LibreELEC and RPi 3A+

    Hi!

    I am trying to set up LibreELEC on my Raspberry Pi 3A+ that I bought recently. I only need it to act as an Airplay receiver (so audio only) and Pi 3A+ should be more than enough for this - I did an experiment with OSMC and Pi 1B, which worked just fine, but I wanted built in wifi and a bit faster boot time - which 3A should give me.

    Well initially I tried the latest release that the USB-SD creator offers. That started booting fine (expanded the FS and then rebooted), but immediately after that it kernel panicked. So after some searching I noticed that people are saying to use version 9. Which I also tried - "LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-9.0.2". But unlike the newer version this one doesn't produce any signs of life. When I plug the Pi in, I get no video output or anything. Same thing happens with 9.2.8 release. This is the exact same behavior that I get with OSMC that I also tried.

    Meanwhile Raspberry Pi OS (64 bit) boots on this just fine - using the same SD card and everything. So I don't think it's a hardware issue. Any ideas on how to get this to run?

    Quote from Da Flex
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    RE: Pi 3A+ image?

    You may be able to get LE12 to boot by reducing cma memory in config.txt - see here

    RE: LibreElec v11 on RPI3 won't start
    But don't get too excited, kodi really needs quite a lot of RAM (esp for all the artwork/cover/... images) and it'll likely often crash, therefore we don't officially support devices with less than 1GB RAM.

    so long,

    Hias
    HiassofT
    September 7, 2024 at 10:38 AM

    Thank you! That worked for both versions 11 and 12. Went with 11, since I am hoping that it is slightly more efficient - and it seems to be the oldest version that runs on 3A+.