Posts by 5schatten

Quote from Waspoeder

Almost done with the most perfect setup here

One problem left, when I set the audio backend in rr configuration to ALSA.

I can't get audio to work in Dolphin and pcsx2 (Dolphin.ini and pcsx2 settings are als ALSA)

When I change backend to AUDIOPULSE audio is working in Dolphin but not in retroarch and pcsx2 (everything in the settings is also AUDIOPULSE)

It is probably a easy solution but I am looking for 3 hours now hehe

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[ERROR] Failed to initialize audio driver. Will continue without audio.

Error In retroarch when set on PULSE

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Logfiles the problem with a Kodi addon is that I'm not entirely sure how it will react. Normally Kodi is shut down to launch the frontends & emulators but if the addon surpresses this in some way the ALSA device is still locked by Kodi. So you end up without sound & PA can't gain access to create a sink. So all in all it's quite possible that it won't work this way.

Quote from gsky

Only the old kernel 4.19.y image.

I get the same behavior running live off a usb stick.

I used this image https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ecxn8_uyiln7-2vrruqubsegdawaxlwd for a clean install on an usb drive now and it works flawless.
The only thing I can imagine is that your usb-drive installation was or is somewhat faulty and so it does not work as it should.

Quote from gsky

Only the old kernel 4.19.y image.

I get the same behavior running live off a usb stick.

With the old image? Try the recent one.

Quote from gsky

Ok, i don't know. I have tried everything I can think of (different nucs, different flash drive, running live, testing memory, etc...), same result. Starting to think I am doing something stupid or you are doing something very specific with your clean install to generate the asound.conf. Do you go through the initial setup? If not, when do you connect the network? Do you have to go into the kodi audio settings if the default works? Do you update first? Does the select output device actually do something, beside log an error? It seems like the plugin loads, it only complains if I click on that button. The main problem is an asound.conf is never generated.

The addon is just a frontend to define some vars that were used later by scripts to determine which refresh rate or audio device they should use. The script I've linked picks up the audio device & refreshs the asound.conf on every reboot.

I do a clean install on an usb-stick later this day to make sure it's not a bug that is only triggered by clean installs You only used the old Kernel 4.19.y image or also tried the recent Kernel 5.0.y image?

You can copy & paste this file to the directory and it should pick up the vars then.

<settings version="2">
<setting id="RR_AUDIO_BACKEND">PulseAudio</setting>
<setting id="RR_AUDIO_DEVICE">hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0</setting>
<setting id="RR_AUDIO_VOLUME">75</setting>
<setting id="RR_EMULATION_DEMOS">false</setting>
<setting id="RR_EMULATION_ID_GAMES">false</setting>
<setting id="RR_KMS">true</setting>
<setting id="RR_PA_TSCHED">false</setting>
<setting id="RR_PA_UDEV">false</setting>
<setting id="RR_QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR">true</setting>
<setting id="RR_QT_SCALE_FACTOR">1</setting>
<setting id="RR_REFRESH_RATE_AMIGA" default="true">50Hz</setting>
<setting id="RR_REFRESH_RATE_ATARI" default="true">50Hz</setting>
<setting id="RR_REFRESH_RATE_C64" default="true">50Hz</setting>
<setting id="RR_REFRESH_RATE_DOLPHIN" default="true">60Hz</setting>
<setting id="RR_REFRESH_RATE_PCSX2" default="true">60Hz</setting>
<setting id="RR_SPOTIFY_BRANCH" default="true">stable</setting>
</settings>

Quote from gsky

Running a memtest now. What are the md5sum/sha1sum of the downloadable img and the latest update?

i got sha1sum of:

963cf8ea2e2b84a83ca80e91fa75b6f911f53640 LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.1-RR-20190305-fed2e29.img.gz

44130c441cf7c80602b69ceebf1d29df681f2c9f LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.1-RR-20190404-1cc7fad.tar

I only checked the latter LibreELEC-Generic.x86_64-9.1-RR-20190404-1cc7fad.tar but this hash is correct.

Quote from gsky

Can you also show me a screen shot of what I should be expecting when I click "Select audio device".

It's just a drop down menu with a list of devices -> but this should not matter because Kodi does not run the addon at all or does not find anything with this id. Maybe a clean install helps otherwise I have no clue what's going on but I can ask one of the Kodi devs for further input.

Quote from gsky

Correct. Then I updated to the latest build as you requested.

Did you add the addon to favorites or do you navigate to it through the usual way? Do you use a third party skin?

As a workaround you could open \\your_device\userdata\addon_data\service.rr-config-tool\settings.xml then change the audio device to <setting id="RR_AUDIO_DEVICE">hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0</setting> and run this in a terminal:

/bin/sh /usr/share/kodi/addons/service.rr-config-tool/bin/rr-config-tool.start this should at least create a working asound.conf

The only similar problem I could find is this How to open dialogaddonsetting for Simple PVR addon and maybe linked to favorites.

