[ViX_Misc] ViX 6.2 Feeds

[Brondeg]

I have a Technomate TM-NANO-SE M2 Plus. After messing about with its config I decided to do a clean install from USB. After doing so I discovered that the feeds are no longer available for 6.2. As with a few of the older Technomate boxes, mine is only supported up to 6.2.011 so I can't update. I will have a go at building my own image, but I've not tried anything like that before. In the mean time, please could the 6.2 feeds be reinstated to support these older boxes?

 

[twol]

I have a Technomate TM-NANO-SE M2 Plus. After messing about with its config I decided to do a clean install from USB. After doing so I discovered that the feeds are no longer available for 6.2. As with a few of the older Technomate boxes, mine is only supported up to 6.2.011 so I can't update. I will have a go at building my own image, but I've not tried anything like that before. In the mean time, please could the 6.2 feeds be reinstated to support these older boxes?

Due to server storage space, feeds for 6.2 cannot be restored.
Building your own image is not as difficult as you might think....see bottom of this page for information....https://github.com/OpenViX/enigma2.. and we will try to help if you run into issues.

In the meantime, there are images & feeds for this box on OpenATV.

 

[abu baniaz]

Until you build your image, you can use ATV

 

[Brondeg]

Thanks for your replies.

I tried OpenATV, but I wasn't so fussed on it.

I took the plunge and had a go at building the image for my receiver. I had an Ubuntu VM set up on my work laptop. I gave it 6 cores/threads and 16GB or RAM. It took several hours but got there in the end. It took me a but of digging around to find the output files. I think the intructions could do with a bit more info here. Anyway I loaded a memory stick and reflashed my receiver to 6.5.

I then built the feeds, which took quite a while as well. It then took a couple of hours to copy the output to a memory stick. I have a hard drive in the receiver, so I can copy the files on to that.

Question: What config file(s) do I need to edit to point to my local feed? Is it just the ones in etc/opkg?

 

[twol]

"Question: What config file(s) do I need to edit to point to my local feed? Is it just the ones in etc/opkg?"

First Congratulations on building the image!!

3 ways of doing this. 2 & 3 below mean you change in the build so far easier.

1: change etc/opkg files.

2 in your local build, find /meta-oe.alliance/meta-oe/conf/openvix and change the DISTRO_FEED_URI ?= to point to the feeds directory on your PC.
e.g. this is a change to point to my NAS box
DISTRO_FEED_URI ?= "${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_TYPE", "release", "http://192.168.0.171/feeds/${DISTRO_NAME}/${DISTRO_TYPE}/${DISTRO_VERSION}/${MACHINE}" , "http://192.168.0.171/feeds/${DISTRO_NAME}/${DISTRO_TYPE}/${DISTRO_VERSION}/${MACHINE}", d)}"

3. override in the site.conf ... found in the base directory. Much easier as the conf files often get changed
e.g.

SCONF_VERSION = "1"
BB_NUMBER_THREADS = "32"
PARALLEL_MAKE = "-j 16"
BUILD_OPTIMIZATION = "-march=native -O2 -pipe"
DL_DIR = "/home/openvix/sources"
INHERIT += "rm_work"
ENIGMA2_URI = "git://github.com/Huevos/enigma2.git;protocol=git;branch=Dev"
DISTRO_FEED_URI = "http://*****.org/feeds/${DISTRO_NAME}/${DISTRO_TYPE}/${DISTRO_VERSION}/${MACHINE}"


Make sure regardless that you change the DL_DIR to point to a permanent location for the sources files..... saves re fetching everything on a new build.
Also if you don't need Kodi and some QT stuff you can reduce the feeds build..... just more local build overrides

Lastly do a "make update" periodically to pick up OE-A changes (frequent on latest branch)

 

[Brondeg]

That's great. Thanks for your help.