• From: UK
  • Registered: 2010-01-11
  • Posts: 11

Topic: Making a copy of all downloaded files then run your own webserver?

With yesterday's outage I headed over to these forums in a long time, to see that there's a possibility of the chumby servers being switched off, turning my classic chumby into a brick without any modding.

I'm fairly technical and can follow guides so if I need to mod, then so be it.  However, I really like the current widgets and the way my chumby is set up.

Is there a way for me to make a copy of everything my chumby classic pulls from the Chumby servers?

Would it then be possible to put these files on my own webserver and simply change the host file to point chumby.com to my own IP?

Thanks.

  • From: Seattle WA
  • Registered: 2012-06-17
  • Posts: 103

Re: Making a copy of all downloaded files then run your own webserver?

yep. just download Zurk's offline firmware and modify it with your widgets. not all widgets work though. only the ones which are properly coded and have limited dependencies on the chumby.com infrastructure.

  • bobsz
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  • From: Long Beach NY
  • Registered: 2011-01-01
  • Posts: 412

Re: Making a copy of all downloaded files then run your own webserver?

You can download the profile for each "channel" that you want to save. You can keep the widgets/channels on your Chumby. You need to SSH into your Chumby to find the URL where each of your current channels are hosted, which can change.

There's also a converter that helps you download the widget components and modify the text of your online profile to zurk's setup. The convertor is presented at :
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=42766#p42766

If you don't want to use the converter, you'll see the links to each component of the widget in your profile in xml or some other format.

There's other helpful info scattered around the forums There's also a thread with some tips at:
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?id=8161

That might be a good place to post questions if you don't get "noticed" on your own thread.

And you'll see that zurk has a forum on Sourceforge now, at
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zurk/forums/forum/12064

When you download zurk's firmware, be sure to read the readme and/or changelog. It explains some non-intuitive things you have to do to use it. Like msharp42 mentioned, some apps don't work with the offline firmware, but an amazingly high percentage do.