Quote from gsky

No difference w/ reinstall of build 20190305-fed2e29 and immediate update to latest build 20190404-1cc7fad.

Well where did you start? With a clean install with one of my builds? I've checked my installations and

ERROR: RunAddon: unknown add-on id 'service.rr-config-tool', or unexpected add-on type (not a script or plugin).

I don't find similar errors in my logs & it runs like that

The addon itself is hardcoded and only the settings should not change or update without a new build.

Quote from andersos

I only saw some posts about no audio after an update some weeks ago. I used only SPDIF at the time. Now I was going to watch a Blu-ray and needed HDMI. But there was no audio. Before that mentioned update HDMI audio worked perfectly. I run LE on Intel without nVidia or AMD GPU. Do I have to adjust the asound.conf like I had to earlier thus winter?

Well if you use a recent Kernel 5.x build -> read the FAQ

Quote from gsky

20190305-fed2e29, which comes from the download link on the first page. I could not find the download link for the latest build, so I assumed you first installed this version and updated to the latest (which I have not done).

Follow the step as described in the first post & setup the update tool in libreelec settings.

Quote from andersos

Has the Kodi audio problem on HDMI been resolved? Audio on SPDIF works but I really need HDMI too.

Which Kodi audio problem in particular? The only problem I'm aware of is the faulty Nvidia 415.x/418.x series which screws audio output & that's solely Nvidias fault

Quote from gsky

Correct.

You use a quite old build? Have you tried a recent version?

Quote from gsky

I suspected it was kodi specific due to this line:

ERROR: RunAddon: unknown add-on id 'service.rr-config-tool', or unexpected add-on type (not a script or plugin).

I didn't see anything else relevant in any of the other logs.

Correct. When i try to select an output device nothing happens. All i can change is the backend settings.

Understood, when I run /usr/share/kodi/addons/service.rr-config-tool/bin/rr-config-tool.start manually, i was able to generate a .config/asound.conf and got sound. Also without selecting an output, pulse backend occasionaly (rarely) works if I autodetect.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1akvpusntwlo85b68r45-tcpnkrg2cjt6/view?usp=sharing

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So what did you actually do? You open the addon then select the field "Select audio device" and press enter? Then happens nothing?

Quote from gsky

Installed 20190305-fed2e29 today on a nuc baseboard d33217ck and having audio issues. Audio works fine in kodi, but i cannot set the audio device in rr-config. also .config/asound.conf is not being generated.

http://ix.io/1fti

Well the Kodi debug log is somewhat useless if the problem is not Kodi specific. You can't select hdmi:CARD=PCH,DEV=0 in the rr-config tool? Because this is pretty much a standard output. Anyway upload a complete log zip.

Quote from HaLeXz

Well, I made a clean install with your release a few days after my first post on this thread (maybe less than 2 months) and on it I just copied the addon_data dirs related to the most important addons I had installed on official libreelec (amazon, netflix and tvheadend server) just to save my configurations and data.

All the emulation stuff is clean install of your release and the only things I modified are es config file and retroarch config file (after the last tests I tried to modify dolphin to set the volume).

So... I think the best way for me is to compare these three config files with the originals of your github. Isn't it so?

Really I would like to avoid reinstall it all again. Sure, I can test from a USB stick as you said too, but I think in the end I should compare those files to find out what's wrong.

I'll give feedback of what I'll find.

Thank you again

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Non of my config files or scripts ever touched the ALSA volume so I suspect some malconfigured addon or leftover causes this. The only thing that is configured is the PulseAudio volume & only temporary. Since nobody else ever reported a similar issue I tend to expect it's not related to my build.

But to make sure it's not some weird quirk grab an usb-drive install the latest build and check if still the volume drops when you launch RA since this should start out-of-the box.

Quote from Lisko

Yes and it's not wrong layout and it's not a problem only with @ but with all symbols that aren't lecters (/#&...) but periods and commas work.

Well a # is a regular sign while / or & need a keyboard shortcut. So I guess you have to figure out how shift & alt-gr can be executed properly Anyway don't expect to much since the underlaying system does not support NLS for example.

Quote from Lisko

Hi, in topic of keyboards, after an incident some years ago I got several problems to my hands. In the current situation I am way more comfortable typing on my phone than on a keyboard. For my others Linux pcs I use unified remote android app and it works fine. I got the server running on libreelec and with it I can use the mouse fine. The keyboard is almost working but it has an issue: while all the keys seems fine (eg I can type and send alt+esc to exit emulators) but if I try special chars like "@" it completely ignores them. This is a major issue in Chrome and spotify since there isn't an OSK and I can't even login. Do you know an alternative working app for remote keyboard and mouse? Can I help providing some logs? Which one do you need? Thanks for the patience.

