Posts by chewitt

    In the absence of a debug log it's hard to comment, but some add-ons are geolocked and only accessible to users in specific countries; is my guess at the probable cause. If the add-on requires a subscription (and some do) that's normally obvious; the add-on settings panel will have options for adding login credentials.

    One of the niceties of the upstream kernel is that we don't ever need to care about 1G/2G/3G RAM configurations of boards; the kernel works with whatever u-boot makes available. And yes the boot process is different (which is clearly stated in release notes and wiki, but not all users read them). The differences are in part to align with other LE platforms; but also deliberate to force clean installs and thus sidestep the carnage that comes with the Kodi Python2 > Python3 changes between legacy and current images.

    Ahh, okay. Amlogic chips support multiple video output layers. The OSD (GUI) layer is 1080p max while the video layer can be 4K. The 1080p OSD limit is a silicon limitation but legacy images allow you to set 4K .. which the hardware then ignores and outputs at 1080p, while the user feels smug because they have a 4K TV and their Android box configured for 4K. It's a bit like the S905 being advertised with 2GHz CPU speed; which is 1.5`GHz if you want more than one CPU core active, but the firmware lies and reports 2GHz :)

    TL/DR; 1080p is the correct resolution for the GUI (hence it's the default). If you configure 4K the OSD layer is still 1080p and some TVs might stretch it, and others will render it to 1/4 of the screen. NB: We don't support 4K H264 on S905 (it works on S905X and up, but not S905) but that's prob. not an issue as 99.99999% of 4K media is HEVC. There is no HDR to SDR conversion.

    H264 and HEVC are both hardware decoded. H264 playback/seeking works well. HEVC playback works wel, but seeking doesn't always work so great - the decoder is unfinished. AMLGX will not be for all users and all media, but it's easy to experiement on a spare SD card.

    The update process will have absolutely zero impact. The completely different software stack that you're running post-update *can* have an impact (as we bumped ~95% of the packages in the distro; stuff has changed). The log shows both drives have issues mounting. It's unclear to me which filesystem is being used on the drives; there are messages about ext2/3/4, ntfs3 and f2fs.

    The NTP pool being set to de.pool.ntp.org suggests you've configured some things in the settings add-on. Can I ask you to take a spare SD card and do a clean install (don't set anything for NTP, etc.) then check the files again. I'd like to ensure this is a repeatable problem with the default configurations we have.

    I know that upgrade from 9.x to 11 wasn't supported and clean install was required but is it also the case with every future update like recently released 11.0.1? My 11.0.0 won't autoupgrade to 11.0.1?

    It was undesirable to direct update from 9 > 10/11 due to the Python 2 > 3 changes in Kodi which break add-ons. There is/was no issue with updating from 10 > 11 and in the future from 10/11 > 12. At the moment auto-update requires something to be manually set on the back-end infra else the OS doesn't prompt and we (staff) frequently forget to set it giving the incorrect appearance of it being broken (the process is, but not the code). We plant to move that logic client-side in LE12 to eliminate the forgetful humans from the process. I enabled auto-update for 11.0.0 > 11.0.1 yesterday for those who didn't already bump.