Web Server

Many devices running embedded Linux tend to have webserver giving control over various configuration options. A similar thing could be handy for Reciva based Internet Radios.

I've installed boa, a small web server and am currently experimenting. It currently just shows the contents of my presets but there's a lot of scope there...

New firmware

So, looks like the AE radios have got a new firmware revision: 257-a-181. Would be nice if the same firmware worked on the Logik radios too. I mean, it ought to, as long as it includes the right configuration file and modules...


Success! But I don't seem to have any fancy new options. Time for a quick fiddle with config1012.txt.



Ah, that's better you can now get at the Alarm Clock from the top level (oh and enable more than one).


In Configuration > Clock you can also enable a menu to correct for daylight savings. Very useful since my IR100 has been an hour slow since the switch.



The Media Player menu can also have a Demo Mode item enabled. This allowed me to play tracks of a USB flash drive. It also looks like this firmware supports a 32MB of flash memory (the current radios 16MB) so you could play music from that too.

USB devices

Interestingly, the usb wifi dongle used in the IR100 can be removed and a hub plugged in to the empty socket. Plugging the wifi device into the hub allows the radio to function as normal. More importantly it allows for other usb devices to be connected :)

If a usb flash disk is connected as the radio boots it is recognised and mounted under /tmp/usb/a/1 (in the case of /dev/sda1) automatically.

Modules are included for usb to serial converters including the popular Prolific PL2303 chip. After installing the usbserial and pl2303 modules a connected usb to serial cable is available as /dev/usb/tts/0.

Success!

So, with the help of SimpleDNS, Apache and the familiar linux dropbear ipkg I've finally got a shell:

Soldering Again

XD Card Arrives