Kodi 12.02 on LibreELEC

  • I have 2 Raspberry Pis, a 4B and a 5. The RPi 5 is set up to access Windows 10 network shares, works on wireless and all is well. The 4B is a different ballgame. I have just downloaded and installed 12.02 to a USB flash drive, the SD card no longer working, and it all installed no problem. I then install the AMBER skin as it has better functionality for me. First problem is I get INVALID PASSWORD when setting up wireless so I can't do it. There is nothing wrong with my password. Secondly, I cannot access Windows shares until WS-Discovery is active. Unfortunately this is buried away under the basic settings and off by default. Having turned it on, SMB begins to function and I can see my network. I set up all the shared folders I need and check they all work normally and all is good. However, following a restart, there is no access to any shares - NO ROUTE TO HOST error. Well there was a route to host when I set it up and the screen that comes up in place showing various shares allows me to access the shares, suggesting there is a route to host. I then deleted everything and set it all up again using IP addresses and that all went to plan. 20 minutes later and without a restart I get the same error - NO ROUTE TO HOST.

    There is clearly a route to host as I can access it in other ways, just not via the dashboard. My RPi 5 is rock solid stable with the same settings.

    I know how to use Kodi but am not a technical person so please, nothing complicated. I checked 20 pages of threads without success before submitting this.

  • I've not seen reports of "Invalid Password" from other users except when wifi the passphrase is either wrong or contains illegal characters. There are also long-running reports of an "Invalid Key" error which is influenced by a large number of things; but the main one appears to be wireless signal strength, and RPi boards often suffer from poor signal due to the less than brilliant onboard antenna. RPi4 and RPi5 have different wifi chips and antenna layouts so can behave differently from the same location.

    I've no idea what the "no route to host" issue is caused by. Please put Kodi in debug mode, reboot and then replicate the issue, then SSH in and run "pastekodi" and share the URL so we can see Kodi and system logs.