Posts by chewitt

Windows share browsing has been broken since Windows 95 but in 99% of cases the ability to browse the network and mount a share has nothing to do with your ability to manually mount a share. TL/DR; the sooner you master the basic skill of manual mounting, the sooner you stop searching for a solution to something Microsoft has failed to make work for 25+ years.

Quote from Petes

According to this https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/pull/18741 it won't be fixed until Omega 21.0 Alpha 1, if I understand correctly.

There isn't a nice way to (re)add the feature, so that PR is more of a hack to generate discussion than a serious proposal for code merge. As such it's not been merged and it's been moved K20 to K21, and at some future point it'll probably be punted down the road to Kodi 'M' too.

Options=credentials=/storage/.cache/smbcreds

and in the file:

username=firstname.lastname
password=PasswordWithNoEscapedCharacters!@#
domain=mydomain   <= optional

If that doesn't work, try urlencoding the special characters, see the table here https://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_urlencode.ASP

It's best to ask for Android images on an Android oriented forum. I doubt you'll have any offers here.

Quote from james

What am I missing?

A description of what you are actually trying to achieve and why.. which might lead to someone sharing ideas on how to achieve it.

Quote from milo

So there will be tomorrow a libreelec with Kodi 19.5?

Staff spending time with their families over the Christmas period has a higher priority than shipping a Kodi release, so probably not.

As long as the AVR/TV advertises support for HDR over the HDMI connection we can "just use it" when HDR media is played. There is nothing to set (other than on/off - on by default) as it's simply a media property and the video pipeline adjusts accordingly.

SuggestionL: Turn it all off. Turn it all back on again.

RK3399 is simply using an current version of u-boot and current version of Linux; unlike most distros that will be using vendor u-boot and vendor kernel sources. All our config/sources are in GitHub https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/

Please share the system log from cold boot with the drive connected, i.e. "dmesg | paste" and share the URL

mainline u-boot supports network booting, but I've never personally set it up, so can't guide on the process

I'll see if I can dig out a C2 for testing over Christmas .. it's been a while.

The internal chips on motherboards are often dreadful. If you want good analogue output, consider some kind of USB DAC device.

Quote from Orski

Shouldn't an S905 handle HEVC completely in HW, I've finally finished setting up my Odroid C2 with the profiles and libraries and now when I went to test playback some stuff played perfectly with seeking and everything, some didn't play at all and some were stuttery. As far as I know my Odroid should handle HEVC at 4K/30 HW, at least that's what it says on the manual, so why am I getting these issues?

The point being made was that MPEG2 media can be (or could be, if we disabled the broken MPEG2 hardware decoder) be decoded in SW.

S905 does indeed have hardware HEVC decoding capabilities, but with some bugs (seeking is one of them) that remain unresolved pending the attentions of someone with coding skills taking an interest in fixing them (so not me). The H264 hardware decoder is generally in a much better state, and everything else (apart from MPEG1/2) .. e.g. MPEG4 is software decoded.

The vendor kernel still runs best on Amlogic hardware, but that's outside the scope of this thread or upstream kernel images.

Quote from Orski

I've been trying since last week to reboot my odroid but it always just shuts down, tho I should mention that the LE logo does appear and looks like its trying to start when it shuts off. No matter what method I use whether it's from SSH (reboot or kodi-send --action="restart") or the gui it's always the same. And to turn my device back on i have to unplug and replug it, sometimes several times which is starting to worry me.

When the board boots (u-boot first, then kernel, then userspace) the kernel init script loads the LE boot splash. When Kodi starts, it renders to a full screen 'Window' and this overwrites/obscures the splash. If you manually stop Kodi the Window goes away to reveal the underlying layer with the splash again. If a shutdown is slow enough you'll see the same; Kodi stops and the splash is revealed again. If the screen then goes black, e.g. TV loses the HDMI signal and then you see the splash again; it suggests the board has rebooted. If you don't see the black loss of signal and the LE splash remains on-screen it suggests the board is never shutting down. If you only see the black/lost-signal it suggests the board shuts down and either never reboots; or it reboots and hangs before the kernel init runs.

I haven't boot tested a C2 for a while, but it was working fine last time I did, and nothing has really changed. For kicks you can try this on a clean SD card: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…droid-c2.img.gz (removing all add-ons and such from scope is never a bad thing). If you see the same and have an old shitty SD card (no fancy fast speeds) lying around that's also worth testing to rule out issues with voltage changes not happening (not resetting the card to a state where it can be seen on boot). Testing a clean card also proves it's not just an old/bad/dying card (they don't last forever) - the same applies to emmc modules.

The best way to really understand what's happening is connecting a UART cable as this will clearly show the early stages of boot (u-boot and kernel) and where things get stuck or not.

And (as has already been said) whatever the issue is, it is guaranteed to have nothing to do with CONFIG_MESON_DRM in the kernel.

Settings/System/Input - Official Kodi Wiki

I forget whether it's under peripherals or driver settings, but one has the CEC settings .. just diable CEC support and the messages will stop.

Note that the LE settings add-on backup will NOT backup existing recordings and such, only the addons/config etc. - but after you've got a working system again you can put the old SD card in a USB card reader, connect to the RPi, and transfer the files locally.

Creating /storage/.please_resize_me will result in the current partition being removed and a new one being created on the next boot. This is a destructive action that will nuke the current contents of /storage, so you probably don't want to do that.

Instead, take a backup using the LE settings add-on, move it somewhere safe, then clean install the same LE version you're currently running to the new SD card (which will use the full space of the card) then use the settings add-on to restore the backup onto the new card.

Doing a backup/restore is normally a lot faster than card cloning methods because the amount of data 'on the card' is normally only a fraction of the large capacity of the card; whereas cloning requires you to bit-for-bit copy the card including all the unused space.

Power Off is simple to handle because there's a functioning OS that can be (re)programmed to deal with whatever IR or RF keyboard codes the remote sends to run a shutdown. Power On requires something to always be powered and listening/waiting for a specific IR code; that wakes the internal power circuits to (re)start the device. And yes, about 95%+ of all hardware used for LE (all RPis, all NUCs, etc.) do not have that little extra circuit that remains powered to switch things on again. RPi devices can be modified with an add-on board that hosts an IR receiver and a small power circuit that's always-on and provides board power via the GPIO pins. There are IR/remote add-on "lids" for some NUC devices too; but rather expensive.

TL/DR; If the Beelink box has an IR wake function? you might be able to get a programmable IR remote and configure it to wake the box. I'm quite sure the Minix remote is not programmable though, so even if it does have one you're not going to make that combo work.