Hyperion Libreelec, possible update?

kriznik · November 23, 2020 at 8:31 PM

Hello everyone,

are there any plans to update hyperion addon to work with hyperion.ng instead?

or any way how to install hyperionNG to libreelec directly?

thanks a lot

**Da Flex** · November 23, 2020 at 9:20 PM Official Post

Did you use our search function? We have many threads about Hyperion. Pro-tip: Go to the forums main page before clicking the magnifier icon. That way you'll get results from all sub-forums.

kriznik · November 23, 2020 at 10:02 PM

well yes I went there indeed. Nothing really found. Everything related hyperion is kind of "not working here and there" related.

My question is more about actuall addon update or development roadmap itself.

hyperionV1 is quite old, so update to hyperionNG would be great step forward...

**Da Flex** · November 23, 2020 at 10:21 PM Official Post

Understand. I move this thread to the add-on sub-forum, because that's the place of those dev's. Most add-on dev's are at the Kodi forum, so it could be a good idea to ask there, too.

**HiassofT** · November 23, 2020 at 10:52 PM

There's a PR to add hyperion ng BROKEN: Hyperion-NG by CvH · Pull Request #4673 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub but currently there are major issues in building it and it doesn't work.

As neither hyperion nor hyperion ng support GBM yet Raspberry Pi 4 with Libreelec v19 / Kodi Matrix, no grabber is working · Issue #983 · hyperion-project/hyperion.ng · GitHub it's quite useless for anything other than X11 on Generic/x86 platforms or external video grabbers in LibreELEC 10. As we'll be using GBM on all platforms except Generic/x86 in LE 10 it's quite low on our priority list ATM.

Any help (PRs, fixes, etc) would be highly appreciated though, if the issues are resolved then hyperion ng will be included in LE.

so long,

Hias

kriznik · November 24, 2020 at 8:39 AM

Thanks for pointing me somewhere.

does it mean with LE10 hyperion will stop working? (so I have to make sure to disable automatic updates :))

I can take a look onto some codes as well, not really expert in grabbers but... one never knows

**HiassofT** · November 24, 2020 at 11:59 AM

Don't worry about automatic updates, we only enable that for minor version updates (eg 9.2.5->9.2.6). Major version upgrades (eg 9.2.x->10) need to be done manually.

You haven't mentioned which platform you are using, but if you are using an RPi then, yes, hyperion won't work on LE10 as hyperion(ng) doesn't have a working grabber for that yet.

On Generic//x86 the hyperion addon with the X11 grabber should work as before.

so long,

Hias

**CvH** · November 25, 2020 at 5:04 PM Official Post

Quote from kriznik

does it mean with LE10 hyperion will stop working?

As long Hyperion-NG does not support the recent linux ways of doing stuff (wayland, gbm, v4l2 ....) it won't work on any OS that don't use legacy renderes. As soon we support HDR at generic we also witch there to gbm. Not much we can do.

Mettbrot · March 18, 2021 at 10:10 PM

There is progress going on in this pull Request at hyperion.ng: Media Foundation/V4L2 grabber ... by Paulchen-Panther · Pull Request #1119 · hyperion-project/hyperion.ng · GitHub

It looks like they are implementing a v4l2 grabber.

**HiassofT** · March 18, 2021 at 10:58 PM

Don't get too excited, v4l2 is for grabbing from USB/PCI capture devices - for GBM hyperion will probably need to use a completely different approach (eg kodi addon that gets access to the decoded video data).

so long,

Hias

Mettbrot · March 20, 2021 at 9:57 AM

Thanks! I didn't even know they had a mode to grab from "external" video sources. Makes sense I guess...

Raspberry Pi 4 with Libreelec v19 / Kodi Matrix, no grabber is working · Issue #983 · hyperion-project/hyperion.ng · GitHub

This would be the corresponding feature request for anyone interested.

**JohnWayne111** · March 20, 2021 at 10:12 AM

At the moment hyperion doesnt work with LE 10.

In my case i have to choose between Ambilight and HBR Audio.

I choose Ambilight

kriznik · May 30, 2021 at 3:20 PM

Quote from JohnWayne111

I choose Ambilight

is that working as well as hyperion directly from RPI eg. withou hdmi splitter?