Was there ever any luck with anyone making third party firmware for this unit?

I’m currently using a 3rd party firmware which is based off the latest (broken) firmware.  It seems to work fine for me, but then again I haven’t seen all the issues others were having with the latest official firmware either.  The 3rd party firmware has some neat features if you are interested, and you can actually add more custom themes rather than just one.  However the caveat being you need to have a USB Flashdrive constantly installed.  The beauty of it is if you remove the flashdrive it will reboot into the Official firmware again.

Rob