fonosfera

From the department of release often, release early, we have a new foneradownloader addon release.

This release brings small bugfixes introduced in the previous release and small features to the download manager window.

We’ve added some filtering options in case you want to distinguish from torrents and downloads easily.

We have also added a sorting option so you can track more easily the current state of all your downloads. Currently you can sort by paused, completed or in progress downloads. We hope you like this small update.

That’s all, bugs and issues belong to our support forums ;-)
Get it from here

Thanks,
Javier

UPDATE: Somehow I managed to upload a pre-release version of the plugin with a bug for Mac users. :( Please verify you’re using the correct xpi with this md5 checksum: 7c940083aebaf2d9b5a0df492277b5b3

Hi all,

We have a new foneradownloader firefox extension release. This new release brings some small enhancement and a ‘geeky’ feature for massive downloaders which may miss from other download manager extensions.

First, the settings dialog no longer applies it’s settings ‘on-the-fly’. This is done because some users complained about problems on the extension re-connecting when the address is still not fully typed.

And now for the new feature… when you right click on a web page and you’re connected to the fonera, a new item will show: “Find links for fonera”.

When this item is selected, a window will pop-up with all links/images the page has. We think this will be a nice feature for when you are in a page with lots of links and you don’t want to bother rightclick-ing each one of them!

Think about this feature when you go to an image gallery webpage and you want to download all pics, or all isos from a linux distro or maybe all zips from a multiple volume download.

To make this task even easier, we’ve included a small toolbar with pre-selected filters: images, movies, music, torrents, rapidshare and megaupload. When you select any of these filters, all links matching will be automatically selected so you then send them to your fonera. This filters can be modified from the ‘about:config‘ preferences page in Firefox. You need to type about:config in the url to access it.

But that’s not all, we also included a ’search as you type’ filter for when you have lots of links but you know what you’re looking for.

And as usual, we included small bugfixes to enhance the user experience and full support for lastest firmware for both fonera2.0 n & g. We really hope you like this small upgrade, so please test it and report bugs you find in our user forums.

Get it here!
Thanks,
Javier

Hi

After a looooooong time of silence (forced silence… we were working, not playing XD) We’re coming with great news for you. The 2.3.0.0 version of the firmware will be soon available for your foneras 2.0g!!

No, we haven’t forgot or let down our loyal fonera 2.0g users. We want to make them as happy as possible and we’re doing 2 things for them:
1) Improve the firmware as much as possible. This 2.3.0.0 has all the improvements we’ve developed during these months. The Fonera 2.0g will have as much as possible the same firmware as the Fonera 2.0n.
2) Give discounts for those who are willing to upgrade their 2.0g to 2.0n. We know you spent money on the 2.0g and now we have a new device that is more powerful (and also more expensive). This is not common in all companies, but hey, we try to make you happy, you help us with the feedback too, after all. So we have announced great discounts (we mean great, not small) for those who have bought a Fonera 2.0g and are willing to upgrade it! Please stay tuned to your mail!
New features:

• The web interface over WAN has been moved to port 443 for security
• Transmission has been integrated into the FON WebUI. You can still access it in the traditional way!
• Added QoS support!! Make sure you set realistic up and download values of your line on the configuration. Otherwise it doesn’t work…
• Twitter!!! Yes, your fonera will tell you when it has finished uploading videos or someone connects to your signal and much more! (Not available for Torrents yet, sorry)

So, what is the bugfix list for this RC1? Here it goes (hold to your chair):

• Optional Manual DNS server on DHCP mode.
• Pop up to prevent unwilling reset/rebooting on the systems menu.
• ALL configurations are saved now from upgrade to upgrade (except for firewall, coming in the next!).
• Sending files to the correct folder over samba triggers the upload to the corresponding service.
• Samba works fine now on Windows XP.
• NTFS is handled slightly better now. Actions won’t happen till the disk is properly mounted (source of many bugs).
• More robust upload management.
• Filenames starting with ‘.’ are ignored by the service uploades (picasa, flickr etc). Good for Macs ;)
• Both \\fonera\Media and \\fonera\disc-a1 work now (better use the first)
• Many, many, many, many more bug fixing. All boring and internal, but will improve the overall experience!

Please, test it and report back. We are only looking for compatibility bugs.

*IMPORTANT NOTE* This is a Release Candidate. It is not an stable firmware. Most of the things should work fine and it’s probably safe to install. But if you are not very skillful or feel not confident about it… please wait for the release or until you read enough feedback from other users. We are happy to help everybody with any problems they experience but sometimes are overloaded of work… ;)

*ANOTHER ONE* After upgrading, the torrent application might be broken. This is due to changes in the very interior of the fonera. The way to fix it is to remove the “FoneraApps” from the disc where it is installed and reinstall.
Enjoy!

