Posts by HomerJau

Nice! But your issue is the i7 processor. i3 is all you need for LE and use the standard case, no fan noise ever!

Update: I just built first Betas for QQ Kodi 22 (LE13 + Kodi 22 + custom Kodi).

I then pointed Claude to this thread with instructions and it built the custom build package and whacked it on my GitHub git in about 30 minutes! (All based on chewitt post above) Thanks again!

I’ve PRed some of QQ Kodi’s features to Piers, but looks like I won’t get them all in for Beta 1 Piers. May have to wait until Kodi 23…

Wrong place I'm sure. Running an LE build from todays master. x64. A screenshot is now black, no image capture. Is that a known issue with the new GLES changes?

BTW: LE 13/Piers is in pretty good shape! Well done to all involved. And thanks!

Caught me out yesterday. The real issue is users can’t apply an update as their current partition is 512MB, LE says to do a new install with a 1GB system part.

So requires a backup, reinstall, restore.

Maybe LE can offer NVidia as a new separate gz package?

Thanks. I will have a use case before Piers is released. I will come back then, in the mean time I will test on a private LE build.

(9 should be compatible with 10, they usually don't break APIs)

THX

Can the latest NET 10 be added to LE13 please?

It’s the latest LTS release and stable. It been out for 6 months and should replace NET 9 which is non LTS.

I’m working on an add-on that’s based in NET 10, so keen to get 10 in LE13 before it’s officially released.

THX

Garry

Thanks. Thats good news then!

I’d like to use latest Mesa in my 12.2 builds (x64 + RPi4 & 5). Any issues doing that?

I know I can do a test build but thought one of the devs here will know.
THX

A full log is needed.

NUC11’s (Tiger Lake) do not this have this Alder Lake issue. (See thread title)

Set your services cache to ‘recommended’ settings, switch to nfs (from smb). I’ve had no NUC11 audio dropouts here with nfs.

Good idea to include the backup on the usb stick.

When we did the roll out most of the builds were done in the US (I’m in AU). I built an image that was burnt to the NVME drives with Rufus there. I could do the same, include the backup and try and workout his to get the autostart.sh to restore. I haven’t looked at how LE does that.

Thanks.

It’s for non technical users. Asking them to install a program and how to use it is an added complication.

We built a customised Kodi specifically for a spatial/surround music forum I’ve been involved with for over 10 years now. I offered to provide members with a pre-built/configured media player (second hand Intel NUC with LE) thinking there may be a dozen or so interested. We ended up building over 80 NUCs. All sold at cost. $140 USD with new 500GB NVME SSD and Bluetooth remote.

Most these users don’t know anything about PCs, networks, Linux or Kodi. They have been using disc players, some still have 70s quad LPs and multitrack reel to reel tape players. Others have 90s DVD-Audio players. I’ve been sharing how they can convert all their discs to files to play.

There’s now a huge number of albums being releases in Atmos. That’s another challenge for users. (I’m adding Matroska tagging support to Kodi 22 now). Kodi music needs tags. The QQKodi custom code will eventually get into Kodi mainline I hope too.

Its been rewarding to hear about our member’s successes with their NUCs and their love for LibreElec/Kodi. It’s a true game changer to move from discs to a centralised file based system as we all know.

Everyone involved with LE and Kodi should be very proud of what’s been they’ve achieved over these years. I know I couldn’t live without it! I take the opportunity to than you all!

Thanks.

I have not changed the settings add-on. My build uses LE's current 12.2 branch.

I have found a workaround by using scp from the command line for Win 11 users:

scp -P 22 QQKodiRestore.tar root@libreelec:/storage/backup/QQKodiRestore.tar

Once the backup is restored in LE, all the settings are good (of course).

New install from USB. Immediately SSH in and there is a samba.conf in .cache/services with SMB password authentication disabled:

SAMBA_WORKGROUP=WORKGROUP
SAMBA_SECURE=false
SAMBA_AUTOSHARE=true
SAMBA_MINPROTOCOL=SMB2
SAMBA_MAXPROTOCOL=SMB3
SAMBA_USERNAME=\l\i\b\r\e\e\l\e\c
SAMBA_PASSWORD=\l\i\b\r\e\e\l\e\c

It’s a LE 12.2 build from current 12.2 branch. Only changes: updated Python 3.11 latest 3.11 point release, Kodi package and a label change to identify the Kodi build. Nothing that affects LE settings.

I will check and confirm .cache/services contents when I get on my dev PC and do a fresh NUC install (early morning here)

Thank you!!

I'll take a look at that now and do so for my build

The samba_secure setting is enabled by default in the LE Settings add-on.

But its not enabled after an install...

Help needed please:

I’d like to build LibreELEC with preconfigured settings to allow users to access their device via SMB. They could then immediately copy a backup file and restore LE/Kodi completely configured with required add-ons, skin configuration, custom menu nodes etc.

Currently LE does not have SMB password authentication enabled on initial install and recent Windows 11 refuse to connect.

Is that possible? If so, how?

If I could do this, a user would just have set their network access and setup library Sources. Far simpler for non technical users and first time LE users.

Thanks

Garry