Posts by pila

RPi4 with LE 9.2.4 which I just installed. When I connect analogue cable out to cinch inputs on my amp, sound is useless. I can hear it somewhat but it is stuttering, words can not be understood at all. So, it is not that there is no sound, something can be heard but is unrecognizable - like a robot distorted voice.

Furthermore, at the same time, the picture h.265 1024p is skipping over like it is being read off from a slow source (it is being received from a DVB-T2 USB tuner local on this same RPi using TVh).

But, the sound is the same if I play something from the network, the same TV programs but SD and from a different source. In all instances, sound is useless: mpeg2audio or aac sound can not be heard normally. I can not hear GUI sounds, too.

When I select (using the menus) audio output HDMI only, I can still hear some very muted sounds from the analogue out! When I put sound output to Analogue only, words are somewhat more recognizable but again not normal. Combined HDMI and analogue out is somewhere middle bad in between. All three settings give out some mostly unrecognizable, slow motion and distorted low volume sound to the analog out and all three are different.

When I try the second RPi4 with LE 9.2.4 connecting it to the analogue audio, the same problem. When I use this second RPi4 to watch the live TV DVB-T2 FullHD stream from the first RPi4 USB tuner, sound is normal on this second RPi4 as it is connected over HDMI.

Analogue AV cable is OK since I just pulled it from the RPi2 with LE7 where everything works perfectly over analogue output. Amp is not the problem. Picture signal from RPi4 over the same analogue cable is also normal.

If someone could fill me in on how Xbox One Digital Tuner works with current LE/TVh I would be grateful. I just updated mr RPi4 to LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.4. I am looking to buy some new USB T2 tuners and am very limited in what can I get delivered to my country.

My country (Croatia) is switching to T2 h.265 by the end of this year. Currently I have 5 years old Gica T230 Silicon tuners which work but we all know they tend to die and new Gicas have different chipsets.

Or if someone can recommand anything USB T2 sold currently foir not much over 20€ that works well with T2 and LE/TVh. I do not need DVB-T as now I have few of them so that is not an issue. Or is it wiser to get new Gica T230c2 which are currently sold?

Do not port forward ssh as that is quite unsecure and uncomfortable to use.

Install OpenVPN server at your local network. I have them on my Asus Merlin routers. But, many other devices can also be used.

Than, simply connect OpenVPN client from any device and any location on the planet (with the Internet) and work as you are in your LAN (at home). Nothing else needs to be changed and isvery secure. Everything and every program and every comp/phone/tablet will work the same, as if you are at home (in your LAN).

When TV is working on HDMI2, if RPi4 is powered on, it will also turn on HDMI1 to which RPi 4 with latest LE beta is connected without a reason.

Looks like CEC is active even when it is disabled.

This is frustrating issue to google, since ALL hits are related to people having wrong time and date at the RPi LE. Mine have perfect time and RTC. So, I would like to make them able to serve NTP time to other devices, should a need arise.

I need a solution for ntpd working on LE7. I can not save ntpd.config and it does not exist. So, if someone could help me activate ntpd server on LE7, it would be great!

For LE9, it may be better to change over using timedatectl. It seems to me that LE9 is by default using ntp and not timedatectl. So, NTP could still be used there normally, I guess. I will not completely switch to LE9 for 6+ months, to this is only a secondary issue.

Quote from csaba

You can configure the behaviour of the PI in the following menu: Settings -> System -> Input -> Pheripherals -> CEC Adapter
Hope this will help.

No help since I wrote: "CEC is turned off (I verified)." CES is off. Same as in the version before it.

I use LE7 on all my RPis. Just installed LE9 to RPi4. On, LE7, I would invoke "System Info" with a certain key of my remote whe the main Menu is displayed. Not, this does nothing. I copied my config to LE9 and all other keys seem to work as on LE7. I am primarily interested to see the Temperature. If I could burn it into main skin, I would like that even better.

