Posts by chewitt

Connman persists connection data against the interface MAC address and you probably have a cheap USB dongle (or Android box) where the MAC address isn't preset in the factory (as the manufacturer was too cheap to buy an address range) and when there is no preset MAC most kernel drivers assign a random MAC, thus on each boot the persisted connection data doesn't match the current MAC and you need to create a "new" config again. You must also configure connman via the settings addon GUI or the connmanctl command line client. Manual edits to those files have to be made with connman stopped (in which case you will have no network) else connman can update/overwrite the files at any time.

(
sleep 10
/usr/sbin/ip link set dev wlan0 down
/usr/sbin/ip link set dev wlan0 address aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff  <= set a MAC address
/usr/sbin/ip link set dev wlan0 up
)&

If my hunch is correct, adding ^ that to /storage/.config/autostart.sh will overwrite the random MAC with a persistent one of your choosing on each boot. You may need to delay Kodi start in LE settings to allow for the network going down/up during startup.

It's an S905X device with Realtek Ethernet. You can grab the device-tree file from the original OS.

If the TV supports CEC you can use the TV remote (CEC is active by default) to navigate and turn SSH on; it's off by default for good reasons. If CEC isn't an option you'll need to borrow a USB keyboard from someone.

If the TV supports CEC you can use the TV remote (CEC is active by default) to navigate and turn SSH on; it's off by default for good reasons. If CEC isn't an option you'll need to borrow a USB keyboard from someone.

It's not a problem specific to RPi devices. The H.264 standard specifies 8-bit content so while it's technically possible to rip media into a 10-bit version of the format, nobody makes GPU/SoC chips that support it and all devices CPU decode it. Most Anime fans end up migrating to Intel NUC's (or similar x86_64 boxes) because lots of CPU grunt is needed to decode with all the fancy GPU based video post-processing that the Anime scene seems to like.

You know the settings addon is available under Addons > Program addons from the Home screen?

Not without either migrating code from LE Settings to Kodi core or doing major hacking to a skin.

It's not possible to PIN protect LE-Settings though, so it might be a moot point.

8GB eMMC module is enough, 16GB would be better as it allows some working space for backups to be created etc.

There's nothing exotic about your setup so as long as you're using valid credentials it should just work. No need to force to SMB1 or use legacy security as long as you're using LE 8.2 or newer as SMB2/3 are supported.

NB: If sources.xml contains Windows smb:\\server\path references I'm not sure how those are interpreted on Linux where smb://server/path is used (backslash vs. forwardslash).

I've moved the thread to the correct location in the forum.

Please provide a Kodi debug log showing a manual refresh of the repo.

If the "not working" TPLINK TN-722 is timing related you might need to add a "wait for Kodi" startup delay - in network settings in the LE settings addon. This just delays Kodi start for 'x' seconds to allow time for slow loading drivers to finish before Kodi attempts to access things on remote shares. You won't see this problem with desktop distro's but LE boots a lot faster and the slow activation of some (mostly realtek and poorly written out-of-tree) drivers can be exposed.

The ProFTPD addon in our repo (services) may support LFTP but no guarantees. If not you'll need to adapt your script to use something like scp or rsync to move files between locations.

You must do special things to your browser and OS then. For everyone else this forum has black text on a pale grey background. There is also no white text in the USB/SD creator app. PEBKAC.

If you enable SSH on the NAS and install the public SSH key for the HTPC user you can use key-based authentication between HTPC and NAS and there is no need to handle passwords or locally mount remote shares. You can create a backup script on /storage using the nano or vi text editors (via an SSH session). Run "crontab -e" to edit the cron schedules for the root user on the HTPC. There are lots of cron HOWTO's around that describe how to set things up - so I won't spoil the learning experience by doing all the work for you

The main thing to remember with cron is that you need to include the full path to any binaries you execute, e.g. /usr/bin/bash, and the full path to the script that bash will run, e.g. /storage/scripts/backup.sh

Addons are not updated as part of the OS image so Kodi will need to start and then fetch updated addons. Until this has happened things will be a little non-functional. This is how Kodi works - it's nothing specific to LibreELEC. If after a while things have no self-updated there is either some kind of networking issue preventing access to our repo, or maybe something bad in the previous config and you'll need to provide a Kodi debug log for anyone to investigate further.

People give up their spare time to write code. People give up their spare time to create wiki pages. Notably fewer people write documentation than provide code .. such is the curse of most FOSS projects. Feel free to request a wiki account and contribute something back.

We use in-kernel decoding instead of LIRC so you'll need to spend a few minutes adapting configs. The wiki is the reference for how to do it, and it's not that hard (but it's not the same as configuring LIRC on Ubuntu). At the end of the day YOU have chosen to change distro so YOU should expect to spend a little time setting things up again. Please remember that anyone responding to your posts in this forum is giving up their personal free time to offer help. Whinging about everything is not going to inspire them to offer assistance.