I had a similar experience John.

The corrupt symbols on the screen appears to be a caching issue that was fixed by your reboot. I saw this too.

I ended up uninstalling Serviio because the media server is now incompatible with windows media player (Windows 10) and my smart TV also could not find any files in the libraries despite serviio rebuilding them.. so I gave up. I tried some of the inbuilt configurations for different clients but just could not get the right glue to hold it all together.

How does one check the version installed using the web interface?

I found in recent posts that I can "cat /etc/clearos-release" at the command line.. ClearOS release 7.8.1 (Final) btw
.but it seems an omission that this version number is not represented in the webconfig (that I can find) - I checked the obvious locations "Edition manager", "Software updates" and "Dashboard".

Thanks Fredrik. I just installed into a new community v7.7 install and got the v1.8 from the marketplace and was a bit surprised when the serviio console said update to 2.1 was available and that led me to git where I saw activity so I came here

I installed 2.1 using your instructions - seemed to have worked fine and the serviio interface reports v2.1

Note however the ClearOS webconfig interface still reports "App Version 1.8"

During install I got

a mirror that couldn't be accessed.. assume temporary but reporting it here for you in case it means something

Hi,
Serviio version 2.1 is now available for ClearOS 7. If you want to update your existing serviio version you will have to do it manually from command line:



NOTE: Any "Pro licence" that you may have for Serviio 1.x will NOT work with Serviio 2.x , so if you update and still want the Pro-features, then you need to go to http://serviio.org and purchase a new licence.

Release Notes

Since the 2.1 version will make any 1.0 licence unusable, I am planning to keep Serviio 2.1 in contribs-testing and not release it into the normal contribs repo (because then the update will be forced upon everyone that has auto-update on).

/Fred

Hi,
Serviio version 2.1 is now available for ClearOS 7. If you want to update your existing serviio version you will have to do it manually from command line:



NOTE: Any "Pro licence" that you may have for Serviio 1.x will NOT work with Serviio 2.x , so if you update and still want the Pro-features, then you need to go to http://serviio.org and purchase a new licence.

Release Notes

Since the 2.1 version will make any 1.0 licence unusable, I am planning to keep Serviio 2.1 in contribs-testing and not release it into the normal contribs repo (because then the update will be forced upon everyone that has auto-update on).

/Fred

From your input, I've added to the docs here. (Formatting is a bit off because of the graphic on the right which I don't know how to fix)

@Tony, both "linux text" and "inst.text" seem to work but I chose inst.text as that is what most of the references I found contained. Thanks for the pointers

There's a text mode install?


aarrgggg... just found your previous post https://www.clearos.com/clearfoundation/social/community/installation-for-blind-or-visually-impaired-without-sighted-assistance#reply-186631

not exactly obvious when you just download the ISO and bung it on a USB once every 5-10 years.

...or did I miss a billboard sized sign at the very start of the install pointing to a text mode alternative? (I don't think I did).

Just following up - I received the GA-J1900N-D3V and its orders of magnitude faster than the Intel Atom (D2500CC). A great little workhorse now running ClearOS 7.7 with no incompatibility issues encountered.

feedback - difficult install without a mouse

Just installed 7.7 community a number of times.

Installing without a mouse using tab to advance the focus is unnecessarily difficult because the on-screen focus indicators are difficult to see due to lack of contrasting colors and very fine lines - quite difficult to see when the 3D buttons had focus...but yes its do-able in the end if you do a std install.... and squint a lot.

However.... trying to manually configure partitions had me wanting to throw the keyboard through the window. Seemingly illogical changes in focus advanced with tab or space or enter had me mashing the keys in frustration. At various times I'd lose the focus indicator entirely and then have to cycle through the screen hitting tab watching a field on the screen just to *find* the focus indicator again... I'm sure I also encountered a few times when it seemed like nothing had focus at all and I had to exit the partition manager screen to the main menu and re-enter and start again.

In the end I gave up.... walked back to the office and grabbed a USB mouse and completed the install easily. Satan surely had a mouse when he designed that screen.

Brilliant Tony - I grabbed one of those GA-J1900N-D3V as swap in replacement. I know its now old tech but the DSUB serial means I can keep monitoring my power use/gen without having to think up a new solution... and will upgrade to ClearOS v7. Winner!