I am thinking: at LE9 the skin is changed and there lies some catch. I did install Confluence, so I do have the same looking skin on LE9.

I am unable to find what to assign to my remote key. I do not have a problem redefining a key on my remote, I just need to be told what to stick to it to display System Info while in Kodi in Main menu.

It looks to me like I need (to add to) global:

<info>ActivateWindow(SystemInfo)</info>

but it makes no change. Plus, I did not have this in LE7 and key <info> calls System Info with no problem.

Something is wrong with the HDMI signal with latest Beta1. TV returns to RPi4 connected HDMI1 automatically after power up. Previous versions did not have this problem. Now RPi4 acts like CEC is turning the port on its own.

At RPi4 I have had LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.1.001 installed. I just upgraded manually to latest LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.1.501. CEC is turned off (I verified).

Description: I use HDMI2. (RPi4 is connected to HDMI1 with main menu screen of Kodi being pasive). Turn off TV with HDMI2 active. Turn TV back on to the same HDMI2 port. HDMI2 source is displayed. After few seconds, HDMI1 port on myTV activates on its own and switches to RPi4 HDMI1. I must manually select HDMI2 to return to where I was.

I can see and verify my remote is not sending any codes and can not cause this problem. My remote turns on TV on HDMI2 and waits. When picture (HDMI2) displays, TV is switched to RPi4 HDMI1 on its own in a second or two. Like CEC is requesting activation of that port.

But, if I turn TV off with RPi4 HDMI1 port active, I can normally turn TV on and remote will switch it to HDMI2 after few seconds.

If I am at HDMI2 and restart RPi4, it will not switch to HDMI1 when LE9 boots.

Seems like a bug. Can it be at least manually overriden? I would prefer answer than blindly trying to reconfigure HDMI port on my RPi4.

Quote from chewitt

The master location for hostname is /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.libreelec.settings/oe_settings.xml .. but you'll only see the xml node for hostname if it has been manually added or changed via the GUI. Other services read the hostname from this location to set /etc/hostname (which is a symlink to /storage/.cache/hostname) at boot time.

I just had to change hostnames on several RPis with LE, this wouuld be impossible to guess and nothing normal would work. As usuall, chewitt is right! Thanks for taking the time

Quote from awiouy

Hello Complex_Username,

According to the code, you can pass parameters to sshd of LibreELEC with the SSH_ARGS variable of /storage/.cache/services/sshd.conf, which is writeable. Eg, to have sshd listen on port 789, set SSH_ARGS="-p 789" in /storage/.cache/services/sshd.conf, and then restart sshd (with systemctl restart sshd, or with reboot).

Works perfectly (LE 7) and there is even a line to turn on and off password access, should one need that (as I did).

autostart.sh did not work for me. But, as my script runs every 5 minutes, it checks if /storage/.cache/services/sshd.conf contains my argument, and if not, adds it and restarts sshd.

Quote from chewitt

Try setting SSHD_DISABLE_PW_AUTH="true" in /storage/.cache/services/sshd.conf and run "systemctl restart sshd.service" to bounce the daemon and reload the new config.

Thanks, I belive that will do it!

I have had today another shock when I discovered that the stupid chinese ZTE modem/router at that location does not provide port forwarding from a port X to a port Y (just forward port X to the IP address), I was lucky enough to find excellent #5 post setting ssh port and noticed that settiong there. Thanks for confirming it.

Stupid problems: I live on an island and when the sun hits us, my provider damage data (entire summer). So, I may have problems connecting using anything "longer" (such as the ssh key) as it may get damaged. That was not enough, but they have internal routing error which breaks their routing wihtin their network so I can not use VPN whenever we get address from a range 109.227.*.*. So, a RPi will be fixing these problems until they sort them out. ssh is for me to manage it remotely.

I connect to a remote RPi 2 with LE7 using ssh. Everything is well. I can connect using pwd and ssh in using the secure way. Pwd access is then turned off. RPi is programmed to control the modem to ensure that the Internet is always working.

