Posts by ghtester

  • LE 10 Nightly - a long EPG header stops rotating after while

    Just discovered, that first time (after upgrade to LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-10.0-nightly-20210415-23234b9.tar ) the long EPG header is rotating in Kodi - TV / Channels view.

    That's a great improvement as earlier it was just cut so a part of EPG text was missing.

    The bad is that it works just for a short time, then stops working and Kodi restart is necessary to have it working again.

    Also in TV Guide (Kodi- TV / Timeline) there's still just a part of long EPG headers.

  • V 9.2.x hangs with "random: crng init done"

    Don't you have any bootable device connected to USB port?

    Read this: Boot hang after "random: crng init done" - Raspberry Pi Forums

    I would try to disconnect anything from your RPi except display and try to boot.

    Check / share the bootloader config - maybe there's a boot preference incompatible with older firmware (which is in older LE image). If this is the case, perhaps it could be possible to replace the RPi firmware in your older LE with the working firmware from the working LE image.

    Also try to compare the cmdline.txt files from working / not working images if there's any difference.

  • RPi4 update question

    You may also try the Raspberry Pi Imager ( Raspberry Pi OS – Raspberry Pi ).

    If it's the same issue and you don't have the latest bootloader version installed, you may experience some SD card incompatibilities.

    Then I would try to image Raspberry PI OS to the same SD card and test if it works. If not, try to use USB flash key instead of SD card, this should be more reliable.

    In case RPi OS works, check the bootloader version and if it's obsolete, upgrade to latest as described for instance here.

    Then try to image LE 9.2.6 again (I would not go back anyway...).

  • Irtrans remote not recognized on LibreELEC-RR 10

    This is not a file but a socket. Read this post again and more carefully until you understand, I can't explain it better. Also keep in mind the post is 4 years old so some things may be different in LE 10.

    As described, the original irserver daemon uses the same LIRC socket (/run/lirc/lircd) , the custom irserver daemon from old LibreELEC & OpenELEC uses a different socket (/run/lirc/lircd.irtrans). The difference is explained, I don't know if Kodi can work with original irserver daemon without any changes as apa was using the custom one and therefore described the changes necessary for alternate socket.

    You need to test yourself.

  • Irtrans remote not recognized on LibreELEC-RR 10

    Quote from Bobsofa

    HTPC:~/.config/irtrans # irserver -loglevel 4 -debug_code /dev/ttyUSB0

    This is wrong. If you try to run it inside the folder, you have to enter ./irserver

    That's why I put the example with absolute path which must work ( /storage/.config/irtrans/irserver )

    Otherwise you have an issue with SSH client or a filesystem issue.

    The source codes needs to be compiled. The better option should be to get the necessary files from OpenELEC package.

  • Irtrans remote not recognized on LibreELEC-RR 10

    You need to follow the instructions from thread you mentioned above.

    Start here: RE: irserver add-on

    You need to obtain the necessary files from this package or an alternative files from OpenELEC as apa explained.

    For the original irserver installation to /storage/.config/irtrans/ folder, try copy & paste these commands to SSH console:

    Code
    cd /tmp
wget -c http://www.irtrans.de/download/Server/Linux/irserver.tar.gz
tar -xf irserver.tar.gz
sed -i 's+/usr/local/+/storage/.config/+g' install.sh
./install.sh

    Then try to run it manually to see if it's doing something:

    /storage/.config/irtrans/irserver -loglevel 4 -debug_code /dev/ttyUSB0

    If it works, you may try to put the startup line to /storage/.config/autostart.sh file, which could perhaps be something like:

    /storage/.config/irtrans/irserver -logfile /var/log/irserver.log -pidfile /var/run/irserver.pid -daemon /dev/ttyUSB0

    If you get the irserver running, then you need to finish the remaining instructions from this and next posts, starting from this point:

    • Instruct Kodi to listen on the alternate LIRC socket (/run/lirc/lircd.itrans) by changing the Kodi command-line parameter with which it is launched.

    I don't have this hardware so you have to give it a try.

  • Seem to have lost audio on one recording

    Quote from Grarea

    Thanks.

