Comments on: WDLXTV – enhanced WDTV firmware 0.1

By: JT

JT — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:51:43 +0000

Hello, thanks for answering my question about downgrading to the old version.

I have one more question and request.

Is there anyway to trick the WD TV into thinking that there is a storage drive attached so that I don’t have to have a drive plugged in to see my video folders?

<<< edit: don’t think so. –b-rad >>>

Also, is there anyway that you can upload your files somewhere in addition to Rapidshare, such as Mediafire or Sendspace? Rapidshare only lets me download one file and then makes me wait 15 minutes, it gets tedious trying to download all the nice packages that you have put together. I don’t use rapidshare enough to justify the membership fee and I’m sure a lot of others feel the same way.

Thanks for the consideration and help.

<<< edit: mediafire freezes my browser, maybe i’ll look into elsewhere but rs is very easy for me. –b-rad >>>

By: turbo81

turbo81 — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 07:20:20 +0000

Hi,
I’ve upgraded from 0.8.6 to your firmware. Using 0.8.6 the nfs works fine. after upgrading, it seems good, but my share folder is empty.

Anything I need to configure before hand? I did configure the net.mounts and net.config.

<<< edit: upload /tmp/messages.log from a few boots somewhere and post them in the firmware development thread at AVSforums. –b-rad >>>

By: JT

JT — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:39:00 +0000

Can someone please post directions on how to downgrade the firmware to WDTV default? The wiki website is down. Thanks.

<<< edit: unzip an official firmware release, open wdtv.ver and change version to 1.10, insert into wdtv & should ask if you want to upgrade. –b-rad >>>

By: Dave

Dave — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 15:49:52 +0000

Thats pretty cool mod however I was wondering if you could help a newbie out.

I have a Synology DS-207+ which I have enabled NFS support on and a shared folder called video.

I have the WDTV running your firmware with a Wii USB to ethernet adapter plugged in it but I cannot see the network shares.

According to the synology interface/nfs privileges the mount path is /volume1/video & I set the hostname to wdtv with read&write access.

But when I set the xmount 192.168.1.100:/volume1/video video nfs nothing shows ?

Any pointers as to where I’m going wrong thanks.

<<< edit: do you have /etc/exports on your synology set to allow your wdtv to connect? Executed on the wdtv, does ‘showmount -e 192.168.0.100′ show your exported share? Go for more detailed support. –b-rad >>>

By: fred_be9300

fred_be9300 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:09:54 +0000

the readme in the package talks about modifying wdtv.bin. Should be modifying wdtv.ver.
Not much of a problem, just FYI
At the moment I don’t need DVD, EXT2 or network support, but for the day that I do: thanks for your work and your sharing!

By: 3dxr

3dxr — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:20:20 +0000

you should also update wiki

try strip all binaries and probably check UPXfor MIPS and decrease binary size nice mod I am also working on something like this but with other features primary orriented for win32users and RSdownloading and NFS playback and simple webgui for adding files to que.

< << edit: will do lots of stuff little time : ) I did strip a few and didn't gain much, WD didn't leave very much to work with. You should try to make stuff app.bin plugins so it'll work on this or ext3-boot, will be cool when theres more of those. I can give you pointers if you want. --b-rad >>>