Posts by jim_p

    Understandable :(

    If I try booting it with the generic amlgx image, like I did for my old s905 tvbox, what side effects may I encounter? Or what can I check if it boots properly?

    In case it does not have a reset button, I really do not want to make it boot ONLY from the sd card, like I accidentaly did for mine.

    I revoked the first release (20220716) and released a new image (20220718) for S805 and S8X2 devices only. But the main version is not changed, it is still v9.2.8.10. (The release date is checked for the automatic update, not the major version number.

    I assume you mean 2023 at the dates there... Anyway, I just saw the new images on github. I am off to update.

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    And mdns works again! Thank you for the quick fix.

    Now we just need to find out under which version it broke because the avahi-daemon won't start under any of my v3.10 boxes.

    (However, it is flawless under all v3.14 devices.)

    But if I start the daemon with the --no-drop-root argument, it works fine.

    Does this mean it's a known issue? Do you want me to check something on my end too?

    I will return the tvbox to the family tomorrow morning :/

    Maintenance day today for the mxq, after spending ~2 years at kids' hands. And some stuff I learned.

    Little Faye complained on Friday that it no longer plays youtube. Not only it could not connect to the home's wifi, the wifi interface was not even available as an option to enable/disable under libreelec settings! Its free space was a bit less than 1`mb, which is odd because "all I have ever put in the tvbox are some photos of flamengos" (she actually said that!), and they were about ~10mb in total.

    Where did all the space go? In thumbnails! The ~/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails folder was ~4GB and, according to texturecache P, 99% of them were thumbnails from youtube videos, probably tens of thousands of them! I assume that the tvbox has slow emmc, because it had deleted less than 1gb of data after 1 hour! I simply stopped it, stopped kodi with systemctl stop kodi and deleted the folders in there one by one.

    Moreover, I noticed that htop showed only 2 available cpu cores! Is that true? The first one was at ~60% usage all the time and the second one was below 10% all the time. Its temperature though was at 70+C! That is inside an air conditioned room at 28C, because it is afternoon here and everything outside my window is "burning" at 35C!

    So, I cleaned everything up, did the upgrade to .10 that was released yesterday and so far the mdns does not seem to work and I use the full up to ssh to it.

    So, I tried the ova file for the generic x64 non-legacy. It has the same issue with the partition resizing, but the update function works properly, Then I tried the ova file for le 10, which has neither of the 2 forementioned issues and it just worked properly on first try.

    Thank you for your reply, you explained a lot in just 3 lines!

    As for the issue in releases.json, when can we expect a fix? I noticed that there is also a releases_v2.json file in the mirror. Does this contain the fixed code? If so, how can I make the update mechanism use it.

    Episode 3. I decided to use the custom channels option and I added the greek mirror there, i.e.

    Code
    http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/

    There is a releases.json file in there, just like the one under the nightlies server which I used a year ago on my rpi 3b, so the server does qualify for updates. Still no luck though :(

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    I also tried adding the nightlies server there as a custom channel and all the nightlies of le 11 showed up under available versions. Then I removed it, because I do not want to upgrade to any nightly.

    After that, I flashed the image of le 11.0.0 on a usb stick and booted from it (in run mode). And there still nothing under available versions, so something is definitely wrong with the update server of the stable versions.

    Since I could not resize the storage partition via parted itself, I chose the noob frienly way of gparted (from its live cd) and I now have all 3+gb available for it. Proof

    Code
    # df -h /storage/
    Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda2                 3.3G     24.8M      3.2G   1% /storage

    The flickering tiles issue is gone, wget can download stuff as usual and the logs... log everything now.

    However, the list under "available versions" remains empty and this is what the log says. I saw that waiting there at the end and waited for like 10 minutes, but it was not populated

    Code
    2023-05-17 15:11:45.768 T:916      info <general>: SETTINGS: run # Received openConfigurationWindow
    2023-05-17 15:11:45.782 T:877      info <general>: Loading skin file: /usr/share/kodi/addons/service.libreelec.settings/resources/skins/Default/1080i/service-LibreELEC-Settings-mainWindow.xml, load type: LOAD_ON_GUI_INIT
    2023-05-17 15:11:45.794 T:877     error <general>: Control 1000 in window 13000 has been asked to focus, but it can't
    2023-05-17 15:11:45.794 T:916      info <general>: SETTINGS: run # Waiting

    I think I found why...

