Posts by chewitt

When it fails you're dumped to the initramfs console. This is rather limited in capabilities, but you should be able to connect a USB keyboard and attempt manual mount of the BTRFS volume. I'd expect this to fail, but it might output some useful error messages?

Run "pastekodi" over SSH and share the URL, else there is nothing to investigate

If you turn it on, the kernel knows it's an SSD device and trim is enabled.

The answer will always be subjective to the hardware. With the right hardware and software configuration you can run LE in 512MB RAM, but most users want to include some add-ons and the sensible minimum for LE11 is 1GB RAM. We deliberately no-longer support any device with less than 1GB. The only device we ever supported with less than 512MB was the original AppleTV box (256MB) and that was basically unusable from LE 7.x onwards.

I used to regularly swear at removable drives and USB sticks. Then I bought a Synology NAS device and a decent Gigabit Ethernet switch .. and stopped swearing. I appreciate that's not a helpful answer in the context of solving the issue reported, but sometimes it's better to remove the opportunity for problems instead of seeking fixes for problems. It's also not the cheap option; but at some point you need to factor in time and effort and I prefer to watch movies than Google fixes.

The resolution for most mysterious CEC issues is "disconnect and power everything off.. connect and power it all back on again"

Media from TVH is not going through the widevine (software) decryption path so will be hardware decoded. DRM encoded content requires software decoding regardless of format and RPi2/3 will struggle with 1080p media unless (as posted above) overclocking is used. The other option is to configure inputstream.adaptive to select 720p not 1080p to keep within CPU capabilities.

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Forum logs show no emails being sent for your user, but we can see them being sent for others. For the sake of testing .. I edited your email to remove the + sign. Let's see if that results in something being sent?

The other end denied access, so check its logs to see why.

The box ran out of disk space and needs checking. It will probably get done over the weekend when someone has time.

I have a couple of S905W boxes that boot/work fine so there is nothing lacking in support for the SoC

Are you reading the SD creation instructions here: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic#box-images ?? - Instructions from anywhere else are likely wrong.

NB: You can hit "d" on an attached keyboard or use "kodi-remote" over SSH to bring up debug info.

RPi4 does not support 4K H264 hardware decoding so bad (CPU decoding) results are expected. It supports 4K only with HEVC.

I'd suggest reading this https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/4k-hdr to ensure the whitelist and other settings are optimal. I would remove force_turbo and hdmi_enable_4kp60 as 99% of 4K HEVC media in circulation is 4K@30 or [email protected] and thus 4K60 which forces the SoC to run permanently in a more resource-demanding mode is not normally required.

I run an RPi4 as the family daily-driver without any real-world issues. It's miles more reliable than other devices I have.

I suspect you've followed the legacy image style of boot configuration (renaming files to dtb.img) instead of following LE instructions which are different. GXL boxes are all rather similar and except for user-error, it's unusual for devices to not boot.

Rainbox screen normally means "wrong image" so that does explain.

The dice-roll is always whether the box is a real Tanix box, or a clone of the Tanix box with minor component differences. And the only proof or it using an H6 chip is opening the box up and visually checking. All the main Android box brands are widely cloned, and some even ship with a completely difference SoC inside.