Posts by chewitt

Raspberry Pi OS uses X11 windowing and since it's a desktop OS there is support for multiple screen output and multiple player apps. LE runs a single app (Kodi) directly on the framebuffer so there is no windowing and we support a single HDMI connection. LE is more lightweight so will boot faster, but if you need multi-screen output and other apps, we're the wrong distro. NB: LE 9.2 still supports the original OMXplayer decoding, but MMAL will give better results over a wider range of media and is the default on 3B+ hardware. Kodi v19 dropped support for OMXplayer so it will not be present in LE10, but it will be superseded with GBM/V4L2 decoding, although this is still in development.

Sources solely define the locations Kodi can scrape to add new content into the Library (or can be browsed from the non-Library 'Videos' view). If you define sources on a box it can scan/update its DB, which in this case is a central/shared MariaDB instance. If you do not define sources, the device can only be used for playback of content that has already been added to the DB.

WiFi credentials are saved on successful connection only, so if you entered the wrong passphrase it will have failed to connect and nothing was saved. Go into the LE settings add-on and visit the Connections tab, highlight the WiFi network anme, click and select "connect" to enter the passphrase using the GUI keyboard.

The "install" script is checking for an OS that uses Debian packaging (Raspbian, OSMC, etc.) so it's not going to work on LE.

Share "journalctl | paste" about 60 seconds aftter booting (with Etthernet connected) and we can see what chipset is in the device, and from there we can advise on the chances of it being supported in LE.

Ahh, the original Q is now clearer. If you have two screens attached (LCD via ribbon, TV via HDMI) Kodi will use the first one probed by the kernel, and on ARM hardware Kodi does not support multiple screens output (maybe in the future, but not today). So to redirect output to HDMI, you either need to disconnect the LCD, or perhaps fiddle with config.txt and disable in software; I'm not sure as config.txt options are not my area of expertise.

I've never used either of them (WebDAV or SFTP) so I can't really comment.

Create and run a backup script via cron that captures any directories you need, and then scp the backup to a remote server so the files are stored in an off-box location.

It wouldn't surprise me if the kenel defconfig for the NXP (iMX6) project is missing items.

We don't overwrite anything. Everything you see in the OS except for /storage is uncompressed from the read-only SYSTEM file at boot time, and we don't touch /storage during update (it's not even mounted).

@DaFlex that's running a 64-bit OS in a container (on 32-bit userspace) so not really a solution that works. Yeah, hopefully Google blinks first on the 64-bit libs at some point.

echo "ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex full autoneg off" > /storage/.config/autostart.sh

^ something like that should work

Recommentded settings for RPi4 devices are 1080@60 desktop resolution and [email protected]/24/50/59.95/60 and [email protected]/24/25/29.97/30 modes whitelisted. This ensures SD content is scaled to 1080p max and only 4K content is played at 4K, and we scale 720p skins to 1080p (which still ooks good) and leave scaling the 1080p GUI firther (to 4K) to the TV which does a better job than Kodi on any ARM hardware device. Almost nobody needs 4K60 modes as very little content exists in that format, so there's no real-world need to force that in config.txt (hence it is not our default). In some cases the best option is to revert Kodi to defaults again and resist the urge to fiddle with things that don't really need fiddling with

I have Kodi set to 1080@60 desktop with 1080p 23.976/24/50/59.94/60 and 4K 23.976/24/25/29.97/30 modes whitelisted, adjust refresh enabled, and everything else video related on defaults (so deinterlace is auto) and audio on a 5.1 pcm config. Kodi outputs progressive always, so if you are working with deinterlaced content it's important to exclude the 25Hz mode as Kodi needs 50Hz to render 25x2 interlaced frames.

NB: I don't really know how TVH is configured because someone else (one of the Kodi developers, who is Finnish) runs that bit. He aggregates DVB-S and DVB-T connections. I only use it for DVB testing in LE and watching the occasional F1 race but AFAIK the TVH bit is left more or less default. I see some artefacts and judders in the streams from time to time, but my client device(s) are 4,500Km from the server and I route everthing thruogh a VPN to the UK so I have fairly low expectations on performance.

LE defaults to using HDMI output for audio/video on Pi Hardware. RPi3B+ will use MMAL decoding (only RPi0/1 should use OMX).

This forum does not discuss or provide Android firmware, please use freaktab or similar.

It looks like the rtl8188ee driver in the kernel is pci only, not usb, so nothing is showing up. This means you'd need the realtek vendor (not in kernel and breaks on every kernel update) driver .. and we've a long history of refusing to add them because they're a pain in the rear to maintain over time.

Put LibreELEC-AMLGX.arm-9.80.0.tar in /storage/.update/ and reboot, then run "dmesg | paste" and share the URL after it's rebooted (no need to copy/paste to pastebin). The image has a newer kernel with more realtek drivers enabled - and we can see if the card is detected. NB: If it is the card probably won't work due to missing firmware, but the log should should which firmware.

You can experiment with the AMLGX test images on https://test.libreleec.tv using a different SD card, but you will need to experiment with device-trees (Tanix TX3 is another S905W device and might work) but the images are still not ready for prime-time use yet so it would probably be better to stick with the current image and use OpenVPN.