Posts by LybsterKodi

  • Clone a microSD card

    :):)

    Eureka - all I have to do is setup on a 16GB (the 8GB one wouldn't work) microSD card initially then I can clone to a 128GB card, plug into my Linux laptop to resize storage (weirdly enough it leaves c300MB at the end) but everything works.

    I just wish I'd thought of that a couple of days ago. ;(

  • Clone a microSD card

    vaughng

    At this point I have no idea if it will be useful but its a good description of dd. Good enough so that I might understand and use it - thanks.


    chewitt

    If it was simply to use LibreElec/Kodi I would be happy to use the backup, reinstall and restore approach. However, what I want to do is see if I can make some mods to the system, starting with something simple like skins (I like most of the default skin but some bits I want to change) and move on to a couple of addons. Whilst I couldn't clone an entire IBM 4341 or VAX 11/780 ever since the advent of micros that's what I've done. It means that when, inevitably, I mess up big time I can go back to my original start point. That, as I discovered recently, is not the case with backup, reinstall and restore.

    Whilst I've never had trouble cloning a system before I've only once tried it with microSD cards and RPi before. I might buy a couple of cheap SSDs and try those.

  • Clone a microSD card

    petediscrete

    I asked because this

    "This is an application which allows the SD card inserted into the Pi to be copied to one in a connected USB reader."

    is at the top of the readme. I have no idea if piclone runs under LibreElec and if not how to use it, nor why it should be any more effective than those I've tried so far.

    chewitt

    You now seem to be recommending a clean install and restore backup not cloning which is what I want to do. I know I was able to clone a 32GB to a 64GB microsd card and then resize the 64GB card's storage partition but going from 128GB to 128GB seems impossible.

    I haven't tried your idea of "preparing" the card (which I'm assuming means install LibreElec and then overwrite stuff) because my Linux PC doesn't want to recognise one card in its microsd slot and another one on a usb adapter at the same time.

    Why this is proving such a challenge I do not know but would like to.

  • Clone a microSD card

    chewitt

    Based on the fact that LibreElac/Kodi can be installed on different media I'm guessing that the position/size of the FAT32 partition is the critical one and the EXT4 partition can then extend to whatever's left. Is that right?


    petediscrete

    Have you used that utility on LibreElec rather than Raspberry Pi OS?

  • Clone a microSD card

    I'm currently running LibreElec/Kodi on a Dell Optiplex and a RPi4. The Dell uses a 256GB SSD and I've cloned that to a backup 256GB SSD with no problem - tested and it runs. Cloning the microSD (128GB to 128GB) is a nightmare. I've tried three different cloning systems (CloneZilla, Macrium and Disk Genius) both in disk to disk mode and in disk to image to disk mode. None of them work. The best gets through to displaying the Kodi (21.0 beta) logo and the worst tells me there is disk corruption (when I checking the micoSD - need both Windows and Linux - out I'm told its fine).

    I'm assuming cloning should be possible since I can do it on the Dell - anyone tell me how.

  • Can not connect to repository

    I've just downloaded and updated my RPi4 LibreElec installation from the v12 nightlies from 2023-11-22 to 2024-01-01. None of the 2023-11 images will connect to the LibreElec repository, however, as soon as I load the 2024-01-01 (which also moves from beta1 of Kodi to beta2) it works.

    My question is: is there something I can do to get the LibreElec repository working with 2023-11-22 or not.

    I'd like to do this because the machine used to watch movies (Dell Optiplex) is running that and I'm modifying the Estuary skin so I'd like to keep things as near the same as I can manage bearing in mind the different architectures.

    If there's nothing I can try I'll just accept what is and swear a bit ^^

  • Is the repository down?

    Thanks. I should have checked here (sorry) - I have access to both repositories on the Dell Optiplex but not the RPi4. Is there anything in the setup which might allow the Kodi repository but not the LibreElec one?

    I did have the trouble with the RPi4 not mounting storage when booting for the first time but typing reboot and hitting enter it mounted the second time. I can access via SAMBA and ssh.

    If I try and connect to the LibreElec repository by itself I get "Could not connect to repository"

  • Is the repository down?

    I'm trying to set up a RPi4 to the same LibrreElec version as my Dell Optiplex - v12 nightly 2023-11-22 so I can create my own skin and test easily and check out the various addons I might be interested in (official repositories only).

    Currently I need to download the TVHeadend stuff along with some look and feel addons and whilst the Kodi repository comes up the LibreElec doesn't, hence my question.

  • Is there an addon that does this

    We tend to watch a number of TV series at one time (eg right now its Merlin, Only Fools & Horses & NCIS) when the power goes for some reason (either though choice, power cut or whatever) I have to go through and "re-flag" which series, which season, which episode we have reached. Is there an addon that will store this periodically and load it when Kodi boots?

    We use Videos | Files to play stuff, all the tv series (ripped) and films are organised in alphabetical folders eg:

    M

    Merlin

    Season 1

    Season 2

    Season 3

    Episode 1

    ....

    Episode 13

    Season 4

  • Altering USB disk format to Ext4

    Just a heads up for anyone else doing this - its slow or I did something wrong (Linux moron here :)). I finally got round to reformatting the 6TB USB HDD I use on Kodi and adding the code to check it on boot:

    Code: /storage/.config/system.d/[email protected]/fsck.conf

    Code
    [Service]
ExecStartPre=-/usr/sbin/fsck -T -M -p -t ext4 %I

    The only problem was the time taken to copy the c4TB of data from disk 1 to disk 2. It took over 26 hours. Started off really well telling me it would take c6 hours but it got slower and slower ending up at 40MB/s. I had done transfers using the exact same equipment, same data under Windows (NTFS -> ExFAT and NTFS -> NTFS) and that took c10 hours.

    Its done now so I should no longer need to plug into a Windows PC and run chkdsk. Transfer speeds using SAMBA and FileZilla over my LAN look about the same as when the HDD was NTFS.