Posts by tokul

Quote from Glorious1

Are you saying Raspberry Pi tools is supposed to provide an orderly software shutdown? It doesn't.

Are you saying in order to have orderly shutdown, you need to install a hardware switch on those IO pins and make some file modifications?

I am not saying that to have orderly shutdown, you need hardware switch on io pins. I only told that if RPi is powered off via menu, it will need that switch or other way to cut off power to restart. I did assume that tools addon is required and you are free to fact check me on that.

So far you kept claiming that Kodi power off does not work without providing any information to investigate it further. If you are here for blue twitter checkmark, they have other blue thing too on some posts. My RPi3B+ does not restart, if I use power off option in Kodi. It shutdowns. I don't remember its firmware version. Original RPi3B+ with 1 meg of ram. It does not have any extra hardware mods.

Checked Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.2 too. 2023 Jan 11 bootloader. It shutdowns via Kodi menu even without RPi tools addon. Technically hardware is not shutdown. It is halted.

Install raspberry pi tools from repo. Pi3B+ shutdowns, if Kodi power off is used in libreelec 10. You would have to remove power after that to get it reboot. Click link does talk about adding missing button to Pi.

"with most computers that is a no-no."

Modern operating systems have features in place to handle abrupt power loss. power off is not recommended, but options for doing it are there and in some cases it is the only recovery option that you have. With libreelec it is even easier cause OS is on readonly file system. Your biggest power off problem would be with attached NTFS storage devices.

Create /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts directory

Copy your ttf fonts to that directory

Select those fonts in media player font settings

In some cases you should convert subtitle files to unicode (utf-8) instead of installing new fonts.

I hope you did not run fsck on mounted file system.

for file in `find . -name *avi`; do 
 name=basename($file,'.avi')
  echo "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes" ?>\n<movie>\n    <title>$name</title>\n    <uniqueid type="home" default="true">$file</uniqueid>\n</movie>" > $name.nfo
done

add code to handle directory and spaces in filenames or put all your videos in one dir. Above code is just basic untested logic.

NFO files/Templates - Official Kodi Wiki

Based on Kodi wiki only title and uniqueid are required for movies.

Make your movie names match TMDB names and years.

Scapping forces you to organize your video library.

FYI. https://kodi.wiki/view/Naming_video_files/Movies

Windows machine might default to public network configuration and browsing will not work.

Enabling DNLA service in kodi can make kodi library available without smb/cifs. if your goal is to view it and not to make changes in it.

Windows network browsing tended to work some time ago, if samba server was acting as WINS machine on the network and was set to win master negotiations vs Windows workstations. Microsoft probably changed its SMB protocols since those olde days.

Quote from CvH

X11 is basically dead and new features are not implemented. For example everything around HDR is a complete nogo at X11.

RPi and all other ARM devices never used X11 at all at LE.

Then Libreelec probably should not be running dead software on x86 builds.

Topic asks for GUI, which is not web ajax based and not just CLI and you are doing your best at not mentioning X forwarding.

HTTP_USER_AGENT : Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

If xauth was present in libreelec x86 and libreelec did not have readonly sshd config, I suspect I should be able to start kodi over SSH with X11 forwarding.

"X11 is not used" might make every X window user cringe. Cars are not used in 203x. Everybody drives Tesla.

Quote from bpr323

Hi Tokul,

I was asking where the KODI settings are kept (i.e. the source folder for rsync-ing)

/storage is definitely NOT the correct answer for KODI, otherwise I wouldn't be asking

my /storage folder has nothing but 2 folders - /downloads and /docker (including docker related logs).

So, how do I clone/rsync my KODI settings from the old to the new LE installation?

Writeable data storage for settings is in /storage. There is no way for others to guess which extra addons you got loaded on your system and where they store their data.

Quote from bpr323

Sorry, forgot to ask - how do I clone my Kodi settings with rsync?

i.e. what is the source file/directory?

Thanks!

rsync -av -e ssh /storage/. root@new-libreelec-ip:/storage

rsync(1) - Linux man page

> what is the source file/directory?

He did say "/storage"

If you are concerned about privacy, just install new setup and all the plugins instead of copying data from your personal system. /storage will have your personal data and history. From recovery perspective you should learn to recreate your setup without having old system.

Renaming font files won't magically provide fonts, if skin is coded in to use Arial. arialuni.ttf font name differs from arial.ttf and name is set inside the file. System should be selecting any font with code set available in displayed character range. If you were running x86 libreelec with x windows, I would say that you could put fonts in /storage/.fonts and not in /storage/.kodi/media/Fonts. I think rpi arm build does not use x windows and I can't tell how fonts work there.

Problem with filenames is that you might have them written not in Unicode or in different unicode character set and no fiddling with fonts will fix it. Unless skin is hardcoded to use specific font for filename display. It is computer curse for having fifteen and one standard for character display and no automatic way for telling which character set is used in plain text.

Quote from Sanuk

I have copied arial.ttf from Windows 11 to that folder on RPi4 with LibreElec 10.0.2 but still no Thai. Only placeholders.

How can i enable it?

Thank you!

arial.ttf does not support Thai. You are probably looking for arial unicode. I don't remember atm if that bigger Arial (Unicode.odf) variant got Thai code pages. If you start Character Map on Windows 11 (if you can find it in that !@#$ start menu UI), it got search option for Unicode range. Arial on Win11 got no Thai support. Just checked. I don't have Thai support enabled on my Win11 to check which fonts they add to the system to support it. Microsoft Store shows Mitr Light font.

https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/language/thai lists other two fonts.

More on Thai fonts at https://slice-of-thai.com/fonts/

Microsoft got page about it too. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/typograp…ws_11_font_list

You need other fonts. Not Arial.

You are coming from niche language region and you probably know better which fonts support your language than most westerners do.

You could boot from SD card and use nvme only for storage. You won't be riping SD card port out RPi and NVME is way more expensive than sd card for running fixed OS image.

Libreelec is full OS. Installer that you see on download page does not install Libreelec. It creates bootable device with libreelec OS on it.

If you need just media center, you are looking for Kodi. https://kodi.tv/download/macos/

Quote from denist

We there is no ROI to buy, so need to resort back to the Nuc and my original question still stands do I go new or just grab another Gemini or keep the NUC5 Pentium.

Thanks.

New NUC models, NUC7 Gemini or NUC5 will run libreelec. It is your decision how much you want to cut costs. If your existing hardware works and provides all the features that you need, nothing stops you from continuing to use it. If it breaks, then you can always make a new decision about getting new kit from price range acceptable by you.

dmesg command in libreelec CLI will show, if sd device is recognized when you plug it in. It probably won't help, if your file system is setup on device and not on partition.

Example of dmesg in spoiler

chkdsk in Windows CLI. Linux will not mount dirty NTFS.

Did you turn off hybernation in that Seagate?