macOS does not support EXT4 partitions so it can see "disk20s2" (the /storage partition) but cannot mount it or display anything meaningful. Windows is equally stupid.
Posts by chewitt
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You can dump EDID from a TV to file and then configure the RPi to use the file. Then Kodi "sees" a TV connected (even if it isn't) and it will start, and VNC will be able to show the screen. It all sounds like complete overkill when you can use the Kodi web interface or mobile phone "remote" app to browse the library and select something to play though.
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On first boot the 32K (K, not MB) /storage partition on the SD card is automatically expanded to fill 100% of the available space. So I guess you didn't boot the SD card yet and are looking at the 512MB boot partition.
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You can add "textmode" to kernel boot params to boot to a console. It's not interactive, but then even if you have a console you will not be able to add drivers due to how LE is packaged (the OS is uncompressed into RAM from a read-only file on each boot). In the past CTRL+ALT+F3 was supported on x86_64 hardware (can alse be enabled with "debugging" in boot params) but this was removed to improve security and because nobody used it, and there is no equivalent on ARM SoC devices.
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Take the current Raspberry Pi OS and then copy the compiled device-tree bits from an LE 9.2 image. It's the same kernel version (4.19) and core sources so it should be compatible. I wouldn't use anything from the FiveNinjas repo now .. it's not been maintained for years.
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PROJECT=ARM DEVICE=ARMv7 ARCH=arm scripts/create_addon all^ same build process as normal, but using the new project/device combo, and ADDON_PROJECT="ARMv7" <= can be added to any device and it will use those add-ons.
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The mainline kernel has a remote keymap for "rc-tanix-tx3mini" which probably works; the remote looks identical.
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Run "journalctl | paste" a minute after booting and share the URL
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In LE drives must be baked-in to the OS files we boot from (KERNEL and SYSTEM). You cannot self-install drivers.
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I'm not much of a gamer, but I use a PS4 controller for occasional testing which appears to work okay.
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systemctl mask <name_of_systemd_service>
^ prevents the service from being started.
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Hi guys. does anyone knows about the existance of a screen mirror add-on? Like, on new smart tvs that you can connect to the tv and stream your screen directly on the tv. btw, i want to stream the screen of android devices
It doesn't exist. All the screen mirroring type functionality in mobile device OS is proprietary and Kodi refuses to add support for multiple proprietary standards in their codebase.
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FYI, Amlogic fakes "4K" desktop in their 3.14 BSP kernel because the HDMI chip can output 4K resolution but only on the video plane. The OSD plane that renders the Kodi GUI cannot do more than 1080p. RPi4 can at least render the GUI at 4K, but it will suck at it, and (again) you're better off running the GUI at 1080p and allowing the TV to upscale to 4K (as Amlogic does) .. it will do a better job.
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knaerzche is using the Rockchip Linux 4.4 bsp kernel which is too old to pick/forward-port the driver from as there are major crypto changes around Linux 4.12 or 4.12 which will break the driver. Rockchip are working on a rebase of their BSP kernel to Linux 4.19, so there's a chance the driver is reworked as part of that effort. There's also an equal chance they recognise no new boxes will use this obsolete chip and they drop it from the kernel instead of investing time/effort (which costs money) in reworking it. I wouldn't get your hopes up.. I wouldn't spend the money and I doubt RK will either.
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LE 9.2.4 will be the next release. I have no expectations of improvements to anything in the GUI because aside from minor firmware corrections there are no real-world changes to the current (legacy) drivers. The primary focus of development remains on shifting the platform to GBM/V4L2 and the new driver architecture for LE10. I do not initially expect the LE10 codebase to improve upon LE9.2 either, in fact it may be worse in some areas at first and it will take time to mature.
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[Leia] fix memory info on 32bit linux systems with more than 4GB RAM by HiassofT · Pull Request #18053 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub <= will be merged for Kodi v18.8 so will be in LE 9.2.4 sometime soon. It's a cosmetic thing in tthe Kodi GUI only - if you check free/top etc. from the console they will report 8GB.
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RPi4:~ # ls -l /storage/.cache/shadow ---------- 1 root root 231 Apr 11 2019 /storage/.cache/shadow^ nothing changed since we implemented the feature so the same procedure will still work. Note that you cannot do this from Windows as the storage partition is EXT4 and Windows cannot read EXT4 partitions; you'll only see the VFAT boot parition which does not contain the files. You can also set a new password from the LE settings add-on in the GUI so there's no real-world need to do this.
