Posts by chewitt

Quote from Jocke.Sve

Could anyone share ideas about a good (stable with acceptable speed) USB Wi-Fi adapter for LE use.

I'm adding a LE player in a location where Ethernet is not an option.

My $0.02 is to invest in an Ethernet/Wireless bridge device. I use them with whatever test device I happen to be looking at .. to avoid the hassles of configuring WiFi connections. As "router" devices they have a larger antenna built-in which contributes to more stable connections (although stable is not a word I ever associate with WiFi) and since they present Ethernet to the test device there are zero driver issues. I used to collect/use old Apple a1rport devices as they are simple and cheap, but these days they're getting a bit old.

In post #2 i've given you the correctly spelled filename (only "unique" to 25m+ Pi devices) and in post # 4 I've given you the path to the file in LE.

MrChromebox.tech <= has all the boot things for Chromebox devices but that would be mostly useful for a clean install. If you've already got LE installed and there is a space problem the solution is probably to do some spring cleaning to make space.

The main (only?) hardware where this request comes from is RPi0 where the default board lacks physical ports. LE10 drops support for 512MB RPi hardware as in our opinion the performance under the new GBM/V4L2 pipeline (using more RAM and not-using OMX) is no longer suficcient for a good Kodi experience. It might improve over time with optimisation but under LE9.2 that optimisation requires 100k lines of not-upstream code and one of our long-term goals with Kodi is no (or minimal) not-upstream code, so it will be hard to replicate. Active-install numbers for RPi0/1 are tiny so from our side it's a low-impact change. So thanks for the creative thoughts, and I'm sure it's not the answer you wanted to hear, but we will indirectly solve the RPi0 problem by no longer supporting the hardware that has the problem.

Talking about UUIDs and labels demonstrates you've been looking in the right locations, e.g. /flash, so I replied to your high-level question with a similarly high-level answer. I even gave you the name of the file to change. I'm not someone who spends time providing step-by-step spoon feed instructions so you'll need to use a little initiative.

manual update (SSH console): Updating - LibreELEC.wiki

Netfix probably detects the IP/ASN you connect from belongs to a commercial hosting provider (where you created the VPS that runs WireGuard) and like many streaming media providers, they agressively block access from non-domestic hosting ASNs.

NB: Discussion on bypassing geo restrictions will put you on the wrong side of our forum rules.

RPi3B+ and RPi4B can boot from USB devices (no SD card needed). Older models require an SD card for boot. In all cases LE mounts the "disk=" device stated in cmdline.txt so you can prepare a different /storage device and switch over to it by changing the UUID.

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Hi, sorry if it's irrelevant but how can I install the 4k hdr image on libreelec 9.2.6 without losing any data (like addons) all my addons are supported on matrix /they support python 3 because I asked their developer) but I don't know how to uptade without losing data (I only know how to uotad eby switching channels in the libreelec settings ) if anyone could help it would be very appreciated, thanks

You will not "lose data" by updating, and if there are Matrix compatible versions of your add-ons in the Kodi repo they will update automatically the first time Matrix runs. Any incompatible add-ons will be disabled automatically to prevent issues.

RAM size makes zero difference to Kodi above 2GB .. the 8GB version is fine and the 1GB version probably isn't (same as 9.2.6).

I wouldn't bother with 4K desktop. Kodi skins are 720p or 1080p so they will be upscaled and the TV normally does a better job of scaling to the native 4K panel resolution than Kodi does, and running at 4K forces everything to work harder. If you like your GUI looking worse and running slower .. feel free to run at 4K.

Yes. As long as the version number keeps increasing all is fine.

Please retest with a current LE 10 nightly to validate the issue still exists. The entire OS has newer everything inside and there will be no more LE 9.2 releases.

The reason for skipping 1080 @ 25/29.97/30 is interlaced content which needs the "double" refresh rates to render (Kodi always outputs progressive) but there is no interlaced broadcast 4K media so you don't need to do the same thing. So whitelist whatver 4K modes are visible.

First thing to do is retest with a current LE10 nightly to validate the problem still exists, because basically everything in the OS is updated (including connman) and there will be no more 9.2 releses. FYI, LE does not use the DNS proxy feature in connman.

belaid38 It sounds like the box booted from the SD card then? (install completed). You need to put settings into expert mode and set the PCM audio output to "fixed" with 41KHz bitrate. I haven't figured out why this is required on WP2 yet. It is not needed on GXL and newer devices or an Odroid C2 (also a GXBB device) .. definitely something odd.

If you remove all SD cards and USBs and attach the UART cable (which WeTek shipped with the box) you'll see the box fail to boot .. as there is no longer a bootloader. Now if you write the SD card using my wp2 image it should boot (from the SD card) and you'll see UART output. NB: I didn't test the WP2 for a few weeks (as moved back to RPi4 for a bit) but i'm not aware of anyhing that changed enough to break boot.

It's possibly/probably related to the incomplete BT rework in our settings add-on, but can't really say since you expect us to blindly guess things instead of sharing logs.