Posts by tokul

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?

Quote from JoeAverage

sure ?

both are in-kernel FS's

the exfat implementation is -AFAIK- from Samsung, where M$ exfat was thrown away last (?) year.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-5.7-New-exFAT-Lands

IIRC, a similar story happend with ntfs...

The only reason I posted on this thread is cause somebody ran out of patience and attacked original poster.

Please learn that having last post in the thread does not make you a winner.

Quote from LybsterKodi

I did a lot of web searching before I posted here. The vast majority do a bit of a pro & con list with zero evidence to support anything. Wikipedia have a very detailed entry if I was interested in technical specs. I'm not.

If you are looking for cross platform compatibility, use NTFS. Both NTFS and exFAT are not native filesystems for Linux and NTFS implementation is older and more mature.

Filesystem performance is less critical than device performance.

Turn off hibernation in disk settings. If disks shutdowns on its own while being mounted, it can only cause mess. Disk should be stopped by OS and not other way. If your storage thinks that it is smarter than OS, you have to use synchronous file system without journal on it.

Quote from JoeAverage

... in combination with iterating spin up and down sound from the drive I would thinking buying a new drive

It was behaving that way cause two enclosures attached to same header were drawing to much power.

If your car runs out of lube (proper word is on ban list), you don't buy new car. And you don't buy new car, if you have other three in garage.

Quote from LybsterKodi

> you probably supplied insufficient power to the drive.

That's a distinct possibility. I've never seen so much damage done from that before.

I had two 1TB WDs connected once. Was sorting files on them, drive started clicking, failed. Required CLI dskchk in windows to get it fixed.

Technically they were connected to x86 pc and not to RPi, but they were sharing connection on same USB3 header and RPi is known to have limited power output on USB.

Your story sounded like my two hour long dskchk multipled by six times.

I won't try connecting HDD enclosures that rely on single USB connection to RPi or x86 USB sockets connected to same header.

you probably supplied insufficient power to the drive.

echo $i before date command to see what you are feeding to date command or quote $i

write your script without using that calculation.

You can get current disk space usage in KB or MB. So *1024 part is redundant.

Assumption that compressed package needs three times more to install is as inaccurate as hardcoding space requirement in a script. Try compressing bmp files and see how much they can expand.

Nothing stops you from having several size checks and then setting required space accordingly.

copy expr or bc binary compatible with libreelec from other linux system.

NVidia Quadro T400 ? Why put LibreElec on it?

It might be economy version of Quadro card, but it is still from Quadro product line and new Nvidia cards tend to require binary/proprietary drivers from Nvidia.

RPi 4 model B 4GB. Booted libreelec 10.0.2 fine both with old firmware version and with latest firmware that got installed after loading raspberry pi os updates on it.