Rockbox Utility

[Cassandra]

It's been a while in the works, mostly due to me getting distracted, but there's a fairly solid version of the Rockbox Utility up on the wiki at:

http://www.rockbox.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/RockboxUtility

What does it do?  Downloads and automatically installs/uninstalls Rockbox.  In a fairly groovy way.

Supports all of the current daily builds.  Internationalisation and Linux/Mac versions are both very much a possibility for the future, since it's written in a way that makes implementing these things not too tricky.

Try it, test it, break it, let me know what you think.

[epithetless]

I guess I'm the first to say: Thanks, Cassandra!

[gummbah]

Now we only need a fully working, bug free Rockbox for the Ipod, and we are off!

(just kidding).

Thanks for this.

[Cassandra]

Well, there's a bit more to do on the installer too - like make it install the bootloader too, and fully support running from the device itself.  Hoping to produce another update soon, but I've been suffering with a stomach bug.

[Cassandra]

Code is now in CVS, if anyone fancies having a play.  Please submit patches through the patch tracker.  Thanks.

[lachlan]

This may be a stupid question, but which players does it work on?

[Cassandra]

Every player supported by Rockbox.

[Cassandra]

Rockbox Utility is now cross-platform.

Just to let people know that linuxstb has got the Rockbox Utility to compile under Linux using wxWidgets-2.8.0pre3.  If anyone felt like knocking together some unofficial Debian or Redhat packages, that might be cool.

[lachlan]

Cool, I'll definately use this once there's a Ipod 5.5 80Gb port.

[Cassandra]

Version 0.2.1 is now available on the wiki.  This adds support for installing rbutil direct to your media player and revamps the uninstall to be a little more clever.

[Kreator666]

I knew somebody will come along with one of these and make me useless someday

Well, I'm the lead developer of the unofficial installer for iPods, and that is a completed application.  Everything is automatic (iPod detection, installing bootloaders/builds).
So, if you want any help with anything (but it looks like you don't), you can ask.

[Llorean]

Our goal is for the installer to work on all Rockbox targets, not just iPods.

As well, as iPodPatcher is coming along, there's going to be less chance of something going wrong, even if you install more than once on top of each other.

[Kreator666]

I know, I was just offering help for the iPod side of things
More then anything, detection.

I think that the biggest thing for this would be to have everything automatic (like my installer for the iPods) so that people don't even have to select which mp3 player they are installing it to.  If it is possible to detect all the players without user interaction... Well, that remains to be found.

Of course, I understand that the core installation coding isn't completed, but once it does come to the niceties I do suggest that you look into detection.

[Llorean]

Right now, the new iPodPatcher can detect what sort of iPod it is automatically. Figuring out which drive it is automatically is going to be added. Some of the other players (H100/H300 at least) can't really be identified from the PC side, I don't think.

But yeah, I mean, contribute where you can 'n all.

[Kreator666]

The new iPodPatcher sounds nice, especially after all the sysinfo/drive size stuff I had to figure out

Well, shoot me a PM if you (Cassandra or anybody who is working on this) want help or even want to look over the source code for my installer.
Good luck!