Posts by chewitt

  • Wetek Play 2 (S905) - HDR or no HDR?

    Some users expect to replace their box(es) every two years. Others expect their investment to last longer. Since we know today that those boxes are currently (sadly) a technical dead-end, we should be clear about it so users can make an informed choice. For the record, I am still petitioning Amlogic to license the Linux libs that would guarantee S912 a better future.

  • Keep Bluetooth keyboard alive?

    There's a tool called l2ping that's part of bluez-tools, but we don't compile it into standard LE images. If you did a custom build with that you can ping the device. I'm not sure that will keep the device alive though. I would expect the keyboard to sleep and then the pings will just time out. You probably need to do something that queries information from the device. I'm not sure what that would be though :)

  • WHICH version if any?

    It's probably an S805 and you might find a working image among the sticky threads in this subforum. There are few people creating images for S805 boxes now .. mostly because there are newer/shinier cheap boxes available.

  • Libreelec System Backup does not work

    The backup file is a standard tar archive so take a copy and see if it unpacks on your desktop OS first. If it has a problem there; it's damaged in some way. If it's okay there is some other problem but you should be able to copy the file to the new SD card and just 'untar' the file somewhere else, e.g.

    systemctl stop kodi

    rm -rf /storage/.kodi /storage/.cache /storage/.config

    tar -xvf backupfile.tar

    The archive contains paths so it will overwrite the current folders, hence ^ removing them first.

  • Chromium?

    As a general announcement: There has been no active maintainer for the Chromium browser add-on for some time and it's a PITA to keep current so unless someone in the community wants to take up the cause we plan to remove it from the repo. While Chromium may work for general things 90%+ users want it for video streaming sites and if those don't work, we'd prefer to avoid the moaning about things not working. If anyone wants to volunteer .. PR changes to GitHub and/or let us know you're working on something.

  • Wetek Play 2 (S905) - HDR or no HDR?

    S905 does not support HDR. S905D/X support HDR via an 10-bit to 8-bit conversion process (internal to the SoC). S912 also handles proper 10-bit HDR but won't be supportable on the next generation Kodi video pipeline (Kodi v19). S905D2/X2 which appear soon (and S922 later in the year) support 10-bit HDR and will be supportable on the next-generation Kodi video pipeline.

  • Enable Hibernate x86 Plattform

    cp /etc/swap.conf /storage/.config/swap.conf

    ^ now edit /storage/.config/swap.conf and enable swap, change the swapfile size to something larger than RAM size. This enables the swapfile. I've no idea if that's what determines hibernate support on an x86 device but it's simple enough to test and if it doesn't work just delete the .conf and swapfile.

  • Question about sales

    As long as you install an official LibreELEC image and make zero modifications to the image there is no problem with selling devices that are pre-installed with LibreELEC. If you sell lots of systems and thus profit from our work an occasional donation to support the activities of the project would be appreciated (not required, but appreciated).

  • Volumio vs LibreElec

    Quote from Confused

    This is what I was getting at. I just have a feeling that the developers of Volumio and other audio OS would be better using LE as a starting point for a dedicated (no compromise) audio OS.

    Having talked to some of them in the past. Most are individual app developers or very small teams and it's easy to package your app into someone else's distro like Raspbian. Taking that a step further and creating your own embedded distro requires a different set of skills, and while LE is fairly simple to manage (when you know how) it's also a little obscure in how things are packaged and that knowledge takes time to learn. I'd love to see more of those app-distros adopt our codebase (similar to Plex and Lakka) and it would also benefit them by broadening hardware support beyond the Pi ecosystem. The desire or initiative to do that needs to come from their side though, else we end up pushing water uphill.

  • Volumio vs LibreElec

    I confess that it was moOde audio I had a go at porting, not Volumio. An LE image with MPD on its own (no Kodi, less video stuff) came in about 90MB in size which is much nicer than the typical 400MB-1.2GB of debian based things.