Topic: Chumby 8 issues
I have had my C8 for a couple months now and have had issues getting my widget working. Thanks to the wealth of info in the forums and Wiki I was able to get the Widget working and uploaded to Chumby as a private widget in order to test on my device.
Device Info:
Control Panel Version: 5.0.30
Software Version: 1.8.2
Firmware Version: 1.8.3883
Model # 9.9
A few things I have not been able to find/workout:
1) I have not found any examples or documentation on building the configuration swf (to be uploaded with the widget swf) in AS3. I do not know AS2 well enough to map the example provided over. Any help I can get is appreciated.
2) My device seems to have a similar issue as older posts with re-initializing the control panel about every 30 minutes. I set my preferences to run forever on my app to test it. This is reported in the forums but I have not been able to get any of the recommendations to work.
3) I used the debugchumby to run my widget directly from the USB drive and have the same issue as above. When I run the movie in flash player on PC, it runs for hours without hiccup.
4) I read that the profile.xml hack to merge local widgets into a channel is not supported on C8, is that a consideration for near future releases? There is a lot of chatter about needing to have the "offline" capability and I definitely need to leverage that to make this product a success as part of our business offering.
Any help or guidance is appreciated.