Labels are extreme risky.
I must be just lucky then. Or something.
Posts by trogggy
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Using labels works perfectly as long as you use different labels for each storage partition. Using uuids causes problems if you want to clone to a new drive / card / stick - which I'd guess affects more people than the multiple storage scenario.
Personally I much prefer the 'label' approach, but obviously it's up to the devs. Neither way is 'stupid'.
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It's in the kodi repo - choose a skin that needs it (ie it's listed as a dependency in addon.xml) and it's installed automatically with the skin.
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Guys does anyone here know if it is possible. and if so how, to make a full bit copy with both partitions of my LibreELEC bootable 16G SD card so I can have an easy duplicated copy, with all the settings and suite of addons too, for use with my other compatible boxes usign same device tree, and for freinds similar boxes too ?? It is quite time consumming making a fresh disc using something like Win32DiskImager or Rufus and then restoring from a separate drive a complete back up of settigns and addons. Be nice to just be able to clone a complete duplicated copy with the data partition as well as the boot partition. Searching on the internet for an answer but not found one yet so maybe I have missed the answer or I need to deepen my search or just maybe someone on here may know.
You can use eg win32diskimager to image your card, then write the image to a new one. If the cards are the same size (or the new one is bigger) you have an exact copy. The main issue with doing that is that if your new card is slightly smaller (eg 2 16GB cards are not necessarily exactly the same size to the bit) the data partition is not fully written and the copy fails. I get around that by manually partitioning my initial card, leaving a little empty space at the end and using usbit (as in the post above - which has a truncated write option) to image / write.
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The last line isn't closed:
</advancedsettings needs a '>'
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Pi hardware is happy to run quite hot, but if you want to overclock *and* be stable you need it to run at the lowest temperature possible. That just means using a case with a heatsink (like the Kodi flirc case) or a stick on heatsink.
Definitely true for an RPi3, but just about everything I read at the time for an RPi1 was along the lines of 'Don't waste your time.'
eg from popcornmix back in the mists of 2013:
'No need for heatsinks. We believe 85C is the safe temperature limit (and overclock will disable if that is hit).
However I've never heard of anyone who's hit that (and I've deliberately tried).'
On the basis of that (and many similar posts) I've never bothered with a heatsink with my Pi1s.
A Pi (even an RPi3) will never need more than a 2A supply unless you're running (probably multiple) hard drives from it - my Pi3 (not overclocked) has been happy for the past 12 months on a 1A supply. What matters is consistent voltage - which is a lottery unless you're using a known supply.
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Nope. There's no 32bit x86 build.
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NTFS should be fine. I use a 5TB usb and multiple smaller (3, 2, 1.5TB and below) NTFS drives with LE. If the drive can't be read on 2 libreelec machines and the content can't be played on an android box that says the problem's with the drive, not the os. Most likely (and I don't know the technicalities, I'm parroting what I've read previously) LE detects a problem with the drive so doesn't mount it. Android mounts it but it doesn't work.
If it were me I'd format the drive, try again, and if it still doesn't work throw it in the 'probably crap' drawer. Then try a different drive.
edit: just realised it works in windows, which doesn't fit the 'knackered drive' theory - but the rest holds true. If it was a hard drive rather than a usb stick I'd guess it wasn't removed safely from windows, but I don't think that applies with removeable media.
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Which skin are you using?
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I've no idea if it's (easily) possible to stop those being created. I've no idea why you'd want to, either, as they have zero impact on kodi unless you point to them. They're just empty folders - I don't use them, I don't see them in kodi, I don't see any benefit in removing them. Of course there's always the possibility that I'm missing something...?
Edit: I do remove the ones I don't use from samba.conf, so the only time I see them is if I'm looking at the contents of 'storage'.
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It sounds as though 'library update' is where it's going wrong - so your files aren't actually being added to the library until you do the context-menu stuff. Posting the same question on the kodi forum with a link to a debug log (of a scan with at least one new movie) is probably the way to go.
FWIW I have a bunch of smart playlists based on <path> and <starts with> that update fine.
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Playlists or Smart Playlists?
Playlists will not update automatically.
Smart playlist should do - they filter library content.
From your description in #1 I'm guessing they're smart playlists - so all you should have to do is update the library.
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That's how I understand it. I haven't got around to updating yet.
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AFAIK you need to remake your samba.conf from samba.conf.sample, so it includes the latest changes.
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Your 'storage' partition on the ssd is where all your libreelec / kodi settings / addons / userdata are kept. You're using it - and if it were me I'd certainly want to keep that on the ssd rather than moving it to a slower mechanical drive.
If share locations aren't where you want you can change that in samba.conf (in storage/.conf). IIRC there's a video on the wiki.
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+1 on the ups, but if you want a software solution maybe take a look at service.autoResume.
I've used it in my car for music playback in lieu of a proper power solution (with a spare sd card in the ashtray!).
The version on github is fairly old, IIRC I just had to bump the python version in addon.xml (2.1.0 > 2.14.0) to get it to install on krypton.
There's a thread on the kodi forum, but as it's down at the moment I can't link.
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Gigabit Ethernet needs USB3 period
That is true.
But nobody's said different.
You won't get gigabit ethernet from usb2, but you'll get a lot more than 10/100 if it's working well.
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I'd planned to just hit the Power button on the remote...
This was possible when the box was running its original Android - the power button on the remote switched it back on from either Standby or Off. I assume you're saying that this isn't possible with LE?
No, that should work.
If it's on... power button > off / standby
If it's off... power button > on
