Posts by guitarist46559

I was banging my head on this for a while, and took a few weeks' break. I am glad to come back to some additional replies. I will take a look at each of your suggestions as well! Thanks!

I am unable to find "source" for the driver. They seem to only provide binaries in the form of a tar.gz file here: 3.5inch RPi LCD (A) - Waveshare Wiki

Is there any way to just build in the binary as provided?

Thanks for the links guys! I have been experimenting with the default build just to get the hang of how it's done, and started exploring making adjustments to the settings to see how it's otherwise done. I have a question though, one of the things I want to do is use this on a Raspberry Pi, and install drivers for a 3.5" touch screen that attaches to the GPIO headers (a chinese knock off, but like most of them, based off of the waveshare screen, and appears to be compatible with the original waveshare drivers). I have used other distributions that already had the driver installed, and the screen works fine, but I'm not exactly sure how I would go about adding these drivers to LE. Most of the settings I've seen so far appear to be KODI specific. Where would I go to add these drivers?

Thanks chewitt! Those sound perfect! I will take a look at those also. One of the reasons I'm going this route for my project, is that I've looked around, and while I have found projects that do thermostats for the raspberry pi, all of them seem to run a full blown image of raspbian, depend on running bloated java, or both. And my philosophy is, if you have to run a full blown X11, or use a jvm just to run a thermostat, you're doing it wrong.

Thanks guys, I'll have to spend some time digging through these links, but I think this is more in line of what I was looking for.

As for my usage, I plan on using it on a Pi for several different things, including an HVAC thermostat that is heavily integrated into a home automation/security system. Still in early conceptualization at this point, but I feel like the platform that LE is based on will provide the best starting platform to move ahead with these projects.

Unless I'm missing something, I don't think that really helps me. That's LibreELEC's git repo, which, while still needing a compile, and probably itself is configurable depending on options in the compile process, doesn't really help me with how they configured JeOS in the first place. I'm trying to understand the mechanics within JeOS, and how the LibreELEC team was able to craft it to their usage to begin with. Is there any documentation on that?

I'm also curious to how KODI is being loaded as a GUI. Is it running on top of any kind of desktop? It doesn't seem to me that it is. If not, can this be applied to other programs, like for example, a browser?

Hello,

I am looking for detailed info on how the configuration/build process works with LibreELEC. Specifically, I am trying to understand how the devs have taken JeOS, and turned it into the multimedia appliance OS that we know and love today. I use multiple copies of LibreELEC throughout my house, and I love the simplicity, yet also powerful features it offers. I would like to replicate the process for a project of my own, but doesn't have KODI as the primary focus.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?