...* V2.02 had timing problems with old STB receivers with small buffers, where the DATV-Express PCR timing-processing overflows the buffer (after a several minutes) resulting in video screen freezes or screen going blank…and/or audio popping.
...* In V2.02 there was still a lingering problem with some older models of PVR-150 units where DATV-Express could not properly grab the composite video.
...* V2.03 adds a new feature of a DVB-T 1 MHz bandwidth selection.
...* V2.03 can now be installed on Ubuntu V14.04 LTS operating system (as well as the older Ubuntu V12.04 LTS)
Updated README details, new .DEB download files, and User Guide (Draft36) are all available on the DOWNLOADS page area on the www.DATV-Express.com web site.
As soon as that task was completed, attention turned back to releasing v2.03 for the ODROID-U3 "micro-PC". Charles G4GUO was still handicapped in that the eMMc memory on his ODROID does not allow him to swap out between his development set-up (development is on the ODROID) and a fresh test image. So a new plan became to "cross train" Ken W6HHC to build and test the ODROID software from the github site of Charles. Ken will tell you that THIS IS NOT EASY! The Lubuntu 14.04 LTS OS on the ODROID is not quite the same as working on a PC installation of Ubuntu 14.04. It took more than a week to just successfully install QtCreator on the ODROID development image.
Set-up to build ODROID .deb file at QTH of W6HHC
Then Ken learned that installing and using debreate (the tool to build a .deb file) is quite an adventure. But good progress has been made by Ken with about 30 e-mails and three Skype-work-sessions with Charles G4GUO for assistance. But persistence does payoff and a successful deb file build for the ODROID ARM "micro-PC" was finally achieved. Ken has now successfully tested the .deb package at his QTH and sent the video below.
First video transmission received from ODROID at W6HHC "software lab"
There are three main goals left to complete in order to release the ODROID-U3 deb installation file for DATV-Express.
1) Ken needs to work out the debreate build details so that the deb file installs DATV-Express software without errors or "missing dependencies" on a fresh OS image.
2) Ken needs to test the resulting v2.03 installation on ODROID-U3 to make sure that all features work well.
3) An ODROID-version of the USER GUIDE needs to be prepared (many Lubuntu screens look different)
But the long awaited release of DATV-Express for ODROID-U3 appears to be much closer now.
"full speed ahead"....de Ken W6HHC