Posts by HiassofT

  • [RPi] Automatic Resolution and Refresh Rate Adjustments

    Setup a whitelist and enable "Adjust refresh rate" - see eg here https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr (it applies to non-4k setups as well).

    Also enable "allow double refresh rates" and/or "Allow 3:2 pulldown" if needed - this can help kodi picking the correct resolution if it doesn't have an exact match (but has 2 or 3:2 times the refresh rate).

    If kodi can't find any matching resolution/refresh rate it will use the one that you configured for the GUI.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Using a remote control with lircd.conf in LibreElec(12)/Kodi?

    This doesn't look right, you also should see lircd-uinput running (and, yes, eventlircd also has to run):

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    # ps | grep lirc
  489 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/eventlircd -f --evmap=/etc/eventlircd.d --socket=/run/lirc/lircd
  932 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd --nodaemon /storage/.config/lircd.conf
  933 root      0:00 /usr/sbin/lircd-uinput --add-release-events
 2115 root      0:00 grep lirc

    As for key naming: you have to stick to the standard linux input keynames (eg KEY_LEFT etc) - see eg /usr/lib/udev/rc_keymaps/rc6_mce.toml

    so long,

    Hias

  • Using a remote control with lircd.conf in LibreElec(12)/Kodi?

    To enable lirc simply copy your lircd.conf file to /storage/.config/lircd.conf and create an empty rc_maps.cfg with touch /storage/.config/rc_maps.cfg then reboot.

    Another option you can try is to use lircd2toml.py (it's included in LE) to convert your lircd.conf file to an ir-keytable toml file - this supports some additional protocols via bpf decoder and may or may not work with your remote. If it works, better use that instead of lircd.

    so long,

    Hias

  • HyperHDR suspend not working

    BTW: I did a quick test with LE on a PC and verified that the PrepareForSleep dbus events (which hyperhdr is supposed to listen on) are properly sent on suspend/resume:

    I also checked our hyperhdr build and verified power management is properly enabled.

    So I highly suspect this is some bug in hyperhdr code, you might want to bring that to the attention of the hyperhdr author's - it should work on LE just like on any other linux distro.

    so long,

    Hias

  • HyperHDR suspend not working

    What exactly did you do with the suspend script and what do you mean by "it didn't work"?

    After adding the systemd service file to /storage/.config/system.d you have to adjust it (if you changed the webui port number in hyperhdr) and then use "systemctl enable NAME_OF_THE_SERVICE_FILE" to enable it.

    There are two reasons why I didn't include the suspend script in the addon:

    First of all the addon system doesn't support multiple systemd units/services per addon so only the main one (service.hyperhdr) would ever get enabled automatically.

    Second, the suspend systemd file contains hard-coded port numbers of 8090 which won't work anymore (and could upset any other service running on that port) if you change the port number in the hyperhdr configuration. That's quite a PITA, even if you change it it would get overwritten on every addon upgrade.

    Therefore, just use the manual approach, you only have to do it once after installing and it'll survive addon updates as well.

    PS: I can't help testing / verifying if the suspend systemd service works as I don't have any LE systems that support suspend/resume here.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Slice4s

    Thanks a lot for reporting back, and glad to hear it's working for you, too!

    You can safely ignore (and actually should dtop) the ancient Linux patches, they are no longer needed nowadays.

    The mmc patch dates back long before we switched to reference the flash and system partitions by UUID, when the EMMC/SD card device ordering still mattered - with UUIDs it doesn't matter if the EMMC is /dev/mmc0 or /dev/mmc1.

    The cs4265 patch also predates changes to the upstream cs4265 driver and isn't needed anymore.

    And the alsa card conf was only needed for kodi so it recognises an IEC958/SPDIF capable device to allow AC3/DTS passthrough via Toslink(SPDIF. A few years ago I looked into improving the (incomplete) SPDIF support but realized a lot of important bits were missing in the cs4265 driver to transmit proper channel status information - then gave up and shortly afterwards SPDIF got broken again in the cs4265 driver due to changes in the upstream code. So better use HDMI if you need/want to pass through AC3/DTS/..., receivers with only SPDIF input are also quite rare today.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Slice4s

    Please give this slice-drivers branch a try: https://github.com/HiassofT/slice…/kernel-5.10%2B

    And here's an LE13 branch that pulls in the driver for RPi2 (you'll need to adjust the RPi4 options for your CM4s): https://github.com/HiassofT/LibreELEC.tv/tree/le13-slice

    A few years ago I tried to clean up the slice (soundcard) driver, I dug out the branch again and noticed a couple more fixes are required now and added those today (I also ran into the distorted sound issue).

    The RPi2 LE13 build worked fine on my Slice with CM3 with just dtoverlay=slice added to config.txt (this enables audio, IR and the RTC), analog audio out sounds fine now.

    Note: SPDIF out doesn't work since a change to the cs4265 upstream driver some years ago, I haven't looked at that.

    I also didn't care about the dt-blob.bin files from the slice-firmware repo, using the blobs from old Slice images works fine to get USB/ethernet working - you may need to create your own dt-blob for CM4s.

    so long,

    Hias

  • [RPi] Composite fighting at every turn

    Actually two changes are required, you also need to change cmdline.txt. See the docs in config.txt just before the distroconfig include:

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    # 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

    Note that everything in cmdline.txt must be on a single line, so separate the video=... just with a space from your current content. And don't forget the 'e' at the end of the video mode, otherwise kodi won't be happy.

    so long,

    Hias

  • [RPi5] PCIe to Ethernet not recognised

    The image I provided already includes the Realtek R8169 driver mentioned in the Waveshare docs and according to your log the ethernet adapter was detected just fine as eth1:

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    Sep 03 18:37:19.569160 LibreELEC kernel: r8169 0001:04:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
Sep 03 18:37:19.577761 LibreELEC kernel: r8169 0001:04:00.0: can't read MAC address, setting random one
Sep 03 18:37:19.588967 LibreELEC kernel: videodev: Linux video capture interface: v2.00
Sep 03 18:37:19.594613 LibreELEC kernel: r8169 0001:04:00.0 eth1: RTL8168h/8111h, ae:7f:66:a5:82:77, XID 541, IRQ 194
Sep 03 18:37:19.594825 LibreELEC kernel: r8169 0001:04:00.0 eth1: jumbo features [frames: 9194 bytes, tx checksumming: ko]

    So you should have an eth1 interface available (check with "ifconfig eth1"), note though that LE doesn't support multiple network interfaces and you have to configure it manually - you may need to adjust whatever you did to set up you USB ethernet adapter.

    so long,

    Hias