Posts by chewitt

  • Which Box is it? How to find a flashfile?

    We don't need to break the secure OS, only avoid it, since it's running long before LE/Linux gets started. LE should work with the vendor u-boot and the normal Amlogic recovery boot process. NB: If your goal is to run Armbian you're in the wrong forum. I don't run it often and am not that familiar with it (someone else's problem, so to speak).

  • Which Box is it? How to find a flashfile?

    You can write the AMLGX "box" image to an SD card (no flashing to internal storage, we don't support that) and experiment with different dtb names in uEnv.ini (edit the dtb to use, don't rename the dtb files). I can't really recommend a specific dtb to try; perhaps VIM1 since this has a complete dtb with features like Broadcom WiFi/BT enabled. The boot log shows the box has BL2 secure firmware, but that just means we need to exclude some additional memory areas (and we do, else we use them and crash the secure world OS). It's 1GB device so I would have low expectations for overall performance. LE images should support the keyboard without any issues. If you meant the remote, you will need to put it on the network and SSH in then follow https://wiki.libreelec.tv/configuration/…figuration-hard

  • Minimal Build

    LE is based on a cross-compile workflow where the buildsystem will download package sources, cache them, unpack them, apply local patches to the sources, and then build them. The package is then included into an image or update tar file by adding the package to the distro/project/device options config. It's possible to use local sources in the package folder but that's a bad habit, and some binaries you might be able to copy accross as-is from another distro, but it depends on how they were compiled (static or dynamic) and it's never guaranteed to work. There is intentionally no package install system in LE (other than the tools add-ons in the Kodi GUI) so to build on-device you'll have to delve into the world of Docker to have a build environment. As a rule its a lot easier to work in a VM on a desktop/laptop which has more grunt.

    See documentation in https://github.com/LibreELEC/Libr…master/packages and go read the wiki sections on self-building..

  • Minimal Build

    htop already exists in the build-system, so you can either install the system-tools add-on package via the Kodi GUI (which contains htop) or you can add "htop" to extra packages in one of distribution/project/device 'options' files and it should be added to the default image.

  • X96Max_Plus2_20201210-1638 which dtb

    sagittarius the Android boot log shows the box has RTL8822CS WiFi which is partially supported in the upstream rtw88 kernel driver (PCIe works, but not SDIO). I'm expecting to see some patches from MartinB and jernej on the linux-wireless mailing list in the new year though, as they have been collaborating on adding SDIO supprot. BT drivers are already upstream for a while but some device-tree fu is needed to get it working.

  • RPI 4 or Odroid

    RPi4 release images are fine, next update will probably backport a few more things from nightlies if we think they are stable. I wouldn't rely on the wireless chip though, it's better than RPi3 was but still not great. If you want something reliable use Ethernet.

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

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    INFO <general>: [WHITELIST] Searching the whitelist for: width: 1920, height: 1080, fps: 25.000, 3D: false
INFO <general>: Display resolution ADJUST : 3840x2160 @ 50.000000 Hz (19) (we1ght: 0.000)
INFO <general>: CDVDVideoCodecDRMPRIME::Open - using decoder V4L2 mem2mem H.264 decoder wrapper

    You are trying to play 1080p media at 4K resolution, and 4K H264 is not supported. Correct the whitelist to include 1080p@50 and it will play with the TV upscaling to the 4K native panel resolution (the TV will handle scaling better than Kodi).

    I'd guess that widevine is probably broken due to the openssl bump which will need inputstream.adaptive to be rebuilt/pushed. The changes are done but the addons might not have reached the repo yet.

  • timezone auto update

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    RPi4:~ # grep Dubai .kodi/userdata/guisettings.xml 
    <setting id="locale.timezone">Asia/Dubai</setting>

    ^ You need to stop Kodi, sed the file, restart Kodi to effect the change, or learn how to make the change live via the JSON API - which is also the best option as this will also pass the change to the /storage/.cache/time`zone file.

  • RPi4 4GB

    Quote from Beam

    I tried install LE 10.0.1 and it looks like PVR works fine, but i don't know how it is HW decoder and RPi4 on 10.0.x now.

    The HW decoder in LE10.x images has better support for RPi4 hardware than LE 9.2.x images, and LE11 nightly images currently have better support than the LE10.x images. I've no idea what the issue with 9.2.8 is, but even if you figure out the issue no more 9.2 releases are planned.

  • Wetek play 2 build

    Quote from esrefasaf

    I need wetek internal dvb tuner supports on Kodi with python 3. Are there any images can you recommend to me?

    You need an image with the Amlogic 3.14 kernel for tuners support, and Matrix for Python3 support, and AFAIK the CE images that support Matrix and Python3 are all using the Amlogic 4.9 kernel, which because it was "reworked" by Amlogic for GXL and newer devices has some breakage for GXBB (S905) hardware like the WP2. It's the classic problem with vendor-hacked BSP codebases; they don't need to consider backwards compatibility when supporting the next generation. NB: I don't pay attention to CE images though so I'm not sure how accurate that info is (better to ask them, not me). LE official images stopped at 9.0.2 (K17) although there are community created images equivalent to 9.2 available here in the forums, but once you go to K19/K20 and Python3 the kernels go upstream where the tuner drivers are missing.