Posts by mrob42

LE is installed on the SSD, yes. No USB stick. It boots into LE.

This is going to sound silly, but ... the Mac Mini is hooked up to a projector via HDMI but in a place where I can't easily connect a USB cable for a keyboard. I have been using the iOS remote app, but obviously that needs network access which got disabled by mistake.

If it's really impossible to edit guisettings.xml, then I can order a 5m USB cable to reach the Mini.

I guess I'm just baffled that I can't edit an XML settings file and reboot.

Seems like a really basic, standard task on Linux, no... ?

It's a Mac Mini.

info <general>: Starting Kodi (21.2 (21.2.0) Git:21.2-Omega). Platform: Linux x86 64-bit
info <general>: Using Release Kodi x64
info <general>: Kodi compiled 2025-01-19 by GCC 13.2.0 for Linux x86 64-bit version 6.6.71 (394823)
info <general>: Running on LibreELEC (official): 12.0.2, kernel: Linux x86 64-bit version 6.6.71
info <general>: FFmpeg version/source: 6.0.1
info <general>: Host CPU:       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3615QM CPU @ 2.30GHz, 8 cores available

I can get the exact model of the Mini, if that would help.

I'm booting it either by pressing the power button or issuing reboot in a shell via ssh.

As mentioned, I tried systemctl stop kodi, but the value still reverted to false when I rebooted.

As for the default value, I want true, not false, like this:

<setting id="services.webserver" default="true">true</setting>

But on reboot it looks like this:

<setting id="services.webserver" default="true">false</setting>

Sorry, I don't follow.

I'm just trying to use a text editor like nano change false to true and something is overwriting my change, always reverting it back to false.

There appears to be some trick to editing /userdata/guisettings.xml to avoid this.

But what is the trick?

There is a password.

I can't enable it via the UI. I want to do it via ssh.

Is that not possible?

Apologies for a noob question, but I am stuck.

I need to enable the webserver in /userdata/guisettings.xml, but every time I use nano to change this line :

<setting id="services.webserver" default="true">false</setting>

...after I reboot it reverts from true to false. I have tried systemctl stop kodi then nano to edit the file, and then systemctl start kodi.

But it always reverts.

How can I edit this file and get the webserver running again?

Thanks.

I found this: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/installation/docker

I have no experience with docker, tho presumably I can remove the webmin container if it's not working with LE.

Quote from chewitt

b) The userspace filesystem is decompressed from SYSTEM on each boot, and is read-only

Uhm... does this mean I can't modify the Estuary skin ?

I see.

Well, mainly I would like a dashboard that shows me in one screen things like HDD and CPU temps, how much disc space has been used, system load, etc.

I use Webmin on every other Linux box in the house, and I kind of rely on it to tell me that HDD temps are OK (I live in a hot climate).

I'm just starting with LibreELEC. So far so good !

Forgive a very noob-ish question, but: how can I install webmin ?