Posts by chewitt

Kodi supports 'status' output to VFD type displays but there's no function for external controls like that.

LibreELEC is an embedded appliance-like OS with no build/compile tools. You will need to cross-compile the code from another machine and then either copy the binary over or create your own LE image that includes the binary. If you run LE 9.0 development builds instead of LE 8.0 releases you'll have the same base kernel as Raspbian which may allow the easier binary-copy option.

I has no benefit at all for our Linux distro. Please preach Android somewhere else, there are plenty of forums.

Run "touch /storage/.config/debug_connman" and reboot then the systemd journal will contain debug information. Connman logging is quite verbose but also quite readable. Interesting to see the stack trace in dmesg, although that is probably wireless related more than Ethernet, although technically 80211 standards are not exclusive to wireless.

Rockchip development continues to advance nicely, but there are no plans to support the RK3229 chipset. Our focus will be exclusively on the chipsets listed here: http://opensource.rock-chips.com/wiki_main_page because those are the only ones with a long-term path towards mainline kernel support.

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?