Web upgrade image (do NOT uncompress):
Enduser
Developer

RedBoot / Ssh upgrade image:

Md5sum: 5d43a2ba405627975f09741e3d506681

http://download.fonosfera.org/RC/20090922_FON2202_2.3.0.1_RC1.image

Hi

There’s a new FoneraDownloader extension release for Firefox. In this release we have included these new features and enhancements:

• Add a preferences option to indicate the use of the plugin from WAN. (No more workarounds in user/password settings. You still need to reach transmission (9091) & luci (80) ports from wan as before).
• Fixes in transmission’s session error handling (thanks to cyrusFF).
• Change information icon to green.
• Small information tooltip in torrents icon with more download stats (upload/download rate/peers).
• Icon and separator in context menu so it’s easier to visualize download action.
• Force username to “fonero” to avoid authentication problems with previous installations of the plugin.
• Show error messages in the download window as well as in the statusbar.
• Order downloads, in progress first.
• Selected text (with downloadable links) has a higher priority than html links.
• bugfixes and some performance fixes.

You can get it from here:
http://download.fonosfera.org/software/foneradownloader-0.0.21.xpi

Please test & enjoy!

Javier

OldMan released a pre-beta version of his plugin. He ported Motion software to the Fonera 2.0!

With the application installed and a webcam connected to your Fonera 2.0, you will be able to trigger events when motion is detected. A built in functionality is for example to save the images captured by the webcam when motion occurs. Needless to say with a bit of scripting the possibilities are endless.

Download the plugin Motion4fon_0.1beta.tar.gz
Draft version of the manual page on FON Wiki

Screenshot:

New release of the Firefox add-on for the Fonera 2.0 !

If you didn’t give it a try yet, that’s the right time to do so. Download the add-on from the fonosfera repository. If needed the manual is on FON Wiki.

Changelog:
- Fix incorrect refreshed informations of the download manager window on Mac OS.
- Disable account settings when there is no connexion to the Fonera (and not just when the plugin is disabled).
- Code cleanups.

Just a day after the Fiesta Firefox 3.5 organized by Mozilla and FON in Madrid, Javier is releasing a new version of his add-on (v.0.0.14).

Fonera Downloader is a Firefox add-on which allows you to monitor and add downloads to your Fonera.

Major changes include:

• New interface for the download manager, similar to Firefox’s native one
• Better integration with Megaupload and Rapidshare accounts
• Works with transmission torrent client
• Offline mode so it can be easily disabled when not connected to your Fonera
• Support for Firefox 3.5
• Bugfixes

Usage and installation instructions are available on FON Wiki.

Hi all,

This time we’ve done things very fast! huh?

We got a lot possitive feedback and some bugs that we considered worth fixing soon. So here you go. We released RC5 for your delight.

Enjoy it! Here’s the Changelog:

• DHCP issues fixed: some users had no DNS on DHCP mode.
• WAN access control on the firewall is fixed.
• FONSpot always enabled by default.
• Transmission is now accessible from WAN.
• Samba on Windows accepts all filesizes and allows you to create folders properly (thanks for the hint deco!)

Additionally we updated the webcam plugin: now it allows WAN access!!! ;)

Web upgrade - enduser: 20090713_FON2202_2.2.6.0_rc5_USER

Web upgrade - developer: 20090713_FON2202_2.2.6.0_rc5_DEV

Hello all!

after a veeeeeery long time, we’re happy to announce a new Release Candidate: 2.2.6.0 RC4! Yes, we know the 3 comes after the 2 and not the 4, but RC3 was an internal release :P

Why did it take us so long to make a new release? Phew… LOTS OF CHANGES!!! Really, L O T S. And we hope this is going to be all for the good.

This is not a stable release or better said, not an official release, just a Release Candidate, but we think it’s much more stable and usable than previous versions. We’re closer and closer to the perfect device! LOL

Ok, no more boring info, here’s the Changelog:

