Posts by chewitt

Nothing will be fixed in the 8.2 branch even if you find and prove a problem. Update to the current Alpha release (8.90.003) and retest please.

Unless you manually turn containers off or the system runs out of disk space they will just keep running. If you are using the popular linuxserver.io containers a periodic reboot of the pi will result in updates to the containers being pulled from their repo.

RK3399 is a supportable but current team focus is on board devices not the legion of crappy Android boxes that can be found on gearbest. Use the right device tree and it should work though.

"it depends" on how different the other OS is to the current RK 4.4 kernel. In some cases (same kernel codebase) the device tree might just work and life is simple. In other cases the current device tree probably contains the info you need to reinterpret things to a new one. Android != Linux and kernel version determines whether you're working in ancient greek or modern greek (so to speak).

@mihailescu2m if you push your current code/changes to GitHub it would be interesting to diff your branch against our master branch and see what's required. At some future point maybe you even send us a PR

Yeah, that will be required too

I've recently been looking at brcmfmac sdio firmwares and current code will take firmware *files* that are placed in /storage/.config/firmware and append them to /usr/lib/firmware but it will not take a folder structure, so /storage/.config/firmware/brcm/* will be ignored.

Can you share (pastebin) the .txt file?

You can fake the EDID data from the TV to make the HTPC think it's connected, see Custom EDID [LibreELEC.wiki]

@mihailescu2m that's a great validation of why we've been working on the next-generation Linux video pipeline for Kodi. Have you contacted the HK people to ask for updated mali drivers with the required features? (they won't have them, but can request from ARM).

Update to the current Alpha release and retest.

Did you enable "adjust refresh rate" and whitelist the modes you'll allow it to switch to? .. because if you don't it'll stick at the default 60.00Hz.

Google "libreelec debug log" and you might find something. It's simple and laziness is no excuse.

connmanctl
agent on
scan wifi
services
connect wpa_blahblahblah_psk

connect via ethernet and SSH into the device, then enter the user/pass when prompted

if this works, it's something in our settings addon that's not correctly trapping a response from dbus

if it doesn't work, it's something else .. and I have no idea

wrxtasy Original S905 is what I still use as the family daily driver so I wasn't aware of S905X/D etc. doing HDR > SDR.

It's not normal behaviour and 3B+ is fully supported. Update to the 8.90.003 alpha (which contains newer pi firmware etc.) and if the issue isn't resolved provide a Kodi debug log that demonstrates the problem.

The iMX code path in Kodi was broken for approximately ~6 months before [linux] remove imx platform by lrusak · Pull Request #12990 · xbmc/xbmc · GitHub was submitted and merged to remove it and clean things up. In the longer-term iMX6 will be supportable using a mainline kernel and the next-generation Linux video pipeline in Kodi and we already have a prototype image in the 'nxp' branch in GitHub. Early testing revealed some missing capabilities in the vivante open-source driver; notably the ability to switch refresh rate. Once upstream developers extend functions in the driver we'll be able to run public testing and think about releasing images again. As we currently have no real-world influence over those developers or visibility on timescales there are no plans for 9.0 releases.

No current solution because the Amlogic 3.14 kernel does not handle HDR > SDR conversion and the replacement mainline kernel will not have HDMI 2.0 and HDR support for some time yet. Using Windows or "buy an HDR compatible TV" are the current best options.

There's an option in Kodi settings for "disable other screens" but this only works if Kodi can see multiple screens. If the hardware defaults to mirrored output with a single screen there's not much we can do in software.

I've no idea which forums provide support for ATV releases, but it's not this one, sorry.