Dune HD released today the first major firmware update ( Version “180426_1318_r13”) for their newest flagship media player, Pro 4K. It now supports Google Play Store, among other improvements and fixes.
You can read our review here and download the firmware from here, or via OTA from your device.
The changelog is the following:
Changes since 180320_1247_r13:
- New feature: Google Play Store and Google Services support added, with a
unique possibility to easily enable/disable Google Services depending on
user needs (when disabled, they are not installed, do not perform various
things in background, do not consume system resources). Google Services
are initially disabled and are automatically enabled when pressing
"Google Play Store" icon in "Android applications" section for the first
time. After Google Services are enabled, they can be disabled by
resetting settings to factory defaults.
- New feature: Added a new setting "Audio / Digital audio connector" with
options "HDMI (HD audio enabled)" (default) and "S/PDIF (HD audio
disabled"). Should be set to "S/PDIF (HD audio disabled)" when outputting
audio in bitstream mode to S/PDIF (or to HDMI equipment not supporting HD
audio).
- New feature: Added setting "Setup / Misc / Encodings / Subtitles
encoding" which allows to specify subtitles encoding (same as on Sigma
models).
- New feature: REPEAT and SHUFFLE functions for playlists are now
implemented (same as on Sigma models).
- New feature: Sleep timer is now implemented (same as on Sigma models,
works only when working with Dune HD GUI). By default it is disabled. It
can be enabled via the new setting "Setup / Misc / Power manamenent /
Sleep timer".
- New feature: Discrete power-on and power-off IR codes are now supported
(codes 5F and 5E, same as on Sigma models).
- Improvement: List of audio tracks and subtitle tracks now shows more
information (and more correct information) about tracks.
- Improvement: YouTube icon (in "Android applications") now installs a
newer version of YouTube, with 4K video support.
- Improvement: CEC is now disabled by default.
- Improvement: VFD display now shows current time in 24 hour format (same
as it is shown on TV screen).
- Improvement: In initial setup wizard, the suggested by default timezone
is now automatically detected based on GeoIP (when Internet is
accessible).
- Improvement: In initial setup wizard, if the connected TV supports 4K, 4K
resolution is now recommended by default.
- Improvement: When UI Type 1 is used, "Android applications" section is
now also available.
- Improvement: When UI Type 2 is used, the "Applications" tab now has a
proper title "Applications" (rather than "Dune HD Applications").
- Improvement: On power-on, an unneeded extra HDMI reinitialization took
place.
- Improvement: In System setup menu, some unneeded and non-working
Android-related settings are removed.
- Improvement: Debug dump now includes more useful information.
- Bugfix: It was possible to exit standby mode by various wrong IR codes.
- Bugfix: It was possible to exit standby mode by switching the connected
HDMI equipment on/off.
- Bugfix: Some AVI files could not be played.
- Bugfix: Playback crash could happen when stopping or finishing playback.
- Bugfix: Player could randomly reboot in some rare cases.
- Bugfix: When saving debug dump to NTFS-formatted storage device, the
system could hang.
- Bugfix: SD cards were wrongly mounted read-only.
- Bugfix: In some rare cases, GUI could stop responding to any RC button
presses.
- Improvements for PHP plugins and PHP API:
- New feature: New action "RESTART" is introduced, with parameter
"reboot" (possible values "yes" and "no"), which allows the plugin to
request GUI restart or full reboot.
- New feature: "PLUGIN_OPEN_FOLDER" action is extended with the new
parameter "sel_id", which can be used to preselect the given item in
regular folders (value is media_url of the item to preselect).
- New feature: For TV plugins which support TV archive (catchup),
LEFT/RIGHT RC buttons can now be used to switch to archive mode and
seek in the archive even in Live TV mode. For TV plugins which do not
support archive, LEFT/RIGHT RC buttons are now correctly ignored in
Live TV mode.
- New feature: "PLAYBACK_STOP" action now supports the following
additional parameters: "plugin_vod_stop_position",
"plugin_vod_duration", "plugin_vod_start_tm", "plugin_vod_stop_tm",
"plugin_vod_prebuffering_end_tm".
- Improvement: When loading images from HTTPS, the performance is now
improved.
- Improvement: When PHP plugin uses auto-resume functionality,
"ip_address_required" setting is now enabled by default for this
plugin.
- Improvement: Icon archives are now loaded with improved performance
and reliability.
- Improvement: folder ".platform.android" can now be used to store
Android-specific versions of platform-dependent plugin files (such has
native executables) in the plugin (similar to ".platform.87xx" folder
that can be used for SMP87xx-specific files).
- Bugfix: "/tmp/run/ext_command.state" was not implemented; now it
contains the information about current playback state (same as on
Sigma models).
- Bugfix: Playback timer did not work.
- Bugfix: Saving/restoring playback position during auto-resume and
setting initial playback position using
PluginVodInfo::initial_position_ms did not work properly.
- Bugfix: In "PLAYBACK_STOP" action, in rare cases,
"plugin_vod_series_ndx" and "plugin_tv_channel_id" parameters could
contain wrong information.
- Bugfix: When switching to playlist item N, the next item (N+1) was
actually wrongly used.
- Bugfix: In TV OSD, crash could occur in some specific cases when
trying to scroll through the list of TV channels.
- Updated/improved UI translations for some languages.
- Some other minor improvements/fixes.
NOTE: In comparison with the version 180317_0153_r13, this firmware version
also includes the following changes which were included in the version
180320_1247_r13:
- New feature: Added a new setting "Misc / Power Managment / POWER button
behavior" with options "Power off" (default) and "Software standby".
"Software standby" means that CPU and OS services continue running when
the player is in standby mode (useful when NAS functionality such as SMB
server is used) (same as on Sigma models).
- New feature: long-pressing "POWER" RC button shows a menu with options
"Power off" (put the player in "Power off" standby mode) and "Restart"
(reboot the player).
- New feature: Subtitles visualization settings (vertical offset, color,
font) are now remembered (same as on Sigma models).
- New feature: Added a new setting "Video / Advanced / Preferred HDMI color
depth" with options "Maximum" and "As in content" to allow even more
precise control of all parameters of HDMI signal. "Maximum" (default)
means use HDMI color depth supported by the connected HDMI equipment
(according to "Maximum HDMI color depth" setting), even if content with
lower color depth is played (e.g. output 10 bit when outputting to a TV
supporting 10 bit when 8 bit content is played). "As in content" means
use HDMI color depth as in content, even if the connected HDMI equipment
supports higher color depth (e.g. output 8 bit when outputting to a TV
supporting 10 bit when 8 bit content is played).
- Improvement: Default video settings and "Auto" logic of video settings
now work in a way which ensures a better compatibility with some
projectors.
- Improvement: In "Video / Advanced" menu, confirmation dialogs are shown
when attempting to change settings which usually should not be changed
without a reason.
- Improvement: When performing "Reset Settings" action, a message is now
shown while the system is handling it.
- Improvement: On power-on, front panel LED indicator is now switched to
blue color immediately.
- Bugfix: ISO with quotes in filename could not be played.