Posts by chewitt

LE is (was) not vulnerable as we don't build with printer support and the $IPC path required for the exploit is not present.

32-bit or 64-bit CPU?

The first step is to figure out what chipset is in the device. Android runs on many things we do not support and the older the Android device the greater the chance of their being no hope of installing something.

Please start all investigations from a current 9.0 development (milhouse) release because Krypton has been a dead codebase for ~6 months now. If the issue is not already resolved in Kodi v18 .. then start posting logs etc.

Mirrors [LibreELEC.wiki] now has a listing of mirror sites, but add-ons are not currently mirrored

Two things I learned in 7-years supporting people here and pre-fork OE forums:

a) Wireless is frequently affected by things outside your control (neighbours, other devices sharing the contended network)

b) Wireless is never a substitute for Ethernet.

Quote from BeneDicT

Just a professional Q , I'm a software developer myself yet wouldn't know the first thing about modifying the kernel and the various other bits and bobs that you do. How did you pick that up? Professional background, curiosity? I've always looked upon the guys dealing closer to the hardware as the real guru's yet I dont see how I myself can go from a regular software guy to a on the bare metal dev like yourself.

The only qualification required is the initiative to poke code and hardware with a hint of curiosity and method and see what happens. Our current extended contributor team includes a Carpenter, Paramedic, and an Airline Pilot, and sometimes the "least-qualified" folks are the most prolific creators

If it's the latest generation of Intel CPU you will probably need a Milhouse 9.0 nightly to boot it.

Thanks

30 seconds in Google shows it may have an card that requires the ath10k driver which is not present in LE 8.2.x so load a current Milhouse build and see if that works; it has a newer kernel with the ath10k driver.

There's an LE icon in Kodi settings when using the default skins. If not using the default skin you'll find the settings add-on under "add-ons" and then "program add-ons" ..

You can backup Kodi data but if space is the issue causing download failures any process which creates an archive file of the current install will fail as the archive is initially created on the same (full) storage. So it's probably worth doing some spring cleaning before you update. Stop Kodi and nuke the contents of /storage/.kodi/temp and also remove add-on packages from /storage/.kodi/addons/packages .. and if you understand how to run the texturecache.py script from milhouse (found on Kodi forums) that can be used to prune thumbnails too.

Connect a USB drive and do a simple "cp -R /storage/.kodi /path/to/USB" (edit the path obviously) instead of making an archive backup. Then do the update to 8.2.4 and Kodi should auto-migrate settings from Jarvis to Krypton - but if something goes wrong you have a copy.

It's also worth updating the Chromebox firmware from MrChromebox.tech

I've no idea what the issue is but the backup file is just a tar archive. Once you have the basic OS setup to your requirements you can untar the archive to a folder and then copy/move the bits you want from the previous install to where they need to be in the new one.

Either you used the RPi image (which is for RPi 0/1 devices) not the RPi2 image (for RPi 2/3 devices) or you have the RPi2 image but your RPi2+ is actually an RPi (1) device. The rainbow screen shows when you have the wrong image.

The WeTek device wrxtasy linked above is designed for markets where wireless 4G (LTE) networks are more prevalent than fixed-line broadband and it's targeted at ISP/telco customers (along with IPTV middleware which is WeTek's main business). The second one I saw first-hand in January is an S905X evolution of the Hub (slightly smaller and like all S905X, it uses 100BaseT Ethernet). I was told that device may be available to consumers later in the year but there were no specific dates.

The laptop dates from 2005/6 and the GPU inside dates from 2004. LE has never intentionally supported laptops or ancient hardware (we target recent HTPC devices) so if it works that's nice, but if it doesn't; sorry but we're not going to investigate to fix support. FWIW, I never heard of any LE supported devices using S-Video output. Raspberry Pi 3B+ would be a major upgrade in performance over your old laptop.

The website supports RSS, and official releases will pop a toaster message saying "new release available" as long as you're on the same base release, e.g. you'll see a notification for 8.2.5 (once released) if using 8.2.x and the notification hasn't been disabled.

WIFI will depend on whether the router is forwarding UDP broadcast packets to the Ethernet segment of the network. Some routers do, some routers do not.