Posts by LybsterKodi

OK, that explains why I couldn't find the update in the .tar but it missed the point that when I restored it ran the update. If someone is doing a restore then I would guess that in the vast majority of cases they would not want the update to run.

Is there a better way of carrying out a restore from backup without installing an update?

I backedup Kodi prior to messing with cables. Before the backup I'd dropped an update from the nightlies. Turned Kodi off, when I turned back on it went through the update as expected. Unfortunately , the nightly included an update to Kodi 21 which will not run my modified Estuary skin. I did eventually find that if I dropped the nightly from the backed up version into Update and then reboot I went back to what I wanted. I originally thought I could just delete the update from the .tar backup but I can't find it in there using 7zip on Windows.

Dell Optiplex i6500

LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20231122-8c6dced.img

Is there any known reason why the Dell should suddenly and for no apparent reason start playing audio through its internal speaker rather than through HDMI to the TV?

I eventually "rectified" the problem by restoring from backup (about 2 weeks old) but in the process have lost TVHeadend timers and date watched info on a number of videos

chewitt

Thanks for that. I've altered the advancedserttings.xml and next time I install a nightly (or I have a power cut) it will be invoked.

I may be totally misunderstanding what you want to do but it sounds as though you haven't removed the NAS from the list of sources nor added the USB stick to it - Settings|Media|Library|Manage Sources|Videos

If your friend isn't being connected to the internet then you'll need to transfer thumbnails & nfo files as well and specify the source to use local information only

frakkin64

Thank you. I'll give the other suggestion a try first (playing a bit of mp3) but if that doesn't work I now have an option.

I must be honest and say I'm still dubious abut leaving debugging active and logging for 3+ months

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What have you got to loose by submitting one

Nothing, but a lot to loose in terms of watchability of videos because of the block of text in the top left of the screen when debuging is enabled. If you have a workable suggestion to obviate that I'd be interested

I'm not sure about the size of file that would be generated either

MatteN

Thanks I'll try that the next time

petediscrete

Please try re-reading my post and you'll possibly notice that my reluctance is based on the fact that the problem is intermittent and may take months to recur.

Dell Optiplex i5-6500, HDMI adaptor, LE 12 generic (December but not sure just when), 6TB Seagate powered USB HDD

This is the 2nd or 3rd time its happened go to play a video and the sound volume is low and the quality I'd describe as fuzzy. Shutdown Kodi, power off Kodi, HDD, TV; unplug HDMI cable from PC and wave in the air for a few seconds; plug cable back in, turn things on (TV,HDD,Kodi in that order) and sound is back to normal.

Its sufficiently infrequent that I don't want to create a debug log for weeks/months for peple to wade through so anyone have a suggestion.

My 6TB Seagate HDD is set to power down (sleep) after (I think) 20 minutes activity. I've had that on RPi3, RPi4 and currently Dell Optiplex all running LibreElec. Same drive. Initially formatted to NTFS switched to ExFAT (because of the sort of problem you're having) and now back to NTFS (long story to do with timestamps).

I have a feeling (I'm a Linux/LE newbie so no more than a feeling) that LE is somehow setting / not setting the dirty bit correctly and then when it has to remount the drive it fails. Hooking the drive into Windows and chkdsk (either manually or as part of the connection) clears that and so things work again. I say this because I've had a problem when there has been nothing written to the disk for weeks just reading to play videos.

LE will check the Ext4 partition on the boot media at boot but that's it, or that's my interpretation of what I've been told.

You don't state which format the disks are in but from the reference to the Windows PC I'm guessing NTFS. If so, and you need to keep Windows compatibility you could try formatting to ExFAT which seems more stable with LibreElec. If you don't need Windows compatibility then go to Ext4 and read this thread fsck

chewitt

I went off and looked up linux inodes (https://linuxhandbook.com/inode-linux/) and as often the case I'm more confused than ever sigh

VLouis

The time difference between booting from Linux Mint on a stick to stripping my OS & data disks from the PC and bunging in an SSD and installing Linux is minimal by comparison with the cock up prevention bonus

Dell Optiplex, internal 256GB SSD, 6TB USB connected HDD running LE12

I going to convert my 6TB HDD to EXT4 as soon as I free up a PC to install Linux on that's fast enough to transfer everything from backup to the reformatted disk.

In the meantime we had a brief power cut last night which resulted in me having to connect the 6TB HDD to a Windows PC and run chkdsk so it would mount again on Kodi. My question is: why when all I'm doing from that HDD is readig an mp4 is it becoming corrupted. My assumption was that all writing should be to the internal SSD.

FancyLad

It could be as Da Flex says and your SSD is borked but if you tried wipe simply be reformatting it won't work. The SSD (well mine anyway) will be split into two partitions - a small one FAT32 and a larger one EXT4. Windows simply will not acknowledge the EXT4 partition you need to zap both using Disk Manager (I use MiniTools Partition Wizard) and create one large partition covering the entire SSD. Then you can format and install LibreElec.

Even without doing that you should be able to do a clean install using balenaEtcher

Fully support chewitt on this. I've had a lot of problems when I switched to a Dell Optiplex many of which were from having two HDMI devices plugged into the TV at the same time.

I recently decided to test my DVD drive (used very rarely these days) and found the TV's remote no longer controlled Kodi. Since both the TV & DVD drive had SCART I decided to "cure" the problem once and for all and disconnected the HDMI cable from the DVD drive. I'm pleased to say everything works properly now.

Thanks. Even a Windows user can follow that. I'll have a go after I've got the TV remote working again over HDMI - it just stopped last night. Currently I have all the leads disconnected to allow any random bit that's been set to clear.

mglae

Thanks but you obviously missed "a poor old Windows user ". I'll add to my quest on DuckDuckGo and hope my brain doesn't explode.

Thanks. I shall engage universal translator mode (AKA DuckDuckGo) and see if I can translate to something a poor old Windows user can follow <G>

and I've found my starter for 10 on how to write basic udev rules