Posts by LybsterKodi

"Which LE are you running?"

LE 11 nightly from 30/07/22

"What errors did you get? What was the corruption?"

The Kodi simply told me my sources were empty and would I like to open the files section. When I tried to reset the sources I could navigate to the disk but not down to the folders.

Windows when I plugged in told me there was corruption and offered to scan and fix. I opted to run CHKDSK and was shown the most index errors I've ever encountered. Ran CHKDSK /f and ended up with an apparently blank disk.

I'm currently carrying out a full format - 6TB will take a while.

I also had another thought - LE & Kodi are on a separate SSD, the Seagate is used purely for media split into folders - Films, Music videos and Records would Kodi (or LibreElec) even write to the Seagate? If not then there must be another cause.

I bought a new Seagate 6TB HDD for the RPi4, spent a couple of days formatting and copying stuff (even with USB 3 it takes a while) and hooked onto the Pi. Installed Kodi, set up the sources, had a break for f00d turning things off. When I turned back on the HDD was corrupted.

On the RPi3 its Seagate 6TB is formatted to NTFS so that's what I used for the new one.

1. Any ideas on why it corrupted? Yes I know its a "how long is a piece of string" question but I just wondered if there are any common causes.

2. Should I format to ExFat?

Sorry to be picky about this again but why is f00d a banned word?

Thanks - its no big deal since I generally want to look at the disk/folder where things are rather than the host generally.

"But need to find time / interest / …"

You sound like a developer <G> I have several projects waiting to be finished - got nearly there, distracted and haven't yet had the necessary mad surge of enthusiasm.

Went to download the latest nightly for RPi4 and saw the changelog (pretty nice layout overall) and became excited when I saw the samba entry. It looks as though its still necessary to give host/folder to be able to access things. Is that right or am I (as is often the case) doing something wrong?

I've just downloaded the latest nightly and I'd like to make a suggestion.

I could be wrong, and it may just be a transitional layout but having the archive versions on the main Pi page and the current versions a directory deeper is confusing.

My suggestion would be to have JUST the current (ie latest) RPi builds on the main Pi page with a directory for archive (or one for each model). It wasn't until I read the timestamp that I realised how it had been organised.

Most of the time people are just going to want the latest.

DA - you were right. Took a bit of time to figure out where the Kodi version was shown (mainly because it didn't say Kodi) and it moved from 20a1 Nexus to 20a2 or 19.9.701 to 19.9.705 between when Metropolis worked and when it didn't.

I've posted in the Metropolis thread but I doubt there will be a speedy response.

I'll do that, thanks. I'm getting very confused as to who is responsible for what.

I just managed to locate an "old" copy of LibreELEC - 01/06/22 and tried that. Downloaded and installed the Metropolis skin and it worked perfectly. Instaled LibreELEC 13/7/22 and Metropolis doesn't work.

That suggests to me that its a LibreELEC change. If I didn't need SAMBA I could stick with the nightly from 1/6/22.

Thanks - I've managed to find one old one from 1/6/22.

I like the new look - much easier to find things - obviously apart from old stuff <G>

As a PS I looked at QT (I think it was) and I have sympathy for anyone using it

I'd like to try one of the older nightly builds to see if Metropolis works properly. I wiped all the older ones from my PC so is there a place I can download from?

Quote from chewitt

It seems to be a skin thing. I see the controls with Estuary.

That was my thought as well. I've left the skin settings as default. Do you know if there's something I should change?

I hope this is the right place to post this.

As part of my gradual change to an RPi4 from RPi3 I've been looking at the Metropolis skin and it seemed very good. Then I did a clean install of the latest nightly from 12/07/2022 on the Pi and I no longer am able to see any of my films or records (haven't gone as far as installing TV Headend yet). It knows stuff is there. It tells me 1 of 16 records (subset for testing) but I can neither see them or play them. I've been through configuring the skin but nothing I tried had an effect.

Is there something I can do or has LibreElec changed in some way that the author needs to alter things?

On my old RPi3 using 9.2.8 and Estuary when I hit pause or FF or rewind the progress bar is at the bottom and I'm given information about what film I'm watching, the time and when its due to finish.

I'm still in the process of changing to RPi4 and installed the latest nightly on it today.

I don't mind the progress bar being at the top (or sides for that matter) but I would like the other information back. Is there somewhere its possible to set this? I've hunted but can't find anything.

I'm getting nearer to setting up my RPi4 and I'm trying to work out if I'll need a powered USB hub, if so I need to sort out power points (I've used up the four built in and four in an extension). I've googled for published stats on the power requirements for the various bits that will be plugged in to the USB ports and not got very far. Ultimately I'll have wifi keyboard, haupage dual tv tuner, 128GB ssd (for boot), powered 6TB HDD for films etc and a 5V, 3A psu.

Whilst messing around I'm using a usb powered 600GB HDD rather than the 6TB powered HDD and I've already found that if I swap the SSD for another HDD the Pi4 will not boot.

Is anyone useing something similar to what I'll end up with and is it stable? I'd really not have to sort out more sockets.

When I finally finish messing around and decide how I'm organising my Pi4 I'm wondering if I should have a powered hub as part of my tidying things up.

I'll have the Pi4, 6TB powered HDD, 128GB SSD (for LibreElec),WiFi keyboard and a Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD plus for when it runs to hot (or I do) a laptop USB powered cooling fan.

I know I can but a powered hub to accommodate the accessories but does anyone know of one that could power the Pi4 as well?

Thanks - yet another forum I knew nothing about - off to register and have a look.

I also had a problem with my Panasonic remote. I found pressing the eHelp button and jiggering around a bit made Kodi recognise all buttons. No idea why.

I hope this is where I should post this question.

RPi4, LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20220625, using local information only on source

All the films I have on Kodi have a jpg associated. On Estuary these are displayed correctly. On Metropolis they are stretched to fill the height of the frame. With this one flaw I like the Metropolis skin but I can't find an option to say stop stretching the jpgs.

If there is an option can someone tell me what it is, if not does anyone know what size jpgs should be and I'll write a bit of code to go through and alter them.