Posts by chewitt

NTFS drives are best fixed on Windows using chkdsk.exe and then safe eject/removal to ensure the filesystem is not 'dirty' again.

Check BIOS settings and ensure legacy boot options are enabled. Old machines often have issues with UEFI but we support both. NB: If the machine is running OE check the /flash partition size with "df -h" .. if it's an older OE install with ~230MB space you need to reinstall but if its a newer one with ~512MB in size (at least more than 300MB disk) you can "update" the existing OE install to LE by putting the LE .tar file into /storage/.update and rebooting. If you do this you need to SSH in and stop Kodi then rename /storage/.kodi out of the way so that you start with a clean Kodi instance and avoid add-on upgrade issues.

First you need to tell us the WiFi chip in the laptop (kind of important). Then:

Quote from aeeq

Hi ,how to chang gpu memory for rk3328(my box H96 max +),deault is 100M,for 4g ram,it's small

All the GPU does in normal use is render the Kodi GUI which is not a demanding task. If it needs more it will self-allocate more. Forcing it to use some arbitrary larger value achieves nothing.

ConnMan stores files in /storage/.cache/connman/<service>/settings .. the <service> directory name includes the MAC address of the local NIC so if you copied it from an RPi4 the MAC will not be correct and thus the settings file is ignored.

Long-story short.. not supported and no plans to support. Our RK support is focussed on current and recent chips, not old ones.

Quote from Udjin

Good afternoon. I installed LibreELEC 9.2.6 on the raspberi zero W, bad cable and HDMI-CEC did not work, I can not connect a keyboard / mouse, at zero W there are no full-sized USB ports. How to enter SSID/password WIFI when booting the OS?

Fix the bad cable, then CEC works and (as previously described) the first-run wizard has the WiFi settings. Software complexity is never a fix for shoddy hardware. If you want a hardware solution, connect a UART cable to the board.

FYI, the default (embedded) time servers are 0/1/2.pool.ntp.org so there is no need to configure ntp.org servers, it doesn't achieve any real-world difference to the system.

NTP is being blocked somewhere. See if setting the router IP as the NTP server works, some routers will give a response to requests.

It's definitely a backup of my WP2 box, and I can boot the box image from the original vendor u-boot.

Quote from Flecky

Any info on how to create functional dtb for rk3318?.

Creating a functional dtb will be trivial once someone writes a functional kernel for RK3318. The horse needs to come before the cart.

Martin has been implementing the HDMI driver and audio support. There is progress, but it's slow progress. `Development reached the point where some of the retro-gaming distros which don't have such a dependency on audio/video things are now using the upstream codebase.

You can try the "box" image here https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE….0.1-box.img.gz the dtb to set in uEnv.ini is "meson-sm1-h96-max.dtb" .. but this assumes your H96 Max is the same as the box I made the device-tree file (which is a gamble .. it's a clone). HBR audio should be working fine but video is in a rough state in the upstream kernel so CE is probably a better option.

I assume you mean for RPi devices? .. it's in the Pi Foundation to-do list but not with a high priority.

NB: Until the audio channel mapping issues are figured out users can select the "HDMI" device as a pass-through device but should still select the "Analogue" output device as the main Kodi output. The Analogue PCM device alsa conf has some channel remapping to workaround the problem - the HDMI device does not support this.

LE uses pulse audio for BT output. It is probably possible to pair multiple BT audio devices and configure pulse to send L and R audio streams to the two different devices. However, how exactly you do this is the unknown. There is no HOWTO guide in our Wiki and nobody on staff has muh expertise in pulse audio, and you'll discover it's a complete bitch to Google for hints due to the massive number of false hits on common terms.

Boot this image on an SD card https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE….0.1-box.img.gz and from the SSH console write this image https://www.dropbox.com/s/tw6bg3kipc8t…wp2.img.gz?dl=0 to eMMC with "emmctool w backup-wp2.img.gz" - the image is a raw backup of eMMC from my WP2 box before installing LE (or in my case, erasing Android).