Hi.
I used openpli2.1 on my dream long time. When the team stoped supporting dream multimedia hardware I lost the firmware upgrade from the menu and access to plugins by the GUI. It was 2 years without support for 2.1 .
Previous month , I lost rytec epg used by plugin created for openpli and I decided to not install crossepg but to change the firmware to the newest and use crossepg in new one.
I tried merlin (short because of crashes) and newnigma.
This what I can write about both openpli competitors is back to the past.
The distance between openpli 2.1 and current released firmwares is tragic. Losting many many fine features is like returning to enigma1 (except ru version).
I have never seen firmaware crashes by some years of using openpli 2.1. Only some weeks with newnigma and returning to crash world.
It is a fact, we can add very good and modern skin to newnigma and make this firmware more like openpli , but the skin not for specific image is equal to crash after crash.
I decided to return to openpli 2.1 and discovered the 4 version is accessable for my dm8000 (is it finish of not supporting dreammultimedia?) and I am lucky.
I see the times changed. It is not important what hardware you will buy. First check what hardware is supported by good firmware and next select the hardware from this list to buy.
Thank you for the only firmware where the authors first think about what it can be the most useful for user instead of what is possible and not too hard to implement without thinking if it can be very useful.