Posts by chewitt

From a Linux/Kodi perspective it's just a USB soundcard, so it's unlikely to be complicated.

smbclient exists in LE, along with kernel smb mount capabilities. Neither are required though. Go read the extensive release notes for LE 8.2.3 on the website then figure out which combination of configuration and wrong expectations need to be changed. It's not a bug.

disable "lirc" in LE settings

It's an ongoing process, but people have lives, families and real jobs. There is no schedule.

You can't install drivers, they need to be pre-installed to the OS image. The first step towards investigating is telling us the wireless chipset inside the device.

You can look at the Snapcast Client/Server for audio streams (in our add-on repo). There uses one device as the master and two others as slave devices to the master rather than attempting to keep three independent streams in sync. There is no equivalent for video.

Share a debug log file please.

There are known audio issues in the Amlogic 3.14 kernel used in 8.2 builds and there are currently no plans to investigate further as the 3.14 kernel is an evolutionary dead-end. It's the kind of things that will be chased down once we move up to a mainline kernel (which is current work in progress).

Twitter has started to block posts from the auto-poster plugin we use in Wordpress (the website) claiming they look like spam. Someone on staff needs to raise a ticket with their support team to challenge the blocking as manual posting everything is a pain. Once that's resolved normal service will resume.

PPTP support requires using the Connman PPTP functions which work, but are a complete sh1t to support users with because connman has rather obtuse ways of configuring VPNs. OpenVPN support can be done independently and is what 99% of VPN services offer these days because it's more secure (PPTP is not these days) and far easier to support (all config in a single file). So we (people with lives and stuff that are inconvenienced by tiresome and unresolvable support issues) made a product management decision several years ago (after OpenELEC dropped all VPN support) to only reinstate support for OpenVPN. If you desperately need PPTP .. sorry but we are not the distro you need to run Kodi with.

Win10 needs to use SMB2+ and you need to enable the user/pass function on the Samba server so it can make an authenticated connection to the server. Anon/guest access is "not permitted" is the most likely thing.

Progress continues to be made but there's 4-5 very independent threads of upstream development (in addition to our own) that need to come together before we'll be in a position to think about releasing anything. Allwinner is benefitting from our experiences with Amlogic and Rockchip, but that doesn't mean things go quicker. If mostly means we're confident about going slower, but taking a more direct route to where we want to end up rather than detour though some coding cul-de-sac's that result in something to show-off, but ultimately burn more time. When there's something show .. we'll tell.

OpenELEC has no support for 3B+ hardware. LibreELEC supports it in the 8.2.4/8.2.5 releases only. What files are you copying over to the SD card after creating the card with our USB/SD creator app?

Samba is a bitch to cross-compile for different platforms so different versions of Kodi run different samba (smbclient) versions. AFAIK both MacOS and Android are still on 4.1 while Linux (depending on distro) will have newer things available - LE is using current versions and is quite advanced in this respect. Other iOS apps may use different SMB libs and not Samba or OS native functions. macOS uses its own SMB stack not Samba although there are legacy references to conf files. Combined .. it's a mucking fess.

Most NUC devices need to have the firmware/BIOS updated before Linux boots/plays nice. Unfortunately Intel only provide a Windows updater so you'll need to boot Windows and handle that there first.

The correct approach depends on whether the driver source code is intended to create a fully out of tree module or something that's either already in the kernel (and just needs an amended config) or are appended/patched into the kernel. In either case you start by creating a working LE image: Compile [LibreELEC.wiki]

Then you either tweak the kernel config, add patches to the linux kernel, or create a new driver package. We can't really instruct further without knowing what drivers you're interested in.

NB: You cannot build drivers on Armbian and just copy them over.

Host an MTA on the Home Server box and submit content there instead. It's pretty trivial to script email sending.

There are many legitimate sources of great free content and the Kodi add-on repo includes many add-ons that make it accessible including YouTube which has a ton of kids content. LE can also work with a DVB card to bring you the great (free) OTA content from Freeview. The box can also handle the DVD and BR discs you own if you connect a USB optical drive or rip the discs for easier storage.

If you're asking for advice on how to pirate free movies and kids shows .. you're in the wrong forum.