Someone should start a thread listing which widgets are confirmed working in offline mode and which aren't. I'm literally just getting started with this so I don't have any info to share yet but as I start adding widgets I'll start keeping track and make a thread if one isn't already started by that point.

Also, the output from octopus has those long alphanumeric names, would it make sense to compile a list for cross referencing which is which? This is assuming they are the same for every user and don't change.

RE Multiple Channels-
I checked zurk's forum, and found out a couple of things I was doing wrong with multi-channels. The channels I added from francesco's tool weren't playing right. Turned out to be my fault, fiddling too much. First, zurk said channels (profiles) should be numbered consecutively, not skipping numbers like I did. (I did 0, 1, 2, 4.) 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 franceso's numbers alone.

Omniclock was showing 24-hr time, because it uses the Chumby's settings. I never realized that the offline firmware defaults to 24-hr time unless you change it.

francesco's converter is working perfectly on my C1. I realized I just had to change the beginnings of the profiles to reflect the multiple channels. @francesco, thanks again.

Just FYI folks- if anyone's still following it, zurk's firmware is now up to v18. On his Sourceforge board, he says it's a bug fix, but I don't understand what the bug was. It also sounds like he relocated a few more files in this version. You know he keeps the same download links so just wanted to let you know what you're getting now.  I'm basically just downloading the new versions as archives. I think v15 was the last real change with changes in his music setup after the addition of multiple channels. I'm sticking here online as long as the severs are still moving.

There's also some chat there from somebody who tried to load the firmware onto the Chumby's internal SD card and ran into some problems.

I've fallen behind in saving widgets. Every time I look, I get a surprise of something I never saw before. Just saw cupcake slots for the first time. I guess I can't have 'em all.

@francesco- I never thanked you for the further explanation for your C1 profile tool. Thanks. The challenge of editing for the C8 still lies ahead for me!

Ok I'm doing something wrong here.

Chumby classic, Zurk v18 & Francesco's convertor

I just can''t find my user ID to work with the convertor.
If I plug the zurk USB stick in and stop_control_panel & start_control_panel then hunt down the xml.chumby.com line I get a profile id=0 and a chumby ID I recognise as my chumby's device id, but no user ID. If I copy that line wholesale & add it to the convertor I get (unsurprisingly) 404 not found.

So how with this set up do I find my widgets & convert them to work with zurk 18 ?

FYI, I'm having trouble SSHing the profiles out of my Chumby 8 tonight. C1 is SSHing ok. C! has a cache you can clear. I'm afraid the c8 may be saving the profiles in cache. Soory, more confusion.

Thanks for the explanation Duane. I'm looking in the right place now. The other problem with me not getting connected was a problem with my wi-fi, not francesco's tool.

So there's a couple of things. However you did it, sounds like you may have solved one and found a profile ID. But it still doesn't look like the format you need to feed into the converter. Give it a try. For the C1, I'm pretty sure you need to find one mentioning xml, as I posted before. Other ways, you might just get the profile text without the widget components.

But first of all, let's make sure the terms are right. Profile=channel.  So there will be one profile for each channel. So yes, however you get it, the ID of that is the long string you need to put into francesco's converter. Note that the profile ID changes different times you use your Chumby. That's why most people succeed by getting the profile ID right out of the Chumby. See what happens with that URL you get that way.

When you get that profile ID, that's what you put into the converter. If it works, the program will go online and suck down a profile altered for zurk's format. Read francesco's info. The profile will be a document by itself. Each widget has several components- the flash movie itself, thumbnails, etc. That's all the stuff you need to put on the USB. It's different forC1 vs C8. You should find the instructions or links above, or search the forum. The info's all there already. Also, zurk has info on his forum, link above. Each of his zip downloads also has a readme and/or changelog. Francesco's converted stuff should work as is in the Chumby 1. You need to number  the channels in order, so if zurk used 1,2.3, yours will be 4.

For the C1, there will be a "header" type thing on each profile so the control panel will recognize the new channel. I had that answered by zurk somewhere in the forum. But it's different for the C8. Read all the above again, and zurk's postings. If you can't find it or get stuck, post info like what device you have, if you're trying to add one more profile, just a few widgets, what kind of skill level you have with this suff. Do you have a good text editor like Edit Pad or Edit Pad lite? If not, Edit Pad lite makes editing your profiles a lot easier than Notepad.

So just re-read all the above. The convertor needs a recent version of Java installed. If you're set with that stuff, francesco's converter will do the job. Just a couple of commands at the c: prompt. Note that if you convert more than one channel, clear out the output folder between channels if you want the widgets kept separate. The profiles will be separate. The channel numbers downloaded will need to be changed. That's just the order you added them to your device.

BTW, if you want to download any particular widget, rather than your channels, note the link provided by Duane elsewhere. This takes you to an index for each widget category, then to every single widget. You can download the parts of each widget with wget, or visual wget which I use.

http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=41741#p41741

Check out Notepad++ for all your search/replace needs in text files.  No stupid auto-correct crap, just (nearly complete) regex pattern matching -- or simple search-and-replace if you'd prefer to go that route.  You also can have line numbers, a file comparison plugin, and other goodies.  Oh, and there's a "find in files" feature which lets you specify a folder to search in, filenames (or wildcards) to search in, and finds all instances of a given string in all those files... can also do search/replace that way