Posts by jim_p

    May I ask what this means?

    Drivers for RPi2 and 3 are currently not yet feature complete and stable.

    Le 9.x had drivers for it and le 10 does not? Is it the end for the rpi3?

    And I admit the decision for dropping support for rpi 1/0 was correct. It started feeling sluggish even at 9.0 on my zero, so I switched to lakka for that sbc.

    It is MY excuse :P
    These adapters are so rare nowadays that they worth their size in gold bitcoin :D So I do not want to damage any of the 3.

    As for the bridging with another router in order to provide wired connection to it.

    Does this mean connecting them via ethernet? I know how it is done. But of all the people that I have suggested it as a solution all those years, only one has accepted it. People do not want wires running around their homes.

    But enough with the offtopic. The family has not contacted me yet, so I will repost when I have news.

    I actually have 2 tplink wn722n v1 (v1` is the one with the atheros chipset, v2 and v3 have a realtek one), plus a wn821n which also comes with an atheros chipset.

    I got the first wn722n back in early 2017 that I got my rpi zero non-w. And during the first lockdown in 2020 I was given another pi zero non-w, so I looked for the same card. I got it, and I lost it a few days later. It is in my house for sure, but I can not find it. And that is the reason I got the wn821n during the second lockdown.

    I know that this is a very reliable card and that is sold very expensive in ebay etc because of its chipset which is very hacking friendly (kali linux + atheros card in monitor mode). All 3 were tested and they work great on my tvboxes (mxq and mxqpro4k).

    And because of that rarity, I do not trust them with anyone but me. Imagine 3 excited kids (plus their friends) running around a room and something protuding out of the tvbox. I give it 1 month before they break the adapter and the usb that is plugged in :P

    Anyway. since the family has not called me today, I am trying to reproduce that timeout notification on my rpi3b+ by removing the network and connecting to it again. So far I have failed, but what shall I look for in dmesg or in a similar log whent it happens?

    I think I had changed that to my country's domain before gifting the tvbox, but I will ask tomorrow. I have definitely changed it on le 9.2.x on my rpi3b+ and on ce on my mxqpro4k.

    I also had that timeout issue on the first days of le 9.x (if not 8.x) on my rpi3b+. I was so upset back then that I wanted to throw my router out of the window, but I kept it because my isp forces its usage for voip telephony.

    I do not think it is a reception issue so as to look for repeaters etc.

    The router is about 5m (= 15ft) away from the tvbox and has almost visual contact (the router is "hidden" behind a corner). I will make a small sketch to show you if needed, but I do not know how to name various stuff in english.

    Also, neither the router, nor the tvbox support 5ghz wireless and the only ethernet cable in the house (the one that connects the router to an old pc) is too short to cover that distance.

    Rebooting the router had no effect too. Shall I bite the bullet and delete the forementioned folder?

    ---edit

    I did delete the folder and now le shows all the wireless networks again.

    However, it fails to connect to the home's wireless network, poping a notification that something timed out. Any ideas about that?

    I have a weird issue with my mxq (s805, 1g/8g, all black version, le 9.2.8 installed on internal rom). While it was at my possession, it had some wifi issues that I mentioned, but things improved after the upgrade to 9.2.8 a few weeks ago to the point that a stable connection was available almost every time.

    And a few days ago, I gifted it to a family of 3 kids so as to keep them busy while the parents are at work.

    Today is the day that the parents would put it to work. So, with my guidance (go there, select this etc) they tried to connect it to the home's wireless network. They entered the key, pressed finish and since then EVERY wireless network under connections has dissapeared!

    Neither rebooting the box helped, nor did disabling and reenabling the wireless connection. Apart from their home's wireless network, there are a couple more from other homes near them.

    The 2 cell phones they have can detect the home's wifi (and the ones from the neighborhood) and are connected to it with no issues, so I assume the router is not to blame.

    Any ideas about it? One thing that is relatively easy to do is to delete /storage/.cache/connman/ via kodi's file manager, but will it help? The family is not tech savvy and I am miles away so as to visit them and check it myself.

    Has the up.legg.ga repository shut down? It was working yesterday, but today its releases.json shows no images for x64. Moreover, there are no images for x64 (and other architectures) in test.libreelec.tv, so I assume there may be some issue with the build system.

    Right now I am on 20210809-082c799 since Tuesday.

    There have been no new builds sice June 4th (last nightly in test.libreelec.tv is 20210604-f6b7711), although the github page has 15-20 newer comments since then. Did something happen in the build system?

    ---edit

    That build is actually from June 2nd, because this is when commit f6b7711 was made.