Posts by chewitt

LE master branch held out on K18 until various dependencies for Python3 were resolved and then we bumped to K19 .. and since then Oleg stopped building K18 images (the hassle of backporting isn't worth the effort). Right now the Python3 changes in K19 are causing some disruption but there is not much Kodi (or LE) can do about this; we've been promoting Python3 for 2.5 years but community developers never change until they have to .. so in the end Kodi had to force the change (coexistence was explored but isn't technically possible over all the platforms Kodi supports). It will take time but it's temporary and once the first K19 alpha release ships more add-on authors will release updates.

Development activity is focussed on our master branch (Matrix) so minor bumps to Leia add-ons can be overlooked. Instead of installing Entware you could just point out that some Leia add-ons need bumping (or even send us a pull-request to do the bump) and we'll build and publish the updated add-ons to our repo.

Two suggestions:

a) Upgrade RPi 1B+ to something newer

b) Use a legitimate IPTV feed with fewer entries

Any IPTV feed with 14,500 channels is a pirate feed .. so you are reminded of forum rules.

Check the country setting in the router matches what you've set in the conf file. In 'eastern' markets router products sometimes default to Japan which has extra channels that won't appear anywhere else.

The AMLGX 'box' image is the one to explore .. use a spare SD card, don't attempt to update the existing working(ish) install.

NB: This thread exists to support balbes150 images. If you would like to discuss other images or distros please do it in another thread.

Junoxe There is no 9.2.0 version - hence no links on the download page. LE chose to stop working on the old vendor kernel after LE 8.2 and has been working on moving the Amlogic platform onto a mainline codebase - which is still an ongoing effort. Test images that support S905X2 are here Index of / or you can use balbes150 images which are linked in the first post of this thread.

The only app that I've seen that plays 360º videos is VLC. They are not supported by ffmpeg which is the underlying player app for Kodi.

If you are going to set a single resolution and no whitelist 1080p60 is the best option. If you're going to change the default to 1080p50 as most of your media is PAL (25Hz) then it will eliminate most-switching (as Kodi doubles 25 to 50 automatically so no switch is required) but it would be best to use the whitelist and allow 23.976/24/50/59.94/60 modes. I don't see any issues with SD media. YMMV.

This is an English language forum.

Not supported in official releases and no plan to add it.

We continue to fiddle with the firmware and such in the 9.2 branch as this can be tested independently of Kodi version, but this is mostly done via team internal or private testing so there are no public nightlies.

Allwinner development is now focussed on the LE master branch (will be LE10 in the future). Add-ons for older 9.2 based images are probably missing from the repo and will not be built/added now - so you need to update the release.

An educated guess:

Kodi checks the repo on start, but the repo uses SSL and the certificate has a start/end validity period. RPi has no real-time clock chip to retain the time between boots. On boot the system time starts from the libc compile date which is probably before the SSL certificate start date. So if NTP has not updated system time before Kodi starts (which happens more often with WiFi connections due to slower driver loading) the cert is seen as invalid and the repo check fails. Then you have to wait for another repo check, which will happen automatically eventually, but not if you're rebooting/rebooting to try and see where the problem lies.

Some of the Q's have complicated answers. Ping us in Slack (as you have access) and we'll help get things up and running.

I pinned the thread so more people find it. Please focus on the mainline investigations

Sadly "user reports bad behaviour from Amlogic legacy kernel sources" is not surprising or something anyone will investigate. We have abandoned that kernel (which is full of bad, period) in favour of the upstream/mainline kernel which is maintainable, although that work is still ongoing and current test images you can find on Index of / are not fully featured. It's a bit of a "rock and a hard place" situation, sorry.

OE used a 230MB boot partition and the image LE currently ships is a little larger (we have used 512MB for the boot partition since 2016) so you either need to use some kind of bootable USB/CD with tools to shrink and move the storage partition so the boot partition can be expanded, or you take the easier and much faster option; create the installer USB and boot from it, and then create a new LE install. The image you posted shows 256MB of data on /storage so you didn't do much yet .. it will be easiest to clean install and start over.