Good Evening All,
I am pleased to announce the release of the NASMount plug-in for the Foxsat HDR Web Interface.
This one's been a long time coming, partly due to me having a lack of time to get it finished and partly because of some serious difficulties discovered in early testing. So before we get started there are a few thank yous to be said.
Firstly, please read the documentation for the credit for the source of inspiration for this plug-in. I would love to post here but since it came from what may be considered a rival forum it will just get deleted I suspect.
Massive, massive thanks to raydon for giving me the pointers on compiling the relevant kernel modules, providing a new Custom Firmware to support NASMount and fix the early problems with it, and for helping with the scripting in the final stages of packaging. Thanks also to the beta testers (raydon, REPASSAC, Partridge and David500) who bravely experimented with early versions despite serious problems and who also provided superb feedback during the test cycles.
Okay, so what is NASMount? Simply put, NASMount creates a virtual USB drive and "plugs it into" the Foxsat. It then allows you to mount one or more shared network drives onto the virtual USB device and access them as if they were a physical USB device plugged directly into the Foxsat.
Advantages of the NASMount Plug-in:
PLEASE read the documentation provided with this package and available in the documentation pages of the Web Interface after installation. Your attention is drawn especially to the "Known Issues" section which details a scenario which can lead to a lock up of the Humax User Interface but is easily avoided once you understand the limitation.
Pre-requisite
You will need to download the latest version of the Custom Firmware (v 4.1.0) which raydon has kindly prepared to support NASMount. It will not work without it and is available from the usual download link in the first post in this thread (http://www.avforums.com/forums/free...r-bundle-foxsat-hdr-release-4-0-part-3-a.html)
Installation
Install in the usual way. Visit the "Package Management" page of the web interface and click on the "upgrade package list from Internet" button. Once complete, visit the "available" tab and install NASMount. Configuration is via the "Settings" page of the web interface after installation.
I hope you find this plug-in useful.
Regards to all on the forums,
Adrian.
I am pleased to announce the release of the NASMount plug-in for the Foxsat HDR Web Interface.
This one's been a long time coming, partly due to me having a lack of time to get it finished and partly because of some serious difficulties discovered in early testing. So before we get started there are a few thank yous to be said.
Firstly, please read the documentation for the credit for the source of inspiration for this plug-in. I would love to post here but since it came from what may be considered a rival forum it will just get deleted I suspect.
Massive, massive thanks to raydon for giving me the pointers on compiling the relevant kernel modules, providing a new Custom Firmware to support NASMount and fix the early problems with it, and for helping with the scripting in the final stages of packaging. Thanks also to the beta testers (raydon, REPASSAC, Partridge and David500) who bravely experimented with early versions despite serious problems and who also provided superb feedback during the test cycles.
Okay, so what is NASMount? Simply put, NASMount creates a virtual USB drive and "plugs it into" the Foxsat. It then allows you to mount one or more shared network drives onto the virtual USB device and access them as if they were a physical USB device plugged directly into the Foxsat.
Advantages of the NASMount Plug-in:
- No need for large, separately powered USB disks to be physically attached to the Foxsat
- Supports multiple network mount points meaning archives can be split across multiple network attached devices e.g. a NAS Box, a laptop etc.
- Recordings can be archived to network shares using built in Foxsat UI functions
- Recordings can be played directly from archives - no updates of sidecar files required
- Removes the need to upgrade the internal disk in the Foxsat to a larger size when it gets full - simply archive your recordings to NAS and have them available any time
- Allows recordings to be archived and accessed from multiple Foxsat receivers if you're lucky enough to have more than one!
PLEASE read the documentation provided with this package and available in the documentation pages of the Web Interface after installation. Your attention is drawn especially to the "Known Issues" section which details a scenario which can lead to a lock up of the Humax User Interface but is easily avoided once you understand the limitation.
Pre-requisite
You will need to download the latest version of the Custom Firmware (v 4.1.0) which raydon has kindly prepared to support NASMount. It will not work without it and is available from the usual download link in the first post in this thread (http://www.avforums.com/forums/free...r-bundle-foxsat-hdr-release-4-0-part-3-a.html)
Installation
Install in the usual way. Visit the "Package Management" page of the web interface and click on the "upgrade package list from Internet" button. Once complete, visit the "available" tab and install NASMount. Configuration is via the "Settings" page of the web interface after installation.
I hope you find this plug-in useful.
Regards to all on the forums,
Adrian.