Re: Saying Thanx, Wishes and HolyMoly
Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2011 8:21 pmthanks Aladin2000 for your feedback and suggestions
ad 1. ultra fast booting, firefly server only could be done but normally booting is only done once per so many months. There is no need reboot normally unless you want to save some power. Booting does indeed takes longer then the original firmware, especially when the ftp server is activated at boot. On some points it could be improved, for instance a waiting time of 10 seconds is build in to give a connected usb disk the opportunity to be mounted. When there is no usb disk attached then this waiting time could be skipped. But as said booting time is to my opinion not a real issue.
ad 2. I like the blues brothers gif, it only takes a little memory. Can imagine that "customers" like a PRO look but remember that we do this work in our free time as a hobby, if we would have paying customers well then it can be different.
The fact that the firmware has grown in size is because much features are added, I know most users don't use all of them but some want this feature and others want another feature. Sorry for this but there is little that can be done on it. 45 MB isn't much if you compare it with the space a windows operating system needs with the options we have on this NAS.
Also here it is to my opinion not an issue we have plenty of space on the hard disks.
ad 3. pressing (and holding) a button must be longer then 1 sec to have effect. This is done by purpose to prevent that the thing switches of when you by accident touch the button. Press and hold it for at least a second and it will work. Read the release notes for fvdw6-0. Never tried it on a device without a HDD.
Philips media server in 1.2.9.47. That was the marvell media server, its still included as it was in that firmware in the latest fvdw-sl-8-0 but it is not very reliable and very limited in possibilities to set it up. Philips never took it back they just stopped supporting this device and removed the download from their site. I still must have a copy somewhere.
It is a pity that Philips put on such poor firmware because it is a nice little box that can do much more with somewhat enhanced firmware. Look at the features you have now, I think the product would have sold much better when a firmware like the current would have been included. But Philips clearly underestimated the user group of this kind of devices.
We appreciate your inputs and see what we can do with them for future releases.
ad 1. ultra fast booting, firefly server only could be done but normally booting is only done once per so many months. There is no need reboot normally unless you want to save some power. Booting does indeed takes longer then the original firmware, especially when the ftp server is activated at boot. On some points it could be improved, for instance a waiting time of 10 seconds is build in to give a connected usb disk the opportunity to be mounted. When there is no usb disk attached then this waiting time could be skipped. But as said booting time is to my opinion not a real issue.
ad 2. I like the blues brothers gif, it only takes a little memory. Can imagine that "customers" like a PRO look but remember that we do this work in our free time as a hobby, if we would have paying customers well then it can be different.
The fact that the firmware has grown in size is because much features are added, I know most users don't use all of them but some want this feature and others want another feature. Sorry for this but there is little that can be done on it. 45 MB isn't much if you compare it with the space a windows operating system needs with the options we have on this NAS.
Also here it is to my opinion not an issue we have plenty of space on the hard disks.
ad 3. pressing (and holding) a button must be longer then 1 sec to have effect. This is done by purpose to prevent that the thing switches of when you by accident touch the button. Press and hold it for at least a second and it will work. Read the release notes for fvdw6-0. Never tried it on a device without a HDD.
Philips media server in 1.2.9.47. That was the marvell media server, its still included as it was in that firmware in the latest fvdw-sl-8-0 but it is not very reliable and very limited in possibilities to set it up. Philips never took it back they just stopped supporting this device and removed the download from their site. I still must have a copy somewhere.
It is a pity that Philips put on such poor firmware because it is a nice little box that can do much more with somewhat enhanced firmware. Look at the features you have now, I think the product would have sold much better when a firmware like the current would have been included. But Philips clearly underestimated the user group of this kind of devices.
We appreciate your inputs and see what we can do with them for future releases.