Posts by LybsterKodi

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!

My, its nice to talk to the local HOTSHOTS

Finally found it - in General | Base

Chewitt

I think you're right. My i7 laptop idles around 40ºC, my old core2 duo idled at around 25ºC. I didn't get worried until the RPi3 started showing a flickering icon in the corner which when I wandered over to the TV turned out to be a thermometer. I think it should have been accompanied by a message "please strap ice cube to case"

Mario77

<<But I m sure that setting was there since forever>>

You have 10 parameters in that section, mine only has 4. Its not a major problem since it happens infrequently and I have a workround.

Our lounge normally runs 16ºC to 20ºC but with its south facing window and a good sunny day it can reach 28ºC. The latter doesn't happen very often I'm happy to say.

I agree with you about not wanting to hear fans spinning up and down which is why I was thinking about temperature controlled just to stop the cpu boiling itself. I'll give the Flirc case a go and see what happens.

Living in the Scottish Highlands we don't get many hot days but last year we did get some and my RPi3 did display its little thermometer icon (took me a while to figure out what it was). Its in an aluminium case with heatsinks fitted so I'm thinking give the RPi4 some extra cooling.

Is there a reason for recommending against a fan or is it preference? I understand that most of the time it will run cool enough which is why I want a controlled rather than on all the time one.

I remember that you recommended ditching the Argone One case and since LibreElec is now getting to the point where I can use my TV remote (just need a few weird key presses - including the eHelp key! - to enable the FF, rewind & stop buttons) I need to start looking for a new case. Are there any you can recommend with a temperature controlled fan?

TIA

I'll remember that for when I switch to the RPi4 - thanks

elliottmc

My version is Build: 4.2.8-36 ~ LibreELEC Tvh-addon v9.2.0.123 (2020-08-24T19:03:55-0400)

Running on RPi3. I have a couple of issues with CEC on my RPi4 but I'm hoping to change to that shortly.

Mario77

Definitely not my version - for starters I don't have pretty colours

Maybe when I switch to the RPi4

elliottmc

Whilst I didn't use "Use Windows-compatible filenames" as I indicated this is already set

Mario77

Where is "Remove all unsafe characters from filename:"? I don't seem to have it in my version

I have Windows-compatible filenames: set and it works for an actual programme name, unfortunately a folder name can still contain banned characters (eg : as in NEW: Ipcress File) which makes it awkward to transfer to Windows. The only way I've found so far is to SSH in and rename the folder, copy it and then rename back.

Is there a switch in TVHeadend that I've missed?