Beta firmwares available (0.5.2.1) - Beta testers needed!

[kroetkroet]

Glad to be of service

Fortunately (for me), I'm not a WDTVExt addict, so I'm gonna turn it off again

I can retry the tests with yesterdays latest firmware if you want, but if you think it will be the same on my great unit, I'll wait

Cherios
KK

[mad_ady]

Yeah, you can use yesterday's beta only if you want to try out rtorrent. I haven't used it as well.

[mad_ady]

A little update on the crash at boot issues seen with WDTVEXT. I employed the help of my wife to understand what needs to be done to isloate the problem (she is a Software QA Engineer), and we devised some tests.

If the firmware crashes with the factory default + WDTVEXT=ON config, I should test if the firmware still crashes with the factory default keys but with the values from my config or not. If it crashes, then the logical explanation would be that I'm missing some parameter(s) compared to the base. If it works, then it means that some default parameter values are wrong.

Well, I did the test, and the unit crashes with the default config adjusted with my values, so, I'm going to investigate the missing parameters next using this default config as a base...
I'm going to try each parameter from my smallest config that works and add it to the default values and see what happens.
I'll keep you posted, and I'm also interested in your ideas.

[kroetkroet]

Your wife's idea sounds like mine from yesterday, but in a more understandable version

Good luck testing mad_ady!
KK

[mad_ady]

[kroetkroet]

[mad_ady]

I booted with the lan cable unplugged and the box crashes. I wonder if wifi has time to start by the time the osd starts.. Can anyone test this?
Anyway, it needs to be fixed, but should be doable, now that I know the cause

[leetwanker]

I haven't had a chance to read through the entire thread yet but I'm up and running with 1.05.04 0.5.2.1.

Is there some trick to getting WDTVExt plugins to show up?

I've made .wdtvext-plugins on / of my thumbdrive.
Copied Tools and VolumeControl from my 1.02.21 thumbdrive there.
WDTVExt is checked in the Features section of the Webend.
Rebooted.

WDTVExt Plugins Webend is empty.

Any ideas?

EDIT: After WDTVEXT=ON and IPUP=ON via config_tool the device has entered a boot loop. Right about when the OSD is getting ready to show it's pretty face the unit resets. ........... Uhm... It did that about 5 times and now the OSD's just showed up and I have a WDTVExt Plugins shortcut sooooooo. hmm

Back to TESTING!

EDIT2: It appears that editing shortcuts (like with MediaFolder) isn't going to work. It's crashing the OSD everytime I try to enter videos when I have it pointing to USB2.

There's only 2 things I really want from my WDTV. One is Pandora (which is why I'm testing out the newer firmwares) and the other is custom menu shortcuts. Sux.

[DJArty]

Yes WD dont boot with unpluged cable - see this one month early but did not attachattach it significance.

[mad_ady]

@leetwanker: what type of networking do you have? Wired or wifi?
Also, keep in mind that wdtvext is unfinished and will crash sooner or later...

Also, I did stress testing for IPUP=ON with network and the unit booted every time (154 tests)