Posts by bubblegum57

Quote from sYCO

Hi guys,

First I want to thank you for your help up to now.

I have received the MXQ Pro and the SD card today.

Well, I have no toothpick at home and I am afraid
to use a thin screwdriver, because it goes really deep
into that AV hole (I hope, this is the right reset hole)
and I do not want to break something.

So, I decided to try the recovery method, meaning
to boot into Android first, BUT the screen on the TV
stays black.

Some guys in other forums wrote, you have to change
the resolution on the box. How is that even doable
without a screen?

Is there a way to connect to that box with an app or
so, if I know the IP?

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I had this problem & used a different tv with 720p.

Quote from markus_s

I upgrades to the alpha build:

/var/org/Xorg.0.log : bgRZ
xrandr: FOCi

still no display, the tv shows frequency/resolution not supported.

I have a Celeron NUC with LibreELEC 7.0.2 & have had NO problems.

Incidentally, I have LibreELEC on microsd card on a Beelink miniIII. again no problems.

I think the first thing would be to tell us your device. There is a thread here for android devices to have Libreelec on a sd card, & android on the NAND.

LibreELEC

Quote from crx73

ok i have do it , when appears the logo remove the tooth , after the reboot libreelec start but if i remove the sd at the second restar return to andorid...why??wrote nothing?
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update from zip error
e :footer is wrong
e: signature verification failed
installation aborted
?????????????
HELP

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Have I understood what you said? "but if i remove the sd at the second restar return to andorid...why??wrote nothing?" you don't remove the sd card. The idea is the image is on the sd card & you boot that, if you remove the sd card, it will just reboot to android.

Just try creating the image using rufus,

Quote from kane2931

To change time, go to settings - skin - international section and chose your country, state, timezone.

I had a similar problem, even though I had set the timezone to UK. I went into the LibreELEC config & added uk.pool.ntp.org that seems to have sorted it out.

Quote from Dazzerderby

Thanks
Ive messaged the seller but tbh not holding my breath,if i was to install LE without stock image..do i unzip from zip download and place files on sd card..what would be the best way to move forward without stock image? sorry for the rookie questions..but gont quite understand how to get correct files on sd and the subsequent process to install Tia
D.

You could try searching Freaktab, site seems to be down at the moment.

Why don't you try what I suggested, use rufus to create libreelec image on sd card, then reboot from the recovery? The image will be on the sdcard, shouldn't affect the device itself.

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Not sure, but you should be able to see udisk or card, can't remember, then browse to image. If you can't see it, change the zip to img.

But I THINK this will install it to the internal memory.

I have a beelink s905, all I did was use rufus to create image on sd card, then using the toothpick method, it booted straight to Libreelec from the sd card.

Again not sure about this, but create the image on the sd card, then once in android recovery, go reboot, it should reboot to Libreelec. if you remove the card, it should then reboot to android.

Quote from infoalter

try zero instead of 0

I had the same problem, zero doesn't work either

Thanks kszaq, got this working on my Beelink Mini MKIII. No dramas, just works from SD.

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But that is on a NUC

Quote from nz_noob

Hi Guys,

I have for the first time today just bought a RPi 3 complete with a Kodi card setup for LibreElec. I have never tried this stuff on my computer etc either. It all seemed ok and thru web tutorials i have managed to get exodus installed and this seems to be super awesome! and I can stream a few bits n pieces here and there.

Troble is since I live back of beyond in nz my internet connection is not up to streaming very well, so I want to download instead. I found out how to do that but I guess I need/should protect myself with a VPN first?

I see PIA is reccomended and I am happy to sign up for this, but for the life of my I cant figure out how to get this running on my Pi under LE? Can someone please help? I cant find good intructions anywhere for this?

I got the metalkettle repos and tried to install "VPN for OpenElec" like I seen in some tutorials, and this intalled but does not seem to work? when I select "Setup Private Internet Access" I get the error "VPN for OpenElec error" and it doesnt work.....

