Posts by ghtester

Of course I am using the hand made fork cable so the HDD is powered from 5V PSU, not from the USB port at all. The USB reset was not an issue with earlier LE builds, it looks that updated kernel may have some bugs.

The occasional crashes / kernel panic encountered on LE Nightly 20211224 & RPi 4B.

Some crashes were due to unexpected USB reset (I am running LE from HDD connected through USB/SATA adapter so the USB disconnect leads to total crash). The current LE Nightly build is less stable than before.

The same issue on LE 11 Nightly 20211215.

Sometimes the Audio stream is not detected (Audio stream = None in Audio settings) after LE start (Play TV on startup is configured in Interface menu) or after a channel switch and the sound is silent (it does not matter if the Allow passthrough option is enabled or disabled in Audio settings).

Regarding to possible HDD sleep, look at this thread - maybe you can play with the hdparm a bit to disable that feature etc.

Thread

HDD not spinning down/idle/sleep

Hi everyone,

Bit of a beginner with LE

I have installed LE on SD card on an amlogic 905X box. Works perfectly, with the exception that the box no longer lets my external HDD go to sleep/idle/spin down (not sure exactly which term to use but it is still making noise and sounds like the hdd is active even when LE is shutdown).

Before LE was installed on the SD, i was using KODI on android, and my external hdd would idle/sleep/spin down after a period of time, i also noticed it also does this when…

DMG

April 4, 2017 at 12:16 PM

You may also try the latest LE 11 Nightly build to see if the issue persists...

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Yeah I know, thank you but I believe I should be able to do it without opening the box (a non-standard, hand-made so the SD card slot is inside )

Thanks for the confirmation.

Yes I am booting from HDD connected to USB/SATA adapter. The problem is the config is part of the bootloader so now it's locked forever... :-]

I'll try to look at the script...

Unfortunately it still does not work on my RPi 4B / 2GB & LE 11 Nightly 20211203 (even if performed manually by rpi-eeprom-update -f /tmp/pieeprom)

LE:~ # FIRMWARE_RELEASE_STATUS=stable rpi-eeprom-update -a

*** INSTALLING EEPROM UPDATES ***

BOOTLOADER: update available

CURRENT: Tue Jul 6 10:44:53 UTC 2021 (1625568293)

LATEST: Mon Nov 22 11:23:32 UTC 2021 (1637580212)

RELEASE: stable (/usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/stable)

Use raspi-config to change the release.

VL805_FW: Dedicated VL805 EEPROM

VL805: up to date

CURRENT: 000138a1

LATEST: 000138a1

CURRENT: Tue Jul 6 10:44:53 UTC 2021 (1625568293)

UPDATE: Mon Nov 22 11:23:32 UTC 2021 (1637580212)

BOOTFS: /flash

EEPROM updates pending. Please reboot to apply the update.

To cancel a pending update run "sudo rpi-eeprom-update -r".

LE:~ #

LE:~ # reboot

LE:~ #

login as: root

root@le's password:

##############################################

# LibreELEC #

# https://libreelec.tv #

##############################################

LibreELEC (community): nightly-20211203-53a5e7f (RPi4.arm)

LE:~ # rpi-eeprom-update

BOOTLOADER: up to date

CURRENT: Tue Jul 6 10:44:53 UTC 2021 (1625568293)

LATEST: Thu Apr 29 16:11:25 UTC 2021 (1619712685)

RELEASE: default (/usr/lib/kernel-overlays/base/lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/default)

Use raspi-config to change the release.

VL805_FW: Dedicated VL805 EEPROM

VL805: up to date

CURRENT: 000138a1

LATEST: 000138a1

I'll have to try with another OS.

Not sure if this could be due to ENABLE_SELF_UPDATE=0 option present n my current bootloader config but in past there was no issue with the bootloader manual upgrade & this setting.

