Posts by HiassofT

  • LibreElec 9.2.1: no more DHCP after a while

    While I agree that full DHCP conformance would be nice, kernel ip autoconfiguration, especially in combination with netboot/nfsroot is a rather special case. The assigned IP addresses have to be static and permanent.

    Consider what would happen if the DHCP server wouldn't renew your lease or give you a different IP. Basically all the client could do in that case is panic - you can't just shutdown network (as the rootfs would be lost) or unmount the NFS root and set up a new IP (when your NFS root is gone so are ifconfig, mount etc).

    It's best to see the kernel DHCP implementation as a nice shortcut so you don't have to manually specify the network parameters in the ip=... kernel option, more like BOOTP or RARP.

    See also the discussion in the predecessor of the linked PR connman: ignore kernel-configured netdev and improve resolv.conf handling by HiassofT · Pull Request #3883 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub


    so long,

    Hias

  • Rpi 4 + Libreelec + HyperionLE addon +

    Check if you selected the correct /dev/videoX device, input and video standard in the grabber configuration.

    Run v4l2-ctl --list-devices to get a list of the available V4L2 devices, this will also show the /dev/videoX provided by each v4l2 device.

    Then run v4l2-ctl -d /dev/videoX -n to get a list of the input numbers, this will also print some readable names (like "S-Video", "Composite1" etc).

    so long,

    Hias

  • LibreELEC (Leia) 9.2.1

    If you had (temporarily) installed a Milhouse build you have to uninstall all addons as your addons have been upgraded to Python 3 / Kodi-Matrix only versions. Starting from scratch or restoring a backup may be an easier solution.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

    The debug log doesn't show you playing any file - so doesn't help much. Please try again and when the screen goes black ssh in and run "pastebinit /storage/.kodi/temp/kodi.log", then post the URL.

    I noticed you have the RPi VNC server installed, please disable or uninstall it, it uses the dispmanx grabber as well and might interfere.

    BTW: Enable "wait for network" in the LE settings will fix the timestamp issue - kodi is starting before the network connection is up and at this point it didn't get the correct time from the NTP servers.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

    I tried playing the linked youtube video but I haven't been able to reproduce the issue here. Video info showed that the 1920x1080 25fps stream was played and tvservice -s showed that video output was 1920x1080p50.

    I've tested both with LE 9.2.0 and the upcoming 9.2.1 release (should be out soon) with Estuary and Confluence skins. All overlays (progress bar, info) showed fine and the video signal didn't drop out.

    Please post a debug log, that should give some hints if some of your settings are different to what I'm using here.

    PS: reboot taking a couple of minutes when you hit the no signal issue is quite normal, I also get that here (the system has to run into a couple of timeouts until it's able to shut down).

    so long,

    Hias

  • Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

    Make sure you disable 25-30Hz in the whitelist (i.e. only include 24 and 50-60Hz) mode. If you enable 25-30Hz then these will be picked up when playing 50 or 60Hz interlaced content (which need to be output at 50p/60p) and playback will go south.

    Which such a setup I didn't have any issues playing 1080i50 and 1080p50 H264 content with Hyperion enabled.

    If you still have issue please post a link to a sample video that will trigger this issue - so far I haven't been able to reproduce the no screen issue by playing back a 1080 file, only with Netflix and 4k content.

    Not sure why a reboot doesn't solve the no signal issue for you, this works fine here. Did your RPi really come back after a reboot (i.e. could you ssh in)? If that's the case have you tried turning of/on your TV - could also be that the TV somehow got upset by the signal from the RPi.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

    The problem with the dispmanx grabber in the RPi firmware is that it needs a lot of RAM bandwidth. It downscales the full (HD or 4k) image down to 64x64 (or whatever's configured in hyperion) which is then processed by hyperion. If that needs too much RAM bandwidth the HDMI output "starves" (can't get it's data in time) and the screen cuts out.

    The downscale processes every pixel on screen which could probably be optimized (eg checking only every 2nd/4th/8th... pixel) which should still give a good enough approximation for hyperion, be a lot quicker and save a lot of RAM bandwidth.

    Such a thing might be easier to do with V4L2 decoders, a new grabber could directly hook into kodi (or get the video buffers with decoded images from kodi) and could implement optimized downscaling in userspace.

    But that's something for the future and of course a new grabber (which could then work on all platforms using V4L2 decoders) plus some plumbing on kodi side would need to be implemented in hyperion.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Hyperion addon does not work with inputstream.adaptive (Netflix etc.) with Pi4

    Probably, as the dispmanx grabber has similar known issues with 4k playback etc.

    As this issue here only seems to show up when using the binary-only widevine CDM, eg on netflix, (youtube with inputstream adaptive works fine here) it's tricky to find out what's actually happening.

    Dispmanx grabber issues are known for a long time but fixing them is rather low priority. Development focus of RPi kernel+firmware is on reducing power consumption (which already looks quite good) and on getting the non-firmware graphics driver and V4L2 decoders working.

    so long,

    Hias

  • External screengrabber wont take screenshot in hypercon

    First make sure you have the hyperion addon version 9.2.0.112 installed - in earlier versions the screenshot function was broken.

    I don't have an external grabber but with the internal (dispmanx) grabber on RPi4 the screenshot function works fine in hypercon. If I select the v4l2 grabber the connection log ("Show Traffic" in hypercon) shows that it tries to use hyperion-v4l2 but can't open /dev/video0 (which is expected).

    If you can't get it working please post the output of "Show Traffic" after trying to grab a screenshot.

    so long,

    Hias

  • Reboot = Hdmi Signal Drop Rpi4

    There are no downsides using the LibreELEC addon. We regularly update it to current version (though there isn't much happening ATM - we skipped the opencv grabber as that's not used in LE) and as it's created within our build system you can also be sure that it'll work, even if you update LibreELEC to a new version (in which case the hyperion addon will be automatically updated, too).

    so long,

    Hias

  • Reboot = Hdmi Signal Drop Rpi4

    I'd strongly recommend switching to the LibreELEC hyperion addon, then you'll also get regular updates.

    ISTR the hyperion installer copies stuff to /storage/hyperion and modifies /storage/.config/autostart.sh to start it automatically on boot.

    It should be enough to backup hyperion.config.json from your current installation, remove the files and directories (including autostart.sh), install the LibreELEC addon and then use the LibreELEC hypercon version to upload your hyperion.config.json file.

    See Hyperion [LibreELEC.wiki] and Hypercon [LibreELEC.wiki] and/or search the forum for Hyperion

    so long,

    Hias