Posts by chewitt

Merged.

Quote from yamcenutzer

BTW, why did you single out that one warning line about waiting for a buffer? What does that tell you?

Da Flex has an obsession with buffering and frequently flags it for no discernable reason

I'm not seeing anything in the log. The relevant streams are being selected and Kodi outputs RAW to the HDMI device. Make sure the HDMI port's involved (on TV and AVR) support eARC, as sometimes it's only implemented on one of them.

It should work, but not all HDMI ports are eARC compatible, not all cables support HDMI 2.0+ modes, and NUC firmware continues to be a lottery so ensure the system BIOS and particularly any LSPCON chip firmware is at latest versions. If an LSPCON chip is used the output may need to be set to DP not HDMI as the LSPCON chip converts DP to HDMI for output (which is cheaper than wiring up the native HDMI outputs). If none of the above ..

You can't install it (there is no package manager) but you can self-build an image with the driver patched into the kernel. There are some threads around the discuss the process.

I'm waiting for Kwiboo to finish with u-boot support. Once that's done we'll ship an image using whatever codecs are upstream and everything else using software decode, and then periodic kernel bumps will bring more codecs and features over time. I will go nag Jonas again..

Da Flex it's not a different architecture.

rolapinou Basically correct. I would clean install then add sources.xml and check the SMB access is working fine. Then I would stop Kodi and move the SQL database config to advancedsettings.xml and restart Kodi to start the DB migration. I doubt there's much else that can or should be reused from the older install, perhaps some addon settings from userdata.

Note that current Kodi requires MySQL/MariaDB v5.7 or newer so check the version on the Synology first. I'd also SSH in to tail the kodi.log file to check for errors during the DB migration as it will need to step through quite a few versions and will take time.

Once you install an addon (ID) from a third-party repo it will only update from that repo even if other repos have the same addon ID and a newer version available. I forget the logic for manual installs from zip but I suspect Kodi will not auto-update the ID from an online repo if you install from zip. Kodi has some very specific logic around repo updates due to general problems seen with piracy oriented third party add-on repos that have the habit of publishing addons and modified dependencies that reuse the same ID(s) with the version articifically bumped to 'force' the modified version to be used instead of the correctly numbered versions available in the official Kodi repo.

Different issue that we fixed: https://github.com/LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv/issues/9884 and different zoom issue still being resolved on RPi4/5: https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/pull/6741

Re-reading the issue report (not on a phone) and I'd guess either the there's no function to do what you want for Zoom? - I don't see anything similar on https://kodi.wiki/view/List_of_built-in_functions or it's not working and needs to be reported upstream to Kodi developers via https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/issues

I've done some further build experiments with patches. In short, the second patch smp flagged does not apply to Linux 6.12.y as the function being patched doesn't exist, and the more I look into surrounding code for the change that adds it, the more I see that r8169 has seen a large amount of change in Linux 6.13.y and 6.14.y and I don't think it's worthwhile trying to add ever-more patches to see if the NIC works.

As LE13 currently plans to use Linux 6.12.y this means the release version of LE13 will not support the chip so you will either need to keep using the development build I previously shared until LE14 ships sometime in 2026 or you will need to learn how to self-build an LE image with a newer kernel. The development image will continue to work, but once LE13 ships we'll bump the LE add-on repo version to match the release version and from that point there will be no updated to the repo, and a some point we'll cleanup/delete the old development repos.

The zoom issue was reported a week or so ago and should be resolved in the latest LE13 nightlies.

Intel continuously breeds new something-lake chipsets and most folks lost track of what's supported or not some time ago. If it appears not to work with LE12 which uses Linux 6.6.x, test the latest LE13 nightly as that's using Linux 6.12.x. If it's so darn new that even Linux 6.12.x doesn't support it, then you'll need to self-build an image with Linux 6.14.x and cross fingers.

We don't allow "warnings" from a random forum user to dictate release strategy. If you have an issue; report it to Kodi devs and then work with them to get it resolved. Then the issue is not an issue, and the fix can go into some future LE update. That's how it works. If you don't report it, there is no issue, or the only person with the issue is you..

Just install from the repo over the top of the existing add-on and then future updates from the repo will auto-update things.

The LE13 addon is now merged. Let's see if all is okay and then we'll merge to LE12 too.

Run "dmesg | paste" and share the URL so we can see the full log. Always share a full log; every time you share log snippets you are leaving out useful info/context on the device.

Quote from kristofer

but UI is crap and I want to get Kodi on there instead

So why not install Kodi on Android?

Please update with: https://chewitt.libreelec.tv/testing/LibreE…_64-12.80.0.tar - the image now uses Linux 6.14.0 which contains a load more r8169 changes. If that works i'll revert back to 6.12.x and the extra patch that smp flagged. I'd already built the 6.14 image so you might as well test that first.

Quote from Faheemkhan

I am not attempting to install LibreELEC

Then you are in the wrong forum. We support LibreELEC not Android. We do not collect/share Android ROMs.

The 2GB is enough for normal LE use. If you want to run additional services in the background (docker, tvheadend, etc.) the 4GB or 8GB variants would be more suitable. The eeprom option POWER_OFF_ON_HALT=1 is not configured in LE by default, but you can change that yourself if desired.