Chocholousek Picons updater (Enigma2 plugin)

dan20701

Hi.

The file you downloaded is probably not a 7z archive, but a html code - if you also use a VPN in your Linux set-top box.

In the plugin source code, the header of 7-zip files is detected as follows:

    def fileHeader7z(self, f_path):
        with open(f_path, 'rb') as f:
            f_header = f.read(4)
        if f_header == b'7z\xbc\xaf':         # check the 7-zip file header (the first 4 bytes from file)
            return True
        else:
            return False

If you use a VPN in a set-top box, try disabling it temporarily. The same applies when using the PROXY server. If you are using PROXY to connect, try temporarily disabling it.

The download of picon packages via another internet network (another internet provider) should also be tested. For example with a friend... without a tuner / antenna connection... all you have to do is connect the set-top box to a PC monitor or TV and download the icons there (via another internet provider).

It would help to create a DEBUG / LOG file in your Enigma2 (I don't know which Enigma2 distribution you are using). There will be more information in the debug file when the error occurs. For example, send me this debug file in a private message.

EDIT :

You write that in the latest version of the plugin, this file download worked correctly. Write down which version worked correctly. It is also possible that there is a small BUG in the new version. In this case, it must be found and repaired. However, only with your help, as this latest plugin works correctly everywhere.

Please also write which Enigma2 distribution (OpenPLi, OpenATV, ... etc.) you have installed in the set-top box.

This is a question of setting up the network interface correctly, in your WiFi router or in your set-top box system.

It depends on what is used as the main gateway for internet access. It depends on the direction of network communication ... from the plugin (from your Linux set-top box), through various connection nodes, then via the internet and then it ends up in the picon server.

However, the picon server does not allow proxy and VPN connections (through VPN gateways). These connections are often abused, for example as for DDoS. Unfortunately... reporting of these VPN accounts is also a lengthy process (in terms of jurisdiction).

The solution would be to set up your Linux set-top box so that according to the network communication policy, the connection to the picon.cz server was routed only through your internet gateway (your internet provider directly) and not through the VPN network.

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I want to create picon software for a device with GX6605 processor. Can you give me information on what kind of XML code should I use?

Hi.

I don't understand you exactly. What do you mean ? Want to create a plugin for some special firmware in your older set-top box ? What firmware is installed there ?

Enigma2 set-top boxes uses the Python language, not the XML language.

The algorithm contains a special approach (basically it's something like an API), so about this, you have to contact Chocholousek and consult all solutions with him. The authorship and design of the picons belong to him.

I'm just the developer of this "Chocholousek Picons" plugin - for Enigma2 set-top boxes. I liked the picons from Chocholousek and so I made a plugin that automates everything and can install picons into the Enigma2 set-top box :).

However, the details depend on what Chocholousek approves and what does not. For example, there are restrictions on a storage server with picon packs. It is not easy to protect a server from DDoS attacks for example. Therefore, the algorithm must be adapted to the conditions set by the server. Chocholousek uses the Picon.cz server, which is subsidized and hosted by Ellano.sk.

s2gus24

Hello.

OpenATV 7.1 is only a beta version. I do not recommend using it at all. It is a version designed for developers and beta testers. Even OpenATV 7.0 RC1 is not official yet. Anyway, this is using Python 3 code, which my plugin already supports.

Your problem is, as you write, in the running or downloading of the 7-zip archiver.

First, the 7-zip archiver is searched on the Enigma2 feed-server.

Second, if it is not found, then a binary file (stand-alone) is downloaded from the github portal.
However, this is partly, still, unfortunately dependent on the Linux kernel and its system libraries + chipset architecture (mipsel / arm / aarch64). So I think the 7-zip archiver has downloaded to your receiver... but it's not working properly.

Please try to check whether it is downloaded or not:

find / -iname "7z*"

... and if it's downloaded, try to run it from the location where it was found, for example:

/usr/bin/7za --help

.... and / or:

/usr/bin/7z --help

Alternatively, you can enable the debugging in the OpenATV MENU, then restart Enigma2, and rhen the error occurs, send the created, latest, debug-log file into the discussion. There will be more info on what went wrong.

The second thing that is possible is that you are using a VPN and you have an incorrectly set up gateway to the Internet (via a VPN external server or via another machine in the VPN).

Thanks for report.

OK, so the problem is solved ? Perfect :). So, the cause is a poorly configured VPN ?

Hi.

It is not enough to create a directory in the plugin configuration. You must also assign (set) this directory - in the plugin configuration.

If you use the same channel lists on both Enigma2 distributions and therefore the same picons, then why not use the same and the same directory on the external disk? For example "/media/usb/picon".

OBH:

According to the source code here: https://github.com/OpenBlackHo…nts/Renderer/Picon.py#L12

...this search path is also included ("/media/usb" + "/picon") there.

BH:

However, the default directory "/media/usb/picon" does not included in BlackHole image: https://github.com/BlackHole/e…nts/Renderer/Picon.py#L18

...so there must to be created a symbolic link.

In most Enigma2 distributions is used as the default directory for picons, just this: "/usr/share/enigma2/picon" (in the internal flash drive). If this directory does not exist, you must create it, of course.

//// EDIT:

You can also use a symbolic-link as a redirect-dir in your new installed Enigma2:

mkdir -p /usr/share/enigma2/picon
ln -s /media/usb/picon /usr/share/enigma2/picon

However, I would not use the OpenBlackHole Enigma2 - it's outdated. Use BlackHole (https://github.com/BlackHole/enigma2) instead. I think both use a different Enigma2 distribution as a source. So in my opinion, neither of these two (BH and OBH) is a happy solution. You'd better use and get used to the most popular and fastest OpenPLi. It is the most popular and so far the fastest I have seen in my short practice.

5.0.220610

Minor addition:

- upon termination of support for any of the satellite positions, i.e. if the picon pack no longer exists, the satellite position will be automatically deleted from the user configuration

- the user will be notified by a warning message box

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5.0.220610

Minor addition:

- upon termination of support for any of the satellite positions, i.e. if the picon pack no longer exists, the satellite position will be automatically deleted from the user configuration

- the user will be notified by a warning message box

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s3n0

could be possible to download picons just for TV without radio channels?

Thank you

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Hi.

Why wouldn't it be possible ? I don't understand exactly. Its not working ? Or what do you mean ?

Enter the plugin configuration and change the update method (go to this configuration line and press the left/right buttons on the RCU).

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Hi.

Why wouldn't it be possible ? I don't understand exactly. Its not working ? Or what do you mean ?

just dont need to download picons for radios stations, only for TV.

dont see that option in setup

So again...

Open the "Chocholousek Picons" plugin and then move the cursor to the line "update mode". Press the LEFT / RIGHT arrows on the RCU until you switch the desired mode (update mode without use the RADIO picons).

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