Posts by HarryH

  • [RPi] Automatic Resolution and Refresh Rate Adjustments

    Usualy you should fill the mode whitelist with the resolutions/refresh rate combinations you want that KODI switches to if the media format matches. The available combinations depend on the EDID data provided. Maybe there are some limitations which combinations are supported by RPi4/5 hardware.

    It should be enough to set: "Settings \ Player \ Videos \ Adjust display refresh rate = Start/Stop". This prevents that KODI switches back to the default if OSD is open during playback and ensures the best match of your whitelist is used.

    EDIT:
    race condition, HiassofT was faster... ;)

  • [RPi4] Constant access on external drives

    Hi guys, please remain relaxed. There is no reason to curse the case itself, this time. ;)

    ajne
    I will look into this, but I need some time to simulate your configuration in order to find a more practical solution. In the meantime (untested), you can change line 432 in this file:

    nano /storage/.kodi/addons/service.argononecontrol/resources/lib/argon.py

    from val = argonsysinfo_getmaxhddtemp()

    to val = 0

    Restart KODI afterwards or disable/enable the addon to activate the changes.
    systemctl restart kodi

  • HDMI input switching

    Your TV set switches to the ‘active source’, which is normally intended. How it reacts on simultaneous "active sources" depends on your TV. As a rule, the active source that is reported last wins. This could lead to the situation that you have to wait until the satellite receiver reports itself as an active source after startup. You could also start this satellite receiver only and patiently wait until this activates the TV.
    With some TVs, you can set a specific external input as the standard for watching television.

    Maybe a mitigation is possible if you disable "Switch source to this device on startup" and/or "Wake devices when deactivating the screensaver" in the "CEC Adapter" settings of LibreELEC: Settings -> System -> Input -> Peripherals -> CEC Adapter

    However, this could also lead to some problems, e.g. that the remote control via CEC not working properly or partially only because another CEC device is being controlled or similar.

  • [RPi5] CEC not working

    Stuntel ,

    You should make sure that you use the HDMI port that is closest to the USB-C port. Then CEC will work again. 12.0.1 temporarily supported CEC on both ports, but there were too many unresolved issues, so support was limited to the first HDMI port.

  • [RPi] Argon ONE V5 Case

    It's not currently on the ToDo list as the V5 has nothing in common with the previous ONE enclosures other than the name and the manufacturer. In addition, I don't have an OLED device to test the function, and I would need capable testers with the ONE V5 case to get useful feedback in a timely manner during the development/debugging phase.

    As far as I can see in Argon40's implementation with their scripts, the OLED requires additional Python modules like Luma.OLED and some binaries provided by Argon40. The latter without licence information. This hinders an integration, not only the additional abundant effort.

    What expectations would you have regarding OLED support? Only the few cyclically repeated system information as with the argon1v5.sh script?

  • [RPi4, LE12.0.1] Autostart.sh with python script for fan control won't work

    Please keep in mind that LE is reduced to just the required components for KODI and hosted in a readonly root filesystem. All additional things (more than a simple script), which are not already available in the base image or as add-on, you want to install should be a package. This can be an add-on package or directly included in a self build image. Many things are documented in the Wiki, at GitHub and also in the code itself.

    As for your example with the Python background process, you can set it up manually as you have already done, or create an KODI add-on (script or service) that does the same. Adding new additional Python libraries can be significantly more difficult and depends heavily on how experienced you already are with compiling and packaging Linux packages.
    Maybe I'm just misunderstanding you. But your wishes/goals sound very ambitious and require a good understanding of hardware/specialised knowledge in some areas. There is no such thing as a simple all-in-one guide. You should also not ignore the fact that not everything can be realised or is necessary on every hardware platform.

    Some starting points:

  • [RPi4, LE12.0.1] Autostart.sh with python script for fan control won't work

    You are welcome. It was just a guess on my part that you also moved the fan_control.sh shell script to the subfolder called ‘scripts’. You are right that it makes no difference where it is located as long as the path in the autostart.sh script matches.

    If you set FAN_OFF = 0, the fan should be stopped until the CPU temp value cross the threshold of MIN_TEMP. So you could lower the value MIN_TEMP near to the idle temperature for testing purposes, to trigger ON/OFF earlier and check the functionality of the script.

  • [RPi4, LE12.0.1] Autostart.sh with python script for fan control won't work

    Because it relies on gpiozero you could be affected by this (RPi gpiozero): https://libreelec.tv/2025/01/22/libreelec-nexus-12-0-2/

    To find out where the problem comes from, what is the output of python3 /storage/scripts/fan_control.py ? Are there any exceptions/error messages? Or is this what you mean by?

    Quote

    I was able to control my fan just fine from the interactive python so I know I have everything hooked up correctly.

    If this works, the next step should be to test the wrapper script:
    sh /storage/scripts/fan_control.sh start and sh /storage/scripts/fan_control.sh stop

  • Remote control longpress question.

    Sounds promising. I think they mean some kind of speed ramp (the longer you hold a button down, the shorter the distance to the next repetition) and I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

    PS: Regarding the mouse mode, where I was wrong: As I didn't know the model you have, I chose it at random: 65RTS4K

  • Remote control longpress question.

    Yes, it's currently not a solution for your situation, but it looks much better. The timeout looks realistic and the different can clearly identified. So it should be technical possible to fix the issue via firmware. I have seen at the Cello webpages, that the remote control has a mouse mode. Does it make a different if you switch on/off this feature after you switched to the HDMI input?

    Just to be sure, since you didn't start with a fresh install. Can you remember if you created an edid.bin file via getedid at some point in the past that might have remained in the directory structure (ls -la /storage/.config/firmware/edid/edid.bin)? If so, remove that via getedid delete and reboot.
    Have you already tried a different HDMI port on your TV?

  • Remote control longpress question.

    Theoretically yes, if you put the image file in the /storage/.update directory and then reboot. Please make a backup before.
    The main problem could be that you have to reinstall additional add-ons because the architecture for the RPi4/5 has been changed from arm to aarch64. This is the reason why it is not recommended to go this way.

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    RE: [RPi4] Update to LE 12.x

    LE10/11 use 'arm' userspace and LE12 uses 'aarch64' userspace. The LE11 settings add-on is not showing an update because there is no 'arm' update. This also stops users from blindly updating and experiencing crashes due to arch-incompatible binary add-ons.

    To do an in-place update you will need to first uninstall all binary add-ons (keeping their config). Then manually download (wget) the LE12.0.2 .tar update file to /storage/.update and reboot to update. Once the update completes you can…
    chewitt
    January 29, 2025 at 6:07 AM