Posts by HiassofT

**HiassofT**

Which platform / build and which of IR receiver are you using? Please upload your dmesg output

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dmesg | paste

The xxxx8xxx/xxxx0xxx scancode change you are seeing is the toggle bit (it flips if you release a button and then press it again).

But this is quite odd, LE kernel contains a patch that enables the toggle bit on all RC6 protocol variants, not only on the original Microsoft MCE. So you should never get a xxxx8xxx scancode, only xxxx0xxx ones...

linux-057-removed-mce-customer-code-restriction-in-rc6-decode.patch

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Hias

**HiassofT**

It may be worth giving the current LE9 alpha version (8.90.003) or a current Milhouse build (see LibreELEC Testbuilds for RaspberryPi (Kodi 18.0) ) a try.

Quite a lot of ethernet and Wifi fixes for the RPi3B+ are included in these builds that are not in 8.2.5.

Also test the network performance (using iperf3 from the network-tools addon and a iperf3 client on some other box in your LAN), DLAN / powerline adapters can be problematic as well. Test with a "real" ethernet connection (ethernet cables and a switch) to see if this is an issue.

I can't comment on UPNP / DLNA, never used this.

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Hias

**HiassofT**

ffmpeg HEVC optimization patches are included in LE master tree, what's currently missing in LE master tree are the kodi patches needed to use these.

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Hias

**HiassofT**

I haven't used the keymap editor for ages so don't know if it's working or if it maybe has some issues.

Mapping remote buttons via a remote.xml file in /storage/.kodi/userdata/keymaps/ is working fine though.

Here's the remote.xml I'm using for my Hauppauge remote. I've remapped the power button to show the shutdown dialog window so my RPi doesn't unconditionally shut down if I accidentally press it.

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 <keymap>
  <global>
    <remote>
      <power>ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)</power>
    </remote>
  </global>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <remote>
      <red>AudioNextLanguage</red>
      <blue>ActivateWindow(SubtitleSearch)</blue>
      <green>SubtitleDelayMinus</green>
      <yellow>SubtitleDelayPlus</yellow>
      <star>ActivateWindow(Teletext)</star>
      <hash>NextSubtitle</hash>
    </remote>
  </FullscreenVideo>
  <FullscreenLiveTV>
    <remote>
      <livetv>ActivateWindow(PVROSDChannels)</livetv>
      <guide>ActivateWindow(PVRChannelGuide)</guide>
    </remote>
  </FullscreenLiveTV>
  <PVROSDChannels>
    <remote>
      <left>PreviousChannelGroup</left>
      <right>NextChannelGroup</right>
      <reverse>PreviousChannelGroup</reverse>
      <forward>NextChannelGroup</forward>
      <livetv>Close</livetv>
    </remote>
  </PVROSDChannels>
  <TVChannels>
    <remote>
      <reverse>PreviousChannelGroup</reverse>
      <forward>NextChannelGroup</forward>
      <livetv>Menu</livetv>
      <red>Container.NextViewMode</red>
    </remote>
  </TVChannels>
  <TVGuide>
    <remote>
      <reverse>PreviousChannelGroup</reverse>
      <forward>NextChannelGroup</forward>
      <guide>Menu</guide>
      <red>Container.SetViewMode(10)</red>
      <green>Container.SetViewMode(11)</green>
      <yellow>Container.SetViewMode(12)</yellow>
    </remote>
  </TVGuide>
  <Teletext>
    <remote>
      <star>Back</star>
    </remote>
  </Teletext>
</keymap>

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Enable debug logging in kodi and watch the kodi log with tail -f .kodi/temp/kodi.log while you press buttons to see which buttons are mapped to which keynames ("power", "red", "forward", ..).

The available actions and general info about remote/keyboard mapping are described in the kodi wiki Keymap - Official Kodi Wiki

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3 **HiassofT** August 15, 2018 at 9:57 AM

Update to LE 8.2.5 and remove your banned addons / repositories. I'd recommend doing a clean LE 8.2.5 installation and check if it works there.

