Posts by cappsie

Quote from VLouis

Hi,

I had something similar with my RPi3B. Bored to the weak onboard wifi and tried to use a better wifi dongle (with external antenna).

I disabled the onboard wifi by adding to the config.txt the "dtoverlay=disable-wifi" line.

Looks like it was already commented out

# uncomment to enable infrared remote receiver connected to GPIO 18
#dtoverlay=gpio-ir,gpio_pin=18 

Nice one. I’ll try that and let you know.

Hi,

I have a Raspberry Pi 4. I added in an additional Linksys USB Wi-Fi dongle. For some reason, each time the Po boots, both the onboard network card and the Linksys dongle pick up a DHCP-assigned IP address. This is expected

I wouldn’t imagine this would

an issue; however, it seems the double IP address does causes routing issues with Kodi accessing the NAS file store.

When I disconnect one of Wi-Fi cards through the Add-Ons menu, it restores the routing and the Pi can again access the files.

Has anyone else experienced this?

Is there any way I can disable just one network card?

When I left one disabled it failed to pick up and IP so I guess there’s some weird conflict. But here’s the thing. In another room, I have the same setup, same Pi4, same Linksys Wi-Fi dongle and it isn’t an issue.

What do you need from me to assist?

Thanks!

Adam

Correction. The one that doesn’t work is LibreElec (Official) v11.0.1 (RPi4.arm). I should also mention it displays all the local wifi networks.

The one that does work is LibreElec (Official) v10.0.4 (RPi4.arm). This one does not display the local wifi networks - only the one it is connected to.

Quote from Da Flex

Hi, apologies for resurrecting this thread but I’m looking for the exact opposite. My kids have a couple of Pis but leave them running. Their TVs have auto shutoff s

Features but the Pis don’t automatically shutdown.

This script appears to be precisely what I need to check for usage, traffic etc. and if none is found m, shut down the Pi.

Is my understanding correct? Is this a simple case of switching the “0” to a “1”?

Code

IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED=0

Thanks!

Adam.

Untested, but try this variant:

Code

#/bin/sh

IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED_LAST_STATE=-1

while true
do
    KODI_RUNNING=`ps -A | grep kodi.bin | grep -v grep | wc -l`

    if [ 1 == $KODI_RUNNING ] ; then
        SSH_ACTIVE=`netstat -tnpa | grep 'tcp.*:22.*ESTABLISHED.*' | wc -l`
        NFS_ACTIVE=`netstat -tnpa | grep 'tcp.*:111.*ESTABLISHED.*' | wc -l`
        SMB_ACTIVE=`netstat -tnpa | grep 'tcp.*:445.*ESTABLISHED.*' | wc -l`  
        [ $SSH_ACTIVE -gt 0 -o $NFS_ACTIVE -gt 0 -o $SMB_ACTIVE -gt 0 ] && IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED=1 || IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED=0 

        if [ $IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED_LAST_STATE != $IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED ] ; then
            IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED_LAST_STATE=$IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED
            kodi-send --action="AllowIdleShutdown"
            if [ 0 == $IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED ] ; then
                kodi-send --action="InhibitIdleShutdown(false)"
            else
                kodi-send --action="InhibitIdleShutdown(true)"
                IDLE_SHUTDOWN_ALLOWED_LAST_STATE=-1
            fi
        fi
    fi
    sleep 60
done

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Hi,

I don't think this has yet been asked (or answered) but has anyone got KidsTube on Kodi (or LibreElec) working either as an add-on or as a custom module, of sorts?

Or is it only YouTube that's been added?

Thanks,

Adam.

Thank you 🙏 ☺️ 😍

Magic, thanks. What's a nightly build? Is this a sort of extreme alpha build?

When my last SD card died, I installed the latest LibreELEC build "Latest Stable Version (2022.03)" with "Kodi 19.4". However, I wasn't able to get access to my NAS using SMB 2 - it just refused to connect.

So, I downgraded to the older stable version "Old Version (2020.11)" and "Kodi 18.9". Thie restored access to the NAS but Netflix won't work and errors with the above/original error.

You said:

Quote from Pretoriano

There's no alternative ,you will have to wait until the developer will fix it.

But the develop has stopped supporting (and back porting) Kodi 18, saying we must upgrade to 19. This means that while Netflix will work, my network shares will not.

Thoughts?

