Posts by humdinger

Some weeks ago, the OpenVPN kodi addon stopped working for me.

I could solve it by configuring it as "User Defined VPN", see https://github.com/Zomboided/serv…er-Defined-VPNs

It's a bit less convenient as you don't get the addon to select any (the fastest?) server of the chosen country. You'll have to provide the .ovpn file of a specific server manually (see https://nordvpn.com/servers/tools/). And hope that server keeps being available under that IP...

It did require a bit of massaging, but I'm a bit fuzzy on the details now.

(ETA: I have to add that I never checked for an error message, just had the kodi notifications that VPN connection kept failing. So my issue and the solution to change to a "User Defined VPN" may have been a different issue altogether...)

The key-configs don't work when moving it all into remote.xml. Turns out, my remote is actually a keyboard.

Which in hindsight is obvious, because a) it did work when in keyboard.xml and b) it's an "airmouse", Rii mini i25, that has a keyboard when flipped over. Obviously it's a keyboard, sorry for misleading you by calling it "remote", which in my mind it is when looking at it, ofc.

Thanks again.

Ah, thanks, this does work!

I'm not quite sure how, though. See, I have other configs in my keyboard.xml that do work for the buttons on my remote, so I assumed the <power> would apply similarly to the remote's button, not the computer power-button:

<keymap>
  <global>
    <keyboard>
      <power>shutdown</power>
      <browser_search>ActivateWindow(Videos,"plugin://plugin.video.youtube/kodion/search/list",return)</browser_search>
    </keyboard>
  </global>
  <FullscreenVideo>
    <keyboard>
      <browser_search>ActivateWindow(subtitlesearch)</browser_search>
      <volume_mute>AudioNextLanguage</volume_mute>
      <pageup>ShowSubtitles</pageup>
       <pageup mod="longpress">CycleSubtitle</pageup>
      <pagedown>AudioDelay</pagedown>
       <pagedown mod="longpress">SubtitleDelay</pagedown>
      <menu>PlayerDebug</menu>
       <menu mod="longpress">PlayerProcessInfo</menu>
    </keyboard>
  </FullscreenVideo>
</keymap>

Should I move all those - besides the newly added <power> - to remote.xml instead?

Thanks, but I actually want to get the shutdown dialog when pressing the power button on my remote control. I just want to power-off when pressing the power-button on the computer.

Hi there!

I'm running LibreElec 12.2.1 on an Intel n100.

I'm pretty sure that back on 12.0 I could simply press the power button on the computer and have LibreElec shutdown and power off. Not any more: Now pressing the button pops up LibreElec's shutdown dialog.

Any idea how to get the old behaviour back?

Thanks!

OK, here's the log: http://0x0.st/opx_.log

I boot up, call the Power menu with a keypress on my remote control and select "Shutdown" from the menu. This does System.Exec() the above script.

That said, it appears to me that Da Flex is right. From the log it looks like after invoking "Shutdown", kodi is kinda "un-pausing", doing HW inits etc.

Also, with a trick I can make my scripts work: I just sleep for 2 seconds before sending the kodi-send commands, which is enough for Kodi to be attentive again and react to those commands. For that to work, the script has to immediately return and do the sleeping in the background. For that I moved everything into a function.

That's the working script:

#!/bin/bash

# Check if anything gets downloaded and prevent shutdown
# Set this script in Kodi's Power menu with "System.Exec()"

action() {
    # Make sure kodi is running after being stopped by the Power menu
    sleep 2

    if [ -e /tmp/downloadflag ] ; then
        echo "Download in progress. Shutdown aborted!"
        kodi-send --action="Notification(Download in progress,Shutdown aborted!,20000)"
    else
        echo "Shutdown!"
        kodi-send --action=Powerdown
    fi
}

action &

Though it's working, I'd be willing to experiement further, if you guys come up with things to try...

Thanks so far!

You misunderstood. There's actual weirdness happening...

There's no shutdown progress going on. I just replaced the "Shutdown" item of the Power menu (that normally calls the kodi build-in "Powerdown()") with a System.Exec() call of the above script. No shutdown is initiated.

My script just determines if there are downloads queued (my sytem generates a file /tmp/downloadflag when that's the case). If there are, kodi is made to show a notification, otherwise the regular kodi command to Powerdown() is triggered.

If I execute this script when logged in via SSH, it works as expected. If I System.Exec() that script from a normal menu in Kodi, it works, too. Only if I System.Exec() from the "Power" menu it does not work.

Weird.

Hi there.

Got another issue...

I have a simple bash script that works when added as a menu item to a regular submenu, e.g. Settings. The script is executed as 'custom command' with System.Exec(). If I instead create the menu item calling the script in the "Power" menu, it does not work.

This is the script:

#!/bin/bash

# Check if anything gets downloaded and prevent shutdown
# Set this script in Kodi's Power menu with "System.Exec()"

if [ -e /tmp/downloadflag ] ; then
        kodi-send --action="Notification(Download in progress,Shutdown aborted!,20000)"
else
        kodi-send --action=Powerdown
fi

If I insert a touch ~/EXECUTED before the kodi-send line, that file gets created alright, so the script does get called. It seems like it's really the "kodi-send" that doesn't work.

Any ideas why that may be?

Thanks!

Quote from heitbaum

Hi humdinger - wget is part of busybox on LibreELEC as an intentional minimal install. (The curl installation on LibreELEC is the full curl implementation.)

Thanks, heitbaum, I forgot about curl...

curl -I provides an output I can parse for the file size. Good enough for me.

Da Flex: I don't have an installed RaspberryOS around anymore. I'm also not much of a linux user and wonder if simply moving the wget command over to my LibreElec install will even work.

Anyway, my biggest issue is solved, and if we cannot have a fully fledged wget, curl will do.

Thanks all.

Hello there!

I had a script using wget when I was running Kodi on RaspberryOS, but have since moved to the latest LibreElec v10.0.2.

LibreElec's wget doesn't give the info (esp. file size) when called with the --spider parameter, nor does it log as verbatim, or accepts an input file (and probably a million more parameters )

I cannot tell the version of wget, it appears to be part of BusyBox v1.32.1. Can wget be updated in some way? Or can a newer wget packaged with the System Tools addon?

Thanks!