Posts by Da Flex

    True statement. Support means updates and answering questions. Very important, and it means long-term costs for companies.

    Since the release of RPi 4B we have a low-cost 4K streaming box, which runs LibreELEC, and has free support. :love::love::love:

    It's hard for streaming box companies! Even China can't concurrent with it. That's why this forum is currently under attack from there.

    Because Serviio supports:

    - Movie thumbnails (Kodi - not supported or not working; I've seen complaints in forums but no solution)

    - Video playback resume (not supported in Kodi; scrolling with TV remote to a middle of the 2hrs movie - nightmare; and you have to remember where you stopped)

    - Sorting automatically my TV series into series, seasons, last watched episode etc. (not so good in Kodi)

    Good ideas for feature requests. Go for it! :)

    To install Java for this would be kind of an overkill.

    Sorry if I didn't explain it very well. Somehow I pressed a button on my Verizon FIOS remote that enabled the Kodi mute function. I had not mapped any keys on the remote to be a mute button. I tried several buttons, but it didn't un-mute. Had to attach a keyboard to get it to un-mute.

    You can do two things with my method:

    a) find the already defined and undesired mute button, and disable it by overwriting it with a "noop" action

    b) keep the undesired mute function alive, and use a color button to un-mute (copy my example, and press yellow)

    I'm using an RPi 3B+, too. Yesterday I went back to LE version 9.0.2, because the system went into safe mode a couple of times with LE 9.1.002.

    I suggest to use the stable version 9.0.2. If you still get issues, post the log as mentioned by Iridium. Your current link doesn't works.

    This is almost 100% incorrect... (sorry...)

    CEC data is never part of the AV stream. In fact, CEC is a separate LOW speed interface (actually a bit like a slow I2C bus). It uses a separate line in the cable from the AV data. Most cables will include CEC support, but there are some that do not.

    Info here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/consumer_electronics_control

    Thanks for the info, I was just guessing to find the problem. :)

    Am I correct when I'm saying, the CEC part has a different implementation for RPi4B, compared to RPi3x?

    Because that's the point to find a solution.

    I've been installed a power button and a status LED on my RPi3B+. This works for RPi4B, too. After SSH login, you can use the nano editor to create or edit all necessary files.

    Power Button Hardware Part

    Use GPIO03 (Pin #05) and the opposite Ground (Pin #06) to connect a push button for power on / off.

    Power Button Scripting Part

    Add dtoverlay=gpio-shutdown to config.txt.

    Switching off will let the shutdown menu appear.

    To shutdown instantly instead, create this /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/keyboard.xml:

    Code
    <keymap>
        <global>
            <keyboard>
                <power>shutdown</power>
            </keyboard>
        </global>
    </keymap>

    Status LED Hardware Part

    Use GPIO13 (Pin #33) and the opposite Ground (Pin #34) to connect an LED. Also use a resistor with 330 Ohms or more.

    Status LED Add-On Part

    Install the Raspberry Pi Tools add-on to use the GPIO programming library in Python.

    Status LED Scripting Part

    The status LED will be triggered from autostart.sh, which calls the Python script status_led.py . It will switch off automatically at shutdown, no script action required for this part.

    Create this /storage/.config/autostart.sh :

    Bash
    #!/bin/sh
    
    (
        python /storage/scripts/status_led.py
    ) &

    Create this /storage/scripts/status_led.py :

    Reboot.