Hi -

Will this work on the 2007HE, or should I just move on?

My guess is that it could be something with the info banner saying "Loading xxx" in the upper right corner, because that's the only thing happening between the button press and the movie being displayed.

If you start the application from xterm you should get an error message (just type grumby). You may also want to check if your python2.5-hildon up to date. I have version 0.8.8-1osso8 here.

I don't know. It depends on a microb package that provides a libgtkmozembed, and a python binding for it. If that is available on 2007HE, it would be quite easy to de-OS2008ify the rest of it, if at all necessary. But I don't have a 770 to try

Is python2.5-hildon part of the python2.5-runtime package? If not, which repo can I get it from? I'm having a similar problem (list of Chumby widgets show up, but can't really interact with them with button pressers or touch screen). It just highlights the one I click in blue.


PS: I can post the error message if need be.

Will it be possible to use grumby as an alarm clock using virtual chumby widgets?

Yes it is. Actually, it's not very likely it is missing as the program wouldn't probably run at all.

Please, that would be really helpful.

BusyBox v1.6.1 (2007-09-27 18:08:59 EEST) Built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands.

~ $ grumby
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 361, in filter_browser_url
self.start_playing(None, self.movie_idx)
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 152, in start_playing
self.write_movie_page()
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 156, in write_movie_page
hildon.hildon_banner_show_information(self.window, None, "Opening: " + movie['name']);
TypeError: hildon_banner_show_information() argument 2 must be string, not None
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 243, in on_key_press
self.toggle_play()
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 140, in toggle_play
self.stop_playing(None)
File "/usr/bin/grumby", line 145, in stop_playing
hildon.hildon_banner_show_information(self.window, None, "Opening channel overview");
TypeError: hildon_banner_show_information() argument 2 must be string, not None


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Edit: Hope this is helpful.

been looking at that chumby stuff myself, now created a virtual one and I'm honestly disappointed by the widgets. Nothing special clocks and tickers and other stuff you have already on the N8x0 (besides maybe a game or 2 that uses the Chumby's motion sensor?)
Or do I miss something? what widgets do you actually use?

I think it's because these widgets can be full screened. So it's nice to have when working on say another computer.

Thanks, Laughing Man. This was indeed a info banner related python bug, and it was fixed only 6 weeks ago, so some people still have the old package.

I uploaded a new release that works around this problem.

http://www.henso.com/files/grumby/

I also implemented looping through widgets using the play times defined in the channel. This works quite well, except for widgets running in cooperative mode such as the youtube widget, where the flash movie sets a flag when it's done (just couldn't get the Javascript working to read the flag from the flash movie).

Woohoo! That was quick.