Posts by stuckinthehouse

I have a router that connects to my cable modem and I've got dual bands for WiFi. I have a computer that I am unable to install a wifi dongle so I need to use the ethernet port. I was using one of those through the wiring routers that had two boxes that connected the router and the other ethernet computer through the home wiring. It is slow. I just need the other computer to have internet access and not access to other PCs on the network. What type of router do I need and what mode: WISP, Wireless Bridge, repeater, something else? Cheaper the better.

OSMC had the same issue. I ended up moving to ARCH. It works without issue.

I am running Rpi 3+ running one of the nightly builds from when they were created for Kodi 19.1. I changed VPN providers to OctaneVPN but I cannot get this to work on LibrELEC from either the command line or using the VPN Manager app. I have another Ubuntu system and I can run openvpn without issue. Octane has some weird ports like 8888, 8080, and 449 but I can't get any of them to work. From looking at the internet it looks like someone else had the same issue and it is a kernel issue but I'm not sure.

Anyone have any ideas on how to fix this or am I SOL?

Tue Mar 12 19:29:55 2019 TCP/UDP: Preserving recently used remote address: [AF_INET]198.144.157.100:8888
Tue Mar 12 19:29:55 2019 UDP link local: (not bound)
Tue Mar 12 19:29:55 2019 UDP link remote: [AF_INET]198.144.157.100:8888
Tue Mar 12 19:29:55 2019 WARNING: this configuration may cache passwords in memory – use the auth-nocache option to prevent this
Tue Mar 12 19:29:55 2019 [VPN] Peer Connection Initiated with [AF_INET]198.144.157.100:8888
Tue Mar 12 19:29:56 2019 TUN/TAP device tun0 opened
Tue Mar 12 19:29:56 2019 do_ifconfig, tt->did_ifconfig_ipv6_setup=0
Tue Mar 12 19:29:56 2019 /sbin/ip link set dev tun0 up mtu 1500
Tue Mar 12 19:29:57 2019 /sbin/ip addr add dev tun0 local 10.10.6.18 peer 10.10.6.17
ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Tue Mar 12 19:29:57 2019 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error status: 2
Tue Mar 12 19:29:57 2019 Initialization Sequence Completed
Tue Mar 12 19:30:53 2019 event_wait : Interrupted system call (code=4)
ip: RTNETLINK answers: File exists
Tue Mar 12 19:30:53 2019 ERROR: Linux route add command failed: external program exited with error

I have a desktop PC that doesn't get much use but I do use it occasionally. It's running Kubuntu. I would like to replace it with a RPI4 that I haven't bought yet. I'd like to have dual screens. Can a RPI4 handle a full blown desktop environment? I have a RPI3 running libreelec and before I was running Raspbian and Chrome was pretty much unusable.

Maybe try using the Kodi Remote Control app that you can install on your Android or Iphone as you can change the volume with the remote.

On first startup did you get taken to the setup wizard where it connects you to the internet, gives you the choice to turn on ssh etc? If no, you probably need to go to the LibreELEC Configurator program addon to configure.

Did you try one of the LE 10 test builds?

Thanks! Mine is using HW.

I am running 3 Pi+ using the LibreElec 10 test builds. I was just curious if this version of LibreElec is using the Pi 3+'s GPU or if it is using software rendering or if there is a way to tell which one I'm using.

Your GPU and video outputs look good. If you have a spare microSD card, I would try a LibreElec 10 test build and see if you are seeing the same issue. I suspect your Pi4 needs a kernel from 10 where as your 3+ needs one from 9.2.7.

What do the below commands tell you? You have H264 enabled? How much memory do you have allocated to the GPU (second command)?

v4l2-ctl -d 10 --list-formats-out

vcgencmd get_mem gpu

Do you have a spare MicroSD? You could write one of the LE 10 test builds to it and see if you are still seeing the same dropout issues. If it doesn't work then you have your original microSD to pop back in. This is what I did and kept my Raspbian OS with Kodi 18.9 just in case something went south I would still have a system.

How did you create your SD. Did you use rpi-imager or LibreElec USD-SD creator?

Probably a good idea to try a newer driver. Mine is dated Jan 4th, 2021.

Jan 4 2021 19:56:29 version 7.45.229 (617f1f5 CY) FWID 01-2dbd9d2e

Are you using the Rpi's bluetooth. I'd probably try disabling the onboard and see if that fixes the Wifi. The 3+ that I have would have issues with both WiFi and BT but this was a known issue. You can edit the /boot/config.txt file and add a line that is dtoverlay=disable-bt

You'll have to do a search on how to edit the config file since libreelec is a bit different as you have to mount it as read/write file system and then edit the config.txt file and then mount as read only then reboot.

I disabled mine and bought a BT dongle.

In the LibreElec addon config under network, did you set the Wireless Regulatory Domain to your country? I had issues with Wifi until I set this on my previous install. I know it doesn't make sense that this would do anything major but it does for some reason.

I have a Pi 3+ and I was running Raspbian for a few years. I wanted to get Kodi 19.1 so I bought a new microSD and dl one of the test builds and used rpi-imager to load it on the microSD. It ran well right out of the box. I use Kodi as front end for mythtv with myth running on Lubuntu. I put my old microSD in the reader and I plan on moving the files over with SFTP or Samba.

I turned on Samba and SSH with the startup Wizard. I am able to SSH from Lubuntu and I can use command line SFTP but I cannot get filezilla to work. It just says it cannot connect and it never reaches the state of checking the host key. I installed WinSCP and this works for SFTP on Windows but Windows doesn't read my old microSD properly. My Lubuntu has a second hard drive with Ubuntu so I can do a switch at BIOS. Filezilla worked on Ubuntu but I don't want to have to reboot each time I want to use Filezilla. On the Lubuntu with Filezilla, I tried an outside the network sftp system and it works. Strange why it doesn't work on my local network while sftp does.

On the Lubuntu box, I try to access the Samba shares on LibreElec but it says it could not find a mount point. I ran smbtree and it shows just //LibreELEC and nothing below it. I have used Samba in the past (not with Kodi) and you would just enter the location say smb:\\192.168..0.22\storage\videos but this doesn't work. Do I have to create a mount point somewhere? There was some instructions on the Wiki but they are missing. I am not trying to do nsf. I just need a place to drop the files since I can't get sftp to work. I guess I could do command line if needed.

I used rpi-imager and it blew away everything on the microSD.