Posts by chewitt

I'm wondering if this is the "disturbed dry solder joints cause UART noise that u-boot interprets as keyboard input" problem I've seen on my own Hub; and has been reported here in the forum with at least one other user. The (fake) keyboard input interrupts boot and drops you into the u-boot local console. If a UART cable is connected and working (which can be a challenge due to the same dry joints) it's fairly obvious when this happens. If no working UART connected the box didn't reach the point where kernel/initramfs (which loads the LE boot splash) was booted so nothing appears on screen .. hence users claim the device is bricked etc.

For the record: I've seen some Amlogic devices with boot states that were challenging to recover from but I've never encountered a device that was truly bricked. And since we (me) have working u-boot for the box, recovery is possible.

The first step is really to get normal UART output to see what happened. Again, if the UART socket joints are dry that might require cable wiggling, patience, and many attempts.

Lakka is based upon the LE codebase: https://github.com/libretro/Lakka…mment-604326782

Moved section. Share the URL generated by "pastekodi" .. we want to see how things are connected.

(systemctl stop connman && mkdir -p /storage/.cache/connman/myservice && cp /storage/settings /storage/.cache/connman/myservice/settings && systemctl start connman)&

^ You can always run stop/copy/restart commands in the background so they complete (else termination of session stops commands) to do things .. beware the line-wrap. Or put them in a script and execute the script in the background.

There are some other threads in this forum from people seeking EAP connections - search should find them - and the wiki is open for anyone to contribute some markdown content to. If you find something that works then it can be written up.

The OS is running fine (but no GPU drivers means Kodi doesn't start). SSH in and wget/download an earlier 11.x release to /storage/.update/ and reboot.

It will work forever .. but only covers LE 11.0.3. If there is an LE 11.0.4 release it will not magically include new links to that release.

Connman actively manages content in its cache folder (means you shouldn't add stuff there when connman is running) so you need to stop the service before adding a correctly formatted profile directory and settings file and then restart the service. You shouldn't need to configure anything in iwd; the config should be passed from connman.

Note that ConnMan names the profile directory in a structured way (not plain SSID) and the SSID in the directory name and in the settings file must be a base64 encoded string; connman will not auto-convert plaintext SSID details, and since passphrase (with a non EAP) connection is the same I'd make an educated-guess that username/password in an EAP connection file also will be the same. If all else fails, the long-winded route I've seen others take for EAP connections in the past is to boot a normal desktop distro that also uses ConnMan and get the connection and config working there; then transfer the profile/settings over.

2023-07-29 02:55:49.891 T:757     debug <general>: CDRMUtils::SetMode - found crtc mode: 3840x2160 @ 30 Hz

EDID data in Kodi.log shows 1080/3840 modes fine but this ^ looks like it's trying to set 4K GUI which won't work as the silicon only supports 1080p on the GUI plane. Have you fiddled with the GUI settings on the other monitor? .. because by default we set the GUI to 1080p. If no, I can't explain, but perhaps try clearing display settings (stop kodi, delete guisettings.xml, restart kodi) or force the initial DRM output to 1080p by appending "video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60" to kernel boot params in extlinux.conf.

Params are either in uEnv.ini (box image) or extlinux.conf (board images) .. config.txt only exists on Raspberry Pi images.

If the drivers load, the network will come up, and if Kodi was told to wait until Kodi is online it generally does that reliably. However there is no magic we can do in software to fix radio issues, so if the connection is rubbish

Perhaps try forcing the HDMI output with "video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60" in boot params. Otherwise .. no clue.

LE runs Kodi on the framebuffer without any kind of "desktop" that you can minimise windows to, so playback always runs fullscreen.

To be clear, this works now/today for the 11.0.3 release. I have no plan or interest to maintain links for this over time.

AntonLacon shared a modified JSON file which I've added to my team share here: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/releases.json

It would be reasonably simple to enable/start tethering using "connmanctl" commands, and running something two minutes after boot would be simple enough using an autostart script or systemd service. The usual challenge with these types of things is what you check to determine "not connected to the right location" to then initiated the process.

Quote from orione7

I hope that support for relatively older devices (like Nuc 6) will not be abandoned. This is one of the strengths of libreelec.

Note that "supporting old hardware" has never been something the project has aimed to do. It's just a coincidence that Intel CPU/GPU devices generally have a longer lifespan. It should be able to boot the GBM release already.

Quote from kneetzstopz

I tried in the "Custom channel" to enter "https://test.libreelec.tv/releases.json" for the "Nightly" versions but I only see the list of generic and not Legacy-Generic. Is it normal or is there an error?

Read post #14 (again)

There is almost nothing in-common between LE9 and LE11 images; so while it might be true observation it's also rather meaningless (or, not useful) because literally everything has changed (boot/kernel/kodi/etc.)