Posts by VLouis

Quote from Xplosion

I think it´'s a problem with the TV, but i will try the HDMI 2.0 Cable today and post the results here.

Hi, if you tried with 3 different HDMI cables, could be the TV (HDMI connector, EDID chip). Another idea, if you have around another TV, preferably HD-ready, connect the RPi to that TV, and if working, save the TV EDID data (SSH - run "getedid create"). In this way, the LE will use always the EDID "backup" instead to try to read it from TV. Always start the TV before power up the RPi. I had issues with EDID detection if the TV was in StBy when the RPi booted (resolved by "getedid create").

Quote from danny80

I would now like to send the video to the TV and the sound to a 5.1 sound system (Teufel Concept E400). How can I realize this most easily?

Hi, if you have the "Teufel Concept E400" and not the "Concept E 400 Digital", you have only analog inputs (6 RCA connector). Maybe you can try with a USB-Audio adapter, with 5.1 analog audio outputs (3x jack or 6x RCA connectors). The question is if the LE will have a propper driver for it.

Quote from Giedrius7x

DJI action cameras and drones creating in sd card mp4 video files and simultaneously generated LRF files that mean Low resolution file. This file MPEG-4 format 1280x720 resolution 29fps and about 8000 bitrate, must can play in any devise. 4k Resolution video file can not play any device, like raspberry pi, but LRF file creating for this reason. In sd card file list not showing LRF files, just mp4. Can somebody make this issues.

That "LRF" files have ".lrf" extension? In that case because the .rlf isn't a standard video file type (name), that is the reason why the Kodi don't recognized and don't know "what to do" with them. Did you tried to rename it to ".mp4"?

Quote from Xplosion

Any other idea?

In the past I had exactly the same issue, RPi3B, HDMI, HD-ready TV (LG), when I switched from LE v.9 to v.10, and was because of a poor quality HDMI cable... If you didn't tried yet, try to change the HDMI cable. Maybe you have same issue.

And instead to upgrade to LE v.10, why you don't go directly to the latest v.11? I'm on LE 12 nightly (2x RPi3B, 1x RPi4B) and works very well. One of the best thing in the RPi is the SD card... If you have one (or more ) spare SD card, anytime you can try something new and on the other card you always have a working "backup".

Hi, you can try to just plug in and check the wifi connections. Most of USB-wifi dongles are usable without any additional driver. If you want to disable the onboard wifi, in the "config.txt" add the "dtoverlay=disable-wifi" line.

Another way... I'm used my RPi3B with a USB-wifi dongle, till I made some modification on the RPi board (some soldering) to be able to use external wifi antenna. It can be done on the RPi4 too, if you have some soldering skill... https://community.element14.com/members-area/p…starring-a-rpi4

Quote from frugirune

In essence, it doesn't work as intended because the goal was to change audio output automatically depending on the chosen medium to play.

Hi, you should take a look at the "Audio Profiles" settings "Auto Switch" section... I'm using that to auto change the sound output for video (profile1 - HDMI) and music (profile2 - HifiBerry-DAC)... If do you use a remote controller, you can change the audio output by assigning a remote button to popup the "Audio profiles window". Create a "remote.xml" file in ...../.kodi/userdata/keymaps/ to use the remote's "blue" button for this:

<keymap>
<global>
<remote>
<blue>RunScript(script.audio.profiles,popup)</blue>
</remote>
</global>
</keymap>

Hi, theoretically the "default" (after boot) audio output you can change in the kodi settings (system/audio...). About the Audio Profiles Addon... it's well documented here: https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Audio_Profiles and https://forum.kodi.tv/showthread.php?tid=353852.

Quote from frugirune

Cycling through profiles has no impact (on any of my RPis) on which audio port is active - it is not overriding/changing system settings - what do I do wrong?

First you need to link in the addon settings the "phisical" audio port to an addon "profile" (it's 10 profiles are available). Each profile can be labeled with a name (like the "digital" or "analog"), I'm using as the label "HDMI" for profile 1 linked to the HDMI output (ALSA:Default...hdmi), and "HIFI" linked to the I2S (ALSA:...Hifiberry-DAC). To link... prepair the profiles (add/change name, enable....etc), go to the settings/system/audio, change the output (verify if working - have sound at that output), then go to settings/addons... Audio Profiles, select "Run" and assign one enabled profile to the active sound output. It's not an "plug and play" addon, need some work in the settings, but isn't a "rocket science" to make it to work.

