• From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2006-08-26
  • Posts: 188

Topic: heads up new firmware release

A new major release will be pushed by the end of the week.

This release migrates the control panel from a package-based system to a local git repo that is synchronized every reboot. Any changes you make locally will be nuked every time it synchronizes. This allows for us to more quickly push control panel tweaks without having to do a full firmware update. However, it also makes developers life a bit more of a hassle.

In anticipation of this, we are introducing a way to point NeTV at an alternate docroot if you need to do custom development. Please see

http://wiki.chumby.com/index.php/NeTV_tricks

For instructions on how to do this. Of course, your current firmware doesn't implement this but we wanted to make sure users are well aware of this. The firmware should be pushed around Friday the 18th.

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  • Registered: 2011-10-06
  • Posts: 38

Re: heads up new firmware release

If we simply store files in the old docroot but change none of the NeTV files, will these files be removed?

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2006-08-26
  • Posts: 188

Re: heads up new firmware release

old stored files should not be removed. They will only be affected if they happen to have the same name as a new file we're deploying...the deployment ultimately works in a technically similar fashion to a tar -x into the target directory.

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  • Registered: 2011-10-06
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Re: heads up new firmware release

BUG -

We went created a file /psp/homepage

We put our startup URL in.

After reboot, that file is set to 0 length.

seems like a bug.

  • Registered: 2011-01-09
  • Posts: 24

Re: heads up new firmware release

I've tested this all over again. Can't seem to replicate this issue.

There is nothing in the source code that tries to change the value of /psp/homepage

One thing you could try is calling 'sync' command in ssh terminal after you changed that file.
It will force the new content to be written to SD card.

  • From: Singapore
  • Registered: 2006-08-26
  • Posts: 188

Re: heads up new firmware release

Latest is now fw 25.

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