What is Black Pole project ?

[bassethound]

Black Pole stands for: Black P(li)ole

Given the great work Pli is doing on e2 sources and openembedded, the Black Hole team have decided to accompany these images on an experimental project based on the Pli git.

General:
The Black Pole project is fully Open Source and accessible to all.
The source can be found at: https://github.com/BlackPole and on this board we will be provide the makefile, to make sure that anyone can compile the image alone, experiment with new solutions, add to and perhaps propose patches and enhancements. Only Vu plus boxes are supported.

Although the images externally "Black Hole" and "Black Pole" may seem similar, with the same structure,skin panels and, in reality the two images are COMPLETELY DIFFERENT AND STRUCTURALLY have a totally different target.

Features:
The image Black Pole is derived from Pli git and includes all the features from it.
- Better handling of the media with continuous work to expand the formats recognized and make an easy to use media player and movie player.
- Streaming internal server.
- Support for IPTV with the possibility to add the channels directly in IPTV Bouquet.
- Advanced management of subtitles in a large number of possible settings and customizations.
- Auto language or automatic selection of the language set as precisely as possible where there are subtitles.
- Continuous updates in real time through custom feeds directly from the vuplus community server.
- Compatibility with existing Black Hole addons.

Target:
As we all know the Black Hole images are especially oriented to being user-friendly and the most complete package with the presence of numerous panels and features that allow users to directly manage resources of the system.
The target of the Black Pole images are totally different. The Black Pole images are "essential" no frills and updated, developed exclusively to meet the criteria of speed, performance and stability.
The Black Pole images do not contain all the interior panels of BH images, but does still include all the services.
There is no multiboot support in BP and no panels for telnet or cron.
But you can still use all the services in BP such as openvpn, nfsserver etc. ..

Basically we think that the Black Pole images are more suitable for advanced users and experts who can also play around with the source and configurations.

In conclusion it is important to clarify that BH and BP are two completely different images and dedicated in a structured manner to a different target.
DO NOT ASK TO ADD INTO BH, FEATURES THAT ARE PRESENT IN BP OR VICE VERSA BECAUSE IT IS NOT POSSIBLE.
Apart from differences in structure the thing would go against the different nature and the target of two different projects.

Special Thanks to Pli team and expecially to pieterg Milo and hemertje for their support and for the big work they are making for all us.
Thanks to Skaman (Sif) andyblac (Vix) e plnick (Vti) for their friendly support and suggestions.

[Larry-G]

The current crop of Black Pole images can be found here.

Uno
http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...e-Vu-Uno-0-1-1
Duo
http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...e-Vu-Duo-0-1-1
Solo
http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...-Vu-Solo-0-1-1
Ultimo
http://www.world-of-satellite.com/sh...u-Ultimo-0-1-1

[Delagroov]

Interesting..I will give it a try on second ultimo

[Raitsa]

Well at the moment its basically an OpenPLi image with another skin & some user interface phrases changed.

[Larry-G]

Well at the moment its basically an OpenPLi image with another skin & some user interface phrases changed.

It's still very very early days and no doubt a lot of development will be done to update and upgrade the image as they see fit in due course.

[jpschouten]

screenshots ? et5000 support ?

[silverfox0786]

this is a good thing guys

now BH will have to allow merging with PLi and then inturn we can merge too and get the DTT and Wifi Drivers that Angleofsky does

seems to me a good move even though BH aint got a sence of team

[judge]

downloaded it but not tried it yet. Can only be a good thing to have more images/teams working on our boxes...
still doubt I'd leave VIX though.

[Larry-G]

screenshots ? et5000 support ?

no there only support Vu hardware at present.

this is a good thing guys

now BH will have to allow merging with PLi and then inturn we can merge too and get the DTT and Wifi Drivers that Angleofsky does

seems to me a good move even though BH aint got a sence of team

yes this image is completely open source however you have to remember this is a side project for them as BH is their main concern.

[rossi2000]

looks interesting, might try a build later

although as someone said earlier, having looked at the source, id say its quite abit more than just an openpli image with another skin etc.
theyve done quite abit of work in there.

[head44]

thanks!
support for ET9x00?

[Larry-G]

thanks!
support for ET9x00?

The BlackHole team do not support any hardware other than the Vu line of receivers, and seeing as BP is a BlackHole project i cant see that changing any time soon.

[GAH2402]

Hi Guys,

Have given the Black Pole image a quick try-out. Great picture quality and very impressed. However, I won't be sticking with it for now as it would NOT mount my HDD properly. I initialized it and set it to Ext4 using Black Pole, but I when I used the mount manager to set the mount points for my HDD and USB, the box would ask for a re-start as normal but it didn't save the mountpoints. It also wrongly displayed the free space on my HDD, but that could be down to the mount issue. Secondly there is no built-in plugin or extension for backing up a complete image.

Hopefully the next version will address these issues, as I was very impressed apart from the points I mentioned.

GAH

[OldSkulRide]

In my humble opinion BH users do not fully appreciate OpenPLi advantages over original VU+ and Dreambox enigma.

[harryoz]

Give it 6 months and it will be every good as BlackHole but with OpenPli