• Upload service queuing: if you plug a disk with media to upload to different services (YouTube, Flickr, Picasa or Facebook) they will now be queued and uploaded serially and not in parallel (which caused the fonera to run out of memmory and crash).
• Applications know when another upload is in progress: if you’re uploading videos to Youtube and there are queued pictures for Flickr, the Flickr page will tell you: “Waiting for YouTube to finish the upload”. How about that? ;)
• Send files from samba and they will be uploaded to your applications. No need to unplug and replug the disk! More and more user friendly every time :P
• Prorgess bars for uploaders: so you konw when it’s gonna be finished. It also helps show that the fonera is working on something ;)
• Save configuration from flash to flash: no need to reconfigure all the settings again! Well, WPA password will be lost and the plugins you installed too… sorry. We’re working on it. But it’s already good progress, isn’t it? (this feature only works on web upgrade)
• Save and restore configuration: what’s this? well, some users like to have backups of their configuration. Now you can download it from the fonera and upload it again if you want to restore safe values… It’s not very tested yet, test it and let us know if it works fine!
• Better memmory management (processes stopped if unnecessary, less services running by default etc): ok ok, this is not a feature but an enhancement, but it’s important!
• More image and video types supported. every application is aware of what it can upload. They even check filesizes depending on the service. If a picture is too big for Picasa it will tell you ;)
• Videos are now supported on picasa and flickr too!
• Classic youtube accounts should work now: those without the @gmail.com - it’s not valid to have a gmail.com like account and just ommit it in the user field! Please, someone test it…
• Additional info on the dashboard: shows uptime, shows release candidate number…
• Disable FONSpot: yes… you can now disable the FON service. Why, you wonder. Well, we want to build the biggest wireless community in the world, but well, everybody is free to do whatever they want with their fonera, they payed for it after all. So, you don’t want to share? don’t share… but you are evil! mwahahahaha!
• And much more…

And let me finish with the most awaited the most critisized, the most conflictive, the most difficult bug we ever had… (NO IT IS NOT BRIDGING! LOL)… TORRENTS!!!

We removed the unworkable (thanks unworkable folks, it was a good try but didn’t fit our needs) and it’s been replaced with… TRANSMISSION! Transmission is the best torrent client out there and it’s opensource! It works really well and it’s been veeeery smooth to integrate in the fonera.

Thanks to pablo and john form FON and Charles from transmission and others, we have our first Transmission plugin for you guys to enjoy! It’s still the first version, we are already working on some improvements that will come in the future, but for now, it’s usable.

Don’t abuse… the Fonera 2.0 is still a limited device in memory and CPU. Please follow this recommendations:

• We suggest to limit download speed to 150KB/s-200KB/s for stability and responssiveness of the interface. This is the values we set by default, we know it’s not very high, but it’s kind of stable.
• Also, sometimes the interface seems to be freezed… it’s not common but sometimes it takes up to 30min to give a response, still it’s working in the background. If Transmission has proved something is that it’s very stable and very reliable, so just be patient. Really, be patient. Especially when starting or connecting while it’s been downloading for a long while.
• Do not add many torrents. Transmission right now does not support queueing. All torrents you upload to it will be added for parallel download and this kills la fonera. Well, it doesn’t kill it, just makes it totally unresponssive. IMPORTANT: adding torrents and pausing them does ALSO freeze the fonera, Transmission uses these files in background for something.
• Also, be aware that it does NOT work with NTFS so… windows users, use FAT32, linux users… you don’t need advice ;)
• DO NOT use it with a pendrive. The fonera uses the pendrive as RAM memmory (swap) and pendrives are too slow for that plus they deteriorate faster.
• DO NOT remove the disk before “shutting down torrent” from the fonera web UI. This is very important or you will have to uninstall and reinstall transmission. To extract a disk, you need to reboot (sotfware reboot) the fonera if you ran transmission first. This is a bug that will be fixed soon.

We are already trying to work with the Transmission guys to improve these problems, so stay tuned and ready for improvements in the future. Still, this is something already usable :P
I don’t want to extend on the incredible opportunities Transmission is bringing to the fonera (bandwidth control, seeding, access from other devices - Android, iPhone, Firefox plugins). You will get to know them by yourselves :)

I also want to thank the small betatesting team we’ve built. They are in great extent responsible of many of the improvements you see now and will see in the future. A big applause for them.
Ok, I think this has been the longes release candidate post I ever wrote so now I shut up.

Web upgrade: 20090708_FON2202_2.2.6.0_rc4.tar.gz

Web upgrade - developer mode: 20090708_FON2202_2.2.6.0_rc4_DEV.tar.gz
Console upgrade: 20090708_FON2202_2.2.6.0_rc4.image - md5sum f53f98adeeac9b9b5426d8a53cbd9db3

Yesterday we announced it, today, we release it!

In order to use foneradownloader-0.0.9 you need firmware 2.2.6.0-rc2 or later.

What you can do with is:

• click on a torrent and select to send it to the fonera 2.0 for download, instead of downloading it with the PC and then upload it to the fonera. Cool huh?
• select a set of plain text links (direct links or RS and MU links) and right click on them -> “Download with the Fonera”. YAY!!!! And you can select even normal text, it’s a smart plugin that will strip out only the proper links!!
• See the status of all your downloads in realtime on firefox, without needing to go to the fonera UI. You can see it all in a table like this (sorry about the Spanish):