Posts by ghtester

  • tvheadend42 removal - a bad news

    Quote from smp

    If you think you found a regression in 4.3 then it's better be reported here.

    I know but I spent a huge time, trying to discover the root of the "subtitle issue". Most likely it's not the TVH4.3 itslef but some incompatibility with LE. It depends on DVB-T2 provider and there's no way to fix this issue by LE or by TVH settings... Unfortunately perhaps only a small group of LE users has the same scenario like me so debugging must be tough.

  • KEY_SUBTITLE devinput behavior changed

    I have encountered in latest LE 13 Nightly on RPi 4B ( LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-nightly-20241101-5b3a206 ) the KEY_SUBTITLE devinput action in Kodi was changed, when watching the Live TV or video recordings.

    In past it was simply toggling on/off the subtitles, now the subtitle configuration menu is open and the selection must be made. This is very annoying.

    Probably it's a change in Kodi (Build 22.0-ALPHA1 21.90.700). If anybody has a comment related to this change, I would be glad to be informed.

    Currently I don't have a registration in Kodi forum, also for the case it should be related to LE instead, I am opening this thread here.

    I can fix that by remapping the IR Remote key to keyboard's "t" button ( kodi-send --button="t") but I believe this recent KEY_SUBTITLE behavior change is a nonsense...

    So if anyone of developers could revert it back somehow, please do it, I am sure it would be a best solution.

    irw output: 172 0 KEY_SUBTITLE devinput

    Now points to: DialogSelectSubtitle (description: Open a window dialog to select a subtitle stream. (v22 Piers addition))

    In past it was probably pointing to: ShowSubtitles (description: Toggles whether subtitles are shown or not.)

    Another option which would make sense: NextSubtitle (description: Change to the next subtitle language, if there is more than one.)


    It's at line 201 of the /usr/share/kodi/system/keymaps/remote.xml file.

    The quick fix is to copy that file to /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps folder and edit line 201 to <subtitle>ShowSubtitles</subtitle>

    then reload keymaps with the kodi-send --action="reloadkeymaps" command.

    BTW. the positioning of subtitles (invoked by CTRL+t on keyboard ) does not work and AFAIK it never worked, also in manual mode the subtitle's positoning does not work.

  • RPi 4B + LE 13 Nightly - incompatible PVR add-on

    FYI after the upgrade from nightly-20241025-9f8eeb6 (RPi4.aarch64) to nightly-20241029-81a82b6 the PVR client (Tvheadend HTSP Client) couldn't run anymore. I suppose the plugins for RPi 4 are waiting for compilation. The revert to nightly-20241025-9f8eeb6 fixed the issue.

    Edit - the same issue even after the upgrade to LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-nightly-20241030-2f39556 which appeared in download section in the meantime.

  • Usb Hard drive not recongize since 11.0.4

    Quote from Marcin

    This can happen whenever I restart RPi via SSH?

    It shouldn't happen as the volumes should be unmounted properly during the restart AFAIK. The safer way is to unmount the problematic volume manually (see umount --help ).

    Quote from Marcin

    This can happen whenever RPi or HDD looses supply due to power interruption?

    Yes. You should avoid it, also disconnecting the USB/SATA adapter cable from RPi without unmounting, when the RPi is running, can lead to your issue.

    Quote from Marcin

    This was not happening on Odroid C2 because I was using older LE version with different kernel which was not doing that (flaging HDD as having errors and not mounting)?

    I suppose so.

  • Usb Hard drive not recongize since 11.0.4

    Quote from VLouis

    ...(RPi's never dies ;) ),...

    I understand your smiley face, so just FYI - unfortunately I had this bad experience with my RPi 4B/2G which died suddenly couple months ago, during the normal operation, without any obvious reason... Of course after the warranty period. It was properly cooled so never overheating.

    Just a black screen all of a sudden, did not boot anymore - most likely the Broadcom CPU itself died, pulling down the 3,3V to ~1,9V.

  • Usb Hard drive not recongize since 11.0.4

    Quote from Marcin

    Can someone please have a look at s.m.a.r.t. data and let me know if the HDD is dying?

    Looks like so far it's not so bad but you should always have your critical data backed up...

    See this link and the wikipedia link mentioned there for details:

    How Do I interpret HDD S.M.A.R.T Results?
    My laptop has recently started to become a bit unreliable, and for some reason I started to suspect that my HDD was starting to fail. After a bit of hunting on…
    askubuntu.com

  • [RPi4] LE13 Nightly - kodi-send Stopped Working

    OK, so this is a "fix" for me. As I am using kodi-send with irexec, putting this block into /storage/.config/autostart.sh before irexec call fixes the issue.

    Code
    ### Temporary fix kodi-send bug
cp /usr/bin/kodi-send /tmp/.
cp /build/build.LibreELEC-RPi4.aarch64-13.0-devel/toolchain/aarch64-libreelec-linux-gnu/sysroot/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/kodi/xbmcclient.py /tmp/.
export PATH=/tmp/:$PATH
### Temporary fix kodi-send bug

  • [RPi4] LE13 Nightly - kodi-send Stopped Working

    It looks something has changed in some of recent updates (currently running 13.0-nightly-20240725-2cd39ba (RPi4.aarch64), issue observed on 13.0-nightly-20240720-ab27426 ) that broke kodi-send:

    # kodi-send
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/kodi-send", line 27, in <module>
    from kodi.xbmcclient import *
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'kodi'

    During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "/usr/bin/kodi-send", line 30, in <module>
    from xbmcclient import *
    ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'xbmcclient'

    Perhaps some paths needs to be updated?