Posts by HiassofT

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?

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

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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Try adding this line to config.txt

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

Follow the instructions from the post vpeter linked to.

Then first test if your custom keymap works

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

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

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

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

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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If you dont't have /sys/class/rcX, then the remote receiver is quite certainly a HID device and the remote appears as a keyboard to the system.

Changing scancode-to-keycode mappings via ir-keytable is not possible in this case, but you can change the keycodes with a udev hwdb file - see eg here: Ok button doesn't work on H1 remote

To see all keycodes generated by the receiver you can use evtest (from the system tools package).

Some of these "keyboard" remotes are routed through eventlircd, by udev rules matching the device attributes. In that case the button presses show up as LIRC events instead of keyboard events in kodi debug log.

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Hias

The original xbox IR receiver is no longer supported but with another IR receiver (eg the one integrated into NUCs or an MCE USB receiver) and the lircd.conf file posted in this thread it should work.

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This is already implemented in the LE master branch: systemd: don't power off when power button is pressed by HiassofT · Pull Request #2658 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

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Hias

USB storage devices not behaving as they should is unfortunately not too uncommon - see the unusual_* files in the linux kernel: linux/drivers/usb/storage at master · torvalds/linux · GitHub

Please post your dmesg after an error has occurred - there should be some hints in it what went wrong.

You can then try to enable various quirks, add "usb-storage.quirks=XXXX:YYYY:Z" to the APPEND line in syslinux.cfg and check if they resolve your issues. Details about the available quirks are in the kernel documentation - look for usb-storage.quirks here: The kernel’s command-line parameters — The Linux Kernel documentation

As a wild guess you could try to disable UAS mode (quirk "u") and/or limit the number of sectors to transfer at a time (quirks "g" or "m").

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Hias

udev rules and separate scripts are the ancient method to configure the card, since LE7 the card is setup via .config/rpi-cirrus-config.sh - see also previous postings in this thread, eg Wolfson/Cirrus Logic audio card is now supported in official LibreELEC builds

Just copy the sample file in the config directory to rpi-cirrus-config.sh and add the following 2 lines

setup_line_in 8
set_mixer $line_out_signals $line_in_signals 32 2

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Hias

No soldering required on RPi3, you just plug in the audio card and screw in the board standoffs. Pretty much like Ikea

If you want to have all of that in a case it's best to stick to the well known vendors (HifiBerry, Justboom), they also sell cases for RPis with their specific DAC/Digi/... boards. Standard RPi cases are too small (the boards add height) and larger cases for other HATs might have the cutouts for RCA/Toslink/... connectors in the wrong place.

Of course you can use Lego, wood, ... to build your own case - if you like.

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Hias

Quote from openkd

ccache: error: execv of /home/openkd/http://LibreELEC.tv/build.LibreELEC-S905.arm-8.2-devel/toolchain/lib/gcc-linaro-aarch64-linux-gnu/bin/aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc.real failed: Exec format error

Amlogic (and Rockchip) use precompiled compilers to build the kernel. These are 64bit binaries, so if you try to run them on a 32bit system you'll get that error.

You could either change the gcc-linaro packages to download 32bit compilers or just switch to a 64bit build host - the latter would make building LibreELEC a lot easier.

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Hias

Quote from openkd

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/openkd/CoreELEC/build.CoreELEC-S905.arm-9.0-devel/openssl-1.0.2o/.i686-linux-gnu'

"i686-linux-gnu" means you are trying to build on a 32-bit system which is not supported - your build host has to be 64bit.

And you seem to try building CoreELEC, not LibreELEC. So please post your question(s) in the CoreELEC forum https://coreelec.org/forums/

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Hias

You can use the Zoom setting to get rid of encoded black bars. See Video playback - Official Kodi Wiki

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Quote from sky42

HiassofT

You can see what i have changed from the git checkout in my release posts. The 2 you want to look are #26 and #29. They are both running fine in short test without crashing kodi.

Thanks a lot for the info! Glad you got it working and that there doesn't seem to be an issue with gcc 8.1.

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Hias

Quote from sky42

HiassofT

Yes. df52423 is the LE master tree from 2 days ago (just checked).

Do these builds contain the exact same set of patches, as the working gcc 7.3 build and do they crash kodi or not?

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Hias