Edit: also make sure Lirc is disabled in LE settings.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3 **HiassofT** August 14, 2018 at 9:33 PM

With LE9 you can just put a lircd.conf file in /storage/.config/ and then reboot. in LE 8.2 you have to enable Lirc in LE settings.

But I recommend following the wiki guide and create an ir-keytable configuration, this is the modern standard in Linux and more flexible and hassle-free. Only use lirc if you have an odd remote that is not supported yet by ir-keytable.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3 **HiassofT** August 14, 2018 at 9:04 PM

The hardware is identical for all RPis, just buy a TSOP34448 and connect it to the GPIO pins.

Then add "dtoverlay=gpio-ir" to config.txt to enable the Linux IR driver.

Read through this wiki page Infrared Remotes [LibreELEC.wiki] for info on how to configure the system for your particular remote.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · serial_ir on Biostar J3060NH **HiassofT** August 11, 2018 at 9:40 AM

Thanks a lot for the ir-ctl output!

It looks similar to a rc-6 signal, but not quite. The pulse/space lengths should be 222-666 or 666-1110 (except for the first one and another pulse/space mark at the beginning which are longer).

Your output shows some very small values of about 100 or less, so the signal can't be decoded properly.

Which rev of the atric IR-Einschalter are you using? The manual of rev5 mentions changes that resolved issues with some com ports. A mismatch in signal levels would explain these length deviations.

There were a couple of posts on the atric forum mentioning issues with unclean/noisy power supplies (and having to add resistors and/or filtering caps or a newer/fixed IR receiver+cable to cure them). This could also explain the issues, most IR receivers are rather sensitive to noise on the power supply.

On the system/software side the only thing the only thing that could cause these timing variations is IRQ latency. Check /proc/interrupts and make sure serial_ir is the only device using IRQ4, if some other device is using this IRQ as well go into the BIOS setup and move that device to it's own interrupt.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · serial_ir on Biostar J3060NH **HiassofT** August 10, 2018 at 12:25 PM

Which LE version are you using?

The timeouts reported by ir-ctl are fine, they should be shown after each pulse/space train (or at least after button release).

I've tested serial_ir a couple of months ago on an ancient P4 motherboard with on-board COM port and it worked fine there.

I can't really comment on your mainboard, but post the ir-ctl -r output of a short button press - this could already give some hints on what the issue could be.

It could be an electrical problem, so it would be good if you described the hardware you are using. In my tests I used a 5V compatible TSOP IR receiver and picked up +5V from an USB port of my PC. Then just connected GND and the TSOP IR output to the COM port.

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Hias

**HiassofT**

The maximum speed or class (10, UHS, ...) rating is rather meaningless, the important thing is random access performance.

As a rule of thumb stay away from noname / generic brand cards (they can be terribly slow or even utter crap) and go for cards with Class A1 rating.

Here's a recent speed comparison: https://forum.armbian.com/topic/954-sd-card-performance/?do=findcomment&comment=49811

I recently bought a bunch of Sandisk Extreme A1 32GB cards and I'm very happy with them. Samsung EVO are also OK, but with "EVO", "EVO+" and "EVO Plus" (yeah, I have all 3 variants) and different performance of these series I'd just go for Sandisk A1 where the situation is a bit simpler

Edit: Oh, and only buy from reputable dealers, there are a lot of fake cards out there.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Possible to enable local DNS caching? **HiassofT** July 27, 2018 at 9:01 AM

Usually you'll have a caching DNS server running on your router so there's no need to run another DNS cache on each system in your LAN.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Keyboard doesn´t work properly **HiassofT** July 27, 2018 at 8:51 AM

There's an eventlircd udev rule with the USB id (idVendor=04f2, idProduct=0618) of your wireless HID receiver, so LibreELEC will treat your keyboard/mouse as a remote.

Can you copy /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/98-eventlircd.rules to /storage/.config/udev.rules.d/ and then remove these 3 lines?

