>I was wondering if it would be possible to add a force home/ac mode

Done. v95.

Okay, good.

Maybe after I get the FTP/rexec server into my kernels, we can hack together a quick shell script to do kernel updates via ethernet.

Cheers

wow, thanks alot. Shame the auto detection thing didnt work out, but this is fine for me anyway as i'll only be using this unit at home.

Will post some pics of my docking unit when my second empeg arrives and i can finish it off.

Thanks again, and thanks for all the great mods!

No shortage of Hijack requests here...

How's this one sound. In another thread we've been discussing how sometimes people accidentally push the knob when they're trying to change the volume. I happen to suffer from the opposite problem. I'll be trying to push the knob and it'll rotate to the left or right one click while I'm pushing it, causing it to change volume instead of bringing up my hijack popup menu. Not desirable.

So how about a (possibly configurable) threshold where the first one or two knob twists in a given direction are thrown away, after which they are all processed normally. Not everyone would want this obviously so I think it'd be disabled by default and only enabled with a config.ini option.

This is along the lines of strange requests, but I don't know if it's any stranger than the "jog dial" for changing tracks.

Oddly enough the knob on my old Mk2 was less prone to this type of error. I think something is "off" mechanically on my new knob, but it's not major enough to have me send it across the pond.

I sent my back for that exact problem, but mine was so bad that the knob-push was effectively unusable. David Moss said that the guys up there were going to use it to test a remedy. I didn't get any updates from them, so I don't know how that came along, but, then again, I don't really care, since I have a knob that works now. Nyah-nyah!

>So how about a (possibly configurable) threshold where
>the first one or two knob twists in a given direction
>are thrown away, after which they are all processed normally.

I've also been thinking about something along these lines. I think the "Rotary Knob glitch" patch (now in beta7) is partly responsible for the increased glitchiness of my player's rotary control.

I suppose we just need to hack the knob driver to ignore spin's that (1) occur while knob is pressed, and (2) occur within a few msec's prior to a knob press. Simple enough to do.

-ml

I like the way you're thinking. Though I don't think I'm running the rotary fix patch unless it's part of the hijack patch. I didn't like the results with the rotary patch so I think I avoided it.

But I love features 1 and 2. Great ideas.

All (even non-hijack) v2.00beta7 kernels include the rotary knob patch as a standard item now.

Hijack v96 now has added deglitch logic to try and prevent accidental rotations when pressing the knob. Let me know how it works for you.

Okay, implemented in v96.

Hi Hugo.

Just to get this straight:
Flash areas <0x4000 are actually _not_ flashable without tempering with the hardware.
Flashareas 0x4000 and above are flashable from userspace (after the empeg booted, obviously) or via the serial update route which is even available when all writable areas (0x4000 and above) have been overwritten with random data. Right?
So if I would implement a special function into a user level ftp daemon to do abitrary writes to the flash and totally hose all writeable areas of the flash in the process, I would still be able to apply an upgrade using serial, right?

cu,
sven

Yes, it's designed to work that way.

Hi.

Not exactly related to this thread, but to the subject:
Another question I have regarding home docking is this: If I dock my MkII(a) at home, using the sled, but powering it using the AC adapter (and thus enforcing AC mode), will the player still look for and use the tuner module?

cu,
sven

PS: Sorry for posting this somewhat unrelated question in the thread, but I felt that opening a new thread wouldn't have been right.
PPS: I really need to go to bed now, it's almost 4am now and I need to get up again by 7:30am.