There's some UPC in my hub
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Had some internet troubles today, went to log into the SH3 and low and behold, I was not greeted with the usual (awful) Virgin Media branding:
http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/at...1&d=1495104152 No real point to this post, it just made me laugh. |
Re: There's some UPC in my hub
Is that a boot page for the PC or monitor?
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No? That's a screenshot of the browser at 192.168.100.1. You can see the UPC logo on the top left and even a white superhub 3 on the table of the image.
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It's for the Hub - for other LG companies it's presented when you first set up their versions of the Hub 3.0 hardware.
It's hidden for Virgin Media UK and the UI is set to English by default - although you can actually change your language from a drop down once you've logged in. I'd point out that the UI design itself is common across all versions of the Hub 3.0 - excluding company specific branding changes. |
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How come I'm seeing it on my very much Virgin Media hub, Ben? Admittedly only when having issues (possibly immediately after boot).
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My understanding is that the code is the same across all the versions, so there could be circumstances where you'll see a 'default' screen - although it shouldn't normally happen.
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UPC branding also sometimes appears for a second when pages are loading, until the Virgin branding replaces it.
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Makes sense! So when we all slag off Virgin for writing rubbish router code, it's actually LG's fault? :P
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When i got my Hub3 on the trial i remember the first thing i saw on the screen wasn't VM related, after it updated it sorted itself out though.
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In the previous versions of the hub 3 firmware you could see how much of a hackjob the VM branding was simply by visiting the hub on a mobile and pinching to zoom out. All of the original content was visible behind the VM stuff :D
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I got this logging into my hub the other day, I just assumed it was a new software version as it had gone offline for 20 or so minutes before.
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But I'd expect that as UPC is a brand across multiple countries then this is the default brand in the UI. |
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But what that showed was the UPC assets were still being rendered by the browser, the VM branding was just layered on top. Really odd and inefficient way of doing it, hence 'hackjob'. |
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Back during the trials Virgin changed it so that manual factory reset didn't revert to the oldest possible firmware, but it could still happen in certain circumstances. For fun if you want to change the theme manually to UPC with the current firmware, just open the admin page on the Hub 3, then go to your browser's session storage (on chrome press CTRL-shift-I for developer tools, then application tab, then open the session storage drop down and click on 192.168.0.1) and change the ar_skin from 'vm' to 'upc'. Then refresh your admin page in your browser, the skin will change to UPC. It will change back to VM skin when you login, so login to your admin first if you want all option pages to show in UPC skin. ---------- Post added at 21:01 ---------- Previous post was at 20:54 ---------- Like this: https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2017/05/11.jpg |
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I just done this with my router settings page, I'd wish they will just rebrand as UPC as the branding is better than virgin. also the blue colouring is a lot easier on the eyes than the awful red.
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