Image 6.0.001 - missing plugins

[nekrub2]

Dear all

In a second attempt I tried to restore all plugins except hbbtv. However these plugins are missing (cannot be downloaded)

- mediaportal
As hbbtv does not run on mpsel processors it was the only way to see the mediaportal for Swiss, German and Austrian TV stations.

-MP3Browser
This old MP3 player allowed me to see the song lyrics

- Wikipedia

-xmb weather
A very userfriedlly weather plugin

So I see no advantage to stay with 6.0.001 but I go back to 5.4.016.

[Trial]

Hi,
maintainer of mediaportal stopped supporting other boxes than DreamBoxes. I do not think that there will be a solution.

Ralf

[nekrub2]

How difficult is is to rewrite these orphaned plugins which are not running under phyton 3 and how could I learn this?
It is a pity that very user-friendly software is abandoned without replacement.

I think it is worth migrating the best ones.

nekrub2

[Huevos]

How much programming experience do you have?

[nekrub2]

I programmed xml based user interfaces for java applications and have a clue about object oriented programming but have no phython knowledge so far. This doesn't mean I could learn it.

[ccs]

.... you'll need to find the source of these plugins first, a couple haven't changed for 5 years and are only available as .ipk's.

[Huevos]

Yes, source files are needed. There are convertor tools to do the basics, and then you just need to run the code and deal with any problems.

[twol]

I programmed xml based user interfaces for java applications and have a clue about object oriented programming but have no phython knowledge so far. This doesn't mean I could learn it.

Providing you have programmed in some language, then you will understand the basics, then its a case of trying - so choosing a plugin that doesn‘t work in py3 is a good starting point, followed by large chunks of Googling.
My knowledge goes back decades to mainframes, so learning python was an interesting challenge (and is still a challenge!)

[Tkr001]

Providing you have programmed in some language, then you will understand the basics, then its a case of trying - so choosing a plugin that doesn‘t work in py3 is a good starting point, followed by large chunks of Googling.
My knowledge goes back decades to mainframes, so learning python was an interesting challenge (and is still a challenge!)

Haha I go back to IBM 360 Assembler

[twol]

Haha I go back to IBM 360 Assembler

I knew Assembler pretty well - still have the IBM yellow code booklet! But started by punching machine code into paper tape or punch cards!

[Tkr001]

I knew Assembler pretty well - still have the IBM yellow code booklet! But started by punching machine code into paper tape or punch cards!

I still have the yellow foldable card. I was a Systems Programmer for many years on Dos, Dos/VS, OS2 and MVS. I was pretty quick on the 029 card punch.

[twol]

I still have the yellow foldable card. I was a Systems Programmer for many years on Dos, Dos/VS, OS2 and MVS. I was pretty quick on the 029 card punch.

I still use the card for quick conversion decimal <—-> hex.

[nekrub2]

Learning programming is one issue. The other one is that all the plug-ins I miss are from the same author without web page and email address. This way I cannot get the source codes.

nekrub2

Still remember when I wrote my fist basic program

[Huevos]

Learning programming is one issue. The other one is that all the plug-ins I miss are from the same author without web page and email address. This way I cannot get the source codes.

nekrub2

Still remember when I wrote my fist basic program

That is the trouble we have.

[twol]

Learning programming is one issue. The other one is that all the plug-ins I miss are from the same author without web page and email address. This way I cannot get the source codes.

nekrub2

Still remember when I wrote my fist basic program

The other way is to disassemble the .pyo