hacking eGreat EG-R1 - updated (new best FW)

Hi,

after 3 years of using this little box I've spend some Christmas holiday time and did a research on the Internet looking for an actual best FW for it.

I have tested approx. 6 different FW's and here is my favourite, most stable, fast and usable:  CS_r0.5.0a_ACRyan_v7.4.6.r8755


Little bit of customization I suggest after FW update:
(enable samba in settings-network, keep build transmission disabled)

1.) Enable swap
2.) Install latest Transmission 2.8.x


add 1.) Enable Swap
 Prerequisity:
- hdisk with linux-swap partition (easy created in gparted over Ubuntu live)
- download nountSwap script from here:
http://www.acryan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=146&t=18076

- copy script to your hard drive
- login over terminal to the player and copy script from hd to /usr/local/etc/mountSwap
- do chmod 755 /usr/local/etc/mountSwap
- execute the script, you should see output like this:

        Identification of swap-partition:
        -> Swap-partition was found on /dev/sdb2

        Extra wait, contribute of FW r7317

        Activate swap-partition:
        -> swap-partition (/dev/sdb2) enabled

        Make swap settings:
        -> min_free_kbytes = 5120
        -> swappiness = 60

        mountSwap end: everything is okay

If it's working, put the script on the end of the start script /usr/local/etc/rcS:
 /usr/local/etc/mountSwap &

- reboot the player and login back, verify that swap is activated automatically:

~ # cat /proc/swaps
Filename                                Type            Size    Used    Priority
/mnt/rd/swap.img                        file            32      0       -1
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part2 partition       131064  1272    -2

~ # free
              total         used         free       shared      buffers
  Mem:       120632       111804         8828            0         1332
 Swap:       131096         1272       129824
Total:       251728       113076       138652

It looks OK.


add 2.) Install latest Transmission 2.8.x

Now, it's little bit complicated but still easy to do.

- enable packaging system:

mount -o remount rw /  

mkdir /opt/tmp; cd /opt/tmp

wget http://www.kovari.priv.hu/download/ipkg-cl.tgz; tar -xvf ipkg-cl.tgz; rm ipkg-cl.tgz

mv /opt/tmp/ipkg-cl /bin

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk

ipkg-cl install uclibc-opt_0.9.28-13_mipsel.ipk

wget http://ipkg.nslu2-linux.org/feeds/optware/oleg/cross/stable/ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk

ipkg-cl install ipkg-opt_0.99.163-10_mipsel.ipk

rm *.ipk

- download list of packages:

/opt/bin/ipkg update

- install latest transmission into /opt:

/opt/bin/ipkg install transmission

-  create a transmission directory on hdisk and put there config file:


~ # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
...
/dev/scsi/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1      1.8T      1.1T    723.9G  61% /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1

~ # mkdir /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1/BT

- put there a "settings.json" file, here is example:
 (insert your password into line" "rpc-password": "your_password",)

{
    "alt-speed-down": 512,
    "alt-speed-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-begin": 540,
    "alt-speed-time-day": 127,
    "alt-speed-time-enabled": false,
    "alt-speed-time-end": 1020,
    "alt-speed-up": 25,
    "bind-address-ipv4": "0.0.0.0",
    "bind-address-ipv6": "::",
    "blocklist-enabled": true,
    "blocklist-url": "http://list.iblocklist.com/?list=bt_level1&fileformat=p2p&archiveformat=gz",
    "cache-size-mb": 4,
    "dht-enabled": true,
    "download-dir": "/tmp/usbmounts/sdb1/BT",
    "download-queue-enabled": true,
    "download-queue-size": 5,
    "encryption": 1,
    "idle-seeding-limit": 30,
    "idle-seeding-limit-enabled": false,
    "incomplete-dir": "//Downloads",
    "incomplete-dir-enabled": false,
    "lpd-enabled": false,
    "message-level": 2,
    "peer-congestion-algorithm": "",
    "peer-id-ttl-hours": 6,
    "peer-limit-global": 20,
    "peer-limit-per-torrent": 20,
    "peer-port": 51555,
    "peer-port-random-high": 65535,
    "peer-port-random-low": 49152,
    "peer-port-random-on-start": false,
    "peer-socket-tos": "default",
    "pex-enabled": true,
    "port-forwarding-enabled": true,
    "preallocation": 1,
    "prefetch-enabled": 1,
    "queue-stalled-enabled": true,
    "queue-stalled-minutes": 30,
    "ratio-limit": 2,
    "ratio-limit-enabled": false,
    "rename-partial-files": true,
    "rpc-authentication-required": true,
    "rpc-bind-address": "0.0.0.0",
    "rpc-enabled": true,
    "rpc-password": "{db0e9c0d08d867cb803e1ee0cec8dc5f7537bde2KmBzzO5I",
    "rpc-port": 9091,
    "rpc-url": "/transmission/",
    "rpc-username": "root",
    "rpc-whitelist": "127.0.0.1",
    "rpc-whitelist-enabled": false,
    "scrape-paused-torrents-enabled": true,
    "script-torrent-done-enabled": false,
    "script-torrent-done-filename": "",
    "seed-queue-enabled": false,
    "seed-queue-size": 10,
    "speed-limit-down": 100,
    "speed-limit-down-enabled": false,
    "speed-limit-up": 45,
    "speed-limit-up-enabled": true,
    "start-added-torrents": true,
    "trash-original-torrent-files": false,
    "umask": 18,
    "upload-slots-per-torrent": 14,
    "utp-enabled": true
}

- relink transmission web page:
rm -rf /tmp/www
ln -s /opt/share/transmission/web /tmp/www


- run transmission and check if webpage is working: 
nice -n 15 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1/BT/

http://box_ip:9091 (login with root/)

- if everything’s OK, modify start script,
put on the end of "/usr/local/etc/rcS":

mount -o remount rw /
sleep 30
nice -n 15 /opt/bin/transmission-daemon -g /tmp/usbmounts/sdb1/BT/

- reboot box and pray that it boot-up OK and everything run fine :-)
reboot

Enjoy the latest Transmission and stable system with swap enabled.

B.