Hi Guys,
So I thought I'd provide an update on where we stand with the firmware. The media player portion is feature complete and we are just in the process of ironing out the bugs as they come up. The media player has one very significant issue that Marius has had first hand experience with, building the album art database never in I she's and eventually locks up his BDP-1. I don't believe this issue is either a resource or software issue but rather a content issue as we have tested it repeatedly with a BDP-1 containing over 60 thousand files. Regardless of what's causing the problem it needs to be addressed. So far each time I have monitored the build using the program top, it appears to be the conversion of picture files causing the problem.
Dashboard,
System: complete no known issues
Disk Information: partitialy functional, scan disk, mount, unmount, set scratch, update all functional, no known issues
Album Art database: havn't decided what to do with this yet
Network interfaces: this has been my concentration for the last week, fully functional, has yet to be put through its paces yet
Update firmware: advanced page functional, still dealing with problems regarding the application of updates. This issue appears to stem from the passing of variables from browser to BDP. This is the next thing I plan to tackle with the network manager functional and will likely incorporate a basic checksum before proceeding with the upgrade and some additional back and forth communication.
Music player daemon, page appears to be feature complete; although we are experience unrepeatable issues with MPD 0.16.8(might still be labeled as 0.16.7). Out fix for this might be as simple as just get rid of it depending on user feedback.
System log: not yet functional
Startup script: not yet functional
NAS setup: you can add a NAS but nothing else, still needs work on the layout of objects
Services: functional, some customers have noted that some of the services don't produce audio, there does appear to be a problem with the audio output device being used by other tasks. This seems to occur when MPD's playlist hasn't been cleared.
License: not yet functional
There are three existing major issues that must be resolved:
1. The firmware upgrade
2. Album art database/content
3. The third party streaming services not taking control of the audio output device
Obviously there is still work ahead, nobody is more aware of this then me as I am tasked to get it to work, this is a beta made available at the request to the general public. I do appreciate everyone's patients and feel your frustration as again I am the one who this responsibility falls on. your feedback has been invaluable as if you weren't here I'd be dealing with a giant shit storm on the day of launch.
We are in this together and I'm sure as we can all agree on that we re moving in a positive direction albeit with som missed steps.
Cheers
Chris