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Prerelease 1.05b3 firmware CH3SNAS

Prerelease 1.05b3 firmware

  • New: Support for XBOX360.
  • New: Support Uptime in menu.
  • Changed: Improved the imprecise counter of disk formatting. (Notice: make sure there does not exist ANY partition on the HDD (especially when using a HDD already used. If there exist a partition it can fail the format very quick after starting the process.
  • Fixed: LAN speeds is always providing speed: 0 (see SETUP – LAN in User Interface) : Fixed.
  • Fixed: Email alert issue : unable to send out email with some SMTP server.
  • Fixed: UPnP AV server can play MKV video, but can’t play VOB and HD DivX video.
  • Fixed : Schedule download function failure.
  • Fixed : FTP function failure.
  • Added support for some Hitachi drives
  • (Unify the error message wordings between UserInterface and EasySearch Utility.

Just before it will be released officially through the conceptronic.net website, people who like to test can grab it and give feedback.

Download: Firmware 1.05b3

Download: Easy Search Utility

CFULLHDMA beta firmware 1.16.07

Quickly after releasing a public 1.16.06 firmware we do release a new beta 1.16.07

Not too much was changed only some small bugs

  • Fixed: extreme lipsync issue on some MKV files with DTS
  • Fixed: error 301 playing next file when streaming Youtube Videos
  • Fixed: AC3 -> OGG vorbis loading freeze issue
  • Fixed: DVD fast Forward would not continue under high speed iframe mode for some DVD files

notice: changing your language settings for GUI will also change the presets for Youtube (Selecting Dutch for instance will show you the most viewed videos for holland etc.. )

Available for beta testers

CFULLHDMA: Official release 1.16.06

Prepping a new official internet release for CFULLHDMA & CFULLHDMAi (already available through the Internet upgrade function in the device).

A lot of beta testers have given feedback the last few weeks and we have added many new functions to give the device more usability as well as we have fixed numerious bugs.

1.16.06

  • New: Audio Select functionality has changed in setup. You can select if certain audio (AC3, AAC, WMA PRo should be passed RAW or via PCM setting)
  • New: Offical Logo Shoutcast (partnership pending)
  • New: Youtube Support
  • New: Support DTS/AC3/WMA/AAC S/PDIF setting in the Setup menu (S/PDIF RAW or PCM)
  • New: Support iMedia reset (entries removed after turn off/on)
  • New: Support m4v extension
  • New: Use EDID to select the HDMI highest mode at the first boot.
  • Fixed: UPnP client crashed when a Sonos device was in a network
  • Fixed: UPnP Client crashed when Nero Media Home Server was active in a network
  • Fixed: some mp3 files could not be played to the end
  • Fixed: wrong Bittorrent status (CFULLHDMAi)
  • Fixed: some JPEG image files could crash the system
  • Fixed: 8bit BMP file caused the device to crash when using in Thumbnail mode
  • Changed: minimum volume set as -54dB. Max volume does not mess with quality anymore
  • Changed maximum volume as 0dB to fix some noise issues.
  • Changed: WPA-PSK as WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK (WPA AES is auto detect, and supported)

CFULLHDMA: 1.16.05

Because the function is kewl:

v01.16.05
Fix Shoutcast issue (error 301 solved)
Improve the performance for Youtube
New: Support DTS/AC3/WMA/AAC S/PDIF setting in the Setup menu (S/PDIF RAW or PCM)

Music (OGG/FLAC Audio) is selected automatically for PCM

Released to beta-testers

Update: I got some good feedback today where some beta testers report that they cannot alter any setting in the Audio Menu and have as a result of this no output to their amplifier anymore. This kind of feedback is very very welcome !

Update 2: it’s confirmed that in some circumstances the audio options are greyed out. This is fixed in a next firmware release. A workaround for now is to reset the device to factory defaults.

CFULLHDMA(i) – Beta firmware 1.16.02

Beta firmware v01.16.02

  • New Function: Use EDID to select the HDMI highest mode at the first boot.
  • Fixed: some mp3 files cannot play to the end
  • Fixed wrong Bittorrent status (CFULLHDMAi)
  • Fixed: some JPEG files could crash the system
  • Fixed: 8bit BMP file crash when using in Thumbnail mode
  • Changed: minimum volume set as -54dB. Max volume does not mess with quality
  • Changed maximum volume as 0dB to fix some noise issues.
  • Changed: WPA-PSK as WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK (WPA AES is auto detect, and supported)
  • Change iMedia location for furthur support
  • New Function: Enable Youtube feature ( Only for CFULLHDMAi ) – Beta !

