Posts by chewitt

It should be impossible to update from older LE (3.14 kernel) to nightly (mainline kernel) images .. I added an explicit check to detect this and abort:

LibreELEC.tv/canupdate.sh at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

I haven't been adding the realtek vendor-binary drivers to the LE master branch for Amlogic as I'm typically working on an rc kernel and these things break all the time, but I have enable most of the in-kernel drivers and rtl8188ee should support that device. Can you run "dmesg | paste" when using Ethernet (but with the WiFi device connected) and share the URL, it might me something simple like missing firmware.

No ideas why it fails, but we have cron in the OS so the ugly workaround is to schedule a reboot at 2am every night.

No, WP2 is S905 (GXBB) and VP9 support didn't appear in hardware until S905X (GXL) so it's software decoding.

lumpi I can't say much about Tartiflette until LibreComputer publish more themselves, but it's packaged for industrial use-cases and will also ship as an S905D device so it probably won't appeal to LE users. It's relevance will be that it's a device LibreComputer will want broad "out of box" upstream Linux and distro support for, and since they're one of the few entities that supports (funds) upstream work, that's ultimately good for anyone else with an S912 device.

GitHub - chewitt/amlogic-boot-fip: Firmware Image Pacakge (FIP) sources used to sign Amlogic u-boot binaries in LibreELEC images <= has all the FIP sources that I've found, and the VIM2 sources seem to work on a number of the other S912 boards and box devices I have. Focus on learning how to build mainline u-boot from sources and then run through the Amlogic signing process to make a bootable firmware. The signing recipe is documented in u-boot sources, see u-boot/board/amlogic/q200 at master · u-boot/u-boot · GitHub

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I'm using latest LibreELEC release for Windows.

No you are not, we do not provide software for Windows

Did you put the firmware in /storage/.config/firmware or /storage/.config/firmware/bnx2/ ? .. files are overlaid on /usr/lib/firmware so if files are normally found in subdirs you need to create them too.

Home > Settings > LE Settings > Services > SSH > Disable password authentication

Either you disabled password authentication, changed the root password (when prompted in the first-run wizard), or you have fat thumbs.

2020-05-27 15:29:27.805 T:2875597680   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'Die Fosters' using The Movie Database scraper (path: '/storage/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org', content: 'tvshows', version: '3.5.3')
2020-05-27 15:29:27.825 T:2875597680   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url cache="tmdb-search-Die%20Fosters-de.json">https://api.tmdb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=6a5be4999abf74eba1f9a8311294c267&amp;query=Die%20Fosters&amp;language=de&amp;append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&amp;include_image_language=de,en,null</url>
2020-05-27 15:29:27.825 T:2875597680   DEBUG: CurlFile::Open(0xafbcf8f0) https://api.tmdb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=6a5be4999abf74eba1f9a8311294c267&query=Die%20Fosters&language=de&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=de,en,null
2020-05-27 15:29:28.027 T:2875597680   DEBUG: Get: Using "UTF-8" charset for "https://api.tmdb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=6a5be4999abf74eba1f9a8311294c267&query=Die%20Fosters&language=de&append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&include_image_language=de,en,null"
2020-05-27 15:29:28.030 T:2875597680   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <results></results>
2020-05-27 15:29:28.030 T:2875597680   DEBUG: FindMovie: Searching for 'Die Fosters' using The Movie Database scraper (path: '/storage/.kodi/addons/metadata.tvshows.themoviedb.org', content: 'tvshows', version: '3.5.3')
2020-05-27 15:29:28.031 T:2875597680   DEBUG: scraper: CreateSearchUrl returned <url cache="tmdb-search-Die%20Fosters-de.json">https://api.tmdb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=6a5be4999abf74eba1f9a8311294c267&amp;query=Die%20Fosters&amp;language=de&amp;append_to_response=credits,external_ids,images&amp;include_image_language=de,en,null</url>
2020-05-27 15:29:28.034 T:2875597680   DEBUG: scraper: GetSearchResults returned <results></results>
2020-05-27 15:29:28.034 T:2875597680 WARNING: No information found for item '/media/Elements/Serien/Die Fosters/', it won't be added to the library.

die fosters — The Movie Database (TMDb) <= returns no results
the fosters — The Movie Database (TMDb) <= shows 3x series

So you might need to use the English series names for the scraper to match, even if the information the scraper subsequently downloads is the DE translation. Or you need to sign up with TMDB and add/edit the series to ensure the German alternative name is registered and returns results.

I didn't look into the other items, but it's likely the same root cause.

Clear the NTP coonfiguration you added (which is not required as we fall back on ntp.org servers if nothing is set) then reboot and run "journalctl | paste" approx 1 min after booting into Kodi and share the URL generated. Kodi logs aren't relevant to the issue.

This is still being looked into, and it's one of those tasks that's programmatically not quite as simple as it initially sounds due to how DNS lookups and DNS caching work.

Can you name a series that is not being scraped?

No worriess, 32-bit boot firmware isone of the more obscure niches of the distro

LE uses syslinux for 64-bit x86_64 boot environments and grub for 32-bit, so presence of grub might just indicate the device is super low-end and has 32-bit boot firmware. Those devices have always been fairly rare so our experience with them is limited, but historically they were always rather awkward to install onto. You might get further removing the ATA! drive and writing the image directly to the HDD via USB > IDE adaptor. You might also need to experiment to BIOS settings (disable EFI, set legacy, or similar).

Can this not be added to other conf files? (which is what the folder is really for) .. sorry i'm not much of a pulse expert (as we don't really use it).

echo "options cfg80211 ieee80211_regdom=DE” > /storage/.config/modprobe.d/cfg80211.conf

^ see if that helps, it will be something you can set via the GUI in LE 9.2.3

I watch live TV on an RPi4 in Dubai from a TVH server (DVB-C) shared by one of Kodi developers in Helsinki with all traffic routed via a WireGuard tunnel that egresses in the UK, but without any noticeable issues that aren't easily explained by other things consuming bandwidth on the Dubai to UK leg, or bad weather in Finland. Why? .. because there is no terrestrial TV in Dubai and no option to use a Satellite receiver in the development where I live so it's the only way I get to test DVB related things. I also have access to a TVH server in Germany but the Finns don't dub everything and my schoolboy German sucks so the Helsinki server is more usable

No need to whitelist the non-1080p resolutions. Set Kodi GUI to 1080p60.

Re-reading the original post, I think you need to solve the server side issues as bad signal/reception or processing in the server is going to result in issues that can't be resolved client side. I doubt the client is the issue, although some of your original config wouldn't help.

I'm not much good with the server end as I never self-host it..

What's the DNS issue?