Posts by Schreibwaise

Quote from Klojum

Even if non-arguments and a lack of braincells are involved

Message understood.

Quote from magicamun

i got stuck at simple things like channel - list

Same here. As others are praising the web interface, it must be me not understanding the intended workflow.

But fortunately we have the choice

Quote from CvH

There is not everything gold at Tvh, ofc but it just works, gets proper developed and has a ton of functions and is an feature complete replacement of VDR (server side). And I guess the most single pro is a good working web admin interface.

Probably you are right, and I'm biased here. I did set up Tvh two or three times and the web interface has been driving me crazy. But it's probably just me not understanding how it is supposed to get used

But I do not use any advanced or sophisticated features, so going with vdr is just straight forward for me. Might change in the future of course.

Quote from Klojum

We like to keep LibreELEC as slim as possible. And really, not every Kodi user will use NFS server and MySQL by default.

I still hope that at least an NFS server will make its way into LibreELEC. The "bloat" really is neglectable and there is also a political/philosophical dimension: Without Linux and Open Source there would not be a LibreELEC at all and so it is sad to see Linux users being treated as second class citizens

If being "slim" is really the top priority, then LibreELEC should drop support for ext4 and use NTFS for storage

(Yes, I know that at least user space nfsd is available as an addon...)

Probably needs to get answered by magicamun Btw, I find vdr much less messy than tvheadend. Might be because I've been using vdr since more than 10 years before switching to LE

Quote from CvH

btw is there some docker or something that allows to test it ?

as far as I understand you need other "infrastructure" too to make it work, I like to test it and ofc document

What do you mean? The vdr plugin magicamun is trying to build?

Honestly, I have no idea. I do not use that plugin myself. Following this thread mainly for learning more about the buildsystem. And with your very valuable comment it was already worth it!

Quote from CvH

it is very likely that you leak host system versions and packages if doing so

there is no single reason to do it that way besides saving 25 characters typing/pasting

btw do not remove the strip stuff from your 8.2 build, there is no proper stripping at LE8.2 - you need to manually enforce it

Yes, I understand. It could explain that my arm builds are so much more stable than my x86_64 builds Big thank you!!!

As for the stripping: I just copied the stuff from the pre-9.x tree and adapted the package.mk files. But it seems that somewhere during the build the debug information got stripped nevertheless. Does not really matter anyway

Quote from CvH

./scripts/create_addon vdr-addon

this is nothing you should do, unexpected things may happen as it takes host stuff into the build

PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 scripts/create_addon vdr-addon is the correct cmd to build an addon since at least LE7

PROJECT=Generic ARCH=x86_64 is the default and always works for me. I only specify these values when building for non-x86_86 hardware such as arm.

After thinking more about it, I think you are right and I should explicitly specify these values always. Thanks for pointing this out! Maybe I was just lucky that it always worked, but I cannot be sure the correct compiler and linker was used.

Maybe you could check for differences between your tree and mine:

Create a test branch:

git checkout libreelec-8.2
git branch test
git checkout test

Get the diff from here and apply:

patch -p1 < /tmp/vdr-2.3.8-le-8.2

Then check the differences:

git diff -r <your-branch> -r test

Maybe you unintentionally changed something else during your backporting.

Just did a test build of LE 8 with vdr patched to 2.3.8 and it was successful running these commands:

./scripts/build vdr-addon
./scripts/create_addon vdr-addon
l target/addons/8.2/Generic/x86_64/service.multimedia.vdr-addon/
total 4428
drwxrwxr-x 2 linux linux    4096 Mar 18 15:12 resources/
-rw-rw-r-- 1 linux linux 4529052 Mar 18 15:12 service.multimedia.vdr-addon-8.2.105.zip

Maybe try /scripts/create_addon service.multimedia.vdr-addon. I do not remember currently how I created it. I'm currently rebuilding the whole tree to try again, but this will take about three hours or so...

Strange. It has worked fine for me. I'm running vdr 2.3.8 on a LE 8.2.3 system since some weeks without any problems. Here is the diff to the original tree. Maybe it can give you a hint...

Quote from magicamun

Question:

i backportet to 8.2.3 (my other LE's run that version and they all use a common mysql - Library.

create_addon does not work under 8.x - how can the addon be assembled?

Run ./scripts/build vdr-addon. After that create-addon will work and create the zip.

Quote from adamg

Sorry I missed your question, I don't know I'm afraid, I don't use this addon but I do compile the latest versions of all the addons each time I do a new release and visualization.shadertoy was last updated on 1st Feb.

Last time I tried no visualization was working for me on HTPC (only tried goom and projectM), so I do not think this is a problem of shadertoy or the architecture.

Quote from HiassofT

It's odd though that your remote suddenly starts lagging. My first guess is that kodi is busy and can't immediately process the remote events. I've been experiencing this on my RPi1 when kodi is updating addons after startup - top shows kodi.bin using all CPU resources and after a minute or so when addons have been updated things (CPU usage and remote response) are back to normal.

Are we talking about this remote?

If yes, it would be interesting to know whether the control-LED is still working when the remote starts to become unresponsive.

I do not think the problem is in kodi. At least I was having a very mysterious problem on one of my LE systems. I know that kodi is not busy at this time but it felt like the USB port got temporarily disabled.

As I still had a DIJ receiver at hand and found some no-name remote in a drawer, I finally gave up with the USB remote on this specific system and am now using this other remote on the serial port. Works like a charm. Only issue I ran into was with setserial. The busybox developers decided that it would be a clever idea to rename the option for disabling the uart from "none" to "unknown". Which seems to serve no other purpose than rendering the helpful system log messages useless and confusing people

Quote from Frostoman

Can I backup my settings somehow using SSH? Will it work if i copy /storage/.cache, /storage/.config, /storage/.kodi and /storage/.ssh to PC and after reinstall libreelec bring them back to 'storage' folder?

Yes.

Quote from ArtUrlWWW

Without dtb.img it started well, playing videos well. But looks IR doesn't work for Beelink GT1 Ultimate.

Is it possible to fix IR problem?

Thank you!

You do not provide enough information on what exactly is failing. Have a look at this great tutorial. Worked perfectly for me. What is the output of ir-keytable? If you get an error message about missing /sys/class/rc/rc0/, your hardware probably is not detected correctly which could point to the missing/wrong dtb.

Just checked: The kernel that gets used by current head (4.14.24) already knows about the device ID and the firmware files are present as well. But it is still not recognized. As I'm mainly using wired network only I do not have that much experience with this WLAN stuff so I cannot really help much except doing some testing