Posts by ghtester

Quote from ninze

Would gladly change 2GB model for the same memory but earlier revision

Well, unfortunately it won't work ;-). Despite I don't currently use IPTV, I wouldn't replace my earlier RPi revisions ( which are working fine for all of my use cases) with newer devices with the same memory size (and with a known issues).

Also it's maybe possible a fake / clone RPi 4B devices are yet on the market... Try to find a trusted Raspberry distributor who can perhaps help with the HW release.

Another chance could be that some further kernel fix could fix an application issue in future...

Quote from Jocke.Sve

PCB says Raspberry PI 4 Model B.

The Raspicontroller (Android tool) identifies all three LE's as BCM2835 but my Pi-hole running Raspi OS on identical RPi4/4GB is identified as BCM2711.

(The tool says that LE's OS isn't supported...)

All has identical PCB's with same revision.

Edit:

Checked within LE (System Info): It clearly says HW: BCM2835, Rev: c03114

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Yeah I understand. But it's not so simple... Here is what I meant:

Raspberry Pi Documentation - Processors

Raspberry Pi 4 Model B - Board Revisions - Tutorial Australia

How to Check if Your Raspberry Pi 4 Model B is Rev1.2? | Tutorials of Cytron Technologies

Yeah but it's a question what exactly it is as the HW info is a bit strange (AFAIK BCM2711 is inside of any RPi 4B in fact.)

So the PCB layout should tell truth.

Quote from ninze

I would gladly buy such a device, but most of the shops just sell rpi 4 without mentioning which revision it is. Last week I bought 2 rpis for this, and both of them are crashing since they are rev 1.4.

Hopefully the issues with 1.4 version could be fixed later...

It seems you bought 8GB versions as so far I have never seen 1.4 version of 2GB/4GB RPi 4B?

In worst case I could offer selling one of my 1.1 RPI's away but they are just 1GB and 2GB...

Quote from JoeAverage

what tvheadend version are you running 4.2 or 4.3 ?

if 4.2:

update to 4.3 !

I am not sure if that's a good idea, I am using TVH 4.3 but I did not encounter any advantages, instead there's a bit strange behaviour of TVH 4.3 configuration webpage (depends on browser) and at least an issue with Kodi which can't display subtitles on some TV channels.

A proper cooling and a good power supply is a must for RPi 4B.

Consider buying Argon One v.2 case and a 15W (5V x 3A) power supply.

Even the latest recovery image from 2021-04-29 is outdated.

LE does not check the latest bootloader / USB firmware version available online so the offer depends on the LE build.

The latest stable RPi 4B bootloader is dated 2021-07-06.

See here, there are commands to check the current versions installed and an update script which I am refreshing at intervals and it's now fresh:

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RE: Is it possible already to set up a rpi4 with kernel 5.4?

To show the currently installed bootloader version / config:

rpi-eeprom-update

vcgencmd bootloader_version

vcgencmd bootloader_config

Make sure you have the HDD adapter powered properly (external power is best, although for SSD HDD it should not be necessary but depends on HDD model).

BTW. em28xx is NOT the HDD adapter, this is your DVB-C/T USB stick (which may be also a bit power hungry)

Regarding to newer kernel, you may try the latest test LE 9.80 Nightly build from today which already has 5.10.1…

ghtester

December 19, 2020 at 1:34 PM

As you did not share any details (about prior version and about version you tried update to), I think now the only recommendation would be another reboot and if the issue is the same, make a clean new installation.

As mentioned here several times, an update from 9.2 to 10 is not supported and may lead to crash.

Yeah it should help but it's unlikely I'll need to repeat that situation (these recordings were made just to help debugging with another issue with subtitles not displayed on some Live TV channel), I'll keep the current TVH settings.

But, overall, I think Samba should be still able to serve the both files properly (even with the default name mangling configuration).

I don't know how the SMB protocol works but it looks Samba is able to recognize which file Windows client requests (as it returns a correct file length when Windows offers replacing the file yet existing with the same filename) but the wrong file (with the different file length than reported) is then sent... I'll try to look at smb.conf to understand better why it works this way.

Yeah, thanks a lot for the opinion, I think you are absolutely right.

I agree TVH should be configured better to save always a unique file names but currently I also don't know how exactly.

As in this case the recordings were made from different TV channels (different TV providers, transmitting the same program), enabling the TVH settings Make subdirectories per channel: could perhaps help.

As it looks there's no Samba / filesystem issue, let's mark this thread as Resolved. Thanks again for your quick help, I have learned something... The only confusing thing is the file size reported properly...

A good point... So on LE's filesystem it's OK.

It looks I am able to download only the files with eaerlier timestamp.

For Windows the filenames are the same. The replacement of the first file is offered when I try to download the second file and the correct filename size is reported. It does not matter if I allow the replacement or filename change instead, still the first file is saved.

I have to confirm that it happened. Tvheadend Server 4.3 (Alpha) Add-on (4.3-1967, 10.0.0.101 by Team LibreELEC)

AFAIK images can't be put to pastebin (or I don't know how) so I have pasted them here.

The recording settings:

I am not sure if national characters could be an issue but it does not happen always, maybe the 2 recordings of the same stream in the short period is a problem.

It looks there's a bug in Samba when there are 2 different files with the same name (which are created when the recording of the same movie is stopped and started again later).

When I access the shared folder Recordings/movie on LE 11 Nightly 20210903 running on RPi 4B/2GB from Windows workstation, I see two files with the same name, different length and different time stamp. When I try to copy them to Windows workstation (using standard Explorer), it looks always only the first file is transferred regardless which one I select, despite the fact the file length is reported properly to Windows.

OK, so this is a fresh Kodi debug log:

As there's no info about switching channels, this is another log from journalctl:

Subtitles are displayed only when the channel from CDG provider is selected.

Quote from pseddon

is the GPIO automatically enabled?

No - you have to configure it with overlay - read here:

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Kodi, Harmony, and Raspberry PI 4 with IR sensor newb guide

Verified working with 10.0.1

Introduction

After 6 years of using cheap boxes I decided to explore other hardware options. I was shocked at the price of Shields and some higher end boxes based on Amlogic S922X chips. After some pondering I ended up getting a Raspberry Pi 4 for it's price to power ratio. I realize that it may not be better or even equivalent to the aforementioned solutions, but it certainly beats my limping 905X based boxes.

Using a RPI4 is definitely not for the plug and play…

Skripo

January 28, 2021 at 1:47 PM

Kodi crash logs should be found in the /storage/.kodi/temp folder so you can grab and try to put the file manually to pastebin.com to get the url link.

Quote from HiassofT

Our crystall ball is still on repair.

OK, I am sorry, I thought it's already repaired!

There are 2 recording samples, from 2 different channels (different DVB providers) of the same program. Both of recordings does contain subtitles (visible when playing them with subtitles enabled) but on one of those channels the subtitles can't be displayed live.

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Quote from Ahab

Disabling PRIME rendering does fix the issue -independent of the setting of "adjust refresh rate"

In my case it did not help (LE 11 Nightly 20210828), in advance after disabling PRIME rendering and reenabling the audio stopped working - from the Audio output devices all vc4-hdmi devices disappeared and it was necessary to reboot LE to get them back (restarting Kodi did not help).

The same issue in LE 11 Nightly 20210828.