Posts by bluelionpiper

Quote from Da Flex

My research says that your new WiFi adapter needs an RTL8812AU Linux driver, and milhouse currently includes that driver into LE.

Chances are, the driver hasn't been included into LE's major release, yet, but maybe it's already available as test build. Activate test builds (a.k.a. milhouse builds) this way:

1. go to Settings -> LibreELEC -> Updates
2. click Show Custom Channels
3. click - Custom Channel 1
4. insert http://milhouse.libreelec.tv/builds/master/RPi4 and click OK
5. click Update Channel
6. click Milhouse-9.80
7. click Available Versions
   
8. click the first entry at the list of test builds (not the highest number)
9. confirm the update

Hopefully this update will make your driver available, and the WiFi adapter should work without any further configuration.

Good luck!

unfortunately I don't see the option, "show Custom Channels". My updates have these options, auto update, submit stats, show update notifications and the under that I have Raspberry Pi Flashing with two updates "bootloader EEPOM" and "VIA USB3 Firmware". I'm on 9.2.1. the install is only a few days old. but it wouldn't be a great loss if I had to wipe and refresh.

Quote from Da Flex

5GHz is a game changer. Other users have trouble with RPi's internal 5GHz WiFi, too. This should work on RPi's.

ok, I got the adaptor in the mail today and plugged it in. Is it plug and play? Right now I got nothing coming up under WAN1 under the connections menu.

Quote from Da Flex

You already learned how to use the nano editor, right? If the file doesn't exists, then you have to create it. It's the same procedure like on your advancedsettings.xml problem:

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nano /storage/.config/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf

Then add this line, but replace US by your country ID (IEEE standard):

Code

options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=US

For that problem I was able to copy the file over via a network share and I was trying to use PuTTY but got stuck. I tried looking up some stuff on how to use Nano, but wasn't able to get far.

Am I supposed to be able to use it from a windows machine, like I did with PuTTY? I don't see a .exe in the files that I extracted and I wasn't able to find anything on how to us it on windows. If there is an article on here on how to use Nano that would be great!

For kicks and grins I created the file and copied it over like I did with advancesettings but I'm not sure I dropped in the right country code as IEEE doesn't have a code for the USA but does for my region (Eastern US), which is a 2. Now I don't see the 5GHz SSID at all.

Quote from chewitt

LE 9.2.3 will have GUI options for setting wireless regulatory domain which appears to be more important on RPi WiFi hardware than other devices for setting the correct radio properties and getting good (or better) performance. Until the release you can force the same with this:

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echo "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=US” > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf

replace "US" with other country codes if required.

I'm running LE 9.2.1. is there such an interface for this version or do I need to create the config and push it over?

Quote from harun-cuk17

Try to check if you modem got 5ghz signal. If it does connect your pi with that ssid.

Check if your wifi channel is on auto or not in your modem.

yeah my router/Wifi/Switch combo has a 5ghz band, but whenever I connect to it the Pie grides to a halt. Like it really chugs. Wifi channels are hand picked from I lived in an apartment with 30 other networks in range.

So I've got my Pie up and running but I've got terrible buffering issues. I've got a windows Kodi 15.x on a 3x3 AC pci wireless card and it does great with no buffering, but I obviously can't do that here. What are some wifi usb adaptors that work well? Also I'm very new to the platform so please bear with me.

thanks!

AH! There's that lack of experience with the platform... Anyway. I enabled SSH, downloaded PuTTY and was able to get a connection, but wasn't sure what to do next...

Then I noticed I missed a reply

Quote from PANiCnz

The userdata file is shared by default on LE, just navigated to the IP address of your Pi and copy over the file.

so I went I brought up File Explorer and went to the IP of my Pie and saw the UserData share. I copied over the file and it went over without issue. Everything seems to be working now!

Thanks everyone for your replies and helping a really noob out.

OK, now we're getting somewhere. There isn't a partition called "storage". I pulled up disk manager and on this 128GB micro SD card there is a single 512MB partition called "LIBIREELEC". There is another formated section of the card but it's not assigned a letter and doesn't have a name. The only thing I can do that partition is delete it. I can't explore it in file explorer or anything other than delete. Do I need to create this partition or does this mean something else is wrong?

Quote from Da Flex

There is no way to create the file by UI. You can remove the card, or login by SSH and use the nano editor to create and edit it:

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nano /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

After writing the content, store the file by key combo Control + O, followed by Enter for confirmation. Then leave by Control + X.

ok, so I popped the card in and I don't see that path. Do I need to create these folders? Assuming so is storage the first folder or is that just short hand for the SD card?

Example:

SD card is assigned M

M:/storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml

Folders to create:

Storage

.kodi

userdata

Quote from Da Flex

No problem, the file has to be created at /storage/.kodi/userdata/advancedsettings.xml.

ok, and I need to pull the SD card, drop into a reader and add the file that way or is this something that is created via the Kodi UI?

so I've been around Kodi since it was known as XBMC and I have a Kodi windows machine but this is my first Pie experience so keep in mind my newness to the platform and hardware.

I loaded up LibreELEC onto my micro SD card and fired my Pie 4, 4GB b+ and was greeted by the set up instructions. I got my movie repo connected after some fussing but now I'd like to connect to the MySQL server that I have set up and I know I need to edit the advancesetting xml doc to do that but I can't seem to find where that doc is supposed to go in a non-windows machine. Everything I've found just points to the wiki which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't say where this doc should go on a LibreELEC install.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!