Posts by LybsterKodi

  • RPi4 - duff SSD or not enough power - how to tell

    MatteN

    Good thought but it runs fine when the Pi has booted. Its a RCESSD and the label says 1A. I can't find the requirements for the Haupagge but it says either USB 2 or 3 and looking those up a USB 2 can deliver 100mA. Using the same measure for the keyboard dongle that would give 1.2A Best info I can find for the ethernet is 180mA so say 1.4mA total leaving 1.6 mA for the Pi itself.

    petediscrete

    That was one of my thoughts and I did set it up for that before but I wiped the SSD and loaded videos onto it. Wiped using MiniTool which showed only the one ExFAT partition.

  • RPi4 - duff SSD or not enough power - how to tell

    Playing with the RPi4B 4GB, as a temporary measure I plugged in a micro SD card, ethernet cable, wireless keyboard dongle, Haupagge tuner and a 128GB SSD.

    Trying to start it up I get the initial boot screen then it just goes black. If I unplug the SSD it will boot correctly and I can then plug the SSD back in and access the videos on it.

    I have a 3A power supply (from ThePiHut), and not only does the SSD work on the Pi I can find no problems on it when plugged into either a Windows PC or a Linux Mint PC.

    I'm not overly bothered because I'll be plugging a powered 6TB drive in for real but I'm interested as to what the problem is. Any thoughts?

  • RPi4 & TVHeadend jerky playback

    I posted about this last year when I last tried to switch over to the RPi4B 4GB. I've just tried again, and until I reached the point of recording using TVHeadend and Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD tuner things were going well. I remembered the suggestion about setting TVHeadend to record in Matroska format but playback is still jerky.

    Are there any other settings I can try to obtain playback at the same quality as I get from an RPi3?

    I'm assuming that there are people out there who are achieving good results or there would be many posts about it so I'm hoping someone can share the secret.

    Just tried an experiment - I copied the files (2 mkv & 2 ts) over to the RPi3 system and they play beautifully so it looks like playback is the problem not recording.

    Should have said LE11.0.1

  • Argon One case

    Thanks both of you. The Pi is in a passive aluminium case at present and I'll leave it there unless I have problems. If so I'll have to look around for a fan case that works.

    chewitt

    Glad to see you haven't changed your opinion :)

    MatteN

    Not quite as bad as chewitt's 9/10 but 75% is still to much.

  • Argon One case

    I'm about to switch over to my RPi4, I'll be using an Haupagge dual tuner with it and since I bought one back when I started the move from RPi3 to RPi4 I was thinking about using the Argon One case.

    I know there are mixed views on this piece of equipment so question to any using it - good or bad experience, how well does the fan switch on/off according to temperature, easy/difficult to set up, any other comments?

  • Trying to move to RPi4 again

    petediscrete

    Haupagge dual

    mattrude

    "What problems did you have when you tried to move to a RPi4 last time?"

    I tried to use v11 nightlies and they weren't ready - SAMBA was the first big stumbling block, fast forward / rewind didn't work, the TV remote didn't work. When they were sorted out the picture quality wasn't as good as the RPi3 so I decided to shelve things for a while. Quick tests show picture quality is good, forward/rewind is working. I still need to check for other bits and pieces but it looks as though the release version (even as a beta) is good to go.

  • Trying to move to RPi4 again

    I gave up on moving from my dual RPi3 to an RPi4 4GB last year. I'm about to have another go. I intend to run TVHeadend server & client as well as watch films through Kodi. I've tried Kodi (no TVHeadend) and it seems fine. Is there any reason I shouldn't run TVHeadend client & server on the same Pi?

  • Recording "split" films

    Just tried SSH into my TVHeadend RPi3B and entered command "pastekodi" and was told

    error=1 error_msg="Command not registered"

    Use 'vcgencmd commands' to get a list of commands


    Typed vcgencmd and got

    vcgencmd commands

    commands="vcos, ap_output_control, ap_output_post_processing, vchi_test_init, vchi_test_exit, vctest_memmap, vctest_start, vctest_stop, vctest_set, vctest_get, pm_set_policy, pm_get_status, pm_show_stats, pm_start_logging, pm_stop_logging, version, commands, set_vll_dir, set_backlight, set_logging, get_lcd_info, arbiter, cache_flush, otp_dump, test_result, codec_enabled, get_camera, get_mem, measure_clock, measure_volts, scaling_kernel, scaling_sharpness, get_hvs_asserts, get_throttled, measure_temp, get_config, hdmi_ntsc_freqs, hdmi_adjust_clock, hdmi_status_show, hvs_update_fields, pwm_speedup, force_audio, hdmi_stream_channels, hdmi_channel_map, display_power, read_ring_osc, memtest, dispmanx_list, get_rsts, schmoo, render_bar, disk_notify, inuse_notify, sus_suspend, sus_status, sus_is_enabled, sus_stop_test_thread, egl_platform_switch, mem_validate, mem_oom, mem_reloc_stats, hdmi_cvt, hdmi_timings, file"


    Any other suggestions?