboot I got the red "No HDD Found" error. My hd is the modded Internal SDD adapter.

Rebooted with the official P05-IMS Beta Version install and that went smoothly.

Interesting, the new config.xml sets /usr/local/etc to around 60 MB, the yaffs2 image is around 100 MB, this well below the 256MB capacity of the box.

That said I wonder if a more conservative settings (like those of prior firmware) would fix the space issue.

I will test and report back.

Thanks billcat

[aasoror]

That said I wonder if a more conservative settings (like those of prior firmware) would fix the space issue.

Link updated, /usr/local/etc is now set to 8MB instead of 60MB, this "should" fix the "Install Error! Please Reboot!" reported by billcats, unless the installer just doesn't like yaffs2 images (taken from a squashfs install).

[billcat]

Hey success!!

What did you do?

This looks exactly like the release firmware lol

Edit:
Everything's working as it was with the official release demo, even my weather favorites are saved

[aasoror]

Hey success!!

What did you do?

This looks exactly like the release firmware lol

Edit:
Everything's working as it was with the official release demo, even my weather favorites are saved

finally something working ..
now this is indeed the release firmware .. the only difference now is that root can be mounted as read/write instead of read only. Which would basically allow every hack in the book.

If you can telnet to the box and check the path for the HDD, if it matches ACR (/tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/), this means all the ACR goodies should work as is.

[Patriot_Z]

For BC16 owners, and those who likes to play with the BC18+ boxes.
SquashFS root image was unpacked and packed as a yaffs2 image (and config.xml modified properly).

To keep changes minimal, I didn't change the "install application", though I don't think "install_a will check for bootcode version on boxes.

As usual, please don't attempt unless you can recover serially. This isn't official and is not endorsed by PM in any way.

P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16)

If this should install we will be able to install all the RSS goodies already available for the "you know which" boxes.

Working fine as confirmed by billcats

/ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/root                99.4M     97.5M      1.8M  98% /
/dev/mtdblock/2          16.0M      1.7M     14.3M  11% /usr/local/etc
/dev/rd/0                40.0k     40.0k         0 100% /mnt/rd
/ #

Aasorsor,
you are deifnitly too quick for us. Thanks again for helping out on the forums. Keep an eye out, we got a surprise for you .

[ketty_yijun]

Custom Releases:

1. Drop all IMS contents and replace with the small organized ones from ACR, enjoy the space

2. Squeeze everything in there, both IMS modules from PBO and ACR, metafeeds, xLive and RSS-Jukebox. No need for HDD to be installed. Remember to unmount /usr/local/bin/scripts if you have i prior metafeeds installation.
P05-IMS-Demo (for BC16) megapack
There is also more than enough space for infosite and optware .. etc

asian version please or teach me how to modify?

does it support HFS+ file system?

[aasoror]

asian version please or teach me how to modify?

First I would appreciate if you edit your post above and not quote my whole post, we are trying not to duplicate sources so everything is kept under control.

Second, we work with whatever we are supplied with, the original locked/unpatched Asian version of ACR was released by ACR. once PM follow suite and start releasing an Asian version of its firmware we should be able to create a custom one.

Sorry about that.

[lordbond]

I'm confused. Which version should be used in the USA?