Posts by chewitt

Someone provided a pre-built version of the Linux (not Android) kernel module which can be embedded to make things function. However this is a workaround not a proper solution. The root issue remains the same; the manufacturer refuses to release the driver sources.

The GUI allows you to change the backup destination to something other than /storage/backup so if you mount a remote filesystem on the host or connect a USB drive those 'off box' locations can be used.

Milhouse builds have been running for months, but video code is still being actively written so no guarantees of speedy support; Kodi is still several months from an official Alpha release.

From a comment I saw earlier this evening Amlogic devices that support HDR are doing it via an 8-bit internal conversion process; so not 10-bit and it's probably necessary to keep the processing bandwidth to a management level. The TV still recognises it as HDR though, so the general masses who obsess over the 'pass-through' lights on their AVR blinking appropriately will be happy.

Current LE 8.x/Kodi v17 cannot play HDR on anything - even the claimed HDR support on Amlogic devices is fake. Future LE 9.0/Kodi v18 should have real HDR support, but that codebase is still under development.

No idea, unless you can tell us the chipset inside the box.

Users like to dream of add-ons to cure their specific issue. Challenge is, someone still needs to create and maintain the add-on.

First step is to go figure out 'a' solution to the issue.

Fcuked up cache settings are a frequent source of problems. There are few legitimate reasons to ever touch them. And even in those few corner cases the correct 'solution' is fixing the broken network, not fiddling with the cache.

Get a NAS, and use the C2 as the dumb client device that it (and our OS) was intended to be.

It's a good idea for two reasons:

a) Crapware addons frequently cause issues

b) You won't receive any more support in this forum until we see a clean debug log

We are not clairvoyant. Just try different cables

There is no native support for Netflix/Amazon in our OS. It is possible to make them work with some fiddling, but this will never be truly eliminated as those services don't want to make it easy for Linux use. I never heard of NowTV so I guess that falls down a crack. And if you want to talk about Android, you're in the wrong forum.

I'll have to remember what sock drawer the USB widgets have been cast into at home, because I'm playing around with an S905D box which sadly has 100-BaseT networking

If it doesn't work; either you didn't configure the SFTP client correctly (which is my guess) or you're not using LE.

LE 8.2.3 will be released with the revert/fix included this evening. Then the default/normal in-GUI update process can be used.

What does "storage-ServerFolders-Videos.mount" contain?

Laptops are not target hardware for this HTPC box oriented project so it's the kind of thing where we'd ask the user to figure out what changes are required; then we can evaluate their proposed solution for inclusion. We are not against supporting things, but we also need to keep focussed on what our target audience is, and we are constantly striving to avoid "the death of a thousand cuts" where many "little" code additions accumulate and become significant over time.

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Not going to happen for two good reasons:

a) Kodi has no support for the SoC used in those boxes. An attempt to port was started c.2012 but appears to have fizzled out. It's now a dated chipset so developers won't be interested, and because it's dated it also has no Linux KMS/GBM driver support which will be necessary for the next generation Kodi-on-Linux graphics architecture we're currently working on.

b) The last thing this project needs is attention from the scum that resell 'MAG' boxes alongside their illegal IPTV services.