Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

Yes, I'm using an Arduino (SPI is used by my audio card). Not sure if this makes a difference as I could also reproduce the issue on my setup once I dropped 4kp60 in config.txt.

so long,

Hias

The GPIO port on my Pi4 drives a hifiberry and the LEDs.

It may be that the 4kp60 setting "speeds" up the HDMI port so the Hyperion grabber and inputstream.adaptive work together in harmony.

But with my old 1080p Samsung TV the setting does nothing I think...

I upgraded my RPi2 to a 2Gb RPi4 last friday... My main objective is to avoid using my PS4 to watch netflix and HBO while keep using my ambilight system.

After first and basic setting steps I have both Hyperion and netflix working fine. I have an HDMI splitter with CEC support and a USB video grabber and also, hyperion is working with all HDMI surces (PS4, Switch...). My ambilight system is an old Lightberry kit (non HD).

I still need to test is throughly because this weekend I hadn't enough time but my point is that hyperion works ok with netflix addon in my RPi4.

EDIT: maybe issue is related with source resolution? last day I tried a documentary episode and it worked, this morning I tried The Irishman and I get black screen while lights were working ok... I need to figure out how to display output info abour current playing resolution...

I limited to 1080 both netflix and inputstream addons, since my TV is fullHD, but the same issue: If I play any file from my HDD everything is OK, but if I play a netflix video, lights work ok but TV image is black with the notification: "Invalid Signal resolution". The funny thing is that if I connect with VNC I can see that netlfix is playing OK... and also, if I stop the netflix video the screen doesn't come back, I need to reboot the Pi.

Next I'm going to try deactivating hyperion before playing a netflix video.

I don't know what setting I toggled or what happened but now netflix videos have very poor quality... but surprise! hyperion works ok with them... I disabled resolution limit in both netflix and inputstream addons but still very low quality video stream...

I discovered my low res issue origin, it was related to inputstream addon "stream selection= manual" setting, now it has good quality.

So in my escenario Netflix at 1080 with hyperion works ok, no black screen by far.

Quote from HiassofT

I've just watched Disenchantment S02E01 from netflix at 1080p24 with hyperion active on a RPi4 4GB and didn't notice and screen dropouts or other issues. So not quite sure what might be going wrong on your setup.

A rather common cause for screen blackouts, especially with CPU demanding content like software decoded video or power demanding peripherals like USB HDDs or DVD drives are marginal power supplies - if you're not using the official RPi power supply (I use that here and it's fine) or if you have one or more bus-powered USB HDDs you might look into that.

So far I'm only aware (and can reproduce) 2 major issues with Hyperion (more specifically the dispmanx grabber):

4k playback with the dispmanx grabber / Hyperion active results in no signal on the HDMI output. There's currently no workaround or solution available, reason for that seems to be that the RAM bandwidth is just too high. This is a known issue and it will be fixed eventually (but seems to be a bit low priority - it needs to be fixed in the RPi firmware so not much we can do about it).

The other issue I frequently see here is no HDMI signal at all after a cold boot (on my 4kp60 screen) if Hyperion is active. A simple workaround for that is to start Hyperion after Kodi has started, I'm using a simple systemd drop-in here to do that:

.config/system.d/service.hyperion.service.d/delay.conf

Code

[Unit]
After=kodi.service

[Service]
ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10

Not exactly sure what causes the no-signal issue (could be something in the firmware), but with the drop-in workaround everything's been fine here in the last weeks.

so long,

Hias

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Beginning with 9.1.502 my HDMI signal crashes on a cold boot as well. So I wanted to try your workaround to delay Hyperion.

Unfortunately the delay doesn't work.

The start up rainbow swirl of Hyperion happens right on the LibreElec bootscreen no matter how much time I put in the config file.

Do you have any idea why that might be? I put your code into a file "delay.conf" in a new folder "service.hyperion.service.d" into the "system.d"-folder. Thanks for your help!

For the time being I have to stick to 9.1.501 where it never crashes on boot.

Quote from debruehe

The start up rainbow swirl of Hyperion happens right on the LibreElec bootscreen no matter how much time I put in the config file.

Do you have any idea why that might be? I put your code into a file "delay.conf" in a new folder "service.hyperion.service.d" into the "system.d"-folder. Thanks for your help!

Run systemctl status service.hyperion and check if it has correctly picked up the delay.conf drop-in. You should see the systemd service loaded from the kodi addon-folder and the Drop-In loaded from the systemd config folder

● service.hyperion.service - Hyperion service
   Loaded: loaded (/storage/.kodi/addons/service.hyperion/system.d/service.hyperion.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /storage/.config/system.d/service.hyperion.service.d
           └─delay.conf
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-12-08 17:41:31 CET; 1min 5s ago
  Process: 658 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 810 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c exec sh /storage/.kodi/addons/service.hyperion/bin/hyperiond.start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 813 (hyperiond)
   Memory: 7.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/service.hyperion.service
           └─813 hyperiond /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.hyperion/hyperion.config.json

so long,

Hias

Quote from HiassofT

Run systemctl status service.hyperion and check if it has correctly picked up the delay.conf drop-in. You should see the systemd service loaded from the kodi addon-folder and the Drop-In loaded from the systemd config folder

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● service.hyperion.service - Hyperion service
   Loaded: loaded (/storage/.kodi/addons/service.hyperion/system.d/service.hyperion.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
  Drop-In: /storage/.config/system.d/service.hyperion.service.d
           └─delay.conf
   Active: active (running) since Sun 2019-12-08 17:41:31 CET; 1min 5s ago
  Process: 658 ExecStartPre=/usr/bin/sleep 10 (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
  Process: 810 ExecStart=/bin/sh -c exec sh /storage/.kodi/addons/service.hyperion/bin/hyperiond.start (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
 Main PID: 813 (hyperiond)
   Memory: 7.1M
   CGroup: /system.slice/service.hyperion.service
           └─813 hyperiond /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.hyperion/hyperion.config.json

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so long,

Hias

Unit service.hyperion.service could not be found.

I installed it via HyperCon. I tried to install it from the libreelec repository but the installation fails. I guess this at least explains why the delay won't happen.

Quote from debruehe

Unit service.hyperion.service could not be found.

I installed it via HyperCon. I tried to install it from the libreelec repository but the installation fails. I guess this at least explains why the delay won't happen.

Please only use the LibreELEC Hyperion addon and the LibreELEC Hypercon version to configure it (see this Wiki page for details Hypercon [LibreELEC.wiki]).

so long,

Hias

Quote from HiassofT

Please only use the LibreELEC Hyperion addon and the LibreELEC Hypercon version to configure it (see this Wiki page for details Hypercon [LibreELEC.wiki]).

so long,

Hias

Alright, tried again with 9.2.0. There the installation from the repository works. And with the LE version so does the drop-in. So far it boots without crashing. Thank you for your help!

Hi

With which pc or software I can try this:

systemctl status service.hyperion

many thanks