Posts by elliottmc

I did that as well. Don't feel too bad about it!

There are updated ArgonOne cases that are advertised as having an IR receiver built-in. However, this seems to be only for their own remote, which is not yet available.

I've tweeted them to ask if it will work with other remotes, as I'd love to reclaim a USB port on mine.

I'll report back if I get an answer.

With my setup (three of these tuners on a RPi4), I moved my TV server from the living room to the study. That has a different aerial, and I started getting a lot of data errors on DVB-T2 streams. Moved it back to the original aerial and it's fine again.

So, lots of factors to consider.

Useful to know. I hadn't consider this scenario.

Hi,

As a follow-up, I now have three of these connected to a Raspberry Pi 4 running LE (first alpha). With a firmware update to stop video going out of sync, this is an awesome TV server.

I have set it to mount SMB shares from my NAS at startup, and so far it is working flawlessly.

I may need to switch to Raspbian so I can also run this as a Plex server, and then have a second Pi as the Kodi client (so I can keep using LE) but that is my only sticking point.

Mark

Okay, so I reinstalled Windows on mine for now. If it's any consolation to anyone who is thinking of testing, Windows automatically recognised the licence key that is presumably somewhere in the BIOS, so I didn't need to use a licence key of my own - may be of concern if you don't have one.

I will install on a USB stick for further testing.

If I press the shift key at boot, nothing happens. If I press esc, I get to the bios.

Sorry if I appear stupid, but I don't know what I am expecting to see.

Quote from mglae

The code is still there.

Furthermore the update does not alter the existing boot configuration. You can try to <e>dit the boot entry from the grub boot menu and replace "quiet" with "debug textmode" to see boot messages.

Thanks for the comment. Could you explain how I would do that? Happy to try!

Quote from chewitt

Our master branch (future LE 9.0) includes support for 32-bit devices using GRUB as testing with 32-bit syslinux gave patchy results.

see: added EFI 32bit support via GRUB2 by maideii · Pull Request #2061 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

So it looks as though the code in this commit has been removed at some point and for some reason.

My experience is that I install LE8.0 using a modified version I found online with this patch, and it is fine. I then update to LE9.0.1 and all I get is a black screen on booting.

I'd be more than happy to help debug this if you can tell me what you want, as it is a crying shame that an otherwise great little PC can't run LE.

Quote from CvH

The driver for that stick just support 1 tuner, the second tuner support is currently merged at linux and will likely arrive with kernel ~4.17.

Meanwhile you can use my LE build LibreELEC 8.x images for additional dvb drivers and choose the Hauppauge addon (see video how it works), with LE9 the support is official baked in.

Hi,

Which specific download from that thread should we go for ? I am a bit overwhelmed!

I see your site has LE9 images, but I don't know whether they include the DVB drivers.

I also need drivers for the xbox TV tuner.

Best wishes,

Mark

Hi,

Sorry for the newbie question. I want to try setting up my TV server on an x64 PC, which is currently running Windows 10. I don't want to mess up the Windows system until I know everything is working fine.

Is it possible/easy to install LE 8.2.2 and run from a USB stick for testing purposes? The media drives are NTFS, and I'd rather not have to reformat them at any point. Will they continue to work okay in LE?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi,

I have tested one of these tuners on LE 8.2.2 on RPi3, and it works perfectly.

Does anyone know if the drivers are present in LE 8.2.1 for x64?

Best wishes,

Mark

kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git - Linux kernel source tree

Looks like only the first tuner will be supported, so far.

But strangely enough the quadHD tuner support is in 4.11

kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git - Linux kernel stable tree

Hi,

Thanks for your efforts on this. I'd love to switch to TVHeadEnd, but lack the knowledge of how to apply these patches.

Do you know when libreelec will support both tuners for this device out of the box?

Thanks,

Mark

Quote from vpeter

You need to use image made by CvH which has support for TBS tuners.

LibreELEC

That would probably be it. I'll give this a go.

Is it possible/easy to install drivers for cards that are not supported yet?

Quote from Grimson

OpenELEC support is here: OpenELEC Mediacenter - Home

Sorry, LibreELEC !!!!!! I'm in the right place, honest!

Hi,

I tried on the Kodi forum, and was directed here.

I have a PC running Kodi 17 alpha 2 on LibreELEC, with a TBS 6280 dual DVB-T2 tuner (PCI-e) and a Hauppauge WinTV-dualHD USB tuner. They both work in Windows 10 with MediaPortal.

I installed the OpenELEC alpha and then installed tvheadend 4.2 from the LibreELEC repository. Everything installed fine. I was following this guide:

Setting up an easy Linux Kodi with Live TV (LibreELEC)

However, there are no tuners showing up. I can connect to tvheadend from a web browser on my PC, and everything looks as it should in the guide. Just no tuners.

I'm guessing there are no tuners yet for the Hauppauge card, but the TBS card is apparently supported.

So, how do I begin to troubleshoot this? My expertise on Linux is pretty low, but I can find my way around a bash shell. I just don't know how to tell if devices are detected/drivers installed, and what to do about it if they are not.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best wishes,

Mark

Edit: It is LibreELEC, not OpenELEC!