Imageutil - My first tool for the UFS-910
I am pleased to announce the release of my first utillity for the Kathrein UFS-910 satellite hdtv reciever. This small tool is capable of reading and writing the flashrom of the receiver using the integrated network interface.
I bought one of these kathrein receivers about 2 months ago shortly after I had installed my new hdtv plasma television, to be able to watch hdtv movies in there entire glory. One of the most significant features, among others, to buy this kind of receiver was the ability to record the tv program to an external usb harddrive. After I got my ufs910 I quickly discovered that a linux was running on it. Some googling and reading later I found a small but enthusiastic community of developers around this receiver at the UFS-910 Board. I got involved with it fast and began to experiment with the different possibilites of this little piece of hardware. The procedure always was the same. Changing the image, copying it to an usbstick, walking over to the box, putting it in, flashing it and finaly cutting power to it for reboot. I thought it would be quite useful if I could flash the images directly from my pc aswell as being able to just copy the entire flash contents to my machine for backup purpose. At this time I began to experiment with different ways to acomplish this task. What came out is the imageutil, which is a tool exactly doing what I wished for.
You can find out more about this tool, including a download link on its project page.