Quote from gaspin

I have read in this forum that if you try to connect by ssh and you put the command getedid create would be fixed,

Hi, That command is useful in the case when sometimes the RPi (LE - at startup) doesn't detect the display (ex. some displays in stand-by mode doesn't provide EDID information trough HDMI). You are sure don't have any hardware issue? Try with another HDMI cable, another HDMI output/input, another display... I'm using RPi4B with LE too, and I don't have HDMI/Display problem (I have set a cronjob for LE to reboot it every night and I used that getedid command to ensure the display is "detected" even if in StBy).

Quote from genaker

I wasnt' able to get the logs, I checked the instructions but I couldn't do it...

To solve that needs information, and the "TP-Link wifi usb adapter for my rpi2 and Libreelec doesnt decognize" doesn't to much. So you need to provide a log and could be usefull some "extended" information about wifi adapter model, LE version...

I had maybe a similar experience last week when tried to update (RPi3B, LE12 nightly) and found two "surprise", my preferate skin and the wifi usb adapter (cheap, RTL8192EU chipset) not worked. Tried the latest LE12 nightly today (seen in changelog "iwlwifi-firmware package updates"), and the usb-wifi working again...

Quote from LybsterKodi

I going to convert my 6TB HDD to EXT4 as soon as I free up a PC to install Linux on that's fast enough to transfer everything from backup to the reformatted disk.

You don't need to install linux for that. You could use a "Live linux" from USB stick. Tip: search for "Ventoy" (booting ISO directly from USB stick) and "Xubuntu". Just be carefull, "playing" with partitions could lead to data lost...

Quote from retropie boy

i just got it a sundisk last year. everything been work I had retropie along with kodi on it. I have a portable hard drive aka DV drive connected to the raspberry pi 4. All the Videos are in MP4 and i had no problem. during the summer this year that same error popped up and a few days ago, it appear again

That "error" looks like an SD-Card issue... so get an another SD-card, install the LE, and try it... The fact "that device worked well before" not means is working now too... And an SD-card isn't something expensive or hard to find.

That "portable hard drive aka DV drive" have own power supply or draw the power from the USB connector? If powered from USB, could be a power source issue (if without that hard drive always booting fine). For external HDD never recommended to be powered from USB.

Quote from retropie boy

how to solve that problem

SD-card problem? Maybe try with another card.

Quote from insulator

I noticed that the USB WLAN comes up with wlan2, the internal wlan with wlan0.

You can disable the internal wifi if you add this to config.txt dtoverlay=disable-wifi

Hi, when I had exactly the same issue (wasn't with LE12 - but now I'm using Rpi3B + USB-Wifi + LE12 and no issues), was because of the power source...

Hi, in the past I had some similar HDMI issues (RPi3B LE), always because of display recognition (HDMI cable, TV in StBy when the RPi booted). Basically if the LE don't "see" the diplay at the end of the HDMI cable... no picture at all. Did you tried with another display? Always power up first the display than the RPi to be able to "read" the display capabilities. Also you can try some settings in the config.txt related to the HDMI output (force HDMI, preset resolution... search for the config.txt documentation). In the case of the LE11/12, I think the display resolution settings are moved to the "cmdline.txt". Also you could try it with another OS (Raspberry Pi OS?). It's not impossible to be an RPi3 hardware issue, but in most of the cases is something else, don't give up so easy.

Quote from barry

I am using the analog output on the Pi, to a dumb stereo with no surround sound, etc.

Hi,

Do you have audio-video synchronization issue between the HDMI video and the analog audio output? I tried to use same thing in the past with my RPi3B, and had that issue. Don't know is in the case of RPi4B is same situation. Also the analog audio output had poor sound quality. I switched to use the GPIO digital sound output (I2S). I'm using now this, it's cheap but need some wireing to be connected, or you can use an HifiBerry-Hat built with RPi GPIO comaptible connector. I think that analog audio is on the RPi just to have a minimal sound output, mostly when is used without display. Even for a "dumb stereo with no surround sound" should be used something better when you want to listening some music.

Hi, maybe take a look here.

Another device, another issue... I'm using LE with RPi, in the case when the RPi restart, when the TV is in standby, had EDID issue, so I made an EDID dump with "getedid create" command. Something similar you can try... If you can save your TV's edid data with another device and put it in the right place in your Wetek?

Quote from sindbad6

So my board seems to work at all and is not broken as I thought before. What I don't understand, that it is rcognized as "HifiBerry DAC" not as Digi2-Pro. And of cause, why it doesn't work with LE.

Did you tried to add to the LE config.txt the "dtoverlay=hifiberry-dac" line?

It's interesting why the HifiberryOS detected your boards chip as "pcm5102a". Can post here a picture with your Hifiberrry board, and another one with the chip used on the board?