Posts by LybsterKodi

Just tried the latest nightly on my RPi4. Is there somewhere I can have a look to see if Samba issues have been resolved or am I better off just downloading the nightly every so often and testing?

Thanks, my obvious misreading was that only the settings not the actual addons were saved.

ps I took your advice and bought a passively cooled case but Geekworm not Flirc

OK, thanks.

I can clone my Linux Mint (Clonezilla) to a slightly smaller USB stick, and I can clone Windows to a smaller disk (Macrium) and in both cases the clone will run happily so I was hoping LibreElec would be the same.

Does the LibreElec backup backup any addons (eg TVHeadend)? If not I'll just create a disk image and store that.

I want to backup the entire SSD I'm using for Kodi. I have a spare HDD and a USB memory stick. The Kodi SSD is supposed to be 120GB, the HDD also 120GB and the USB stick 128GB. My problem is that both the HDD and the USB stick are in reality a few GB smaller than the SSD. I have tried various cloning software (including Clonezilla in advanced mode on my Linux PC) and each time the clone seems fine but when pluged into my RPi4 fails to boot fully.

What happens is that the colour gradient square comes up and nothing else happens. Burning a clean image onto the HDD or USB stick and everything works.

Either I have to go out and buy another SSD or there is something magical I'm missing. I hope the latter.

I have a few videos where I have to adjust the audio. I did find that it could be fixed permanently by using avidemux (http://avidemux.sourceforge.net/) but its a lot of fiddling to find the right adjustment. I decided that unless it was something I'd watch time and time again I'd just adjust in Kodi.

OK I accept that W7 is not supported. Out of interest what fabulous new features from W10 have been used to mean that it doesn't run on W7? I have software developed this year that will run all the way back to XP (the oldest version I still have disks for).

On the issue of free W10 may be but all the stuff I'd have to upgrade isn't - a few thousand GPB there!

OK I know W7 is out of date but is there a reason why SD creator will no longer even open, no error message or anything in W7?

I downloaded the latest version to try with an SSD bought to boot the RPi4 from. It will recognise USB memory sticks, SD cards but not an SSD. This may be as design but surprises me.

Da Flex

I hear what you're saving but I think I'll give the team a chance to sort out SAMBA first.

CvH

First point - the FREE upgrade to W10 would cost me several thousand GBP (had to use that cos the normal way of expressing it is a censored word) plus a lot of time (read my post above).

Second point - its worse than that Jim! I have 3 W7 PCs (plus 1 W10 PC & 1 Linux Mint PC) and weirdly enough none of the three has experienced " all kind of known issues " It gets even worse. My habit when buying a new PC has always been wipe, clean install OS, get working smoothly, disable updates. With my main PC that dates to well before EoL for W7.

Its entirely possible that new software will come out that requires W10 or W11 in order to run. If that's the case and I really need it I'll probably have to buy a new PC, can't really see it happening though

You might want to read https://www.askwoody.com/forums/topic/w…7-after-1-2020/

Third point - switching to W10 (or 11 if I felt like buying a new PC) would not fix the problem I have which is SAMBA on the RPi4.

Da Flex

I'm not familiar with Linux so its possible I'm misinterpreting that wiki but it looks as though its intended to allow LibreElec to treat a share as a local directory so I'm not sure how it would help me to move files from Windows to Kodi or from Kodi to Windows.

Thanks - off to read now.

Da Flex

I've had a quick look at your suggestion and none of the links I've found (eg NFS Server) actually tell me how to set up NFS. Can you point me at instructions?

Da Flex

I see a lot of that advice on ElReg.

I have converted a few people who only do a bit of web surfing and email over to Linux when Windows is giving them grief (for example an update / upgrade bricks the PC). Unfortunately, whilst Wine has improved tremendously since I first looked at it it still can't run every Windows program and whilst there are freebies out there the cost of switching is far to high.

In my case the reason I didn't switch to W10 (forget W8 & 8.1) is that I couldn't install my main development tool (Delphi 2007). To upgrade the toolchain would have cost me c£3,000 plus a lot of time converting from ansi to unicode. Switching to a Linux development suite would have ONLY cost me time. As a rough guess - 6 months.

With Kodi running on an RPi3 and TVHeadend on another RPi3 waiting for the development team to sort out the SAMBA problem on the RPi4 (now that I know its not me doing something wrong) is the easy and acceptable option.

You guessed correctly - it didn't work <G>

I sympathise with your problem - I've experienced it from 1980 to a few years ago when I decided at my age I couldn't be bothered chasing the latest and stabilised my development environment, which is why I'm still on W7.

--ou said “no password”?--

None set in LibreElec - the default seems to be blank. The ones in Services were left as libreelec.

I'll check in again when my SSD (which I shall boot from) arrives from China

Thanks for the help so far.

I just tried LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-nightly-20220315-8dd01e5.img.gz and samba worked on that with no password. Now about to download the latest and see what happens. I'll report back.

Windows 7, I do have one W10 PC and one Linux Mint. None of my kit is suitable for W11

Thanks

Whew - I thought it was me - I'll stop banging my head against the wall for a while

Since I've always just used Windows Explorer by connect directly to the share I assume you means something like

\\Kodi\music

If not can you tell me what the syntax is.

Just tried the above syntax - works on my old RPi3 but not the RPi4

RPi4 running the nightly from 10/04/2022, wired LAN to Windows 7 PC

I can access via ssh, or ping it using either host name or ip address but not via samba, Windows reports "Location not available"

I have (I think) got the settings the same as my RPi3 but something is obviously wrong.

Workgroup is set correctly in both places. SAMBA is set to SMB1 - SMB3.

Can anyone point out things I may be missing?

I'm on the final stage of my conversion to RPi4. I've just tried booting from a memory stick. The Sandisk 32GB Ultra (usb 3.0) just kept blinking at me, a non name 16GB (usb 2.0) worked but took an age to create the file system on the Pi.

I'm undecided whether to go for a 128GB Micro SD, a 128GB memory stick or a "proper" 128GB SSD. My configuration will be one of those, a Haupage dual TV tuner, a 6TB powered drive for movies, a micro keyboard and wired LAN.

The only reason I'm looking at 128GB is for storing recordings until either watched and dumped or watched and transferred to the 6TB drive.

Any suggestions for the boot device? I seem to recall reading somewhere that Sandisk gave problems, if that's so any brands recommended? Final point: whatever I buy I'll be getting 2 so I can clone it when everything's set up and working!