New azbox software out

**Babadem** · 12-30-2009 05:15 PM

azbox-0.9.4142-patch.bin

is out! I will test in a few hours. I hope Blind scan is improved?!

**B.J.** · 12-31-2009 08:42 AM

I went to the web page where these things are distributed, hoping to see some indication of what was changed, but it was blank. Once there though, I noticed the description on one of the earlier versions (4075 I think), it had a line that said "disable of telnet service". This made me curious what they meant by this? Does this mean that the later versions after 4075 don't allow you to connect via telnet??? I hope that's not the case, as I think it will cripple the box with respect to experimentation by people writing 3rd party firmware, and just generally make the box a bit less fun to use by people who enjoy snooping around. I also suspect that it may make that MAZ22 program stop working, because it uses telnet in addition to FTP (I have no idea of WHY it uses telnet, but it seems to use it to make a partition that is normally RO into a R/W partition).

Anyway, I'm curious whether anyone who's loaded up one of these firmwares since 4075 has tried Telnet, to see if it still works?? Just curious.

**Yurek99** · 12-31-2009 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by B.J.

Anyway, I'm curious whether anyone who's loaded up one of these firmwares since 4075 has tried Telnet, to see if it still works?? Just curious.

In this version, telnet is disabled by default. You can enable it as all other services.

**B.J.** · 12-31-2009 11:10 AM

Originally Posted by Yurek99

In this version, telnet is disabled by default. You can enable it as all other services.

Oh, OK, that's good. I was afraid that they had turned it off completely. Like on my old SA TIVOs telnet isn't enabled, and you have to pull the drive and mount it in a Linux environment and enable it, then put the drive back in, which is a pain. I'm not sure how you'd do that on an Azbox which apparently has it's OS on chips rather than a real drive.

**pro96** · 12-31-2009 11:19 AM

I haven't even loaded any of these new FW with the so called software blind scan.. been lazy

**B.J.** · 12-31-2009 12:31 PM

Originally Posted by pro96

I haven't even loaded any of these new FW with the so called software blind scan.. been lazy

Same here. I still have 3877 (I think), which is the last official release. I've been half lazy with respect to trying the new ones and half being careful, since they aren't tested.

BTW, I've just copied ALL the release notes from the various firmware versions back through July, in case anyone is interested in following the progress of this box.

**babcea** · 12-31-2009 12:36 PM

the only thing I noticed different is they added reboot to the options when you press the power button,and mine says not connected to the internet but I know I am because I can watch youtube.I dont think there have been any improvements to the scan feature,It adds to many duplicates.I still cannot scan in the cbs feeds on 89 or 97 since the 4110 upgrade.

**cracklincrotch** · 12-31-2009 12:51 PM

You could do that by holding the power button on the box or remote for four seconds anyway. Maybe that's for people that didn't know.

**Jim S.** · 12-31-2009 01:26 PM

Originally Posted by B.J.

Oh, OK, that's good. I was afraid that they had turned it off completely. Like on my old SA TIVOs telnet isn't enabled, and you have to pull the drive and mount it in a Linux environment and enable it, then put the drive back in, which is a pain. I'm not sure how you'd do that on an Azbox which apparently has it's OS on chips rather than a real drive.

I think the chips are actually plugged into an IDE slot.

**B.J.** · 12-31-2009 03:15 PM

Originally Posted by Jim S.

I think the chips are actually plugged into an IDE slot.

Really? That's interesting. I guess that explains why things are mounted /dev/hda1 , hda2, hda3, hda4.
I was wondering why they were mounting as a hard drive when there obviously wasn't any hard drive in there.
Neat.