Thanks, there is a threat on it, here: https://github.com/CastagnaIT/plu…lix/issues/1425

Thanks. Do you know of an alternative plug-in?

Hi all,

Has anyone seen this error message before? I get it when I try to access a profile on Netflix.

Thanks,

Adam.

So, I gave up on that TV and bought a replacement which works nicely.

The only complaint I have is that the resolution isn't ideal and the Kodi menu is slightly wider than the screen. Different Kodi resolutions aren't the answer. In-movie, I can tweak the zoom and other settings, but if anyone has any ideas on this, they would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

A.

I managed to get the Pi4 to boot.

TV

Results in order:

Rainbow screen

TV displays 720p@60Hz

Then LibreElec splash screen

Then [No signal]

in config.txt:

set to hdmi_group=1

tried various hdmi modes (hdmi_mode=39) but to no avail. (39 is 1080i@50Hz 16:9) (sourced from here: https://peppe8o.com/fix-hdmi-monit…-raspberry-pi/:

TV: Technika 32G22B-FHD 32-inch Full HD

The TV specifications are:

Full HD, HDMI, 1920x1080

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

A.

Following up, turns out it was the wrong HDMI port. Amazingly simple. All working. Now I have to figure out why it works on two of my TVs but not the other one. Perhaps it can't handle the bandwidth?

Thanks,

A.

I have no sound from my Pi 4 - I've tried the HDMI port next to the power but nothing. There's no sound from the 3.5" jack either.

Any pointers?

Quote from ajtdxx

I have sound in the jack, however, I have not in the Hdmi, none of them, for libreelec

however, I have sound in the hdmi closest to the jack in raspian.

any ideas?

Pi4:~ # speaker-test -t sine -c 2 -r 44100 -F S24_3LE -b 200000 -p 50000 -D iec958:CARD=Audio,DEV=0

speaker-test 1.1.9

Playback device is iec958:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
Stream parameters are 44100Hz, S24_3LE, 2 channels
Sine wave rate is 440.0000Hz
ALSA lib /home/jails/home/jenkins/LE/build2/workspace/RPi4/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.6/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/conf.c:5014:(snd_config_expand) Unknown parameters CARD=Audio,DEV=0
ALSA lib /home/jails/home/jenkins/LE/build2/workspace/RPi4/LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-9.2.6/alsa-lib-1.1.9/src/pcm/pcm.c:2564:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM iec958:CARD=Audio,DEV=0
Playback open error: -22,Invalid argument

I also thought I'd look for a sound card. This might be incorrect, but ...

Pi4:~ # dmesg |grep sound
[    0.706223]   No soundcards found.

dmesg, lsmod, lsusb:

Thoughts?

Thanks,

A.

I can now confirm that copying the new library file libwidevinecdm.so to the cdm directory (/storage/.kodi/cdm/) works. Netflix is up and running, now.

Thanks for your assistance.

Please close.

A.

Thanks! I've followed the links to here which gives me an option to download the library itself libwidevinecdm.so

I'll do this later and let you know.

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ARMv7 4.10.1679.0 here if anybody needs

4.10.1679.0-linux-armv7.so

(just rename it to libwidevinecdm.so)

or

widevine_4.10.1679.0.orig.tar.xz

(extract and find the file in widevine\opt\WidevineCdm_platform_specific\linux_arm"

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Instructions for restoring the older version are here.

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I can confirm that restoring previous libwidevinecdm.so from backup solves the problem:

find / -name "libwidevinecdm.so"

/storage/.kodi/cdm/libwidevinecdm.so

/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/backup/13816.64.0/libwidevinecdm.so

/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/backup/13729.56.0/libwidevinecdm.so

/storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/backup/13505.111.0/libwidevinecdm.so

cp -a /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data/script.module.inputstreamhelper/backup/13729.56.0/libwidevinecdm.so /storage/.kodi/cdm/

Instead of the not working libwidevinecdm.so version 13816.64.0, the previous version 13729.56.0 works right.

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I did a fresh install of LE 9.2.6 but it comes with InputStream Helper 0.52 which doesn't work. There is not an option to downgrade, even when I check Configure from dd-ons -> program add-ons.

I manually downloaded the temporary 0.53 fix but I'm at a loss on where to place it. It's zipped but either zipped of not I'm struggling to get Kodi to see it.

I would sincerely appreciate your help.

Thanks,

A.