Posts by HiassofT

Thanks a lot for reporting back, the fix for RPi, Allwinner, Rockchip etc has already been added to LE11 and LE12 https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/8123 and will be in the next nightly builds (and also in further releases): https://test.libreelec.tv/

Amlogic is a different thing though, the LE kernels didn't include the offending change (but other changes that might affect multichannel PCM), I'll leave that to chewitt

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Thanks, kodi_crashlog_20230905155633.log indeed shows that kodi is crashing in the alsa lib, I've informed heitbaum about it.

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Hias

Hmm, unfortunately the interesting bit, the stack backtrace, was missing in the log.

Could check if you have more kodi_crashlog files in /storage/.kodi/temp and upload them, too (eg with "pastebinit

/storage/.kodi/temp/kodi_crashlog_<SOMETIMESTAMP>.log")

According to the log there should also be a /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi_crashlog_20230907190747.log file (there might be more, but older ones will eventually get cleaned up automatically).

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My bet would be on the ALSA update https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/pull/8095

But we need logs to be certain:

Add "ssh" to the end of cmdline.txt (on the same line, use eg notepad++ on windows to edit that on the FAT partition), then quickly ssh in after boot, while kodi is in a crash loop and enter "systemctl stop kodi".

Then run "pastecrash" to update the crash log info and post the URL you got - from there we can look further.

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Hias

Can you please test with this LE11 RPi4 build and report back if multichannel PCM works again?

https://www.horus.com/~hias/tmp/libreelec/LibreELEC-RPi4.arm-11.0-devel-20230907220746-677274a.tar

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Did it work fine with 11.0.1?

If yes then quite certainly the reason is I messed up (chewitt reported it to me earlier this week). A fix for that should be out soon (just need to find some spare time).

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I've had good experience with Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB, just be sure to buy from a reputable seller as there are lots of fakes out there from shady sellers on ebay, aliexpress, amazon marketplace etc.

Anything below 32GB doesn't make sense price-wise, if you need more space then choose a larger one (although I'd use a separate, external USB storage device for that).

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Hias

We are still waiting for an updated rpi.gpio package which finally uses the standard libgpiod method instead of the ancient, hacky direct memory access which is soon going to break.

Once that's released we'll update the package and the RPi tools addon and make it available for RPi4/aarch64 as well.

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Hias

Kodi doesn't support / respect the set screen orientation so, sorry, no, there's no solution yet.

I think kodi devs are aware of that but it wouldn't hurt if you open a kodi issue if one doesn't exist yet here:
https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues

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More precisely in LE 9.2.x RPi4 builds used a 32bit kernel, LE 10 and later use the 64 bit kernel.

in LE12 some of the 64bit-capable devices (RPi4, Allwinner) were switched from 32bit userspace to 64bit - but some devices (Amlogic, Rockchip) are still missing and run with 32bit userspace. They may or may not be switched to 64bit userspace as well at some point.

While RPi3 and later RPi2s would be capable of running 64bit kernel and userspace we currently have no plans to release separate 64bit "RPi3" builds. It would just complicate things and as there are known issues with the dwc_otg USB driver in 64bit due to missing FIQ support (esp with USB audio cards) the overall user experience might be worse than it's now.

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Hias

Quote from gadget_guy

Has anybody successfully seen CEC work through an HDMI splitter?

Last time I checked CEC worked fine with my HDFury VRRoom - a really nice device but it might be a bit over your budget.

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Hias

FYI: the PoE HAT fix is now included in latest LE11 and LE12 nightlies (20230801 and later)

https://test.libreelec.tv/11.0/RPi/RPi4/

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Jul 31 19:57:18.913648 LibreELEC kernel: hwmon hwmon0: Undervoltage detected!

Use a proper power supply and try again.

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Hias

Do a fresh installation of LE 11.0.3 and follow the instructions in config.txt - this has been tested on RPi3 and RPi4

# Use distroconfig-composite.txt instead of distroconfig.txt to enable
# composite video output.
# The composite video mode needs to be configured in cmdline.txt:
# For PAL add: video=Composite-1:720x576@50ie
# For NTSC add: video=Composite-1:720x480@60ie
################################################################################
include distroconfig.txt
#include distroconfig-composite.txt

You can change settings level in the left sidemenu in settings - at the botton it says Basic/Standard/Advanced/Expert

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Hias

There are 2 minor - but important issues:

First, you have to use "gpio_ir_recv" (as reported under "Driver:" in the ir-keytable output) as the first parameter, not "gpio-rc-recv" (that was the old driver name several years ago, but that has changed).

Second, the "rc-rc6-mce" keytable parameter comes from the IR driver, and in this case the gpio-ir dtoverlay (the dtoverlay has a parameter to change that, but that's not needed and could cause other issues if you invent some new name here) - see https://github.com/raspberrypi/li…DME#L1315-L1316

To keep it simple you can ignore the keytable name and use "*" as the second parameter.

So, to sum it up, rc_maps.cfg should look like this:

gpio_ir_recv * nec_alma.toml

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Hias

New LE12 nightly images are available now

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Unfortunately we currently have issues with our CI ATM (it's being investigated) so we don't have builds with the deinterlace improvement yet.

I hope we can resolve the issues soon and new builds are up in the next few days.

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Hias

You can do this with Kodi's JSON-RPC API, it also supports notifications on playback start/end.

JSON-RPC API - Official Kodi Wiki

Make sure you have "Allow remote control from applications on this system" enabled in Kodi settings->Services->Control

To test this functionality on LE you can use texturecache.py monitor - this will print the notifications sent by kodi. eg when playing a movie:

LibreELEC:~ # texturecache.py monitor
2023-07-25 12:47:13.082270: Playlist.OnAdd       : {"item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}, "playlistid": 1, "position": 0}
2023-07-25 12:47:13.132988: Player.OnPlay        : {"item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}, "player": {"playerid": 1, "speed": 1}}
2023-07-25 12:47:13.885345: Player.OnAVChange    : {"item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}, "player": {"playerid": 1, "speed": 1}}
2023-07-25 12:47:13.894253: Player.OnAVStart     : {"item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}, "player": {"playerid": 1, "speed": 1}}
2023-07-25 12:47:13.905896: Player.OnAVChange    : {"item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}, "player": {"playerid": 1, "speed": 1}}
2023-07-25 12:47:23.863005: VideoLibrary.OnUpdate: {"id": -1, "type": ""}
2023-07-25 12:47:23.893663: Player.OnStop        : {"end": true, "item": {"title": "H264_01_1080i_25-mobcal_ter.mkv", "type": "movie"}}

Have a look at /usr/bin/texturecache.py to see how that's implemented

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Hias