Posts by chewitt

Random guess: The laptop has an nVidia chipset and you're not using the Generic Legacy image?

It's not the default behaviour but you can drop a udev rule in /storage/.config/udev.rules.d that matches against the partition IDs or drive names and if triggered, runs a bash script to check if the drives have errors, and if yes run fsck against them.

I think this one is a better template to follow, but with the cmd data and sequences from the MediaTek driver (which won't work as it's based on a BSP kernel source): https://github.com/torvalds/linux…-tv101wum-nl6.c

Nov 16 22:05:14 LibreELEC dcb104c3506c[1344]: [Info] SonarrBootstrapper: Starting Web Server 

^ Users running Sonarr are probably running other apps to download of content from torrent networks. Running piracy crapware on your LE install will a) result in no support in this forum (you can run what you like, but we don't support pirates) and b) it's almostly certainly the cause of your "system degrades to the point where it's unusable" problem. Just look at all the errors being spewed into the journal.

Solution A: Remove the background crapware and run the OS as it was intended and it won't degrade

Solution B: Run another distro and become someone else's problem

If you're not a pirate and want support to continue: prove it with clean logs and configuration examples.

Quote from jettison

Hopefully it makes it one day to the official LibreELEC builds..

Never unless xhbl submits the feature changes upstream to Kodi. LE will patch Kodi for basic config and backport fixes, and in a couple of places where kernel UAPIs are still being defined (and thus Kodi cannot implement a standard yet) but we aren't interested in hacking major feature changes in - as our intent is to follow the upstream source as closely as possible.

I'd guess the USB drive is presented to the OS as a hard disk and not a removable storage device (flash stick). The creator app is hardcoded to hide hard drives to stop users overwriting something important. Perhaps try other apps like Win32DiskImager or Etcher?

jernej does Allwinner have an "internal PHY" option similar to Amlogic? .. or only external?

_emanuel_ I picked the MIPI-DSI patches currently on the mailing list to https://github.com/chewitt/linux/commits/amlogic-6.7.y so use that branch for device-tree experiments. AFAIK the kernel does not support output on MIPI and HDMI at the same time currently, but the folks working on the MNT Reform laptop + BananaPi CM4 (A311D) module should investigate that. So focus on getting normal output on the LCD working first. NB: The two patches I didn't pick to my branch (which are important for prior-art) are:

[v8,11/12] DONOTMERGE: arm64: meson: khadas-vim3l: add DSI panel - Patchwork

[v8,12/12] arm64: dts: amlogic: meson-g12b-bananapi-cm4: add support for MNT Reform2 with CM4 adaper - Patchwork

The Khadas TS050 driver is already upstream in the kernel (hence the compatible can be used). Same for the Innolinux LCD used in the Reform laptop. You might end up needing to author a driver for the LCD panel; I'm not sure what part is used in the DB2?

EDIT: found some more useful stuff:

Share photo's of the PCB (both sides)

The LE12 releases are also fine: https://test.libreelec.tv/12.0/RPi/RPi5/

Have a read: https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/wireguard

I'll revise my answer somewhat. The Widevine L1 license isn't required to use Netflix. If the box is not L1 licensed (e.g. only has L3) you will be restricted in resolution to 1080p max. The key thing is to be using the official Netflix app installed from the official Android app-store and I'd always want an OS that is updated periodically: and that combination of requirements still herds you towards a Firestick/Shield like device.

"If it works, don't fix it"

Kodi has "a" library (singular) for movies so even if you code it's a non-trivial change to implement multiple databases. The default Estuary skin also does not support adding new items in the top-level navigation menu. However, it's possible to add your own shortcuts similar to "recently added" or "genres" under Movies using the "node editor" addon. Using this you could add a "Home Movies" item that displays content using specific metadata or source as the node filter criteria. I believe some skins also support adding additional navigation items, which might allow you to do similar things (or leverage the nodes you added) but on the top-level menu (but I only use Estuary so I forget the names of the ones that do allow that). Worst case, and if you wanted to stick with the default Estuary skin, you can clone/hack the skin to manually hardcode the items. You need to clone /usr/share/kodi/addons/skin.estuary to /storage/.kodi/addons/skin-estuary-mod and then change the skin name in addon.xml to skin.estuary-mod to avoid a namespace clash. Or if you're more build-system minded; create a diff patch of the change and then build your own LE image (which is easier than it sounds) to always have your changes pre-built.

_emanuel_ I can add them back, but no plans to upstream them as long as there's no functional difference between v1/v2 boxes. I note that there's been some movement on MIPI-DSI support (due to the MNT Reform Laptop) so it could be interesting for you to see if the 3" display on the v2 box can be got working?

RPi4/5 can handle HEVC at 1080p resolutions but ultimately it's a Linux device so you'll experience whatever challenges and problems that Netflex chooses to inflict on the FOSS community via API changes and such. To eliminate that you need to use Kodi with an Android device with a Widevine L1 license. The device used by most Team Kodi staff is the nVidia shield; largely because nVidia shipped a load of them to be used as test devices a few years ago, but also because nVidia provides regular OS updates for the device over time unlike most Android boxes which are obsolete within minutes of shipping. The other would be Amazon firesticks and such which (again) have the DRM licenses needed for long-term easy access to the DRM protected services.

Have a read of https://wiki.libreelec.tv/hardware/amlogic .. there's a device-tree included in the AMLGX "box" image. Also read recent release notes to understand the current state of things. I'd have thought OSMC was the best OS to use on that device.

Have you read https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/ir-remotes ?