Posts by jakob42

My odroid-c2 with an old kodi (leia) sometimes reboots. (Actually I need to replace two.) It does nearly everything I need, but I'm missing HDR, since my new TV supports it now. And while in theory I should get a current LE image on it, it fails to boot it. So maybe its time to replace the SBCs after ~8 years.

I want:

• media from a smb share, no netflix apps and similar (the TV takes care of that)
• shared mysql DB, but that should be hardware independent
• x265, AV1 would be nice to have I guess
• CEC support
• at least the odroid in the living room is on 24/7, so not too much idle draw

I thought about x86, since there are many refurbished low power USFF devices for cheap out there, but they mostly have DP and no HDMI, which is probably a problem with HDR?

I read the recommendations from this article, but nothing looks good and they dont talk about CEC: https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=376035

Would an an odroid-C4 be a good choice? I guess my requirements would be met, I'm just a bit unsure if the hardware is too old again and I would need to buy 2-3 new ones in 3 years.

Thanks for any hints!

Jup, works like a charm, thanks for the pointer.

Thanks for the build sam3! I've got the same mainboard as OP and it works great. Thanks again!

You are right, but as long as it is working, no need to upgrade it. Thanks for the link, must have seen an old list for nvidia legacy support. Will try it out first thing tomorrow.

I've got an hold HTPC in my guest room running OpenElec 6.0.0 with Kodi 15.2 just fine and stable. And since I found out that it even plays x265, I would like to keep it. (Otherwise I would put in an old rPi2 when I replaced them with odroids C2s, but it cannot play x265.) I need to be able to access my shared MySQL library again, so I tried to update it again. All my other setups run LE8.x.

Sadly every time I try to "update" (=fresh reinstall!) the HTPC, I end up with a system that I can use for a few seconds and then freezes with a garbled screen:

https://gfycat.com/GracefulScaredAntlion

Didn't matter if it was a newer version of OpenElec back in the days or LibreELEC today, it is always the same problem. The graphics chips seems to work, since it shows an image in the beginning and it is supported by nvidia-legacy. I cannot provide a log, since the whole machine freezes completely, I cannot even ping it anymore.

CPU: AMD X2 215 (2.7Ghz)

Mobo: Asus M4N78VM

Memory: 2GB

Graphics: onboard Nvidia 8200

Any ideas what I could do to solve this or debug it further? Thanks!

Update: memtest86 ran without issues