Posts by chimpchump

I had 3rd party video addons for PlutoTV, Stirr, Plex and Samsung TV plus, which bumped up my TV channel list to over a thousand channels as well as the TV guide via the Merge IPTV addon.

Anyway removing most of these from the TV Channel list and TV Guide has improved performance (most were crap anyway).

I suspect the constant TV guide updates in the background were the culprit, with so many channels and TV guide data to ingest.

For what's its worth I've reverted back to booting natively off micro ssd again and so far so good. Marking as resolved

OK finally got some time to revisit this issue.

This problem resurfaced soon after I did a fresh install and I have finally resolved this issue...

It is not related to the OS booting off a USB flash drive as I went back to booting natively off micro ssd.

The Kodi Backup addon fails when the two LibreElec addons 'LibreSpot' and 'Docker' are installed, as these folders appear to contain special characters that reside in the 'userdata/addon_data/service.librespot' and 'userdata/addon_data/service.system.docker' folders that it can not copy.

Anyway switching the Backup settings to advanced mode and adding an exclusion for the above 2 folders has resolved the issue. I suspect it might also encounter the same issue for some of the other LibreElec addons...

Hoping this can help any other users who encounter the same issue.

and of course I just installed the Backup addon and tried it again to do a log capture, and it's now working perfectly lol...

it's the first time it's ever worked on Libreelec with an external usb. maybe some update fixed it, no idea.

anyway marking as solved. feel free to delete this thread. thanks for your help

will do. i suspect it's related to my headend pvr cllient and it pauses when trying to refresh the tv guide data, will try and run a few tests with it disabled and see if it happens. regardless will capture logs. thx

yeah fair enough, i will try to capture the logs again and post it here later today

Question for anyone booting Librelec 11.x off an external USB flash drive....

Has the Kodi Backup addon ever worked for you?

I have the Kodi backup addon configured to backup my userdata etc and then it sends the compressed file to my external NAS, ie it is pretty much the usual default options

On identical systems where I boot off the micro sd card it has worked flawlessly, same configuration.

However with any system that boots off an external USB flash drive the Backup program launches but gets stuck when attempting to kick off the backup process. The only way to kill the process is to reboot my RPi. I just wonder if the fact that the LibreElec OS is on the usb flash drive and not the micro-sd drive is confusing it.

I have been able to reproduce the exact problem on multiple installs....

I am running 11.0.2 on a RPi4, with the default skin.

My PVR client connects to a TV Headend backend on a remote computer. The OS boots off a USB 3.0 flash drive.

One problem that has crept in over the past few months is that when browsing the main menu (for example between TV/Movies/Music etc) there will be a sudden pause for about 30 seconds where multiple keypresses (eg the arrow keys) will be ignored, and then after 30 seconds or so all the keypresses will be registered all at once.

Playback via TV, videos, Youtube is flawless. It is just when I return to the main menu this randomly happens. It doesn't always happen so it's hard for me to capture logs, but when it does, it is incredibly frustrating having to wait for 30 seconds or so for it resume again.

Has anyone experienced this before or have a suggestion of what I can try?

I have another RPI4 in another room, identical OS and Add-ons and that works fine, except that runs off the microsd card.

I really want to avoid reinstalling the OS as I have been using it since 11.0.0 and apart from this issue I have it setup perfectly.

Quote from chewitt

Kodi Settings > Interface > Skin Settings > Show media flags

Regarding this setting, I have this enabled.

Since upgrading to 11.0.0 from 10.0.4, I have discovered the media flags only appear after a video/file is played and not by default.

I see the same behavior on a non LibreElec Kodi 20.0 system I have running too, so it appears to be a Kodi 20 bug.

Ok waited an hour and just tried refreshing the addons and all good now. Back in business...

Is this still an issue?

I've upgraded from 10.0.4 to 11.0.0 and post boot it seems none of my addons are able to update. Hence I am unable to get the PVR menu to appear in addons so that I can update my TVHeadeand htsp client to one that is compatible with 11.0.0

Kodi.log shows this snippet:

error <general>: CCurlFile::Open - <https://addons.libreelec.tv/11.0.0/ARMv8/a…s.xml.gz.sha256> Failed with code 429:

which seems to indicate I have exceeded my quota? (I upgraded directly via ssh and wget)

My IP is x.x.229.22

Hi Hagaygo,

I have a similar problem, for me the big difference was switching TVH to use matroska, but the seeking issue still occasionally happens, but it is tolerable now

What version of TVH are you using for your backend? is it containerised?

I'm on one of the 4.3 nightlies, but i'm thinking if its worth switching back to 4.2 stable

for anyone else wondering, it looks like the issue after-all might lie with the tvheadend backend and not libreelec

i run a tvh 4.3 off a different server. changing the recording profile from 'pass' to 'matroska' has made a huge difference.

it still sometimes happens, but nowhere near as often (80% reduction), as is now tolerable

will keep experimenting

I've finally switched to using the LE 11 Nightlies (Oct 2), as this issue was driving me mad.

But unfortunately this issue is still happening, not as often as with 10.0.2, but enough to be annoying.

Very frustrating, anyone else have this issue? Any Suggestions as to what I can try next?

Quote from JoeAverage

what's so bad running nightly LE11 ?

doing so since month without any complains.

kudos ${developers}

I tried LE11 a couple of months back and it runs fine if you are just running vanilla Kodi. The problems occur for those users who are heavily dependent on Addons like I am (for eg YT, Trakt, Spotify, TED etc), and hence need to stay on Kodi 19.4.

But who knows, I might give the 11 branch another go soon...

I'm glad there's a 10.0.x nightly branch as I want to stick to Kodi 19.4 due to said addons.

My setup is perfect but I'm still hoping the PVR seek issue when deinterlacing is enabled can be fixed for 10.0.2.

It appears I will need to wait until 11.0 is officially released for this to be resolved (I think)

or if you are lazy like me and don't have a million movies in your library I go to

System -> Media -> Library -> Videos.. -> <your movie source>

and in List View i quickly scroll through my movie collection.

Anything not picked up will have no metadata associated with it (ie the movie description, cover etc)

In Settings -> System -> Input -> Peripherals, do you see the 'CEC Adapter' driver listed there?

Nevermind, if CEC works when you connect to it the TV then the driver would be present. Sorry

hmmm I tried switching to the nightly branch, but it's just too unstable for me atm (unfortunately most addons are broken) and I've reverted back to 10.0.2 for now, which is to be expected.

Would be nice if i could apply a patch to fix this particular issue on the 10.0.x branch. Really not interested in going to Kodi 20 for the time being.

Quote from HiassofT

Can you please test this build: https://www.horus.com/~hias/tmp/libr…759-4d9d4e2.tar

It contains a fix that might help with your seeking issue (it's the same fix that was included in nightlies a few days ago and seems to have helped ghtester).

so long,

Hias

Just tested with this update....it seems to be a little better, seems to happen less often now, but unfortunately its still happening

Thanks