Ah, good ol' LFS. I remember toying with that back when I was interested in micro distros (my favorite is Slitaz, and I'm sad that it never caught on). Okay, I can't promise anything, but I'll look if I have some time.
Thanks!
Ah, good ol' LFS. I remember toying with that back when I was interested in micro distros (my favorite is Slitaz, and I'm sad that it never caught on). Okay, I can't promise anything, but I'll look if I have some time.
Thanks!
From DistroWatch, LE uses a custom flavor of Linux. Is it most similar to any particular distro so I know what to reference when I search for docs?
I'm not entirely familiar with the version of Linux that LE uses. I looked at the WiFi manager, and it's something derived from Alpine, if I recall? I'm more comfortable with Debian since it has been my daily driver for well over a decade (which is why OSMC would be my second choice, but I was attracted to the simplicity/JeOS nature of LE). I could certainly take a crack at it, though.
Ah, I checked OSMC, and they've announced EOL for the RPi0W. That's a shame. Perhaps a new version of the Zero will be released with more power in the near future.
RPi0W aside, I agree with you that users should have a "good Kodi experience" and "considerably better Kodi device." With that goal in mind, wouldn't implementing some of my ideas also provide a considerably better Kodi experience? I believe so. I'm a freelance developer with two degrees in CS, but I only have one USB keyboard, and I had to dig it out of a closet. I doubt any of my non-technical friends even have one lying around. Bridging that gap would go a long way to help user adoption.
I wonder if the reason that there are so few users for the RPi0W is that the requirement of having a USB keyboard for setup is such an annoyance - just a thought. Anywho, I guess I'm off to OSMC until LE decides to support future iterations of the RPi0.
First, I understand that Kodi/LibreELEC is NOT Chromecast. I get that, and I very much appreciate that it isn't. I've de-Googled my life, and I'm using Kore + LibreELEC on a RPi 0W as opposed to Chromecast.
I'm a very technical user, but even still, I found the whole setup and experience to be . . . challenging. I have a RPi 0W with a broken USB controller, so I used that for LibreELEC. However, I didn't realize that I would need a keyboard to set up the WiFi network. This is where I realized that the casual user would give up. Many non-technical users don't even own USB keyboards, these days - they own laptops, tablets, and phones.
At the risk of saying, "Make it work like Chromecast," I think I have a solution that would make "onboarding" a LOT easier:
Next, while I found that setting up Kore was easy, again, non-technical users might be lost. Username? Password? Why? Also, this makes it inconvenient for guests to use the device. Instead, here are some ideas:
Thoughts?