Posts by sky42

other boxes details worth to know

HUNSN BM34
- USB port only on the front
- pre assembled DDR4 not 3200 only 2666 (the box i tested)
- pre assembled SSD M2 SATA (the box i tested)

Zotac CI337
- DDR5 4800

Zotac CI343
- DDR5 4800

KingnovyPC
- no WiFi or BT

MiniX Z100-0db details

note worthy:
- very tiny full aluminium body and they say it will not throttle ever (not yet tested that, but i will)
- 2x nice external WiFi/BT antennas
- with Windows 11 Pro license embedded in BIOS and preinstalled (tested with reinstall W11/W10)
- working wakeup from S5 by USB/WoL
- working wakeup from S3 with USB/WoL
- less then 0.18 Wh per day used 4-8h, no sleep or poweroff
- HDMI / USB ports are upside down

LE11 dmesg, lspci, lsusb, kodi.log
https://paste.libreelec.tv/legal-raven.log

LE12 dmesg, lspci, lsusb, kodi.log
https://paste.libreelec.tv/suitable-sawfish.log

For now that will be my daily driver.

ASUS PN42 details

note worthy:
- with Consumer Infrared RC6: works out of the box with LE and a WMC/MCE remote
- with HDMI-CEC but ONLY Power Control no using TV remote for Kodi
- working wakeup from S5 with IR remote (reacts on MCE power toggle and power on)
- working wakeup from S5 by USB
- working wakeup from S5 by WoL
- wakeup from S3 works too for USB/WoL
- less then 0.18 Wh per day used 4-8h, no sleep or poweroff
- power button is very bright

LE11 dmesg, lspci, lsusb, kodi.log
https://paste.libreelec.tv/complete-tetra.log

LE12 dmesg, lspci, lsusb, kodi.log
https://paste.libreelec.tv/awaited-rhino.log

Sadly my exemplar makes coil whine voltage whistles (hope that is the right word for Spannungspfeifen). I have very good hearing and that is annoying me.

I want to share my tests about Intel N100 as a replacement for my Streacom FC8 Evo i3-8100

tested by me
- ASUS PN42-BBN100MV https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0C53D43JF
- MiniX NEO Z100-0dB (512GB) https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CPLQWN73

other boxes i did not test, but know of
- Zotac CI337 https://www.zotac.com/us/product/min…7-nano-barebone
- Zotac CI343 https://www.zotac.com/us/product/min…-ci343-barebone
- HUNSN BM34 https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CHS5RSX8/
- KingnovyPC https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0CNH27KCW/


The PN42 is a very nice box and i used it for about 2 month now. The Z100 i did get 2 days ago and it is very nice too.
Details i will write down later.

I am preparing to write all down that i learned in making working perfectly for my needs.
It was very interesting chasing down this problem Intel Alder Lake 2160p @ 23.976 Hz passthrough HD Audio dropouts (i7-1270p/N100) and i am not yet finished (need to open a bug @ Intel), but have found a workaround.

New workaround script for official LE 11 and 12, written and tested on official LE 11.0.6.

SSH to your box an run
curl https://sky42.libreelec.tv/testing/proptest/install.sh | bash /dev/stdin

now you can run
/storage/.config/activate-adl-10-bit-fix.sh

or be sure it is in
/storage/.config/autostart.sh
and reboot


Use the solution from post #46.

11.0.6 was just taged. If that tag does not change my 240124 is a 11.0.6.

I will still build a clean 11.0.6 and delete then 240124 and 240116 to safe some space on my image server.

No idea at all. No uhd tv channels to try.

I am pretty sure now the workaround does work (at least for me) and fixes the issue. For the testing i started 2024 with the MCU in chronological order after finishing Fast and Furious all movies.
Next will be creating a issue at Intel drm/i915. I already had a look on issues there and how they look like and 1st i need to create account there. Hopefully i do that to the end of next week.

