I've been using an Edimax EW-7811Un USB Wi-Fi device with a Raspberry Pi Model B for years. This module seems to be very often mentioned on Pi forums as being cheap (around £8 UK) and recognised by Raspbian, and my LibreElec 9.2.3 install recognised it immediately.
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I tried installing an addon (Moe's TV from Kebelec), on my Raspberry Pi 4 running LibreELEC (Matrix) 10.0.2, and it all worked fine. Very pleased. Then I rebooted and LibreELEC said it had been disabled as it is for a 'wrong version'. I imagine it's the Python2 / Python3 thing, but it was disappointing when I actually saw the add-on doing what I wanted. I dug out a Pi Model B and installed Leia 9.2 on it to use the addon to watch RTVE catch-up TV. It works, but the old Pi is very slow.
Is there anyway to force acceptance of an older add-on, other than reverting to an earlier LibreELEC version? I guess not, but I though I'd ask.
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Fits in well I think
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UPDATE - delivered today, works fine, no wi-fi blockage, signal fine. The actual case is black, which I prefer, although the Okdo website photo has a blue tint to my eyes.
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I've ordered an Okdo steel case for a Raspberry Pi 4 which must, for various reasons, connect to my home LAN using wifi, not ethernet. Currently it's running LibreELEC 5.10.95 in a Pibow plastic case, connected to a TV via HDMI. After I placed the order and got a shipping notification, I realised that the Pi 4's wi-fi antenna might get blocked by the steel case. I know that metal cases don't always block wifi (my aluminium Flirc case on another Pi doesn't). I see the Okdo case has a slit for a "Display Cable" directly above the micro-SD card slot, which ought to admit some RF for the nearby wi-fi antenna. Also plenty of holes/slits in the top.
1. I wonder if anyone has tried this case with wi-fi? There aren't any reviews yet on the Okdo site.
2. If it turns out to be wi-fi blind, I have a USB wi-fi adapter that I have used with a Raspberry Pi Model B. Is it feasible to add that as a second adapter, and/or disable the Pi's onboard wi-fi?3. If it is feasible, can I disable the onboard wi-fi and make LibreElec use the USB wi-fi adapter easily by maybe editing a config file somewhere?
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All sorted, I just had to put the binary and the lib in the right folders.
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I tried copying the binary, but it complains about not finding a shared library, libgrowl.so.0. I think I'll not worry too much. If I need to know if the HTPC goes on or off line I can whip up a Bash script running Nmap in WSL or one of my Linux boxes and run it with cron.
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If I log in with SSH to LIbreELEC 5.10.95 on a Raspberry Pi 4, I can do df -h and see these figures which suggest I am using a bit over 500 MB in /storage. I am using a 16 GB SD card. When I do a backup using the LibreELEC backup add-on, to a NAS folder, it seems to take up about 8 GB of space according to TreeSize on Windows. Interestingly, if I choose Zip compression in the LibreELEC backup add-on, I get a Zip file about 200 MB in size. Can anyone explain why the uncompressed backup is so much bigger?
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Display Moreroot@LibreELEC ~#df -h Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on devtmpfs 1.6G 4.0K 1.6G 0% /dev tmpfs 758.8M 8.8M 750.0M 1% /run /dev/mmcblk0p1 511.7M 142.3M 369.4M 28% /flash /dev/loop0 111.0M 111.0M 0 100% / /dev/mmcblk0p2 13.2G 505.8M 12.7G 4% /storage tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /dev/shm tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup tmpfs 1.9G 2.2M 1.8G 0% /var tmpfs 1.9G 0 1.9G 0% /tmp //192.168.0.12/share1/libreelec 1.8T 536.7G 1.3T 29% /tmp/nas1 //192.168.0.12/share2/libreelec 2.7T 505.9G 2.2T 18% /tmp/nas2 -
I am used to using gntp-send on Linux boxes on my LAN to send messages to Growl running on my Windows PC. It would be kind of useful if I could somehow send messages from LibreELEC 5.10.95 running on a Raspberry Pi 4, e.g. to say that the device is online, has completed a task, etc. Is there any kind of addon or plugin that would allow some kind of messaging?