Posts by chewitt

  • Turning tv on results in back screen

    Cold boot with the box connected to the TV and then run "getedid create" from the SSH console. It will capture the EDID data from the HDMI connection and then hardcode the HDMI connector to use it so the box sees the TV as always-on/always-connected. Then it shouldn't make any difference if the TV is turned off/on again.

    I have no knowledge of these mini Beelink devices, but whereas CEC is native on most ARM SoC boxes (aimed at the Android STB market) most x86_64 devices (aimed at Desktop Windows users) don't natively support CEC control over HDMI.

  • Beelink Pocket P1 - Wifi Problem

    Add "textmode" to boot params in syslinux.cfg and the OS is forced to boot to a local console instead of Kodi. This allows you to connect a USB keyboard to poke around a look at the system log with "dmesg" .. which will probably reveal the box can see the SDIO module but is missing a firmware and nvram config file to make it work.

    The missing files should be in this repo: https://github.com/LibreELEC/brcmfmac_sdio-firmware/ but you'll need to download it on another machine and copy it to the root folder of the USB stick, then boot the box into textmode and copy the files to the /storage/.config/firmware/brcm/ folder before rebooting. On reboot the firmware will appear in /usr/lib/firmware and the card should work.

    If you confirm that fixes it, we'll have a think about how to resolve things properly in the normal image.

  • Legacy v9.2 (LTS) builds for Amlogic S805/S8X2, S905/S912 and all WeTek boxes

    Fake RAM size isn't uncommon but it's rare to see 512MB configurations outside of industrial boards, even on older platforms like Meson8. I'd guess you still have the wrong boot ROM for the box and the RAM configuration in early boot code means it's only seeing 1 bank of RAM, and the second (missing) will add another 512MB to give a more normal 1GB.

    Then again; this is an era where all kinds of shady manufacturing has been done. If it works and doesn't cause problems; don't fix it :)

  • Xandr Replacement

    Code
    video=HDMI-A-1:d
video=eDP-1:d

    ^ Pick whichever connection you want to disable (HDMI or eDP) and add the relevant string to kernel boot params in /flash/syslinux.cfg to disable that output. This assumes you have an Intel or AMD GPU in the laptop. If it's nVidia; there is no GPU support in the Generic image now that we switched to GBM/V4L2 graphics and you will need to use the Generic-Legacy image that heitbaum mentioned.

  • IPSec VPN support

    As Dr. Spock once said.. "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few" and we (still) have no interest in adding IPSec client support for a tiny hanful of people to use. NB: If you have need for VPN to play media remotely WireGuard is a much better option than IPSec and you have either a NAS or general server device at home that can support WireGuard (or a container that supports it) with the router doing basic port-mapping to allow access.

  • HDR on x86 Hardware

    If your distro runs Xorg as the windowing system HDR is not possible (and not likely to change). If it uses Wayland it's possible with the right kernel drivers and mesa for codec, colourspace and colorimetry support, and right now that's more complete with OpenGLES (which is not standard) not OpenGL (standard). And then you'll be challenged by Wayland lacking support for dynamic refresh-rate switching which is essential for a better playback experience. So it's possible, but a conventional desktop distro is probably missing essentials due to favouring stable code over latest code. And even if you pick a rolling and more bleeding edge distro you're probably swimming uphill with a few things to resolve. LE isn't constrained with 'Desktop' requirements so we have it a little easier, but even LE is cannot avoid the reality of Kodi only supporting rather basic HDR things on Linux today. There are PRs on GitHub for some (but not all) missing bits of the puzzle; there are still several unresolved "chicken vs egg" issues between kernel and userspace that need to be addressed. RedHat are sponsoring a Wayland meet-up next month which aims to get enough 'name' developers in the room to agree on a path forwards for the main problems. Hopefully that succeeds, as the discussion has been been rolling on for some time now. Once there is a clear statement of technical direction Kodi developers can plot a course on the missing pieces. Right now Kodi only really supports HDR on Android and Windows; because the underlying OS support HDR and thus we can leverage that. LE is next-best (or least worst) ignoring the existence of some ARM vendor kernels (built for Android) but LE is still dependent on a number of "Work in Progress" pieces that aren't upstream yet, and moving slowly.

  • Official LE11 Test Images for Amlogic (Kodi-20)

    Quote from Masutin

    About installing to the internal memory, I know it's discouraged from and deprecated, but would help me, at my risk; no queries in case of failure. Is the solution in finding and running the script?

    The solution is you coding/implementing support for Amlogic's proprietary partition scheme in the upstream kernel. Until that exists there is no way for the kernel or disk tools used in a script to 'see' the Android /system or /data partitions to wipe and reuse them. Even if someone does port the horrid hack from Amlogic sources it will be refused upstream; because it really is a horrid hack.

  • Remote share mount prevents NAS HD from spinning down?

    If you locally mount remote drives the OS is frequently doing something in the background which generates activity and the drives will rarely spin down (and this is not controllable). If you use the SMB/NFS client built into Kodi you might run into client timeout issues (something that can be fine-tuned in advancedsettings.xml) but Kodi shouldn't be accessing the NAS unless scraping or playing and the drives should spin down more frequently. In short; from your description you're doing the former, so it's an expected behaviour.