Posts by doejohn

Thanks heitbaum!

I have an additional question, just to get a better understanding:

In the case of libretro-mame2016, isn't ${PKG_VERSION} the git sha of a specific commit in the upstream repository? How comes that the contents of this commit have changed over time? I always assumed git commits are unmodifiable?

Unfortunately, this fixes only ntfs.

It does not fix libretro-mame2016

Same result.

You simply can not make squashfs writeable. This is by design.

This fixes only ntfs.

libretro-mame2016 (which I also mentioned in this other thread) still fails to download.

As I wrote above, this won't work because / is squashfs:

kodi-rpi4:~/.config # mount -oremount,rw /
kodi-rpi4:~/.config # echo "# huhu" >>/etc/bluetooth/main.conf
-sh: can't create /etc/bluetooth/main.conf: Read-only file system
kodi-rpi4:~/.config # grep " / " /proc/mounts
/dev/loop0 / squashfs ro,relatime 0 0
kodi-rpi4:~/.config #

Hello,

/etc is located on a squashfs and can therefore not be modified.

How is one supposed to change/override settings in files withhin /etc?

For some packages, directories exist in /storage/.config, but those directories exist not for all packages.

I would need to set FastConnectable=true in /etc/bluetooth/main.conf to fix issues with reconnect issues when libreelec is rebooted. But

find /storage -name '*blue*'

won't find me anything for a starting point.

Maybe there's some generic way for such setting changes/overrides?

I see, there is the dtoverrides mechanism. But from the README, it looks like this is only for hardware deviations.

Hello,

When trying to download packages for libreelec-10.0, I get following errors:

2022-01-03 00:43:23 (62.8 MB/s) - '/m/s/rep/git/foreign/LibreELEC.tv/sources/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23AR.5.tgz' saved [3408]


WARNING      Incorrect checksum calculated on downloaded file: got 0eba1944975ef2d4a399c90a934c205720dd2c515bc953895668d9bc52158c5c wanted 04ccf583b495806cefb71850e5899e50aed5e7bf23365259f2badaa9af21e5ed
--2022-01-03 00:43:23--  http://sources.libreelec.tv/mirror/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs/ntfs-3g_ntfsprogs-2017.3.23AR.5.tgz
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and


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2022-01-03 00:44:16 (3.91 MB/s) - '/m/s/rep/git/foreign/LibreELEC.tv/sources/libretro-mame2016/libretro-mame2016-d53c379892b0bd91b4a52fc2de491e1199f03e32.tar.gz' saved [114716556]


WARNING      Incorrect checksum calculated on downloaded file: got 3d73ea1d7d3a1322495da60216c07bf3198b9eb7cfbc3b57f92014b381e020c2 wanted bafcac133ff37fb3adeafd9960427e3314e682caf22d455395855d64553d46fe
--2022-01-03 00:44:17--  http://sources.libreelec.tv/mirror/libretro-mame2016/libretro-mame2016-d53c379892b0bd91b4a52fc2de491e1199f03e32.tar.gz

Are those files corrupt?

Got it (almost) working now.

Problem was, that module-udev-detect can be loaded only once at startup. So executing

echo "pactl load-module module-udev-detect" >> /storage/.config/autostart.sh

makes alsa sinks available after reboot.

After that, executing

pactl load-module module-combine-sink slaves=alsa_output.0.hdmi-stereo,bluez_sink.A4_77_58_02_93_FB.a2dp_sink

on the command line makes the device for simultanous output available to Kodi. Works fine so far.

Problem is, this last command won't work from autostart.sh to make this simultanous sink available after boot because the bluetooth speaker is not available at boot time.

Journalctl says:

Jan 01 14:18:06 kodi-rpi4 pulseaudio[352]: E: [pulseaudio] module-combine-sink.c: Invalid slave sink 'bluez_sink.A4_77_58_02_93_FB.a2dp_sink'
Jan 01 14:18:06 kodi-rpi4 pulseaudio[352]: E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-combine-sink" (argument: "slaves=alsa_output.0.hdmi-stereo,bluez_sink.A4_77_58_02_93_FB.a2dp_sink"): initialization failed.
Jan 01 14:18:18 kodi-rpi4 pulseaudio[352]: E: [pulseaudio] module-combine-sink.c: failed to parse module arguments
Jan 01 14:18:18 kodi-rpi4 pulseaudio[352]: E: [pulseaudio] module.c: Failed to load module "module-combine-sink" (argument: "sink_name=combined alsa_output.0.hdmi-stereo"): initialization failed.

the bluetooth sink is created only after I switch the bluetooth speaker off and on again.

So the question now is: is it possible to create the bluetoosh sink even before the connection to the actual device has been made?

Digging through pulseaudio, I found that

pactl module-load module-udev-detect

should detect alsa devices and make them available to pulseaudio. But for some reason, this command fails to detect those devices:

kodi-rpi4:~ # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: vc4hdmi0 [vc4-hdmi-0], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: vc4hdmi1 [vc4-hdmi-1], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
kodi-rpi4:~ # pactl unload-module module-udev-detect
kodi-rpi4:~ # pactl load-module module-udev-detect
45
kodi-rpi4:~ # pactl list short cards
1       bluez_card.A4_77_58_02_93_FB    module-bluez5-device.c
kodi-rpi4:~ #

Any idea why this command won't find the alsa cards?

Is there any way to debug pulseaudio?

Hello all,

I am trying to get audio output onto HDMI and a Bluetooth box working simultanously.

This wiki entry suggests that this should be possible with the pulseaudio module-combine-sink

Unfortunately, I have a hard time to find my audio sinks. The sinks I am interested in are listed by Kodi as:

ALSA: Default Audio Device ()
PULSE: Default, Bluetooth Audio (PULSEAUDIO)

But neither pactl nor amixer shows me those two devices:

kodi-rpi4:~ # pactl list short sinks
4       auto_null       module-null-sink.c      s16le 2ch 44100Hz       SUSPENDED
kodi-rpi4:~ # pactl info
Server String: /var/run/pulse/native
Library Protocol Version: 34
Server Protocol Version: 34
Is Local: yes
Client Index: 33
Tile Size: 65496
User Name: root
Host Name: kodi-rpi4
Server Name: pulseaudio
Server Version: 14.2
Default Sample Specification: s16le 2ch 44100Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: auto_null
Default Source: auto_null.monitor
Cookie: 6087:a029
kodi-rpi4:~ # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: vc4hdmi0 [vc4-hdmi-0], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: vc4hdmi1 [vc4-hdmi-1], device 0: MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0 [MAI PCM i2s-hifi-0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In addition, I get:

kodi-rpi4:~ # pacmd list-cards
No PulseAudio daemon running, or not running as session daemon.
kodi-rpi4:~ # export PULSE_RUNTIME_PATH=/run/pulse
kodi-rpi4:~ # pacmd list-cards
0 card(s) available.

Nevertheless, after executing

kodi-rpi4:~ # pacmd load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined

a new device appears in Kodi, called

PULSE: Simultanous output to Anker SoudCore (PULSEAUDIO)

When I select this device, my Bluetooth box plays fine. So the module-combine-sink basically seems to work. But how do I find the name of the HDMI sink so that I can add it to the combined sink?

What's more, all those settings don't change when I change outputs in Kodi.

https://kodi.wiki/view/PulseAudio says, it is not possible to have ALSA and Pulseaudio at the same time. But Kodi shows me ALSA devices as well as Pulseaudio devices. Can anybody elaborate on this? What is installed by default in a libreelec install on RPi 4B?

Thanks in Advance!