Advanced configuration...

psycik · 2007-11-12, 01:57 AM

Martin

Every so often the mvp looses the start in emulate mode that I set via the website.

I see there's a way of doing this while on the mvp menus. I set the startup option to Emulate but when I restart it still comes to the mvp menu. Is there a way of "Saving" that option or is that not fully implemented and I should continue to use the web site??

mvallevand · 2007-11-12, 02:03 AM

You can do this using the dongle.bin.config file that gets loaded from a mvpmc share. Have you read about this?

Martin

psycik · 2007-11-12, 02:46 AM

yeah I did see that..was looking for a "no computer requried" option... Big Grin

and it seemed like the functionality was there.

psycik · 2007-11-12, 02:55 AM

mvallevand Wrote:You can do this using the dongle.bin.config file that gets loaded from a mvpmc share. Have you read about this?

Martin

I got the impressions from : Instead they try and tftp a config file from your tftp server

That it would try and tftp the config file after loading the dongle? is this true? Fromthe FAQ - http://www.mvpmc.org/index.php?pg=faq

mvallevand · 2007-11-12, 02:59 AM

Sorry the mvpmc configuration file isn't written to flash. The design is there but since the dongle has to be loaded from a tftp server really the no computer option doesn't exist. I do load both the dongle and the config file from my NSLU2 NAS device though.

I am a bit surprised you lose it without loading a dongle, since it is only written with the save button from the web page. Maybe ML2 was holding it open Wink

Martin

mvallevand · 2007-11-12, 03:01 AM

psycik Wrote:I got the impressions from : Instead they try and tftp a config file from your tftp server

That it would try and tftp the config file after loading the dongle? is this true? Fromthe FAQ - http://www.mvpmc.org/index.php?pg=faq

Yes if you don't want to run a share you could have a tftp server running. Alternatively maybe one day sub could have a dummy tftp server on port 69 that responds with

mvpmc --startup emulate --emulate xx.xx.xx.xx &

like he does with dongle.bin.ver

Martin

psycik · 2007-11-12, 03:02 AM

mvallevand Wrote:Sorry the mvpmc configuration file isn't written to flash. The design is there but since the dongle has to be loaded from a tftp server really the no computer option doesn't exist. I do load both the dongle and the config file from my NSLU2 NAS device though.

Can I update it directly on the mvp via telnet? or do I go should that samba share option?

mvallevand Wrote:I am a bit surprised you lose it without loading a dongle, since it is only written with the save button from the web page. Maybe ML2 was holding it open

Martin

Probably was, bloody crap piece of software, should ban the author!!

mvallevand · 2007-11-12, 03:08 AM

psycik Wrote:Can I update it directly on the mvp via telnet? or do I go should that samba share option?

Sure issue these commands

killall mvpmc
mvpmc --startup emulate --emulate gbpvr-ip &

and exit does the same thing.

Martin

mvallevand · 2007-11-12, 04:46 AM

Yes that is an ambersand & at the end. It opens up a new thread for mvpmc so you can close of the telnet shell properly.

Martin.

psycik · 2007-11-12, 04:50 AM

I got the & thanks.

Interesting to watch that run through. So where is that configuration writtin? or it it kept in memory?