I am willing to maintain the patched versions until it is fixed in official LE. That is "only" one extra device with 90min compile time for every release i do.

Release version 11.0.5-240124

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2024/01/14/libreelec-nexus-11-0-5/

240124
- upstream update
- just rebuild with new kernel 6.1.74

my source diff
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…v:11.0.5-240124

rooty I am using normally RHEL or clones for more then 20 years, so i orientate on the hundreds of servers i use at work with LVM, mdraid, encryption, NBDE, tang, clevis .... My starting point is the rpm spec file and what is in there, then reading configure output what can i use, what is default etc and what do i need for the functionality i wish.
For lvmetad IIRC it was a compiling issue (without it builds), but i can not really recall. LVM is only in there because cryptsetup wont do without and as i had it already in there i made LVM usable with a small set of features. Thin and Cache as example need extra tools (at least one more package).

Here RPi4, RPi5 and Intel N100 with the bars running 11.0.5-#240124 with kernel 6.1.74
connected -> Denon X6700H -> LG OLED55E6D screen resolution 2160p @ 60 Hz

I can not tell a difference between the 3 devices, but i am not totally clear what i should see or to be more precise what is good and what is bad. I can clearly see the difference between red and magenta.

booster
verified the cifs fix on Generic and RPi4 the nightly-20240117-fe8988f fixes the problem

https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/RPi/RPi4/…-fe8988f.img.gz
https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/Generic/G…-ed7127b.img.gz

that goes for all other devices too, but i did not test it with more devices.

Here is my workaround to force HDMI reconnect that i use for some time now on all my devices RPi4, RPi5, Vero 4k+, Intel N100

For this to work you need System -> Player -> Videos -> adjust display refresh rate -> On Start (or Start/stop should work too)

SSH to you device

wget https://sky42.libreelec.tv/testing/hdmi-switch.tar.gz
tar -xvf hdmi-switch.tar.gz
# try e.g.
hdmi-switch/bin/switch-23-50-60.sh

If you now put that on a button on your remote you can fix this pretty fast every time you need. As example for a BT Keyboard long press F5 as config in a keyboard.xml.

<keymap>
    <global>
        <keyboard>
            <f5 mod="longpress">System.Exec(/storage/hdmi-switch/bin/switch-23-50-60.sh)</f5>
        </keyboard>
    </global>
</keymap>

Test version 11.80.5-#240116 (conterpart of nightly-20240115-0f6c393)

download link https://sky42.libreelec.tv/testing/12.0/

based on development branch https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv

changelog
- upstream update
- added https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/8509

diff of my source
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…:11.80.5-240116

Release version 11.0.5-240116

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2024/01/14/libreelec-nexus-11-0-5/

240116
- just rebuild with new kernel to fix
[REGRESSION 6.1.70] system calls with CIFS mounts failing with "Resource temporarily unavailable"

my source diff
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…v:11.0.5-240116

booster The next LE11 nightly should fix that
https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/8525

I did test Generic, RPi5 and RPi4 with my smb mounts.

1x https://www.amazon.de/dp/B0C53D43JF
1x https://www.amazon.de/dp/B08C4Z69LN

If you want to boot local and not from the Network any NVMe SSD as ASUS docu says will do. I used my spare Sasmung 970 Evo 500 GB (way to big).

Yes there are many less expensive N100 boxes even some are fanless, but most likely you never see a BIOS update and for the Feature CIR and CEC i did not see anywhere else.
I just did send a HUNSN BM34 back. Nice Box but no wakeup at all except WOL. No CIR or CEC either. Dont really need any of these features, but to be able to use standby, IR or USB wakeup even from S5 is nice. When my Harmony Elite gives up i maybe need to change my setup and use CEC and/or CIR.

Release version 11.0.5-240111

download link sky42 LibreELEC community builds

based on https://libreelec.tv/2024/01/14/libreelec-nexus-11-0-5/

240111
- upstream update 11.0.5

my source diff
https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…v:11.0.5-240111