Posts by chewitt

I did attempt porting Voumio to LE at one point but gave up on the Apache2 dependency. Nothing to stop you from installing the MPD add-on though (which most of the pi audio distros are based on) and then ignoring the fact that Kodi exists in the background

As long as the filesystems are clean mounting is handled automatically. You probably 'configured' the drive labels in the past (not mount options) to ensure each drive mounted with a distinct name.

wedok Kodi bumped the addon api recently but we (me) didn't build/push updated 3.14 kernel addons to the repo since then so whats in the repo is probably not compatible. I'll update them in the next couple of days when I have time.

Quote from mega-samu

Are you saying that the mecool ki pro (S905D) does not really have gigabit?

S905X has an internal PHY so is always 100-BaseT while S905D has both internal and external and can support 1000-BaseT via the external PHY if manufacturers choose to implement one. The sample boxes I have are aimed at the "streaming" market where fast LAN isn't needed so they save $$ and use the internal PHY only.

I've no idea about that specific box .. I've never seen one and have no interest in acquiring one.

Quote from wrxtasy

So that's the reason you have a S905D box to go with that OLED TV

I'm still using WP2 as the family daily-driver because I have no HDR media except for some test files and the S905D box I've been poking has the same weakness as the S905X; it has 100-BaseT ethernet which chokes on the full-size BR rips that I made. The WP2 might be "inferior" as the SoC has no HDR support but it has GB ethernet that handles the same files with ease, and I can't be arsed to transcode or re-rip all my media just because people design sh1t hardware. The next daily-use upgrade I make will probably be an Amlogic SBC that partners S905D2 with a GB NIC, or an equivalent RK board. The first manufacturer who gets to a mainline kernel and the next-generation video pipeline in Kodi will have my attention!

miniDLNA is in the 9.0 addon repo, it was not submitted to the 8.2 repo

Quote from Zodler

I am reading the Amlogic site and it says all S912, S905D and S905X support UHD HDR. So what's the difference?

The difference is how they support it. S905D/X internally convert 10-bit to 8-bit for processing. S912 processes 10-bit. Future devices like S905D2/X2 and S922 process at 10-bit. Most users who obsess over the whole 8-bit/10-bit thing won't be able to tell the difference. More users will just be happy the HDR mode triggered on the TV and they can point at the brighter screen and tell their wives it was in HDR and looks so much better (and thus the purchase of the new UHD HDR TV was justified)

Do you confirm that /storage/.kodi/userdata/passwords.xml exists and correctly shows the substitution for each source?

If yours sources.xml file looks like this:

<sources>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>MOVIES</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://CAPTAIN/Movies/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
</sources>

You need to ensure passwords.xml exists and contains something like:

<passwords>
    <path>
        <from pathversion="1">smb://CAPTAIN/Movies</from>
        <to pathversion="1">smb://username:password@CAPTAIN/Movies/</to>
    </path>
</passwords>

The alternative is adding the username:password credential directly into sources.xml like this

<sources>
    <video>
        <default pathversion="1"></default>
        <source>
            <name>MOVIES</name>
            <path pathversion="1">smb://username:password@CAPTAIN/Movies/</path>
            <allowsharing>true</allowsharing>
        </source>
    </video>
</sources>

It was an extra "cd" on the end of a command. It looked like a simple copy/paste error so I edited the post. If you'd gotten the commands wrong you wouldn't have built an image

There's no harm from running repo-tool but it's not necessary and you're using disk space for packages you won't use, e.g. if you build RPi2 you'll also end up grabbing the kernel sources for 3x Amlogic kernels, 1x Rockchip kernel, and all the hardware specific packages for those build targets. I'd guesstimate it's an extra ~1GB of data.

Quote from Scottford

Would I need to install a Linux distro on my pi.

Yes, but fortunately LE is a Linux distro

have a look at the CIFS mount sample file in /storage/.config/system.d

I answered the question in post #2.

The thing that conclusively proves the SoC type is under the heatsink, but the sticker that's visible indicates S905W.

It all depends on how the original vendor bootloader has been built and configured. It it checks the SD card first, no tricks are required. If it only checks when recovery mode is invoked, then tricks are necessary.

If the USB drive has no problems that prevent mounting it will mount in /mnt/<name of USB drive> (where name is the disk label). NextPVR client can be installed from the LibreELEC add-on repo. We don't provide tools like SABnzdb.

If you are trying to "browse" the Windows network from LE it will not show anything because LE (and Win10) no longer use the SMB1 protocol which supported a network browse service. We now use SMB2 or SMB3 which do not. Microsoft also recently deprecated the homegroup function in the latest creators update.

As someone already said earlier.. You need to go find someone who's more computer literate to help.

The best place to ask for support would be the plugin author's support thread in the Kodi forum. "Connection reset by peer" looks like a network issue; typically something being blocked.