Posts by HiassofT

Both will work fine, choose whatever suits you best.

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Hias

LibreELEC is using udevil to auto-mount external drives.

In addition to udevil that'a a udev rule to determine which drives/partitions to auto-mount, a systemd service template to perform the mounting/unmounting and the udevil config file (which defines filesystem types, options etc).

All config files are here in our repo: LibreELEC.tv/packages/sysutils/udevil at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

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Hias

This is a known issue on 1GB RPi4s, it's a bit short on memory.

Try adding cma=64M at the end of /flash/cmdline.txt, see here for more info: RPI4 on Libreelec 9.1.502 thumbnail/pictures problems

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Hias

Your initial problem was not with the total size of your SSD, but that older OpenELEC/LibreELEC versions created a rather small boot partition (/flash on the filesystem) which now became too small. Re-installing current LE (wiping your previous partitions) will fix that.

Current LibreELEC will work fine even on an 8GB SSD/SD-card/HDD, although I'd really recommend going for 32GB (or more) to have some spare room for larger movie libraries. If you want to store media files on your SSD/HDD/... you'll need a lot more space, of course.

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Hias

You already got the answer to your (identical) question on the kodi forum: Updating for codecs?

Yes, RPi4 will decode h265.

If your receiver doesn't support E-AC3 simply don't enable E-AC3 passthrough in audio settings (it's disabled by default).

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Hias

This is a known issue with Kodi Matrix/gbm. The milestone for fixing this has recently been moved to the next kodi version (20). See [GBM] add ability to screenshot with video plane by lrusak · Pull Request #18741 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub

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Hias

Correct. FKMS was basically a stop-gap to transition to standard linux drivers, all development is now focussed on KMS. 10-bit output, 4k etc will be added at some point but we don't have any ETA.

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This is normal, 4k isn't supported by the RPi4 KMS driver yet, this still needs to be implemented.

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Hias

Most devices use the kernel default of 128k (CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17), not sure why Generic is set to 64k. Would be best if you created a PR and change it to 17, too

hias@delle:~/private/libreelec/libreelec-git$ git grep CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT
projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Allwinner/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Amlogic/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=18
projects/Generic/linux/linux.x86_64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=16
projects/NXP/devices/iMX6/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=18
projects/Qualcomm/devices/Dragonboard/linux/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=14
projects/RPi/devices/RPi/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/RPi/devices/RPi2/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/RPi/devices/RPi4/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3288/linux/default/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3328/linux/default/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Rockchip/devices/RK3399/linux/default/linux.aarch64.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17
projects/Samsung/linux/linux.arm.conf:CONFIG_LOG_BUF_SHIFT=17

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Hias

Yes, that should work fine. An MCE USB receiver (the HP branded ones you can find cheaply on ebay work very well) or switching to an RPi4 (which uses a "real" USB controller) are other alternatives to the ones mentioned on the wiki.

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Hias

This is a well known issue, see here Infra-Red Remotes - LibreELEC.wiki

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Hias

No problem at all, this isn't too obvious.

As a rule of thumb: it's best to forget everything you learned about or find on search engines on the legacy style of video configuration/setup on RPi (i.e. hdmi... settings in config.txt)

With the switch to the KMS video driver we now use the same methods to configure video as eg Intel/AMD or all other ARM/... platforms use.

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Hias

This is normal - tvservice uses the legacy functions which aren't relevant for master builds anymore (we still kept the legacy programs for testing ATM).

Use eg modetest to find out what displays are connected and what resolutions are supported.

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Hias

This is a question only the developer of the VPN manager addon can answer - it's not an official LibreELEC addon.

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Hias

kill, killall and pidof are all available in LibreELEC, no need to install anything

LibreELEC (official): 9.2.6 (RPi4.arm)
xbmc:~ # which kill killall pidof
/usr/bin/kill
/usr/bin/killall
/usr/bin/pidof

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Hias

Don't worry about automatic updates, we only enable that for minor version updates (eg 9.2.5->9.2.6). Major version upgrades (eg 9.2.x->10) need to be done manually.

You haven't mentioned which platform you are using, but if you are using an RPi then, yes, hyperion won't work on LE10 as hyperion(ng) doesn't have a working grabber for that yet.

On Generic//x86 the hyperion addon with the X11 grabber should work as before.

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Hias

There's a PR to add hyperion ng BROKEN: Hyperion-NG by CvH · Pull Request #4673 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub but currently there are major issues in building it and it doesn't work.

As neither hyperion nor hyperion ng support GBM yet Raspberry Pi 4 with Libreelec v19 / Kodi Matrix, no grabber is working · Issue #983 · hyperion-project/hyperion.ng · GitHub it's quite useless for anything other than X11 on Generic/x86 platforms or external video grabbers in LibreELEC 10. As we'll be using GBM on all platforms except Generic/x86 in LE 10 it's quite low on our priority list ATM.

Any help (PRs, fixes, etc) would be highly appreciated though, if the issues are resolved then hyperion ng will be included in LE.

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Hias

Quote from Anke

Question: is a SD moved from RPi3b it supposed to boot on RPi4 ?

No, not without quite a lot of hassle.

In the end, it will be a lot easier and safer if you just start from scratch with a fresh RPi4 installation.

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Hias