Posts by chewitt

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.

You replace the combination of Pi + LE + Kodi with an alternative combination that supports different output on different screens.

The missing alsa conf was included in the 8.2.5 update.

It's written in python and the code is here GitHub - LibreELEC/service.libreelec.settings: the LibreELEC settings addon for KODI

It's probably time to modify our forum rules to ban discussion on "which IPTV service is best?" because 99.99% of the IPTV services that users occasionally post about are pirate streams that illegally rebroadcast content. It's easy to check. Any UK service that provides more channels/content than freeview is a pirate service. If not in the UK, any service that provides BBC1/2 etc. is a pirate service.

LE settings (Samba server) completely independent of Kodi (Samba client, aka smbclient) settings. If Kodi min/max is set to none the defaults are effective, which means SMB2 thru 3 can be used by the client. In LE the Samba server also defaults to the same min/max values but that's a deliberate coincidence; client/server are different things.

The backup function is nothing more than a tar command that archives /storage/.cache /storage/.config and /storage/.kodi so it's fairly simple to use the cron scheduler to execute a weekly (or other frequency) backup, and equally simple to schedule a second command that finds and deletes older backup files.

Enhancing the settings add-on would be better, but there are challenges due to how it's been written and it seems to deter people from volunteering or contributing

Google translate failed to interpret your statement into a question, can you try again with more words please.

Poking older releases is nice, but you need to test with a current Leia build as that represents the current state of development and where anything can/might/would be fixed. Krypton is a dead codebase.

There were some firmware issues in 8.2.4 so maybe bump to 8.2.5 and cross fingers..

Moonlight is one of our long-term 'problem' add-ons where the codebase appears to continually iterate and things break. So there's no specific reason things are included/omitted, the code has just diverged over time. Someone needs to grasp the opportunity to figure out the issues and submit changes to get things working again. If you raise your right hand and say "I volunteer!" .. half the battle is won

HDR has a maze of dependencies and some platforms (Amlogic and Rockchip) have fewer of the jigsaw pieces missing (or more hacks to give some kind of HDR output) than others. No platform currently has a complete picture and can claim full support. Kodi v18 is ready for HDR and there is a continuous (slow) drip feed of improvements to AMD/Intel drivers over time. TL/DR; stick with your current video card and watch non-HDR things until support has evolved to a more definitive point.

We make assumptions based on the available facts (of which there are none in your first post). If you start talking about multi-monitor setups we will auto-assume you are not talking about RPi3 which has a single HDMI output.

Regardless of what hardware you have, an extended view (different things on different screens) is not supported by Kodi.

The build-system unpacks sources for a package, then applies diff patches in alphanumeric sequence before building the package. Patches follow a naming convention and need to be in diff format; patches are relative to the root folder of the unpacked sources.

See LibreELEC.tv/packages/linux-driver-addons/dvb/crazycat/patches at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub for examples. If you're working on 'Generic' (4.14 kernel) ignore the amlogic folders which are specific to other kernels (although the format is the same).