We already know that some streams randomly will generate: failed to play this stream we want to hear your comments about the usability and if you can use the implementation.

Beta firmware version information will be send later today to beta testers

Preparing some FW (firmware) release

uptime-support

added uptime support, but … no support on shell level. Sorry.

lan-fixed

Lan settings fixed as well ..

More items? Probably .. xbox360 support, I can send e-mails …

For E-mail we have some neat things

Received: from 123.456.789 (HELO aroundmyroom.com) (123.456.789)

Ahhh… full domain offered so that it will be accepted by mailservers only accepting full qualified domainnames.

Subject: CH3SNAS_E-Mail_Alert
Message-ID: <20090221051536.GA1936@aroundmyroom.com>
Auto-Submitted: auto-generated

Ahh .. Auto-Submitted, again using RFC’s so that certain mailservers do not have to reply.

I’ll release the new firmware for the CH3SNAS asap ;-)

CFULLHDMA: 1.15.08 Beta Firmware

New beta firmware, where we improved a lot on TS level and audio. Some settings were causing stability issues (Auto EDID) and are under review
Version 1.15.08

  • Fixed: TS file cannot resume
  • Fixed: TS file cannot do A-B mode
  • Fixed: TS/VC1 does not play file
  • Fixed: time bar freezed on some files
  • Fixed: MKV did not play when having 2 DTS and Vorbis track
  • Fixed:  audio hickup issue with AC3 pass through SPDIF when Digital Audio Output set to “SPDIF/RAW” 
  • Fixed: some avi files could crash system
  • Fixed: M3U issue with extra VLC tag EXTVLCOPT entry
  • Improved: TS file loading time
  • Added: ENTER button to navigate in setup options 

It could be that EDID in combination with Auto-Sync is working but that is under analyze.

CFULLHDMA: Beta release 1.15.03

New beta release for CFULLHDMA & CFULLHDMAi users

The no rocket science fix

v01.15.03
– Fixed an NTPClient issue (could cause a device no react when no network)
– Fixed wrong MP3 ID3 tag issue (no ID3 tag displayed for MP3 files)

As we are still busy with making fixes around the new SDK more bugfixes are not yet released.

Known issue for example is that some AC3 files still do not play well, this has been fixed in our new codec engine. But that one is not implemented yet. Also some issues could occur with M2TS files. H.264->ts->H.264 ==> it can occur that it does not play in this version.

Beta testers are informed about this new firmware version

CFULLHDMA: Fixing failed firmare upgrade

Sometimes it is possible that people brick their device and that it is not operational anymore.
The CFULLHDMA has a number of abilities to fix firmware version(s).

First:
with every boot the device is checking if the firmware file is valid. When it’s not valid you will see a blue screen with information to run the firmware upgrade again.

Second:
With latest firmware releases we have added a ‘fixed’ IP address when there is no network: 169.254.1.1 if you can ping this address after changing the IP of your Computer in the same range the kernel is still running and you still can fix your CFULLHDMA.

If you can ping it on it’s normal IP address (you might need an Angry IP Scanner tool) to determine it in your network, you can also use telnet

—- Only for kernel 2.6 Firmware Versions —


mount -t vfat /dev/sda1 /usb/usb0
./ForceUpgrade_k26 upgrade.bin
sync

The upgrade.bin is the latest firmware version you can download from the Conceptronic website
the ForceUpgrade tool can be taken from here
I do not suggest anyone to use this unless you know what you are doing.

In any other situation it is NOT possible to fix the firmware file without using a Serial Console Port

console

Above image shows a serial console port you can put on the CFULLHDMA when you open it. (Tx,Rx,GND,V). With a console port you can get more information about the status of the device. When you use a Console Cable and you see a YAMON message things are not ok .. the kernel and firmware are not present anymore. You only see the bootloader, and only through a very extensive difficult upgrade procedure the firmware can be fixed.