    I noticed that when selecting addons from the main menu, there is a tile saying "music addons" that just flickers in and out of the menu (it appears and disappears again and again). Sometimes, this also happens under videos, where the "video addons" tile does the same and so on for the other categories. So I thought it must be something with the internet connection...

    I used ping, nslookup and traceroute on google and everything worked, so I tried downloading something. And wget told me there is no space left on the device

    Code
    # wget http://speedtest.ftp.otenet.gr/files/test100Mb.db
    Connecting to speedtest.ftp.otenet.gr (212.205.74.89:80)
    saving to 'test100Mb.db'
    wget: write error: No space left on device

    Because /storage is less than 30MB and full as it seems!

    Code
    # df -h /storage
    Filesystem                Size      Used Available Use% Mounted on
    /dev/sda2                25.2M     24.6M         0 100% /storage

    I ran parted, which offered to fix it, but nothing changed

    So, why doesn't it occupy the remaining ~4gb of the space?

    In case it is important, I noticed that the bootloader boots the installer option. Why? Isn't the os already installed?

    That is why I also tried the run option, but nothing changed.

    p.s. Can someone move this to the virtual machines section? Thank you.

    Hello everyone :)

    My friend decided that she should learn a bit more than the VERY basics about kodi and libreelec that she knows now, so I installed le 11 on a vmware vm to help her out. If she breaks it, it
    In detail, I got the .ova file and had vmware player convert it to its own format and create a new vm. Then I beefed up its specs a bit: 2 cpu cores instead of 1, 4gb of ram instead of 1 and 512mb of video memory instead of 128. I also switched the network to nat mode. The remaining options inside le are the default ones, ssh is enabled and the vm works just fine... if you exclude some frame drops here and there when navigating the ui.

    Back to my friend. One thing she MUST learn is to update the os itself and that is why I installed le 11.0.0 and not 11.0.1, so as to show her how to upgrade to it. I showed her how to download the file and place it inside the update folder that is accessible through samba, but she still finds it a bit complicated, so I went the easiest way possible: through libreelec settings > updates. Under there, I have set

    - automatic updates = manual

    - submit statistics = enabled (not that it matters)

    - show update notifications = enabled

    - show custom channels = disabled

    - update channel = libreelec 11.0

    And the list under "available versions" is completely empty, although kodi does show a notification for an update at startup. What is weirder than that is that kodi's log just stops at a random position every time, e.g. from 2 subsequent boots

    http://ix.io/4vYl

    http://ix.io/4vYm

    Any ideas?

    p.s. Networking was set to bridged this time, so as to connect with ssh and get the logs.

    Ok I fixed it. I asked her to connect it to the router via ethernet (she borrowed an ethernet cable and yes, she did connect it with a phone cable the first time) and then I connected to her pc via anydesk and to the tvbox via ssh. I also copied the wifi key straight from the router's web interface, just in case.

    After that, I connected to it via connman and it simly worked (authenticated successfully, got the ip etc). Then she moved the tvbox back to the tv.

    There is no other router it can connect to, because all other wifi networks in the area protected and no one knows their keys apart from their owners.

    As for its own key, of course I can not be 100% sure the user entered it correctly, but shouldn't it be already stored in connman's settings? Because mine is stored (in plain text) in a configuration file that looks like so and is unique for each interface and network the interface has connected to.

    Code
    .cache/connman/wifi_(wifi's_mac_address)_(router's_ssid)_managed_psk/settings

    Connecting to a different router creates a new file with similar name, but does not delete the existing one. I know that because I have deleted old configs a few times.

    As for the log, if it had network access, I would grab one and study it before asking here. Unfortunately, the family can not tell the difference between a network cable and a phone one... and they only have one network cable, the one that connects the router to the pc.

    Unfortunately, my answer to your question is that I have no idea. I have not yet tried to connect to a hotspot that requires authentication under LE. In general, a browser is also required to complete the authentication, which is not available on the box.

    I do not want it to connect to the hotspot that needs authentication, I want it to connect to the home's wifi that has a simple wifi key. It had been connected to it from mid July of 2021 until last Friday.