But, I would like to be able to enable password login and disable it should the need arise. It is a remote headless device. So, I must do it from the terminal over ssh.

Quote from svend

Login via ssh and do the following:

If I may improve a bit on your excellent answer :). As I am lazy, I do it like this:

connmanctl config "$(connmanctl services | awk '/^\*/ {print $3}')" --ipv4 manual 192.168.1.8 255.255.255.0 192.168.1.1

This finds the entry starting with * and sets the IP address to 192.168.1.8 with gateway set to 192.168.1.1. Adjust these two as you need them.

Quote from CvH

update to LE8.2 - 7.0 is heavily outdated

I have about 30 computers. I do not fix which is not broken. Computers should serve me, not the other way around

Outdated is a term good for shirts and hairstyles. Newer in computers most often means only more new problems if nothing gets fixed from the older version. I do not see any good in newer LE versions. And this is my profession for many years now.

So, this will not work in LE7? I now have WG++ running on a server in a VM which is there for some other good reasons.

Any way to get WG++ v2.1.5 to run on RPi LE 7? Problem is Mono and I can not find later version for LE v7. This would likely work for later verions of LE, ssh and then:

wget http://addons.libreelec.tv/8.2/RPi2/arm/tools.mono/tools.mono-8.2.107.zip

How to get such a version working in RPi LE 7?

HiassofT guide from the seond post is the single best thing on the topic I havew found. Thanks.

I am using v7 since it works and I do not fix what is not broken. For last years I used RPi with an inexpensive IR set wihich included USB receiver and remote - IRF Media Media Center PC (W-01RN). Instead of the chinese remote, I actually use Logitech 600/650 remotes as I do for last 10 years. Good thing is I can get 45 distinct commands I needs from this combo. Bad thiing is: it uses Blue to turn the mouse off, uses Red instead of Record button, there are no Exit and Back separate keys, There are no EPG and Info keys, plus... So I had to be creative.

The only thing I did not fix perfectly was finding out how to make an Exit button go to the Kodi Home screen and stop everything else, wherever I might be in Kodi. Best I managed was to use an extra code and map it to the <rootmenu> and then use that code to try exiting,b ut it does not work perfectly. List of actions in Kodi is exntesive but usefull since no description of what is where can be found. Just the list of names.

What may be of interest here? Recently I switched to TSOP IR receiver. I just plasecd

dtoverlay=lirc-rpi

into config.txt and learned LIRC all the codes from my Logitech (as it was setup fir IRF) and all works perfectly.

To test the new method, I replaced the above line with

dtoverlay=gpio-ir

and after a reboot, all is working perfetly again. I did not try generating any new config, I am still using evveryhting else as setup for the old method. But, this seems like a good way to start working with the new method. When I kill lirc and Kodi, I get normal responses from ir-keytable as expected.

But, I must say that I am not exactly clear on which combo this scenario is using. I am still currently using LIRC but with dtoverlay=gpio-ir. Seems to me like old method was simpler to implement.

As nobody knows the answer... I was going to try uisng just plaing naked IR Receiver Modules for Remote Control Systems that I bought before, but was lazy and did not know how to select a remote using IR diode as a sensor alone.

So, I connected IR TSOP to GPIO pins, learned RPi all the commands from my remote and now I do not have any problems. All works perfectly well.

But, without learning it all the commands, I was not able to break free form it picking up RC6 remote and thus clashing with a Pansonic TV and QNAP server remote sensors.

When my RPi reboots, its Remote control sensor needs to be first sent the command to turn the mouse off (Blue key). Restarting Kodi does not influence this, just the RPi rebooting.

Instead of me having to press a Blue key on the remote each time after a reboot, how could I make this done from a script, likely. autostart.sh.

I do not know if this key is interpreted internally by the Remote Control sensor's electronics itself so it may not be even possible to influence it without actually sending the needed IC signal from the remote.