At least there's a mess with LATEST bootloader versions as outlined above (the bootloader dated Thu Apr 29 16:11:25 UTC 2021 is not the latest for sure, maybe it is latest tested but there're some more stable versions already released and the real LATEST stable dated Mon Nov 22 11:23:32 UTC 2021 is present in the latest LE 11 Nightly image yet).

Kodi menu - Settings - Media - General

The same issue on LE 11 Nightly 20211202.

I am not sure if it helps but there are 2 parts of log from 2 different RPi 4B boards:

Board 1 - RPi 4B / 2GB, bootloader upgrade unsuccessful (run on nightly-20211127-e3a7c06):

LE:/tmp # rpi-eeprom-update -f /tmp/pieeprom

*** INSTALLING /tmp/pieeprom ***

CURRENT: Tue Jul 6 10:44:53 UTC 2021 (1625568293)

UPDATE: Mon Nov 22 11:23:32 UTC 2021 (1637580212)

BOOTFS: /flash

EEPROM updates pending. Please reboot to apply the update.

To cancel a pending update run "sudo rpi-eeprom-update -r".

LE:/tmp # reboot

Board 1 - RPi 4B / 4GB, bootloader upgrade successful (run on nightly-20211124-7ef3241):

LibreELEC:/tmp # rpi-eeprom-update -d -f /tmp/pieeprom

*** INSTALLING /tmp/pieeprom ***

CURRENT: Tue Jul 6 10:44:53 UTC 2021 (1625568293)

UPDATE: Mon Nov 22 11:23:32 UTC 2021 (1637580212)

BOOTFS: /tmp/tmp.ibhge2

EEPROM updates pending. Please reboot to apply the update.

To cancel a pending update run "sudo rpi-eeprom-update -r".

LibreELEC:/tmp #

Well, I tried to upgrade to latest beta bootloader on my RPi 4B/2GB (rev. 1.1) couple days ago from a fresh LE 11 Nightly and despite there was no error returned by rpi-eeprom-update, after the reboot the previous bootloader remained.

Did not have time to investigate the issue so far, just tried again several times with the same result.

So it looks there's an issue really.

OK, so please edit the thread(s) and mark as Resolved.

By default the passwords are empty in both Tvheadend Server & Tvheadend HTSP Client so there's no issue with an access to both web interface and stream.

As you already mentioned some struggling with Tvheadend Server password in another thread, I suppose you must have configured it before.

But without any configuration details shared it's hard to say what's wrong. If you can't unsecure the Tvheadend Server, I would recommend uninstalling it (including configuration) and installing again (and skipping any Username / Password settings).

Set the Username and Password properly in the Tvheadend HTSP Client Add-on's menu Configuration - Connection settings.

Otherwise keep the username / passwords empty in the Tvheadend Server and HTSP Client - it will make your life easier (or is your environment so dangerous?).

You have several options.

The recommended one is to uninstall the Add-on including its configuration and install it again. In advance, you can just disable the Tvheadend Server 4.2 Add-on and install Tvheadend Server 4.3 which will have an independent configuration. It's possible to keep both (of course just one enabled).

Otherwise you may play with the accesscontrol file which you'll find in this folder:

/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/service.tvheadend42/accesscontrol

And maybe follow an example solution:

Password reset in tvheadend access control

Perhaps replacing the password hash with known one (from the example) should help.

See here for RPi 4B boot options / configuration:

documentation/bcm2711-bootloader.adoc at develop · raspberrypi/documentation

The official documentation for Raspberry Pi computers and microcontrollers - documentation/bcm2711-bootloader.adoc at develop · raspberrypi/documentation

github.com

Please note rpi-eeprom-config --edit may revert the bootloader version to older release.

I would say you can still use the same mapping files as before despite there's a new .toml format now (see the /usr/lib/udev/rc_keymaps/ folder).

Currently there's a backward compatibility supported in drivers so it should work if you have the ir-keytable configured properly (the better folder for customized mapping files should be /storage/.config/rc_keymaps ).