Posts by stevepoling

  • 4k Monitor only uses upper left-hand corner

    Hi all,

    I don't know exactly what caused this, but my LE/Kodi setup on my basement (4k) television started malfunctioning in that it displays a very nice high resolution image in the upper left hand corner of the television while the rest of the image is black. System info/Video says the screen resolution is 3840x2160@30Hz. And System/Display says the same resolution/refresh with No limit on the GUI size. It was using the whole screen, but I don't quite know what changed it. What should I check to see why this is happening?

    Thanks in advance,

    steve

  • Could not mount LABEL=Storage

    You could back up 10 yards and punt...

    I did something similar for my music library. I started with a 128GB SD card, cloned it from my original RP4boot card, (i put Ubuntu onto another SD card to run gparted to resize the /storage partition), then with it running on my RP4. I used a SSH terminal session to rsync from my Mac "~/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/" to /storage/Music/.

    You'll want to set up ssh with a ssh-keygen keyfile between your machine where your tunes live now and your RP4.

    You can either do an rsync from the RP4 system pulling down from the OSX system, or rsync from Mac OSX pushing down to the RP4 system. I tried both and it was fraught with peril. (Happily, this avoids FAT32 and exFAT issues.) OSX uses an old version of rsync you'll have to update, and i believe rsync is installed via add-on. /storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.network-tools/bin/rsync

    It looks like rsync isn't in Windows. If I had to do this here, I'd install a Ubuntu container and run rsync from it.

  • Raspberry Pi 4B 64bit Image (AArch64)

    Is there a list (wiki) of the media drivers that LE depends upon so that we can see which ones are not-yet-64-bit? I'm ignorant enuf to not know what's unreasonable (i.e. picking away at porting a few from 32-bit to 64-bit). Obviously, when there's an impossibly long list, it's silly to worry about 64-bit, but someday there'll be an inflection point when it will start making sense to tilt at this windmill.

    smiles & cheers,

    steve

  • Cannot install virtual.system-tools add-on

    Hello,

    I just tried to install the virtual.system-tools add-on. It failed, alas. I turned on debug-logging and saw the problem originates from this failed download: virtual.system-tools-9.1.901.111.zip

    Has this been withdrawn for some reason? Or is there an alternate version I can install, Or another repo I can get these from?

    Here's an excerpt of my log that led me to this surmise:

    Thanks in advance,

    steve

  • What to do when kodi freezes

    Happy Day After Thanksgiving,

    I'm running Kodi on pi4 with 4gb of ram and a 128g sd chip. I've loaded all my tunes and family pictures on /storage/music and /storage/pictures, respectively. I was listening to some soothing samba music when I clicked on a folder full of family pictures. That was about a half-hour ago. It's frozen & unresponsive. Happily, I have a ssh session open and can look around from the terminal side of things. This ain't the first time it's frozen, so I figure some doing something evil--but don't know what.

    Any suggested terminal commands I can use to figure out what caused the hard freeze?

    Thanks in advance,

    steve

  • Cannot run rsync with Mac OSX or SSH in general

    I couldn't get that to work, but I managed to come at it from the opposite direction, After I ssh into raspi-livingroom, then I rsync back from my MacBook. However, the OSX rsync is so old I had to both quote and escape file paths

    iTunes Media/Music/The Who => "iTunes\ Media/Music/The\ Who"

    Putting it all together, this worked:

    rsync --verbose -alPvz steve@macbook:"/Users/steve/Music/iTunes/iTunes\ Media/Music/The\ Who" .

  • Cannot run rsync with Mac OSX or SSH in general

    Greetings,

    rsync runs on my Mac but when I try to rsync something to my Kodi machine (raspi-livingroom) I see this:

    sh: rsync: not found

    rsync --verbose tells me that (OSX) rsync is "opening connection using ssh -l root raspi-livingroom rsync --server -vvlogDtprz --partial . /storage/music/"

    This makes me think raspi-livingroom doesn't have rsync. But I can run rsync from my Kodi box's command line. It IS installed... sorta

    When I run "which rsync" it is at /storage/.kodi/addons/virtual.network-tools/bin/rsync

    So, it's installed, but not completely. What's the righteous way to enable rsync so it'll work with my Mac or ssh in general?

    Thanks in advance,

    steve

  • Music & Radio does not play

    Last night I was playing Kodi and noticed my music library had two sources, the songs on my sd chip AND the songs on my smb network share from which I had copied them. (After i was unhappy with my network, I added /storage/music as a source without removing the network source. Later, I turned off my smb server.) This was when I first saw my malfunction started. It "miraculously" fixed itself when I had the smb server up and running.

    I believe Kodi was serving up tunes over the network, b/c when I removed the SMB source my music library became empty. (I think the debug log would have told me this directly.)

    I hope this helps someone else.

  • Music & Radio does not play

    Heisenbug!

    I turned on debug logging, rebooted, and walla! I'm listening to tunes. It's a Thanksgiving holiday miracle!

    ...let's see if disabling debug logging & rebooting un-does the "fix"...

    Huzzah! It still works. Strangely, before I asked i had cycled power several times to no effect. This time I rebooted w/o touching power.

    My lesson-learned is to turn on debug logging, reboot, & replicate before pestering anyone. I'm pleased with the result, but apologize for my failure to s.c.i.e.n.c.e. this.

  • Music & Radio does not play

    Where should I look to get more info about this malfunction?


    I have a puzzle. I have a Raspberry Pi4 with 4GB on which I've put Kodi onto a 128gb SD card. All is well except for my music library.

    Where should I look to get more info about this malfunction?

    Running YouTube, Netflix, and Radio add-ons, I get good sound. But when I try to play any MP3 in /storage/music, i get nothing. When I click on the first file of a directory, its status info appears in the upper right corner, but no sound. I can see the play/pause/next controls at the bottom, but no sound. Then after 5 or 6 seconds Kodi cycles to the next file.

    I thought at first that my MP3 files were corrupt, but when I connect through the network to my laptop it plays the songs great.

    I catted /etc/os-release to see this:

    NAME="LibreELEC"

    VERSION="9.1.501"

    ID="libreelec"

    VERSION_ID="9.1"

    PRETTY_NAME="LibreELEC (official): 9.1.501"

    HOME_URL="https://libreelec.tv"

    BUG_REPORT_URL="https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv"

    BUILD_ID="572c3ad9a2f42436be757e5dda438d21b1e5ba55"

    OPENELEC_ARCH="RPi4.arm"

    LIBREELEC_ARCH="RPi4.arm"

    LIBREELEC_BUILD="official"

    LIBREELEC_PROJECT="RPi"

    LIBREELEC_DEVICE="RPi4"