Topic: Chumby-Dash comments.

1) Thank you again to Duane & Co. for resurrecting our Dashes !

2) Since the Chumby-Dash is reportedly picky about USB drives, thought it might be useful to report success with SanDisk brand "FIT" drives in both 16GB & 64GB sizes. These are tiny drives that easily fit with the Dash "cavity". Only negative is that SanDisk has apparently stopped including their lanyards with the drives. The lanyard makes it easier to extract the drive from the Dash. Worth noting that when the Dashes were new, 64GB thumb drives were much physically much bigger and cost almost as much as the Dash!

3) Although we seem to be limited to mp4 videos, am amazed at the excellent movie/video playback quality. Other single-core devices with similar clock speeds from early in this decade choke on many videos ! Found "Free MP4 Converter" works excellently for converting other formats to MP4 on my Mac AND is actually FREE without watermarks or other annoyances. Found selecting "1280 by 720" for MP4 file output gave good results on the Dash (allowing the Dash to optimize display) without dramatically increasing file sizes.

4) I am happy with the app selection, video and audio playback, but unable to (so far) to view photos from USB drive in full screen or find a usable general-purpose internet radio app.

5) Enjoying using Terminal to ssh to the Dash on my Mac. Command line lives on !

6) Would be glad to participate in helping build a database of which apps work on the Chumby-Dash (and which don't). Am sure that many apps just don't work on "real" Chumbys either, but so far just trial and error for me!

G

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

A P.S.:

Took a quick look at my Cable bill & my cell phone bill & VERY quickly decided that $3/month is a bargain by any standard !

G

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

When I ssh into my Chumby-Dash from my Mac (using Terminal) I get:

Quote
Last login: Tue Dec 19 21:26:48 on console
Williams-MacBook-Pro-2:~ WMD$ ssh root@10.0.1.3
/usr/local /usr/local/mrua
/usr/local/mrua
Chip identified as SMP8652 prod (certificate id 0x10, t3iptv family)
Initializing dcchd
mkdir: cannot create directory '/cdrom': Read-only file system
About to set flashlite
Your target environment is configured with:

PATH               = /usr/local/dcchd/directfb/bin:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/../bin:/usr/local/dcchd/test:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmchannel/ios_client/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmchannel/test/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmchannel/xos2k_client/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/llad_xtest/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/llad_smallapps:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/xbin/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmfp/test/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmoutports/test/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/bin/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/samples/:/usr/local/mrua/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/chumby/scripts
LD_LIBRARY_PATH    = /usr/local/dcchd/directfb/lib:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/../lib:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/core:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/brd:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dvdvr:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/mono:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/curacao:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/curacao/lib:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/tuner:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/network:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/hal:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dcchd:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/acap:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/mrua/lib:/usr/local/dcchd/directfb/lib:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dcchd:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/core:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/mono:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/network
HOME               = /root
CDROM_MOUNT_POINT  = /cdrom
CDROM_DEVICE_NAME  = /dev/sr0
IMAGE_RESOURCE_DIR = /usr/local/dcchd/test
QT_INSTALL_DIR     =

[root@tango3 ~]#
End Quote

Anyone able to decode any of this ? Curious about the "CDROM" entries. Tied plugging a USB CD drive into my Chumby-Dash with
an Audio CD and then MP3 CD. Seems to try to mount, but Chumby-Dash does not recognize either. Not sure if USB CD drive is getting enough power ? Who is this "tango3" fellow ?

G

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

Untruncated:

PATH               = /usr/local/dcchd/directfb/bin:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/../bin:/usr/local/dcchd/test:/usr/
local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmchannel/ios_client/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmchannel/test/:/usr/local/mrua/
MRUA_src/rmchannel/xos2k_client/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/llad_xtest/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/
llad_smallapps:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/xbin/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/rmfp/test/:/usr/local/
mrua/MRUA_src/rmoutports/test/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/bin/:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/samples/
:/usr/local/mrua/bin/:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/sbin:/usr/chumby/scripts

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

Untruncated:

LD_LIBRARY_PATH    = /usr/local/dcchd/directfb/lib:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/../lib:/usr/
local/dcchd/dcchd/core:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/brd:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dvdvr:/usr/
local/dcchd/dcchd/mono:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/curacao:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/curacao/
lib:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/tuner:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/
dcchd/dcchd/dtv/network:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/hal:/
usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dcchd:/usr/local/dcchd/
dcchd/dtv/acap:/usr/local/mrua/MRUA_src/lib:/lib:/usr/lib:/usr/local/mrua/lib:/
usr/local/dcchd/directfb/lib:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dcchd:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/
core:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/mono:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv:/usr/local/dcchd/
dcchd/dtv/capture:/usr/local/dcchd/dcchd/dtv/network

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

guilliamo wrote:

Anyone able to decode any of this ? Curious about the "CDROM" entries. Tied plugging a USB CD drive into my Chumby-Dash with
an Audio CD and then MP3 CD. Seems to try to mount, but Chumby-Dash does not recognize either. Not sure if USB CD drive is getting enough power ? Who is this "tango3" fellow ?

G

The dash was never meant to be ssh'd into, so sony didn't put any work into making a decent login... smile

Cleaning up any loose bits and bytes.

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

Some of the Sony middleware is the same that they used in their TVs and BD players.  There are some artifacts of that heritage in there.  You might even find some stuff like that lurking in the chumby firmware as well, since the chips were originally designed for music players.

Re: Chumby-Dash comments.

Here is a link to a discussion from 2015 of someone trying to "hack" the dash with knowledge of the SMP8652 processor.

https://hardwarebug.org/2015/03/02/two-tux-one-soc/