Beta firmwares available (0.5.1.9) - Beta testers needed!

[mad_ady]

[DJArty]

Good news!
WDTVExt work stable or not? )
(Before on 1.05.04-0.5.1.x its looking buggy)
And please fix the link for better view.

[KAD]

@mad_ady, this is good news, congrats

re - WDTVEXT
I think it's stable, only problem I noticed was it's slow, this is due to pibos custom debugging code, which can't be turned off

[mad_ady]

I fixed the link and also added md5sums for the uploaded files.

Regarding wdtvext for 1.05 - it will be the same thing pibos left us in 1.05. There are problems with it (mostly performance, but I also get some DMAOSD crashes when navigating Network Shares for instance), but IMHO it's better than nothing. I doubt we can turn off debugging, but maybe we can pipe it to /dev/null... I plan on trying to contact pibos again when we have a working 1.06 firmware to see if we can lure him back in. Maybe porting wdtvext to 1.06 from 1.05 won't be too difficult for him.

@DJArty: regarding UMSP - I think this release breaks your plugins (we've discussed this a while back). I don't know how to fix the issue from the UMSP side while keeping the requirement to have all the XML properly encoded (for the UMSP_LAN feature), but since you needed to pass URLs as arguments, I can suggest that you try to encode the target URL in base64 - that way it will not be mangled by the UMSP code... It's just a suggestion. If you want, we can pick up the discussion on the UMSP_LAN thread.

[KAD]

I did not try out any of the features

but pulled my old live
test flashed both flashable firmwares for the live

and both went without a hitch, bi2 obviously flashed correctly, as webend was available under both firmwares

[mad_ady]

Thanks for the report!

It seems that the lack of reports on this topic can only mean one of two things:
1. Nobody else tried it/is following this topic
2. There are no problems and no news is good news...

[kroetkroet]

Apart from making your topic sticky, I didn't have time to play around, will do later this week, now messing around with my latest additions (bought 2 WD MyCloud 4TB during an Autumn Sale, got like 55% discount - the NAS was even cheaper than the WD Reds apart). So I'm now testing these things till they die, then I can move the disks into my Synology

In any way: well done mad_ady!

[mad_ady]

Hmm, you have forum rights, right? Can you create new topics under Firmware releases? http://forum.wdlxtv.com/viewforum.php?f=10
Can you give me such rigths?

[jomjom79]

Personally ive migrated to the SMP (the fast Grid theme and especially the DIAL support is a must for me)

Though im still keeping my Live so i will try out this firmware once work decides to give me some spare time. I was actually quite suprised about this release as i thought it was more or less dead now. Good work and i hope you will keep on adding features to it.

Jomjom79

[KAD]