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.
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
I've tried rescanning and looked at the other muxes. I currently have some timers set for programs for She Who Must Be Obeyed once they're done with I'll uninstall and reinstall TVHeadend.
Anyone know the answer?
If I moved to EXT4 for my 6TB USB HDD attached to a Dell Optiplex would fsck automatically be run by LibreElec if the HDD failed to mount when booting?
the "what will I lose?" question
So far I've never lost anything - its just the inconvenience of disconnecting the HDD and hooking it up to a Windows PC for a repair. If I had the money (I don't) I'd be happy to have the house rewired and buy new kit & a NAS to run gigabit .
As an example: I've invested thousands of man-hours ripping and recording a large private CD and Vinyl collection
The proverb is "There are two types of IT user: those who take their backups seriously, and those who didn't lose all their data yet"
In my case its probably hundreds of hours - still a lot to repeat. I'd class myself as the first type of user but I operate with a restricted budget so only one backup.
I'm asking because we had a few lights off/lights on sessions today. My Dell Optiplex & 6TB USB HDD were on but just sitting there quietly not playing anything or recording anything and the 6TB NTFS HDD needed repairing.
I could revert to ExFAT and modify my sysncing software to handle the timestamp differences between Linux and Windows or I could (I think) set up a PC to dual boot to Linux so I can reformat the 6TB HDD and copy all the files from backup (around 10 - 12 hours).
EXT4 is often recommended here but what I don't know is how resilient is it. Will LE/KODI/EXT4 handle a power outage or is a repair going to be needed or what?
Environment: Dell Optiplex i5-6500, LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20230923-86f2494.img,Hauppauge WinTV-dual HD - Dual tuner, TVHeadend 4.3, Rumster Forest mast
One of my newsfeeds mentioned a program I'd like to record. Its on BBC 3. I have BBC 3 on my Panasonic TV, and I can find it using SichboPVR on a Windows PC but I can't find it on Kodi/TVHeadend. I do have the 522MHz (which is where the BBC channels are) mux set up but no sign of it. I also have a number of timers set up so don't want to wipe everything and start again. Any suggestions / help?
wired Internet is not practical (as in my case)
Just a thought - I live in a house built with foil backed plasterboard which isn't wifi friendly. My solution was powerline ethernet. Its nowhere as good as proper wired ethernet but it works consistently and goes over the various ring mains in the house albeit slower if it has to cross over.
Is this the intended behaviour of installer?
Depends on which OS you're using to view the disk. The system partition is FAT32 and the storage partition is EXT4. Windows will not see anything in an EXT4 partition even though its there. If you access the disk with it plugged in and running LE over samba you'll see the folders that have been created.
Is there any chance to get LE installed to a partition?
I also asked the question and the answer is no.
The last point made by VLouis is the critical one. If you want to be able to access the HDD using both LibreElec and Windows then, unless you have a high speed network, you really have to stick with NTFS or ExFAT., otherwise, if you use EXT4 all Windows access will have to be via SAMBA or something like FileZilla.
A lot will depend on how you load stuff onto the HDD. In my case I'm back to using NTFS after a time using ExFAT. I started with NTFS and moved to ExFAT because of the corruption issues (not real corruption ie I never lost anything but LE/Kodi wouldn't boot with the HDD attached). I moved back to NTFS because with one of the upgrades and the move to RPi4 the way file timestamps were calculated on LE and Windows differed which messed up my backup system.
I'm not concerned about the time to move a ripped DVD over to Kodi over my slow network I just wander off and let it get on with it while I do something else, even if it takes an hour. However, when I moved from NTFS to ExFAT I connected both live and backup HDDs to USB3 ports on my PC and it still took 10+hours to copy the c3.5TB of data. If I'd tried to do that over my slow powerline LAN it would have been in the DAYS.
With that out of the way I'd like to say that using ExFAT did give me a lot less problem on LE/Kodi. There was only one big issue. If I tried to boot my Windows PC with a 6TB ExFAT formatted HDD - it just wouldn't. Whenever I forgot it (my backup HDD) was plugged in I had to turn the PC off, unplug and restart. Not a problem with NTFS.
I've never used GParted so my suggestion would be Linux Mint from a thumb drive and use DISKS. I might be tempted to use MiniTool Partition Manager on Windows to do the initial resizing and formatting.
chewitt - sorry to tell you but YouTube have removed the video - you're apparently violating their terms of service.
I've just noticed that after installing the nightly I have a MyVideos121 and 122. Is it safe to delete the 121 version?
Thanks for the suggestion. I have done something similar only in my case expanding the partition when moving from a 16GB -> 64GB microSD. Clone then expand partition so I know that works.
