Posts by HomerJau

USB-c to HDMI 2.1 adapters could also fix your issue but your PC may be too old to support that too. Grab one from AMZ, 8K work, some old 4K won’t be HDMI 2.1. If it does not work return. Free to try! But really, best solution is to get a dedicated Kodi device like an N150 NUC. Leave your gaming PC for gaming. LE not Windows!

A simple solution:

Buy an Intel N150 based NUC. Install LE 13 nightlies. That NUC has HDMI 2.1. Problems solved.

Older gen Intel devices often can’t communicate to HDMI 2.1 devices. Some have firmware update fixes. No chance of for old chipsets. Stop banging your head. Hardware refresh is a simple fix.

Additionally, I have a private build that supports multi-room streaming from a single N150, N250 NUC to multiple AVRs/4K TVs, tagless music/concert scanning with full metadata, no nfo Movie scanning (full metadata), DoVi,, Tidal Hi-Fi subscription play, Tablet based Remote app (user definable UI at run time), headless play of music, AVR control, TV control, special support for blu-ray audio discs and surround music,

Public release 1 July. NUCs, AMLogic, MacOs, Win, Android. *Forget AMLogic and Android for multi room support: Slow cpu, small ram, crap local storage speed, network too slow. Same with RPi. Old tech dump.

There are 10GBE adapters too. I have a couple here working. I have a 10GBE network now. Newer NUCs support usb c at 40GBE.

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