amtm amtm 6.5 - the Asuswrt-Merlin Terminal Menu, March 29, 2026

[thelonelycoder]

So, what would I suggest as an alternative? Options for wording in amtm:

A. Scripts supporting amtmupdate (currently enabled unless otherwise shown)
B. Scripts currently enabled / disabled in amtmupdate (enabled unless otherwise shown)
C Something else…

I see what you mean. Let me pore over a dictionary and find some appropriate words to add.

 

[Radon]

I see what you mean. Let me pore over a dictionary and find some appropriate words to add.

"A" looks perfect for my simple mind, but I'm extremely thankful for what I have. Great job.

 

[thelonelycoder]

How about this for clarity of the au function, with two examples.

The meaning of "scMerlin, disabled in amtm":
Here, I disabled scMerlin to auto-update in amtm because I may want to keep it at the current version for now.

The meaning of "MerlinAU, disabled in MerlinAU":
MerlinAU has its own auto-update feature enabled and therefore tells amtm not to update it. This is part of what amtm checks when it refreshes the supported scripts list.

Comments are welcome.

 

[ExtremeFiretop]

Comments are welcome.

My only suggestion would be to maybe change the wording from "Disabled in MerlinAU" to "Disabled by MerlinAU"

The only reason is that people might still associate "Disabled in MerlinAU" as meaning "MerlinAU auto-update feature is disabled" when in reality auto-update is enabled in MerlinAU, and due to that we disabled AMTM updates.

It might be more clear that they are two independent functions by saying "Disabled by MerlinAU".

Edit: Keeping "Disabled in AMTM" makes sense and wouldn't need to change, that would be a preference thing.

 

[jksmurf]

How about this for clarity of the au function, with two examples.

My only suggestion would be to maybe change the wording from "Disabled in MerlinAU" to "Disabled by MerlinAU"

@thelonelycoder, thanks for thinking this through, it reads nicely.

My initial reaction was the same as @ExtremeFiretop whose suggestion neatly clarifies the subtle but important distinction between “in” and “by”, meaning the user will have to go to MerlinAU to make the amendment needed to be able to enable it in amtm.

To dovetail with the “by” suggestion, I would also recommend your example be amended as follows: “For example, the amtm autoupdate function for MerlinAU is disabled, by MerlinAU, when it’s own auto-update function is enabled.”

 

[Martinski]

Comments are welcome.

How about the following changes in messaging?

UPDATE: Posted the correct screenshot for the 2nd image.

I've submitted a pull request to the AMTM GitHub repo so @thelonelycoder can easily check and review the code changes directly (if he chooses to).

BTW, I've already incorporated some of the changes proposed by @thelonelycoder and @ExtremeFiretop.