xDreamy 6.3 Evaluation

[el bandido]

For TNAP 6 users, the xDreamy 6.3 skin renders the Weigel epg exceptionally well. Time has been spent examining this skin, and while improvements can be made, the skin has decent to impressive performance on the TNAP 6 09-13 image. The skin was asking for a dependency that was not available in previous TNAP versions. It should be noted that xDreamy relies on the Internet in order to get the full benefits of the skin, and is something to consider if you have limited or extremely slow Internet speeds.

Currently there are some installations problems that can be easily solved, and do not really effect TNAP because we can build into the image what is desired or needed. The xDreamy skin has a few bugs, but that is to be expected. xDreamy Does Not Have any apparent memory leaks or anything detrimental in its operation. Speed of items being accessed in the skin is at least good, with the only slow-down being with the epg posters loaded.

The xDreamy skin is assembled and designed in part using AI technology, so we will continue that here and put a little bit of effort into improvements along with both personal and AI evaluations. The first thing that was done to the 6.3 version was to test it and see how it runs. A look at terminal htop while changing the screens and loading the epg did not show a great deal of resource usage which is not the case for every skin I have seen.

For starters, a test plugin was created and installed to better understand the workings of the skin. The files for that are attached, along with an assessment of the test. Files and assessment generated using Claude Code.

 

[el bandido]

The package TNAP was missing completely is named python3-image. This was added to the build, but the skin would have loaded without it, but in a diminished condition. This is where a bitbake file would be nice as all dependencies are built per the bitbake recipe. There are opkg lock errors as well. You may be able to get "creative" and get around the opkg lock errors, but this will be a daunting task. Most likely if nothing changes, the skin will probably run good in some images that have all dependencies, but not so good in other images that do not have the needed dependencies.

A couple more reports are attached from Claude Code. The analysis by Claude on the load of the skin in relation to the fta receiver, which is Octagon SF8008 is interesting.

 

[el bandido]

Claude did not like this error, so he fixed it:
ERROR - Error updating renderer status: "'enable' if enable else 'disable'"

 

[el bandido]

xDreamy relies on the Internet to give the user the best experience. However, you will always have someone who claims something sinister is going on because of an Internet connection. While this could be True, it is hard to imagine a fta enigma2 skin trying to steal your personal information, but I guess anything could happen.

So to be sure the Internet associated with the xDreamy skin is clean and well-intentioned, I ask Claude to carefully examine ALL Internet connections associated with xDreamy.

Claude Code Notes heavy Internet usage for a skin, but does not complain much about anything else. Report attached.

 

[eastof111]

I uninstalled 6.2 version and installed the 6.3 version using the ipk file. Going to plugins> xdreamy will display a popup window indicating the installed version number. Would be great to disable this display allowing a quicker access to repeated mods.