Basic RPi Config in LibreELEC

Have you already looked into the LibreELEC wiki pages? Granted, it's only a beginning, but concerning the RPi there is a basic amount of information. See Raspberry Pi - LibreELEC

As far as config.txt is concerned, LibreELEC will run quite nicely with default settings. Adding codec licence keys is already described on multiple websites, as well as in our own mentioned wiki.

Because LibreELEC's system is on a readonly partition (by design), the /flash folder requires read/write status. And normally, this will be a one time thing.

I guess what Klojum wants to say is, that it might not be very easy, if you create a setting, which is able to mount the specific part, do the changes at the correct place, and unmount it again.

As the RPi is initially meant as a device for developers and users who are willing to spend some time to get it working, I would say a little reading can be expected.

But yeah...it's a feature request...and maybe it gets into it or not. Depending on what the devs say and if they are willing to maintain it ;).

Other distros have implemented this, so it shouldn't be too hard (says, someone who has no idea how it would be done).

However, is there any reason to keep /boot (aka Flash) as R/O especially as there are numerous articles on how to make it R/W, Would it not be just simpler to just keep it R/W on all images? and thus allow users to change details as required. Yes they could cock it up, so in a way, the solution is to allow an Add-on or an extension to LE config, to allow changes to config/cmdline from a GUI?

A prime example is a memory split/OC/dtaoverlays etc.

I like the idea of a "user" config.txt but I can see sooo many problems. Would a symbolic link work???? Probably not as it is too early in the boot process.

For the moment I would put it down as nice to have.

Just use the rpi config addon

Quote from BrettB

Check out OpenELEC Mediacenter - OpenELEC Forum - Addon to configure Raspberry Pi config.txt (1/6)

I haven't had to make any changes to my config recently, but as far as I know, it still works fine with LibreElec.

From the link above it refers to: OpenELEC RPi Config

From this howto, I tried to:

wget http://goo.gl/MpUAWy -O xbmc.repo.leopold.zip

and got a 404, because the repo was at Dropbox and obviously removed now.

So I doubt that works.

Last question from an user and answer from 'gda' in that thread is:

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Is there any special reason why this great Add-On is'nt part of either official or unofficial OpenELEC repository?
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Maybe because there is no need for an addon that helps a little with a task that will be done one or two times in a life of a Pi?

Ah, ok...Thanks for the link

I'd like to see us extend the capabilities of the LE settings addon to include more pi config things. The need for overclock settings has died out now that pi2 and pi3 have more RAM and higher clock speeds, but things like codec licenses and some other basics should be possible. @gda is correct stating that these are things you only need to set once in the life of a pi, but as pi devices represent ~65% of our userbase I think we can do more.

NB: A RasPlex style installer is already being worked on. We've used their code as the base and improved it a little .. but this won't help you configure a pi because the installer only downloads the image and writes the SD card. There are not config tools in it.

Quote from thosti

Wow, is available now. Well don job to OE Team!

Freudian slip? .. I suppose "former OE Team" sort-of applies to most of us, but we prefer LE