Posts by chewitt

I'm aware of only two legitimate IPTV services; both providing access to the local content of a specific country and a limited range of channels from that country. Every other IPTV service we've looked at (hundreds of services, all paid-for services) are pirate services. It is commercially possible to license the number of channels that most IPTV services contain (1500+) but to cover the real-world licensing costs this would require a user-fee of $90+/month not the typical $5/month that pirate operators charge.

I'd guess you originally installed OpenELEC which used a smaller boot partition size. The LE 7 > 8 update kept within the OE size limits so manual update via the GUI worked. The 8 > 9 update is larger and won't fit the OE partition size so the update will abort with a message saying the partition size is too small. The easiest way to solve that is following a simple "backup > reinstall > restore" sequence. From the description you've skipped the backup and simply reinstalled LE which overwrote the existing install (the USB is an installer, not an updater). While annoying, the positive is you won't be restoring back all the extra cruft that you inherited from the original OE install (loads of language add-ons that aren't needed etc.) and the accidental spring clean should have things running smoother than before.

It's possible to have multiple NIC's active in LE, e.g. Ethernet and WiFi at the same time and connman (the connection manager) has a preference for the default route (internet access) to be handled over Ethernet if both interfaces are active - traffic will route via the better connection. You should be able to simply access the GUI of installed add-on apps via either active interface as long as the apps are configured to listen on all local interfaces, i.e. do not have their comms bound to a single interface. If that's not the case you'll have to make a feature request to whoever created the apps; it wasn't LE team because we have always refused to provide those "dual-use" tools associated with piracy.

Please explain the network configuration in more detail. Which device is connected to which, and what is the function of the LE/HTPC box?

ping lrusak

30 seconds reading the content added/removed section of your IPTV provider's forum shows them (not surprisingly) to be a pirate IPTV service.

The current Slice image is just our standard Raspberry Pi image with an extra overlay loaded via config.txt for ethernet, sound and the LEDs, plus the Kodi service add-on.

Deinterlace is configurable under Open-GL (on x86 hardware) but not when using Open-GLES (on ARM chips). They are distinct and quite different ways to render video on-screen.

If things take 50 seconds to boot there's an issue somewhere. Sharing the systemd journal log after boot should show where the delay is; unless the issue is in u-boot before the kernel/system (which generate the boot log) run.

Please understand that RK development is "work in progress" and far from complete. Playback glitches should be expected.

You can mount the Gluster node via CIFS/SMB or NFS .. there is no support for their native client libs in LE or Kodi. You can either remote mount to a local folder using the systemd SMB/NFS .mount templates in /storage/.config/system.d or use the Kodi client capabilities as normal. IMHO unless you need to use/learn GlusterFS for some other purpose it's probably an unnecessary complication.

mount -o remount,rw /flash
cp /path/to/your/splash.png /flash/oemsplash.png
mount -o remount,ro /flash

^ no need to recompile to change the splash

TCPServer[569]: segfault at 7fb2e8db7000 ip 0000000000bd5e76 sp 00007fb2c57f9580 error 4 in kodi.bin[400000+ef4000]

^ suggests something network stack related not GPU, but regardless this is an unsupported configuration (GPU pass-thru) of the unsupported Virtual image so it will be up to the wider community to guess the issue. Sorry it's not a better answer..

MikeKL at the moment the only changes to S912 images are micro-bumps to the panfrost mesa code. There is no 10-bit video support and most 4K media is 10-bit HEVC so lockups/crashes when playing unsupported media are expected.

In short, no, it's not a filesystem we depend upon so we don't include tools (and incur bloat) for it.

As the saying goes .. no log = no problem

Make a backup of the working LE device and restore the backup on the non-working device. You should now have devices with identical configuration and thus should eliminate "PEBKAC" from the setup process. If you still see issues; then yes it might be something server-side, but there is nothing by default in Windows that can/would restrict the number of clients connecting (until you reached large numbers of clients).

There are no camera drivers in LE, because it's not a use-case we need (or want) to support. Use Raspbian.

You can submit the changes as a pull request to our GitHub repo so changes can be picked for testing, but no guarantee they are accepted as this is for older hardware.

The 4th generation AppleTV remote uses IR for navigation and BT audio for siri voice commands. So it's not a "BT remote" that can be paired.