So anyone out there have the patience and ability to help a complete Noob make downloads safe?

Would it be better to setup somehow the PIA and downloads on my Windows10 Laptop and then just move the files onto my thumbdrive into the PI box? If so how would I go about this?

Thanks so much in advance for your help

B

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Firstly, this forum the official Kodi or Openelec forum, do not allow talk about the addons you mention. But for more info on vpn I would try google.

I found this fairly easily how-to-use-pia-on-openelec-with-kodi-previously-xbmc

Quote from asipsis

Hi guys. I know this has been mentioned before. But I guess this is more of a question to the devs.

Why can we not have a system like Leopolds GUI Openelec Dev Update system where we can update major releases WITHIN the system liek OSMC does etc.

The update feauture is practically already built in. Why can we not just have a warning or something that says if you upgrade to a major release this etc may happen.

Thanks!

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Am I being thick? Can't you just add the addon? Yep, just realised, I am being thick, you need a link to the LibreELEC updates

Quote from scarletlion

Thanks for the reply.

I could stick the generic image in the update folder but then that would be my OpenELEC USB changed to LibreELEC for good won't it? While I appreciate it is the best solution here - I do want to have the option to return to OpenELEC if possible should anything go awry.

The LE installation stick is in exactly the same USB port as the one that OpenELEC is working fine from, so not sure what the issue is. This would be my preferred option as I think I'm right in saying that I could just swap the USBs round to suit whichever OS I fancy using. Is this correct?

Thanks again.
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What is the easiest way to take a backup? Is it literally copying everything from the USB?

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I use 2 different usb sticks. I use clonezilla to clone one usb to the other, & alternate between the two.

Quote from scarletlion

Hi,

I'm trying to install on a NUC Celeron. I previously had OpenELEC. I have downloaded and extracted the image to a USB drive as stated on the wiki. I go to the installation menu and select quick install but it says NO DEVICE FOUND. How do I install LE without altering my devic so that I can go back to OE if I wish?

Thanks.

I had openelec on a celeron nuc, I just stuck the generic image in the update folder & rebooted. Didn't do a new install.

No device found, means either the stick is not been made bootable, or you need to check your bios settings.
Not so long ago, I tried a fresh install of openelec & had a similar problem, for me, it was a problem with the bios, sorry can't remember, but not all stick work. I have a phillips usb, it boots from the rear usb port on the nuc, but not the front, whereas my other boots fine from the front.

Quote from Gui26

Something interesting :
I installed the cinemavision addon on my openelec, and ... faced the same issue as I did with Cinema experience on Libreelec.
Maybe it doesn't come from the addon or a compatibity, but something else.

The situation is quite strange ...

I had CinemaVision working fine on Openelec, I then updated to LibreELEC, & it still works. In fact the only small issue I have had with LibreELEC is that Tvhead 4.4 doesn't work, but 4.2 does. Mind you I don't use it very much.

Quote from nickrob84

Ok, so I think I have the understanding now that backups must be local, what about restoring though? Can that be done via the NAS or must be local also? Would be a great feature to add in my the way.

Because I build and maintain so many RPi's it is a critical feature for me.

I might be wrong, but isn't libreelec installed to an sd card?

Why don't you just clone it to another sd card?

I use clonzilla to clone the usb drive on my NUC, so when I mess up, I just plug the other in.

Quote from Klojum

The default location is /storage/.backup, but there is now a user selection for the backup location. Whatever you do with the backup file is of course up to you.

I went from Openelec to LibreELEC on my NUC, by putting the tar file in my update folder, then rebooting.All the settings were the same.

If you want a fresh install then I suppose you need to do a backup & restore

I am not a networking expert, but I was having problems seeing my openelec NUC from my windows 10 pc.

I eventually found a solution, windows 10, start, run \\openelec, after a few seconds the folders would show up in my computer,

just tried it, now I have to run \\libreelec,

might be worth a go.