Posts by chewitt

Some benchmark results using the graphene heatsink (complements of the owner of Pine64) http://ix.io/1rx4

Meson 8 hardware like the S812 has a reasonable future once we bump to mainline kernels. There is a lot of IP in common with the newer GX platform so while it's not as popular for development it inherits a lot of support and has an active kernel maintainer (Martin Blumenstingl). The critical missing software component needed for LE to run mainline kernels on S812 is an HDMI driver, and the active plan is to adapt work done for GX boards once it's more feature complete (the HDMI chip is different but we should be able to reuse the core DRM code). Martin has already done some early poking of code but no "video on screen" eureka moment happened yet. LE plans to drop 3.10 kernel support after LE 9.0 ships so there will be a support gap for S802/805/812 devices until an HDMI driver is ready, but I'm cautiously optimistic that something appears before LE10.0. Support can be added back then - although this probably becomes a community effort more than core team effort. Other 3.10 kernel devices using the 8726MX chip (WeTek Play etc.) have no mainline kernel future ahead as Meson 6 has marginal upstream support and nobody working to improve that.

buzzmarshall On the topic of S912 having no future due to the lack of mali blob .. we've been working on making a lot people eat their hats

See this video from a few days ago: YouTube

Copy the file to /storage/.config/firmware/<filename>.bin and reboot .. check dmesg for error messages about firmware loading.

Da Flex .. good luck in running sudo commands in LE (hint: sudo doesn't exist). Please stop offering untested advice.

Install the "System Tools" add-on and reboot.

And the commit was?

Our build system is designed to compile things from source code. You can either patch the source code at build time or post-patch to overwrite the compiled binaries using other files local to the build system. However, you won't get detailed help on pvr.iptvsimple hacks without a convincing reason for using external binaries? i.e. one that doesn't involve accessing pirate IPTV services. If that's the use-case, don't bother asking.

RockPro64 solves the passive cooling with a particularly large heatsink. Khadas Edge has something about 1/4 the size so it runs considerably hotter.

Fine, but don't expect support for old/outdated OE addons here.

The repo allows access from LibreELEC clients. Your browser is not a LibreELEC client. There's no issue with the repo.

Make sure your HTPC has the correct datetime else the SSL certificate can be seen as invalid.

8.2.3 files are restored to the server

That's set somewhere in Kodi code, it's not 'configured' so it would need to be patched out. I'm not sure that's feasible.

It's attempting to mount boot=UUID=<string> and disk=UUID=<string> (as specified in extlinux.conf but can't find the disk= partition to mount the SYSTEM file, so you're dumpted into the limited initramfs shell environment.

What kind of storage device is it?

RockPro64 and Renegade Elite are both from vendors with a long-term proven commitment to Linux support. Khadas are getting better but still seem to focus on Android and simple stuff like designing a case and heatsink that can be paired together seems to escape their design team. Radxa are an unknown quantity at this point in time.

Ahh... I know the issue now. Slice stopped at 8.2.3 because 8.2.4 caused an issue and 8.2.5 didn't solve it, and all 8.2.3 files were removed from the server during a recent cleanup. I'll copy them back to the server from archive.libreelec.tv later, but you might as well install the current beta not the previous version - it's stable. NB: I'd recommend making a backup and flashing the eMMC - it's not hard and you'll get more storage and a clean system. These days there's no advantage to the NOOBs based stuff that Five Ninjas originally put on the system.

I'm not sure who you're messaging. There is nobody called Jack Ma on LE staff, and adding his address here doesn't magically send email. And that git repo is nothing to do with us. Very confusing

The download area lists full releases only. Hence Slice (and Generic, and RPi, etc.) show LibreELEC 8.2.5 which is still the latest full release.

Once LibreELEC 9.0 moves out of beta to full release .. links will be updated.

An Intel Core i7 with 4x cores and SSD takes around 3.5 hours. First time compile will be significantly longer as sources for the 380+ packages used need to be downloaded. If your Internet connection isn't quick..