Posts by VLouis

  • Testing out LE on spare drive

    Quote from fpnfqc

    I have a spare hard drive and would like to install LibreElec on it to test it out. My current setup is a Win11/Debian dual boot desktop PC. The setup is dual boot, dual drive, so each OS has its own drive.

    Hi, Another question could be: what do you want to do finally with the Kodi? To install the Kodi with their own OS (like the LE), it's worth if you want to use that PC mostly as a HTPC. If you want occasionally to use the Kodi, to watch a movie, just simple install the Kodi at one of the existent OS, and use it. The LE intended to be the minimal OS for Kodi. That means, the driver support for some PC parts is limited, when at a "big" OS (Win11/Debian) that isn't a problem.

    BTW, I think you can try the LE without install, just run from the USB drive.

  • [RPi4] Headphone audio cracking/clipping on certain video steams

    If I know well, that jack output isn't a "real" audio output. It's one of the GPIO of the processor, used with software PWM and a bare bone RC filter to work as an audio output. And probably that is the reason why sometimes isn't synchronized perfectly with the video screen. That is working in this way for many years. If you wait for a fix for this, or switch to something else, with better sound quality, it's up to you only.

  • [RPi4] Headphone audio cracking/clipping on certain video steams

    Hi, "using the built-in 3.5mm headphone output on the Raspberry Pi" for video streams isn't the best combination. Some times ago I struggled with that, till I bought an RPi compatible audio DAC module. I don't exclude the possibility, in the future a solution for that, but low chance. The fast solution could be to buy an RPi audio DAC hat or an HDMI audio extractor module. Or if you have any USB-audio dongle around, you could try it too.

  • [RPi4] OSMC Remote Intermittently Forgotten by KODI

    Quote from ian_j

    Is there anything recommended that works out of the box.

    Looks like a simple "out of the box" solution doesn't exist for that. I you want to put some work in, try to start from beginning. Remove all devices from USB but the remote's dongle, install the latest 13 nightly to an SD card. Make only the basic settings and try the remote for a while. If working well, try to add back, step by step the USB devices, install addons. If you could find what trigger the issue with the remote, you are a step closer to find a solution.

  • [x86-64] Lenovo ThinkCentre M720q crashes overnight

    Hi, maybe isn't a "right solution" for this, but I'm using for a long time a daily reboot cron job. These OS's are developed to be used continuously... but that's true for an ideal world. For the "strange behaviors", a good prevention could be the regularly reboot. If you use a cron job like this: "15 04 * * * reboot", will reboot your device at everyday at 04:15 am.

  • [RPi4] LibreELEC will not boot

    Quote from nosen

    That could rule out LibreELEC being the issue.

    Just think about this a bit. It's a very large number of LE users have RPi4, if would be something with the LE, there would be a lot of complains about that. 99% it's something wrong with one of your RPi.

    Quote from nosen

    Will the "bad" RPi4 boot Raspberry Pi OS if you flash that onto an SD card?

    How long would take to try it? If you really want to solve that, why just wait for others, instead to try few simple things? Like if booting with PiOS, or from USB, or check for LED blinking (bootloader error codes)? Did you checked the link I sent to you about the eeprom bootloader?

  • Intel Alder Lake 2160p @ 23.976 Hz passthrough HD Audio dropouts (i7-1270p/N100)

    Quote from yamcenutzer

    Switch my NAS to nfs is like buying a new car because the windscreen got dirty (or, for smokers, because the ashtray is full). Not an option because of this.

    The problem with that "windscreen" isn't the "got dirty", was made for another car (SMB -> Windows) and probably doesn't fit perfectly for that car (Linux-LibreElec). :)

    That's like the eternal NTFS vs. EXT4 debate. When you use something linux based, NTFS drives can be used, but if you don't want trouble, the EXT4 is better. As the LibreElec it's linux based, the NFS probably perform better. The difference probably is "visible" only when the performance is pushed to the limit... Another thing is, most of the NAS able to use the both, SMB and NFS, so no need to change, just to enable a second option...

  • Build with preset LibreELEC settings?

    Quote from HomerJau

    It’s for non technical users. Asking them to install a program and how to use it is an added complication.

    The samba connection, with the latest security updates, user and password, isn't that was years ago. For "non technical users", an option would be to keep the backup file in an USB-stick. Then you could include in the image an autostart.sh file with something like if exist at the mounted USB-stick a specific folder with the backup inside, to start the restore process... I mean once somebody to start the LE with the "backup-stick" connected, and will do the restoring without any remote connection.

    BTW, the Filezilla have "removable" package, just unzip and run. Almost the same as a simple file browser.

  • Build with preset LibreELEC settings?

    Quote from HomerJau

    I’d like to build LibreELEC with preconfigured settings to allow users to access their device via SMB. They could then immediately copy a backup file and restore LE/Kodi completely configured with required add-ons, skin configuration, custom menu nodes etc.

    Hi, I'm just wondering, why need to be used the SMB? An SFTP connection with FileZilla, wouldn't do the same job, without the complication of enabling the SMB?

  • External USB hard drive not showing up in Libreelec.

    Quote from hy_tek

    Is there a fix or an older version of libreelec that doesn't have this problem?

    Hi, unfortunately perfect solution isn't exist (yet?). It's few options you can try (if you want).

    Older LE version. The huge advantage of the RPi is running OS from a SD card. So, take an anther card and try an older release.

    Switching to another format type. The best compatibility for linux is the EXT4, but in that case that HDD will be a bit harder accessible with Windows. Workaround exist, like EXT4 "driver" for Windows, or using Linux on the PC: Dual boot or just a live linux from USB. You probably isn't "walk" with that HDD daily between RPi and PC. I'm using EXFAT for this purpose as it's a "portable format" type and didn't had any serious problem with that.