Posts by gadget_guy

First off, I doubt this is something I will actually do, just asking for my curiosity/education.

I have a fix** for a hardware glitch on my OrangePi that I found here, and I can implement it (when running Armbian) by overlaying a small .dts file onto the device tree. Its simple and I verified it fixes my glitch.

How would I implement that same fix on LIbreElec? ChatGPT says i need to compile the .dts file to a .dtbo first (ok), and then add some commands to /flash/boot.cmd, and then recompile boot.scr... and by that point I am pretty sure ChatGPT is spouting hallucinations at me.

So hypothetically how would I add this change to LibreElec, or is it even possible?

**The glitch in question: I have several OrangePi 3 LTS's, some of them won't always re-initialize the ethernet interface after a reboot. Was reported and discussed in this thread. The "fix" I referenced earlier basically adds some delays to the ethernet init process..

Thanks!

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Opensubtitles.com is one of the sites that now use AI-translated subs,

oh, i thought you meant they used AI speech to text recognition. Yeah, english text to other languages is surely done by a google-translate equivalent. But all the english subs on opensubtitles.COM have been good so far.

Before getting this to work I always manually downloaded from the SubScene website, which worked great. but unfortunately their add-on didn't want to work.

After much trial and error and some more research, here is how I got it working, in case its useful to somebody else:

Create a free account at OpenSubtitles.COM (do *NOT* use .org, it must be .com). The .org version looks similar, but the app won't work there unless you pay for premium.

Install the OpenSubtitles.COM app from Kodi repository (once again, do not install the .org version). Configure the app with username (not email address) and password of the account you created.

I was still getting the vfs.libarchive error, and because i am not running the latest version of LE I cannot access the LIbreElec repo. So I pulled a sneaky and went to http://addons.libreelec.tv/11.0.0/ARMv7/arm/vfs.libarchive/ with a browser and copied the vfs.libarchive-20.3.0.3.zip to my device over the network, and then did a install add-on-from-zip-file. That was the right file for a OrangePi3LTS, yours will be different.

I tried a handful of shows and movies, and so far the only one it couldn't get good subs for was a really really old movie. So I am pretty happy with this.

I've tried a few (OpenSubtitles.org, SubScene, a4kSubtitles). Most of them give me guff about an unmet dependency with "vfs.libarchive". Before I go down the rathole of trying to troubleshoot that gem, though I would ask if there is an easier way to do it!

Theres so many subtitle add-ons, I figure most of them are crap, some of them are good. I would appreciate any feedback on which ones worked good for you.

Thank you!

i didn't create that nocompat file, but it seemed to unpack and install the update just fine.

unfortunately the ethernet still won't enable unless i keep my finger on the chip during boot process.

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What do you prefer? Patch? Image? Update file? LE11 or LE12 nightly?

update file for LE12 would be easiest. Thanks!

wow, thats a great find, thanks guys for putting in all this effort!

Is it possible that the handling of this AXP805 could also explain intermittent lack of ethernet on boot?

see this thread

This looks promising, but how would you install this to LibreElec? It looks like you need a writeable filesystem and install rust and a bunch of other stuff and then compile it.

If the supply/demand ratio is as small for the Rpi5 as its been for the Rpi4, most of use won't get our hands on one for another year...

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handy HTPC device for vacation travels

Nicely done. And all along I thought I was the only person that takes a SBC on vacation...

Doesn't the T95H have a H616 processor? If so LE won't run on that.

ok, i disabled CONFIG_SUN50I_IOMMU, recompiled the image and it locked up after about 7 and a half hours.

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CONFIG_SUN50I_IOMMU

where do i find that? is it in one of the patch files? or kernel config?

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Updated patches are here: https://github.com/jernejsk/Libre…224ebdee7aa57b1

I made a v11 image with these patches, and let it sit idle overnight with the default configuration (so CEC was enabled). It locked up after a little more than 8 hours.

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So official image (from OrangePi site) has same issue?

yes it does (just tried with latest Debian image from http://www.orangepi.org)

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Can you try with patch http://ix.io/4FU4 and see if that solves your network issues?

this did not fix it. *maybe* it did improve it slightly (seemed that 2 or 3 times out of ten the network did come up even without me pinching the PHY chip). But could easily have been coincidence.

It was on an i5 PC with an oldish version (v11) of Debian.

I am currently trying it again on a different i5 with a fresh install of Ubuntu-22.04.3. Will update this thread as soon as it fails or succeeds. THanks.

UPDATED: Using Ubuntu-22.04.3 it worked fine! Thank you!