Resurrecting this thread because I've received my Dell Optiplex 3040 and have yet to get CEC to work. Since I got the adapter to work on the HP I'm assuming its not that causing the problem. So far CEC isn't even turning the TV on.

I do get audio & video so, to me, it looks like the HDMI link is working.

I'm going to try various versions of LE nightlies in hope but if anyone can suggest tests to find out which bit of the chain isn't working, or better still how to get it working I'd be grateful.

The only part of your question I can answer is No. 1. The answer to that is YES. I've happily installed on an old HP (T7500 CPU) and and installing on a Dell Optiplex (i5-6500 CPU) almost successfully in the latter case - I'm struggling with CEC so the TV remote can be used.

In general for the other stuff I'd say that LE is a lightweight OS and if you want full OS capabilities you might want to look at a full Linux distro.

Your No.7 is sort of what I'm fighting with at the moment. If you buy a Pulse-Eight CEC adapter (c£40 from Amazon) then your standard TV remote. I have it working on the old HP but not the newer Dell (yet I hope). You can look at a Flirc remote (Amazon have them) or, if you're not bothered about controlling the TV with the same control look at something like this (again Amazon)

iPazzPort RGB Backlit Mini Wireless Keyboard with Touchpad and IR Learning TV Remote combo

I's better for controlling Kodi and has a few TV control keys, I just wish I could persuade SWMBO to use it

Well it shipped with W10 but this should give you a guess

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I know LE/Kodi will run in a lot less but I don't know if it can make use of the extra.

Thanks, that's what I needed to know.

Just Kodi

My Dell 3040 arrived today. Is it worth buying another 8GB of RAM to bring it up to its limit of 16GB? I know LE/Kodi will run in a lot less but I don't know if it can make use of the extra.

I've tried searching the forum but I either get a tsunami of replies or nothing.

vaughng & petediscrete

I do know what I'm told are the risks, however, there often seems to be limited understanding of the difference between probability and possibility. It is possible I will be hacked but not very probable. Whilst anti-virus and anti-malware are available I'll be sticking with W7, once that changes I may have to review the situation.

Chrome has already told me it won't update any further and I'm fine with that because I don't use Chrome.

My approach to a new PC for the past several decades has been wipe, install the OS , remove crud, load any updates I want and turn off auto updates. Its worked with no infections.

I've almost settled on a Dell Optiplex 3040 with a i5-6500 CPU. Is this generic or legacy generic?

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All I’ll add here is that when your OS tells you that your perfectly good computer is no longer suitable for the next version of it’s OS you’ll scratch your head and look around for an alternative OS.

Not quite - I just continued running W7. I do have one PC dual booting into W10 or W11 so I can test the s/w written on my W7 PC.

I uttered many nasty words about Kodi developers until I discovered the Zoom feature <G>

Coming from a tech background and still being registered on a number of tech forums I can say that Linux users are generally more evangelical than Windows users.

Windows users (including me) are generally a) aware of the hellhole they are operating in and b) spend less time playing with the OS itself and so are less concerned about it.

Reverted to the official v11 release and things are working correctly.

My Pulse-Eight CEC adapter arrived so I installed LibreELEC-Generic-legacy.x86_64-12.0-nightly-20230531 onto an old HP PC using a 128GB SSD, connected up the adapter and the TV's remote just worked. Today, before spending money on new hardware I just wanted to chec a couple of things. Hooked up the PC to the Panasonic TV again.

What I want is, as the RPi3 does, is to turn the TV off and come back later and press any key on the mini keyboard attached to the Pi and for the TV to turn on and go to the appropriate AV with Kodi on it.

Not only is it not doing that but the TV remote no longer works.

I've tried playing with the CEC settings & the screensaver settings but can't get things working.

Can someone tell me what settings I need to change please.

Unless the hardware would require a different install then you shouldn't need to reinstall, just hook everything together and turn on.

If you do go the full install route then flash the usb stick (I use balanEtcher) plug into the box, boot from it and install to the ssd BUT before you do that, if you can get the xbmc box running for a bit take a backup - that will allow you to get your current configuration back.

Thanks for that comprehensive reply. The main reason for asking is the move to a different machine which may end up not running LibreElec (but probably will) and if it doesn't is likely to end up on Windows which TVHeadend doesn't run on.

I have the same issue, sort of solved by using FileZilla to transfer from RPi to PC - it switches : to _

My format string is $t$-c%F%R$-e$n.$x

I should be buying a new machine to run LE/Kodi soon. Up to now I've been running TVHeadend on RPi3. I'm having a look at NextPVR. The configuration certainly seems easier than TVHeadend. I'm just interested in how others percieve the pros and cons of the two systems.

If you boot from a MicroSD card and have a look in Settings|LibreElec is your firmware up to date?

I used balenaEtcher on Windows to write the image to an SSD and my RPi4 booted from it without problems.