Posts by chewitt

Looking at the original sources.xml shared in post #5 I notice the shares have spaces in their names and the paths are not quoted or escaped. I'm not sure how Kodi handles this, but it might be something to look into.

e.g. Escaping:

        <source>
            <name>TV Shows</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.111/Media\ Library/TV\ Shows/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>

or Quoting:

        <source>
            <name>TV Shows</name>
            <path pathversion="1">"smb://192.168.1.111/Media Library/TV Shows/"</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>

or (best) remove spaces:

        <source>
            <name>TV Shows</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://192.168.1.111/Media/TV_Shows/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>

No idea if that's the issue but simple enough to test.

It sounds like a communal garden "flakey connection" .. the soluions are:

a) Run an Ethernet cable

b) Use an external WiFi device with a better antenna

c) Use an Ethernet bridge (combines both)

d) Run and Ethernet cable <= always the best

RPi4 has better wireless than previous Pi devices that I've used, but it's not the best WiFi device.

Configure the Harmony as an MCE remote and it should mostly work as-is.

Nope, but you can always install the Jarvis-era "Confluence" skin from the Kodi repo. AFAIK this is still being maintained.

I'd guess that you only calibrated the 60Hz "desktop" refresh rate, and then Kodi switches to 50Hz (PAL) or 23.976Hz (DVD) for media playback. Kodi requires you to calibrate each refresh rate independently (which is annoying and dumb, but is how it works) so you need to switch the desktop to those modes and repeat the calibration process. See if you can change the TV to "Just Scan" or similar.. modern TVs shouldn't need calibration.

It normally requires changes in the low-level firmware. I'm not familiar with RK firmware, but most ARM devices are dependent on closed-source pre-compiled blobs, which will rule out making any changes.

Have a look at /storage/.kodi/userdata/sources.xml

Our normal approach is to encourage a couple of capable users to create some unofficial community images that are published/shared here in the forums. Set "BUILDER_NAME=stpf99" when you build images and this is embedded and we can see exact stats on the number of users the images attract. If things ever get popular we can move to "adopt" the changes. If not, we don't have to add complexity for a niche audience.

If it's anything like the nVidia equivalent, it will require continuous package bumping to match with continuously evolving card drivers and thus will be completely un-maintainable over time. I'm not aware of anyone doing this or working on it.

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

^ until a GUI version of this appears in v9.2.3, run that and reboot, then see if things have improved?

libprojectM: add --enable-preset-subdirs by mglae · Pull Request #4278 · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

IIRC evdev is part of the system tools add-on. Install and log out/in from the SSH console for it to be available.

Go into Kodi setttings > LE settings > Services .. enable Samba. On boot /storage/.config/samba.conf will be used if itt exists, else the the embedded smb.conf will be used.

From personal experience it's tempramental .. keep trying.

HEVC will not play unless it's small file sizes because it's being CPU decoded, there is no HW decode support yet. I found 128MB CMA to result in crashing.. I still state that 512MB boards are not supported.

There are test images on Index of / but no DVB support at this time so best to stick with older releases.

No LE images are using mali now so the mali-utgard package is probably needing some patches or hacks to work around kernel API changes. Lima is quite stable so I wouldn't bother with that change - it's not the source of your issues.

Normally (most apps) you supply the IP/hostname of the DB and admin credentials and the app will create whatever database and table structures it needs to operate. Best people to help you get setup with that are Jeedom - we have no clue about their processes.