Posts by chewitt

  • Audio Distortion LE9 and LE10 on Passthrough when reconnecting

    For HDMI devices the audio output properties in Kodi are determined from EDID data read (once) at boot time. Modern AVRs pass-through the EDID from the downstream HDMI device, e.g. projector or TV, so I'm wondering if the HTPC is reading EDID data from the AVR itself (as the projector is not on) and then after turning it on the HDMI properties change and cause some issue.

    Have a look at the EDID output from "modetest" after boot with the project off, then reboot with it on. If it's changing .. follow the instructions in the wiki to capture and use a static EDID file so the HTPC always sees the projector as on (with the right EDID data).

    No guarantees that's the issue, but we do see odd things when people turn things on after the HTPC sometimes. It's just a hunch.

  • Datetime Not Updating ?? only via ssh

    ^ Is "IntelPrintServer" the correct SSID? .. print server hotspots are normally private (access to printer only) and not internet routable. I see no attempt by ConnMan to contact an NTP server, and if there is/was it would be logged.

    I'd clean install to remove all current network config and start again.

  • Using Nginx with VPN

    The default VPN confs used by most providers simply "route all traffic down tunnel" .. hence the issue. However, most containers are NAT'd on the local host so they only expose ports/services via the existing IP address/interface of the host. To fix this you'd need to run containers from anothre IP address/interface (can be a alias/virtual interface), and then fiddle with the routing rules in the VPN conf so that you only route all traffic for the main interface (excluding the container interface) down the tunnel.

  • Datetime Not Updating ?? only via ssh

    Our default config uses pool.ntp.org servers so you do not need to configure anything for NTP to work; assuming your network or your ISP does not obstruct the normal process. ISP blocking sounds dumb, but appears to happen more often than you'd realise.

    Clean boot, wait 2 minutes, then "journalctl | paste" and share the URL here so we can see what the system actually does.

  • Leia on x86 to Matrix on RPi4 transition

    Assuming you're okay at the SSH console and can read internet HOWTO posts on uncompressing a tar file (the backup). You can take a backup on LE 9.2.6 (using the settings add-on) and make a manual/selective restore of the following from the backup:

    /storage/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml

    /storage/.kodi/userdata/addon_data

    /storage/.kodi/userdata/Databases

    /storage/.kodi/userdata/Thumbnails

    The Python 2>3 changes (and arch change) mean you need to reinstall add-ons anyway .. consider it an opportunity for spring cleaning. The scrapers are also different in Matrix so you can either take the highest numbered DB files and existing Thumbs cache and use it again or only copy sources.xml and then rescrape. The guisettings.xml file has other config, but some will be x86 specific so it's always 50/50 how that turns out when swapping arches. With practice it takes 5 mins to reconfig everything in Kodi settings so it's not a big deal.

  • @balbes150 LE images with Kodi-19 for S9xxx

    I wouldn't say dead, but I'm on hiatus for a while now since I don't have much free time for kerenel fiddling (busy in the real-world) and vdec development has been stalled for two years, so from a Kodi perspective there are no improvements to be excited about. There is still ongoing work on the Amlogic SOC platform overall.. the core OS is solid and increasingly used by industrial use, desktop and some of the retro gaming distros; but all of those have primary use-cases that do not depend on multimedia capabilities in the same way LE/Kodi does.

  • Please add EXT4 filesystem defrag tools

    Quote from morfik

    But still I think the e2fsprogs package should be present in the default image as LibreELEC supports EXT4 filesystem. It's just 1,5M uncompressed (615K compressed).

    This is the first time I have any memory of someone demanding (let along actually needing) defrag tools in LE and I've been hanging around the project and its forerunner for nearly a decade. On that basis alone I'm confident defrag tools are not a must-have thing for our users. You also fundementally mistunderstand how the team thinks about adding unnecessary cruft into our images. Adding 200Kb of new files causes huge debate. Adding 1.5MB for something withiout large-scale user demand .. isn't going to happen. Even if it was needed the approach we'd follow would be to bundle up a collection of things into a "disk-tools" add-on that the minority who need them could install (see the current btrfs-tools add-on as an example).