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ENV{ID_VENDOR_ID}=="04f2", ENV{ID_MODEL_ID}=="0618", \
  ENV{eventlircd_enable}="true", \
  ENV{eventlircd_evmap}="topseed.evmap"

As an easier alternative to editing the rule you can test with eventlircd disabled, run systemctl mask eventlircd - but note that then IR remotes won't work properly.

Not exactly sure why this udev rule was added about 7 years ago eventlircd: add support for more Chicony and Topseed remotes · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv@c73b3bb · GitHub - in OpenELEC 0.99 days - probably the same receiver is/was also used for some wireless remote.

The rule seems to be too unspecific. The receiver registers many input devices, the rule matches all, but should only match the one used for remotes. We'll have to think about the best way to fix that.

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Hias

**HiassofT**

There's not much to adjust. Just set the correct TV norm in config.txt (I use sdtv_mode=2 for PAL) and then use the video calibration in Kodi to compensate for the overscan.

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Hias

**HiassofT**

Try adding this line to config.txt

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audio_pwm_mode=1

LE 8.2.5 comes with an updated firmware which should improve analog audio output quality, but needs a bit more GPU power. Setting audio_pwm_mode to 1 switches to the previous analog audio output implementation.

Details about that are in this thread Analogue audio redux - Raspberry Pi Forums

I'm using analog video on a RPi3B+ with LE9 testbuilds and it's working fine - but I also have a soundcard on my RPi so don't use analog audio out of the RPi.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Protocols changed to mce_kbd rc-6 **HiassofT** July 24, 2018 at 5:35 PM

Follow the instructions from the post vpeter linked to.

Then first test if your custom keymap works

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ir-keytable -c -w /storage/.config/rc_keymaps/mce_plus_keyboard

If that worked, this means the keymap is fine.

Then test if rc_maps.cfg works

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ir-keytable -a /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg

Please check the wiki for more details, especially the "Configuration, the easy way" section - this is very similar to what you need to do.

Infrared Remotes [LibreELEC.wiki]

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Hias

**HiassofT** · USB DAC Native DSD Support **HiassofT** July 23, 2018 at 6:42 AM

The quirks patch found it's way into the 4.18 kernel: ALSA: usb-audio: add more quirks for DSD interfaces · torvalds/linux@f656891 · GitHub

You could try a recent Milhouse build with 4.18-rc6 kernel, but keep in mind this is bleeding edge and highly experimental

LibreELEC Testbuilds for x86_64 (Kodi 18.0)

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Shutdown on single button press **HiassofT** July 20, 2018 at 9:05 PM

A couple of months ago I tested with the gpio-shutdown dtoverlay on LE9 and it worked as expected (power off and on by a button on GPIO3) -no need for any additional python scriptery.

I haven't used the gpio-poweroff dtoverlay yet, but if it doesn't work please drop me a line and I'll look into it.

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Hias

**HiassofT** · Shutdown on single button press **HiassofT** July 19, 2018 at 5:10 PM

This can be changed easily with a kodi keyboard.xml file. Just map the "power" key to "ShutDown()" - the default is "ActivateWindow(ShutdownMenu)".

Keymap - Official Kodi Wiki

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Hias

Posts by HiassofT

Get Kathrein RCU-676 remote to work with LE9

Multiple problems with Raspberry Pi 3B+

[SOLVED] RPi: Error compiling ffmpeg 4.0.2 with hevc optimizations

How to Remap my media center remote buttons

Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3

Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3

Adding a IR receiver on rpi 3

serial_ir on Biostar J3060NH

serial_ir on Biostar J3060NH

Miro SD speed affect LE/Kodi performance?

Possible to enable local DNS caching?

Keyboard doesn´t work properly

LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2.5 and AV Video Out

LibreELEC-RPi2.arm-8.2.5 and AV Video Out

Protocols changed to mce_kbd rc-6

USB DAC Native DSD Support

Shutdown on single button press

Shutdown on single button press