I have three LibreELEC installations, and this makes it a little more difficult to administer them, although I can address them separately by IP address.
You have my sympathy there
My bet is someone has hard coded it in for testing and forgotten to take it out (I'm guessing that because I've done it).
I've posted it as a bug but just in case there's a workround that I couldn't find.
I'm transitioning to a new Kodi platform (Dell Optiplex) and am using v12 nightly and can't change the device name from LibreElec. Any suggestions.
You don't say what device you're using. With the RPi3 my solution was to record to the system microSD (124GB) and then use FileZilla to transfer as necessary.
My apologies for not coming up with the right search term to find it <G>
I can understand the approach, especially when the main focus is on SBCs . I took the easy way out and my music collection is in music, my music videos are in videos and the films will be on the 6TB external drive.
I've just installed the v12 generic nightly from memory stick to ssd on a Dell Optiplex. I partitioned the SSD in the hope that the installation process would offer the option of which partition. Nope - it needed the whole SSD.
If not to difficult I'd like an option to select a partition or the whole disk.
I've just installed the latest nightly for v12 generic (LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20230628-73e6606.img) and I can't alter the system name from LibreElec.
I found this thread System Name always reverts to LibreELEC after reboot from June this year and this thread Change hostname? from 2018. The recommendation in this years thread was to edit hostname which is why I found the earlier thread.
Here is my hostname (in line with chewitt's info)
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<libreelec>
<addon_config/>
<settings>
<system>
<wizard_completed>True</wizard_completed>
<KeyboardLayout1>uk</KeyboardLayout1>
<hostname>Optiplex</hostname>
</system>
<connman>
<wizard_completed>True</wizard_completed>
</connman>
<services>
<wizard_completed>True</wizard_completed>
</services>
<about>
<wizard_completed>True</wizard_completed>
</about>
<libreelec>
<wizard_completed>True</wizard_completed>
</libreelec>
<updates>
<AutoUpdate>manual</AutoUpdate>
<SubmitStats>0</SubmitStats>
</updates>
</settings>
</libreelec>
I have a 256GB SSD which will be used in the Dell Optiplex that will run Kodi. I'll be installing that latest v12 nightly I can get at the time I do the install.
The install menu simply says install but what I'd like to do is reserve some of the SSD to be formatted in NTFS. Is this possible, if so how?
I tried to move from a dual RPi3 setup to a single RPi4 - not powerful enough for the job so I'm trying the Dell.
I've been struggling a bit with the Pulse-Eight USB-CEC adapter.
At present between trying things out I unplug all cables and put things neatly away. I just set things up again and the FF/Rewind/Play/Stop buttons did not work. I tried various things and found that rebooting LibreElec made them work. I then tried pulling the power lead from the Dell and left it a while, plugged power back in, started the Dell and all buttons worked.
I did notice that with a reboot I get the "connecting to" message with the first boot after plugging cables in I only get the connected to tv message. Is it possible that LibreElec is trying to set CEC up to early?
Had a look at that link and its going the opposite way to what I'm looking for - I don't want to control the TV from something else I want the TV to send command to Kodi.
That's the one I have - I couldn't find anything else.
Most of the functionality you seem to require from it could be achieved via TCP/IP
Please tell me how I can control Kodi using a TV remote over TCP/IP.
I use FileZilla to copy files from TVHeadend recordings since it will use : in folder names (eg NEW:.....) but for everything else its XYPlorer/SAMBA
It has both ports but I'm using the HDMI port
Is there anything special I need to do to get this working? I've had to send one back so far, its replacement arrived today and it won't work. I'm trying with the latest V12 nightly on a Dell Optiplex 3040M.
When first connected the adapter turned the TV on and to right HDMI port, now nothing, and the remote doesn't work.
I use XYPlorer on Windows and one thing I have noticed (or my mind tells me I have) is that if I leave XYPlorer open for a while after file writes to the 6TB HDD on Kodi and especially after file deletes have supposedly finished it seems that I get less corruption.
Its entirely possible that this is a figment of my imagination, but it may be worth trying.
Since I am interested in synchronisation I use the file modified timestamp rather than file created one. Works fine on NTFS but not exFAT
Depending on just what you're doing, and if it hasn't been addressed, there may be a problem with exFAT. I switched to exFAT because, like yourself, I had to run a repair every so often. I also have a homebrew disk mirroring program to make sure the live 6TB and the backup are kept in sync. This program uses file timestamps (and other things) and samba from my Windows PC. The way Kodi on the RPi4 and v12 calculated the timestamp and the way Windows calculated it were different so it looked as though I have a LOT of files to copy.
I had to switch back to NTFS on the RPi c 12 hours copying 
Thank you for that - it gets my day off to a chuckle before trying to sort out some SQL for an Australian.
However, what I was hoping for was a bit clearer definition of "for older PCs " eg Generic-Legacy for any cpu before gen 4 but I'm guessing from the reply that gen 6 is generic.
