On 1-May-08, at 7:06 PM, MrSinatra wrote: > > i disagree with the first idea as necessary or even smart to do, and i > truly doubt it'll fix a thing. > > but hey, i could be wrong.
at the risk of causing upset, in this case, you are. SC, SqueezeOS, player firmware are all part of a live system. It's not like your typical firmware, which provides encapsulated features. SqueezeCenter expects certain requests, and then provides a formatted response to these requests. The controller firmware contains code that creates theses requests and parses the response. If you are not using matching firmware and SC version, you risk having even the simplest of queries fail. During the beta phase, some upgrades were very specific as to what order you needed to do them in simply because doing it the wrong way would break the ability to complete the upgrade. Player firmware is much the same way, but to a lesser extent. Player firmware communicates via slimproto, which is much less dynamic than the SqueezeoS link (which is primarily based on the CLI). Changes to slimproto are less frequent and less likely to break features that already work. This is why some users have good results forcing different firmware. In both cases, it is not supported. Now, if you really do insist on having your OWN version of "jive" firmware, I believe renaming the ones you want to custom.jive.version and custom.jive.bin will override anything that gets downloaded. The recent rearrangemenf of svn, and the builds has kinda thrown everything off balance a bit. 7.1 is not horribly unstable, but is certainly in a state that could go either way at any time, including the current potential for firmware download issues. 7.0.1 is safer. In any case, if having firmware updates and sorting out downloads and caching upsets you, I would recommend staying away from downloading nightly. If you are really after a fix, watch the checkins mailing list or your bug report until you see an update. It's never worth getting upset over updates, nor is it helpful to make an issue out of one update or another. Priority is on updates from official release, to official release. Interim does expect a bit of burden being carried by the users. cheers and good luck, -kdf _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/discuss
