Thanks. I am still running v10. I will re-download when I get a chance.

profile format and position has also changed in v15. mainly to accommodate new architecture in v12 and multiple channel profiles in v15.

nice going BTW. i thought about doing something like this with a GUI to drag and drop widgets but couldnt be bothered once i figured out it was easy enough to download every widget and just dump xml into a text editor. look at octopus if you want to just dump every widget and then copy the files over instead of http connections.

i'd also package whatever sax/dom libs youre using with it and expand it for chumby 8's which are close enough.

I've put up a new version of my converter, this time it supports multiple profiles for a chumby one.
Those who are having trouble moving a profile to the offline fw may give it a try.

Download from here:
http://beta.fpalab.com/chumby_offlinepr … rofile.zip

Use it to process profiles defined and stored on the chumby.com site and it will generate the profile0, profile1, etc. files. And download all the widgets, as before. (Follow instructions in the readme file).

@Zurk
The idea of creating a gui crossed my mind also, but I feel that it would require interest in the chumby community to start it. 

Concerning the Sax/Dom libraries, this is stock java 6 which already includes them, I believe.

As far as the Chumby 8, I would need an original profile to test the conversion, if anyone can provide me one.

Actually that's correct: the converter uses what it finds on chumby server and assumes no local channels already exist. This is something that can be improved.
In your case I assume there might be at least five profiles and you got the the fifth.

That's exactly how it should be: the id is used to identify the right profile, in this profile4. I checked that configuration on my own Chumby and it worked fine.

Now that's the difficult part to get. Maybe the files are not in the expected position.
For instance, on the usb key in the directory
\www\thumbnails\
you should be able to see all the thumbnails and load them into paint (or another image display program).
While widgets should be in
\www\widgets\

The idea was to keep things separate from the rest of the offline fw, in order to make it easier to spot errors and inconsistencies. So I made four different folders that would avoid conflicts and be easily removed at any time.
I would suggest to check the first widget and make sure the referenced files (thumbnails, movie at least) do exist. For instance:

<widget id="EB0F16FC-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2">
  <name>Calendar Clock Dark</name>
....
  <thumbnail contenttype="image/jpeg" href="file:////mnt/usb/www/thumbnails/EB0ED6A6-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2"/>
  <template contenttype="" href="/xml/configs/EB0F16FC-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2"/>
  <movie contenttype="application/x-shockwave-flash" href="file:////mnt/usb/www/widgets/EB101336-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2"/>
....
</widget>

file  EB0ED6A6-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2 in directory /mnt/usb/www/thumbnail (on the usb key that would be /www/thumbnail)
file EB101336-95B3-11DE-B39C-001E681DFAC2 in directory /mnt/usb/www/widgets (/www/widgets on usb key)
etc.

Actually you can use the same tool, but you have to manually edit the profile section like this:

    <profiles>
      <profile  unaccepted="0" name="Basic Widgets" id="0" />
    </profiles>

and rename profiles4 to profiles0.
As I said before, I should improve profile handling and give the option of forcing the profile's id.

I really would need a sample of the "online" profile (xml) with all the references to the chumby servers. It would be really helpful. Thanks.

francesco- I checked zurk's forum, and found out a couple of things I was doing wrong with multi-channels. First, he said channels should be numbered consecutively, not skipping numbers like I did. More important, he said no two widgets can have the same widget ID number, even in different channels. I'd renumbered mine 1, 2, etc rather than the original long numbers, only because that's the way he did it in the old firmware versions. Since I duplicated widgets numbers, they didn't get recognized. I should have just left your stuff alone.

BTW, let me know if need a real c8 xml rather than the text I sent. I realized I can just put it up on the web someplace for you to retrieve,