    Do you mean on live tv though?

    This is a recording.

    I watched half of it with audio, then tried to watch it again and it has no audio.

    Even the first part of the film that had audio the first time round has no audio.

    Yes I meant Live TV.

    Sometimes it even happens when I switch to some TV channel (don't know if it's an issue in latest LE 10 Nightly builds but most likely it's related to TV signal quality which is not perfect on some channels in my case) but of course it's hard to say if the same issue happened when your recording started or if there's another reason...

    In my case the same stream profile is used for watching and for recording (pass) so the configuration is same, so far I did not encounter a missing audio in recording but I don't record very often.

    But when I played with Timeshift data (configured to use a filesystem) a bit, some Timeshift files had no audio, some could be played without issue including audio and some could not be played at all... I suppose that's because the Timeshift files probably does not have a header and every file is just a part of a live stream but I don't know any technical details how it works.

    Perhaps there's an utility which could be used to check / repair integrity of your recordings. Also I would to try to play it with another player (VLC on workstation?) to check if the audio is missing / not playing as well.

  • Seem to have lost audio on one recording

    Yes it happens sometimes. Usually if the signal level is not strong enough, the audio is "lost" sometimes, when the data stream is corrupted temporarily (usually you can also see a video drop / corruption at that moment).

    Sometimes it recovers later, sometimes not and you need to stop / start the channel again (or switch to another channel and back) to get the audio working again. It's a quite annoying, I don't know why the video can recover and audio not but this happens.

  • Tvheadend nightly builds for LE

    There's an issue with Subtitles on TVH 4.3 which are not displayed on some TV channels. The settings (all I could find) is exactly the same as on TVH 4.2. The affected TV channel's Subtitles has different look (font type and size) on TVH 4.2 in comparison with Subtitles on other channels.

    Does anyone know why this happens (the different Subtitles look ) and what should I check / configure to make it working on TVH 4.3 (to display Subtitles on affected channel)?

    Edit - VLC is able to display the subtitles properly.

    Edit 20230115 - this stupid bug / incompatibility is still there...

  • Boot from SSD instructions

    Nothing special should be necessary if your RPi 4B does not have a very obsolete bootloader.

    Just write a LE image to your external SSD, connect it to RPi 4B and try to boot.

    if it won't work, try the same with SD card ( this should definitely work ), then check the VL805 USB firmware & RPi bootloader versions and upgrade them to latest available (check the release notes here).

    How to check the CURRENT versions: rpi-eeprom-update

    VL805 release should be: 00138a1

    BOOTLOADER should be: Thu Apr 29 16:11:25 UTC 2021 (1619712685) or later.

    You may easily upgrade the VL805 USB firmware & RPi bootloader (not to latest available but to versions contained in LE but useable) from Kodi: Settings - Libreelec - Updates - Firmware Updates

    Usually the VL805 USB firmware is already at the latest available version (00138a1) but the bootloader is a bit obsolete.

    This way you may upgrade it from SSH console to (currently latest) release 2021-04-29 (and the VL805 as well, if it's not the 00138a1 yet):

    Then you may try to boot from external SSD again. If it still won't work (test on both USB3/USB2 ports), check if the power from USB port is sufficient for your SSD (test with USB hub with external power supply or with a fork USB cable).

    The last thing to be done when you make the LE booting from external SSD is to add this line to /flash/config.txt file in LE:

    dtparam=sd_poll_once=on

    otherwise there was a repeating error message filling log due to missing SD card (not sure if it's still necessary).

    Code
    mount -o remount,rw /flash
echo dtparam=sd_poll_once=on >> /flash/config.txt
mount -o remount,ro /flash

    Hope this helps.

    Edit: 2021-05-01 - updated link to current firmware above.

    Edit: 2023-01-15 - added update scripts for most current releases below.

    Code
    # RPi 4B - USB controller upgrade:
cd /tmp
wget -O USBfirmware.bin -c https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/raw/master/firmware/stable/vl805-000138c0.bin
rpi-eeprom-update -u USBfirmware.bin
reboot
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