LibreELEC on Raspberry Pi without monitor

    Hi,

    I would like to run LibreELEC on a Raspberry but without a screen. Only purpose is to play music over airplay and the Raspberry Pi DAC Pro.

    The LibreELEC is installed via Raspberry Pi Imager and everything runs perfect. I set up the system with keyboard and screen attached. Airplay (1) works fine.

    But if I reboot the system without a monitor connected Airplay will not function anymore.

    Has someone a good idea to solve the problem?


    Thanks!!

    No monitor/TV = no EDID data from HDMI = no alsa devices detected in Kodi = ??? but possibly something internal to Kodi depends on an audio sink being active (and in LE this defaults to alsa) for AirPlay to work. There's probably a logic bug in Kodi there, but the workaround is to run "getedid create" over SSH with the monitor attached. This captures the EDID data from the monitor and forces the kernel (and thus Kodi) to always see that monitor as connected.