Snakeoil Firmware - 1.2.2 (Gear Isolation U2)

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Introduction
It's been 259 days since work on Gear Isolation U2 began. That's roughly just over 8.5 months of work. This is a major WebApp update (GUI) where the code is completely updated to use the latest Angular. How long is 8 and half months? I'm guessing that's around 30 Twitter years, or 80 TikTok years.
As a matter of face, I believe I switched jobs 2 or 3 times in this period . Either I'm getting older, or the world's pace has gone heaps faster.

The world is moving at such a fast pace, that  the Australian federal government has somehow declared a pandemic is now endemic. With the help of NSW state government, they introduced a "let-it-rip" policy with no restrictions during the busy Christmas season. End result is their dog act has unnecessary killed around 80 people every day since Jan 1 2020. Just have to hope no new dangerous strain comes out from this idiotic policy.

Lots of other things have happened that directly contribute to the long development time. Job changes is one, number of days over 40s is another (record breaking by the way). However, the primary reason is this - I have deliberately slowed down the pace and no longer working on some arbitrary deadline. Snakeoil Gear Isolation U3 will be ready when it's ready. And today it is ready.

U3 is going to look very very different. There will be an adjustment period, but I hope you guys can get comfortable with the new layout.


Known Issues

1. Music players have changed drastically. If you are using upmpdcli currently, you'll need to add an additional player MPD and configure it.
   
2. Wiki is not updated yet to this new UI. This will be a work in progress
   
3. There are some components here and there that says "Coming soon".. These are features that will be added eventually.
   
4. JRiver 28 is missing. See here for fix.
   
5. "Ubuntu Upgrade" command is missing in Systems. See here for temp workaround.
   
6. U2 is a major WebApp rewrite. Almost all elements under the hood have changed. However your browser may still be using old cached objects in this new object, causing lots of display quirks. To work around this, do a force refresh of the browser (usually it's CTRL+SHIFT+R).
   
7. More to come...
   

Download Link

1. SHA1: bcef69016f02cdf6566f78df00c0cd05f8d51bd2
     snakeoil-armv7l-1.2.2.fw (Size: 39.54 MB / Downloads: 30)
   
2. SHA1: 44eead7b52a672951c40aa638fb1635a3ef1767f
     snakeoil-x86_64-1.2.2.fw (Size: 41.38 MB / Downloads: 70)
   

Changelog

1. snakeoil-rest · Fix problem with generic firmware to Raspberry Pi
   
2. music-players · Fix download link of minimserver to use https protocol instead of http
   
3. snakeoil-ngx · Return to dashboard should return to top of the page
   
4. snakeoil-ngx · Work out better browse buttons (esp the add to RAM, and delete from RAM bits
   
5. snakeoil-rest · Show activation details in dashboard
   
6. snakeoil-rest · Fixed broken mympd connection
   
7. snakeoil-rest · Fixed when player running status is not detected properly (racing condition)
   
8. snakeoil-ngx · Alert user PulseAudio is interfering with custom built ALSA libraries and utilities in GUI
   
9. snakeoil-rest · Enable mod_rewrite if it's not on
   
10. music-players · Fix upmpdcli to use latest version of mpd. (Credit Regis Crelier)
    
11. snakeoil-ngx · Update ngx-admin to the latest
    
12. snakeoil-rest · Include netstat port status in diagnostic output
    
13. snakeoil-ngx · Properly minimize the pop up menu on small screens
    
14. snakeoil-rest · Make it possible to start more than 1 server or client (daisy chain multiple players)
    
15. music-players · Can't start upmpdcli if mpd-v20 isn't running before