Topic: Offline Firmware- Adding widgets from your profile, misc problems/tips
I've noticed that a lot of the info about using and changing Zurk's Offline firmware are scattered in different topics, sometimes hard to find. Members are coming up with some great tools and refinements, it would be a shame to miss it. I'm hoping folks may concentrate such stuff here in one topic. I'll start:
First, francesco has developed a great tool. I guess it's still a work in progress, but gets real results already. If you get the URL for your profile (or "channel"), it will download all the components of those widgets automatically, and even give you a modified form of the profile that confirms more to the offline format. The results may need to be changed a little for your firmware version, but this is a great, fast, easy way to get your own favorite widgets stored safely offline now. He just calls it the "convertor" though it's more than that. See francesco's info at:
http://forum.chumby.com/viewtopic.php?pid=42766#p42766
Next, zurk has a forum on Sourceforge for questions about his offline software. There's not a lot of people using it yet, but he's been following it pretty closely. It appears that's where he'll also be announcing changes- for instance, v17 is out now. He answered a question I had about adding additional channels on the newer versions. Since zurk's work isn't "official Chumby" stuff, that may be the main source for info about his stuff in the future. You don't have to register to post, but I've been "signing" posts with "bobsz" just so he can track threads. Otherwise it calls everyone "nobody." See it at:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/zurk/forums/forum/12064
Third, I wonder if some folks are finding that some apps just don't work offline. My favorite "superclock" for instance, it just can't get configured. I'm curious if anybody else has tried that one.
Well, as long as we're still talking about the Offline Firmware here on the Chumby forum, hope we can all try to keep it here, or at least reference posts in other topics from here.