Posts by jim_p

  • Python 3 script in LibreELEC 10

    Almost worked! Actually, the entire idea and the shell script worked as it should. If only the python script did not have that extra dependency for the the tqdm library :(

    Python
    from tqdm import tqdm
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'tqdm'

    I will try removing the offending line and see how it goes...

  • Python 3 script in LibreELEC 10

    Probably not the right place to ask, but I am too tired to open a new thread now.

    There is a python3 script I want to run on my le 10 x64 installation and it needs the requests library (python3-requests is the name of the package in debian).

    And it fails to run because this python library is missing. Pip is also missing, so I can not install it by hand. Can I somehow use kodi's script.module.requests to run it?

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    You are right. The command "parted -l", which i just learned it exists, shows a lot more partitions and info.

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  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    Little Faye, a 6yo girl, asked me yesterday: How many cartoons can this tvbox keep?

    I checked its free space and dound out it has a little bit over 4.5gb, with nothing it it but le and a couple of kodi addons. It seems weird for a device that has 8gb of storage, so I decided to investigate it further.

    Here is what I found using various commands, since fdisk and lsblk are not available in le. Blkid reports 3 partitions, although I thought there were only 2, for flash and storage respectively

    Code
    # blkid
/dev/loop0: TYPE="squashfs"
/dev/cache: UUID="57f8f4bc-abf4-655f-bf67-946fc0f9f25b" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/system: UUID="0c757ab5-f929-46a0-854d-3c2c6bf1ac14" TYPE="ext4"
/dev/data: UUID="a9e78873-d2e1-4262-afd0-acb94fb7d766" TYPE="ext4"

    I assume /dev/cache is on tmpfs, because df -h reports

    Code
    # df -h
Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs                302.7M      4.0K    302.7M   0% /dev
/dev/system             975.9M    158.6M    801.3M  17% /flash
/dev/loop0              157.5M    157.5M         0 100% /
/dev/data                 4.6G    199.7M      4.3G   4% /storage

    These sum up to ~5.5bg. But in parted > print, the entire 8gb of space are shown

    Code
    (parted) print
print
Error: /dev/rsv: unrecognised disk label
Model: Unknown (unknown)
Disk /dev/rsv: 8389kB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/524288B
Partition Table: unknown
Disk Flags:

    So what happened to those missing ~2.5gb? Can I resize the /storage partition so as to use them too?

    Relevant outputs from le 10 x86 running from an 8gb usb stick (persistent installation)

    Notice that bottom part of parted that mentions the partitions and their sizes? Why is it missing from the le of the tvbox?

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    Quote from chewitt

    It's available as a manual update, although if you are running LE 9.x please note that we strongly advise a clean install due to the Python2 > Python3 add-on changes in Kodi.

    I have a few addons and I already know that they are python3 compatible. And now I am setting up le 10 from scratch (running from usb in persistent more) and I plan to back it up so as to restore it on the fresh install I am about to do on the same hw later on.

    For me, it is not only the addons that I have to add. I also have to add sources (e.g. my dlna server), configure le (name, ssh, wifi, boot process etc) and kodi itself (locale, skin, remote access etc) and all that is a very tedious procedure.

    So, leaving addons aside as the least annoying thing to (re-)do, would you advice for an in place upgrade from 9.2.6? I can wipe them clean from ~/.kodi/addons/, delete ~/.kodi/userdata/database/addonsXX.db (so that none of them will be listed as previously installed or active) and reinstall them fresh in minutes.

    p.s. Skins, locales (= every resource.language.whatever) and le's addons (e.g. virtual.system-tools) do not count as extra addons

  • Update URL/channel for nightly builds

    And he did that for ALL architectures/sbcs? Last time that devel build was updated was on August 30th (and on 29th for some architectures), unlike the nightly which was updated yesterday.

    Anywya, I am busy setting up my stable le 10 installation from scratch and I will soon move away from the nightlies :/

  • LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.0

    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.

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    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.

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    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?

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    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.

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    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?

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    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.