Well did you consider a wrong layout? The @ sign might be located at a completely different position?

Quote from HaLeXz

Thank you 5schatten

Here are the info.

setxkbmap -query | paste - http://ix.io/1fge

amixer | paste

in kodi: http://ix.io/1fgc

es launched: http://ix.io/1fgd

game dolphin launched: http://ix.io/1fgd

dolphin and es closed, back to kodi: http://ix.io/1fgd

rolled back volume to 100% with alsamixer (in alsamixer I find master volume to 18%, not 25% like RRconfig setting, not 44% like amixer pastebin says)

in kodi: http://ix.io/1fgc

es launched: http://ix.io/1fgd

es closed, back to kodi: http://ix.io/1fgd

rolled back volume to 100% with alsamixer

in kodi: http://ix.io/1fgc

pegasus launched: http://ix.io/1fgd

pegasus closed, back to kodi: http://ix.io/1fgd

I saw the it,us keyboard layout, but in libreelec configuration i cannot remove the second layout... so I changed the second to it too, but even after reboot it and verifying "setxkbmap -query | paste" - http://ix.io/1fgx the keyboard mapping is the same in retroarch (if I press the + button it recognize "rightbracket", if I press - button it recognize "slash" - in the + button I have the rightbracket corresponding to the AltGr combination, but in the - button I only have the _ )

Libreelec log file: log-2019-04-08-19.49.48.zip

Another test: if I leave the master volume to 18% in alsamixer and reboot the system, the alsa master volume rolls back to 100%.

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The keyboard issue is related to Retroarch -> needs to fixed by them
[Linux] [Regression] Keyboard keycodes no longer take into account keyboard layout · Issue #8303 · libretro/RetroArch · GitHub

(Linux) Internationalized-Keyboards issues (tested x11/sdl) · Issue #8042 · libretro/RetroArch · GitHub

About the sound problem well it looks like it always sets back the volume to 44% no matter what you do. My scripts don't touch ALSA volume in any way so have you tried a clean install i.e. to an usb-drive to make sure it's not related to some quirks?

If someone wants to use recent Docker addon version 18.09.04:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17xttiae-gp6py071ptpl74ze6wgk24jm

Quote from HaLeXz

Is there a way to manage audio volume for emulationstation/dolphin/mupen64plus? I tried different setups, but with no success.

1. Kodi uses alsa

2. Backend in RRconfig set to alsa - the emulationstation/dolphin/mupen64plus volume is very very high.

3. Backend in RRconfig set to pulse and adjust the volume to 25% - this works, but when you go back to kodi the volume is very very low - so checking it in alsamixer through ssh it shows the master volume changed to 25%. Have to ssh every time I use a game to roll the volume level back to 100%.

4. I tried to change the audio levels in dolphin configuration but it has no effect on the audio volume.

5. If I use alsa the audio of video preview of emulationstation doesn't work. With pulse it works.

6. In kodi I cannot select pulse because the only audio device I see on pulse driver is "bluetooth".

7. I cannot find a way to change the volume during execution of emulationstation, nor dolphin, nor mupen64plus.

Is it a bug that setting the volume in pulse sets it even in alsa or is it correct?

Thank you

Setup: intel nuc core i5 - ssd 128GB - 6GB RAM - intel integrated graphics - logitech k400r wireless keyboard ita layout + touchpad - 2 gamesir g3s - 1 dolphin bar + 1 nintendo wiimote plus + nunchuck - generic USB IR remote control - stereo speakers connected to analog out - LibreElec 9.x RR 0404 release.

P.S.: The keyboard stuff introduced in 0326 release didn't fix the keyboard layout/mapping issue.

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Again not a single log file is provided. Enter this in a terminal setxkbmap -query |paste & post the link. I added libxkbcommon which Lakka also uses and updated all keyboard config & mapping files. Personally I don't see what else could be changed.

I hardly doubt that my script can change the ALSA volume because it reduce the volume of a temporary Pulse Audio sink

LibreELEC.tv/910-audio-settings-common.conf at 30445e0ba72a57fa1e55cb898f6cb10c4824aa35 · 5schatten/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

And once you return to Kodi it sets the volume of the sink back to 100% before it's unloaded.

LibreELEC.tv/910-audio-settings-common.conf at 30445e0ba72a57fa1e55cb898f6cb10c4824aa35 · 5schatten/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

So all in all the sink is created for the time the emulators or frontends are used and once you shut them down it sets the default volume and unloads it. So run this command in a terminal beforeamixer | paste you start a frontend and run it again while the emulation is running and once you return to Kodi. And post all links in the correct order.

The FAQ clearly states that audio for video previews is only available with PA and it also states that changing the audio configs in the emulators will probably screw the config at all so I don't see what might be "unexpected"