NTP on LibreElec 8.2.5 on Raspberry 2

1st Official Post

    I have recently migrated to LibreElec from OpenElec, I was very impressed with the migration process .. very smooth.

    I have a few small niggles ..

    1. NTP does not appear to take any notice of the servers I provide in the NTP config screen, is this a known problem with an ETA for fix? If no fix, can you tell me the list of hostnames that it tries please so I can build firewall rule?

    2. The TV DB and the Move DB scrapers do not appear to be working, it is fair to say that this was not working or more accurately had stopped working on my old OE setup, this was the trigger to migrate actually, it was suggested as a reponse to my post on the Kodi forum.

    With the TV DB I see an https call go out to api.thetvdb.com, however there is no api key after Authorization=Bearer%20 .. and it results in a 401 and unable to parse web site.

    The Movie DB problem is similar, however I do see an api key in the https call to api.tmdb.org, but still get a 401 and unable to parse web site.

    Any ideas?

    Thanks

    Steve

    • Official Post

    The connection manager (connman) uses 0-3.pool.ntp.org servers; so unless you have a reason to use a local network time source or your ISP blocks them there is no reason to change the defaults. There are some improvements for NTP retry in LE 9.0 pre-release images. The best cure for recurring Pi NTP issues is spending $3-5 on an RTC chip.

    Several Kodi scrapers have had their API keys revoked a few times recently which requires devs to update the keys and push an updated add-on while users sit tight and wait for the update to propagate. Make sure you have the latest version installed and things should be okay.

    chewitt, thanks for that.

    I understand the way NTP works, I have a stratum 1 NTP source locally and so have no need for any internal server or service to go outside for NTP or DNS and my IoT devices, of which I class LibreElec one, all default to no external access at all unless specifically allowed.

    This is the reason for my question not any problems with Pi not having an RTC.

    Is there a reason why adding my own internal NTP server in the LibreElec dialog does not appear to have any effect?


    Thanks

    Steve

    @chewiit, Also thanks for the info about the scraper keys. I suspect this is likely the problem, are you able to explain why I don’t see the api key is the https request to thetvdb.org, where as I do see it for the movie db

    Thanks

    Steve